complete the guided notes as we discuss the poetry … grade...we discuss the poetry terms that...

Complete the guided notes as we discuss the

poetry terms that follow...

Tuesday, January 8, 13

LITERARY DEVICESTechniques poets use to add description and meaning

to poetry


Word pictures that appeal to the

senses.Tuesday, January 8, 13

The language and descriptions a writer

uses to create images (word pictures).


The attitude portrayed by the

speaker (narrator) in a

poemTuesday, January 8, 13

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEdevices poets use to describe objects or ideas by

comparing them to something else the reader understands


A figure of speech in which non-human things are given

human characteristics


An exaggeration used for emphasis


A comparison between two unlike things

using the words “like” or “as”


A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be

another thingTuesday, January 8, 13

SOUND DEVICESWays poets enhance a poem’s meaning through sounds


The use of words that imitate sounds


The repetition of consonant sounds at

the beginnings of words that are close together in a single

line of poetryTuesday, January 8, 13

The musical quality produced by the

repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.


Repeating a sound, word, phrase, or line

to create music, appeal to emotions, or

emphasize an ideaTuesday, January 8, 13

The repetition of the same sound at the ends of

wordsTuesday, January 8, 13

The pattern of rhyming words in

a poem; helps create rhythm


Rhymes occurring at the ends of

lines


POETIC STRUCTURESThe way poets organize their ideas; some poetic structures have special patterns and meanings


A group of lines in a poem that form a single unit like a

paragraph


Poetry that tells a story


What is Lyric Poetry?Poetry that expresses the

personal feelings of one speaker (often the poet). Lyric Poems sound like songs; some are even meant to be performed to music


Example of Lyric Poetry

A Red, Red Roseby Robert Burns

O my Luve's like a red, red roseThat’s newly sprung in June;O my Luve's like the melodieThat’s sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve am I:And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only LuveAnd fare thee well, a while!And I will come again, my Luve,Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.


What is a Ballad?A type of narrative poetry that

tells a story of fatal relationships, tragic events, and other dramatic human situations that address universal themes. Ballads sometimes are set to music, so think of them as a combination of narrative and lyric poetry.


EXAMPLE“Hope is the Thing With Feathers”

Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest landAnd on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.

For example:“Hope is the thing with

feathers...”(metaphor...comparing

hope to a bird)


YOUR TASK:

Skim through the literature book and read/find examples of each of the sound devices and figurative language examples. Identify name/author of poem and then write the example on the line provided.


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