Learning Target: Today I am learning how to determine the meanings of words and phrases used in a text because I can analyze the theme of a poem.HOMEWORK:Read 30 minutes

DAILY GRAMMAR PRACTICE Action and Linking Verbs Practice

Materials: agenda, pencil or blue/black ink pen, Poetry Notes

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finish this task?

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YOU’RE A POET!! DID YOU

KNOW IT?• CREATE AN ACROSTIC POEM WITH THE LETTERS

OF YOUR FIRST NAME• ALL WORDS HAVE TO DESCRIBE YOU

What is

“POETRY”?

THE “REAL” DEFINITION OF POETRY IS…

UP TO YOU!

Let’s share some of your definitions of poetry….

Is POETRY important?• Poetry takes a simple concept and makes

it more powerful and beautiful

• Which one of these poems is better? Why?

The Turtlebreaks from the blue-black

skin of the water, dragging her shell

with its mossy scutes

across the shallows and through the rushes

and over the mudflats, to the uprise,

to the yellow sand,

to dig her ungainly feet

a nest, and hunker there spewing

her white eggs down

into the darkness…

By: Mary Oliver

The Turtlecomes out of the water

walks across the sand

digs a nest

and lays some eggs

By: Mr. Brooks

WHAT IS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?

• Figurative language goes beyond the literal meaning of a word or phrase.

• HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES…

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: IT’S LIKE A SIMILE

– a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

Examples of simile: • “Life is like a box of chocolates.” • “The girl is as beautiful as a rose.” • “The willow is like an etching…”

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:IT IS A METAPHOR

– a comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”.

Examples of metaphor: • “My father is a tall, sturdy oak.” • “The hotel is a diamond in the sky.” • “The moon is a large, white balloon.”

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:PERSONIFICATION

– the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

Examples of personification: • “Hunger sat shivering on the road.” • “The flowers danced on the lawn.” • “The chair skated across the floor.”NOTE: “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Smokey the Bear” are personified characters.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:HYPERBOLE

- an exaggerated statement used to make a point.

Examples of hyperbole: • “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” • “I could sleep for a year.” • “This book weighs a ton.”

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE:IMAGINE THE IMAGERY

-figures of speech or which appeal to the five senses.

Examples of imagery: • “Her clammy back felt like bark of the tree after a

summer’s rain.” • “…the small pond behind my house was lapping

at it’s banks…” • “The willow’s music is like a soprano…”

WHAT IS A SOUND DEVICE?

• It is the effect a poem has depending on the sound of its’ words.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES…

SOUND DEVICE:SOUNDS LIKE ONOMATOPOEIA

- the use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings.

Examples of onomatopoeia: • “The bang of a gun.” • “The hiss of a snake.” • “The buzz of a bee.” • “The pop of a firecracker.”

SOUND DEVICE: REPETITION- the repeating of sound, words, phrases or lines in a

poem used to emphasize an idea or convey a certain feeling.

Examples of repetition: • “Sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught

us, Sing a song of the hope that the present has brought us…”

• “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…” • “The isolation during my vacation created a situation

of relaxation.”

SOUND DEVICE: I RHYME ALL THE TIME AND I GUESS IT

SOUNDS FINE…repetition of sound at the ends of words.

Rhyme occurring within a line is called internal rhyme. Rhyme occurring at the end of a line is called end

rhyme)

Rhyme Scheme – the pattern of end rhyme in a poem. Lines that rhyme are given the same letter.

Example of internal rhyme, end rhyme, and rhyme scheme: • I looked at the shell in the ocean a• I looked at the bell in the sea, b• I noticed the smell and the motion a• Were very peculiar to me.” b

SOUND DEVICE: DO YOU HAVE RHYTHM? LET’S CLAP!

– the pattern of sound created by stressed (more emphasis, `) and unstressed (less emphasis, υ) syllables. Many poems are given diacritical markings (` and υ) depending on the rhythm.

Example of rhythm:“I looked at the shell in the oceanI looked at the bell in the sea,I noticed the smell and the motionWere very peculiar to me.”

SOUND DEVICE: ASSONANCE

- repetition of VOWEL SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry.

Examples of Assonance• Repeating the “eh” sound in the words:

“crescent,” “flesh,” “extending,” “medicine” and “death”

SOUND DEVICE: CONSONANCE

- repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry.

Examples of ConsonanceRepeating the “sh” sound in the words: “shush,”

“wish,” “sharp,” “cushion” and “quash”

SOUND DEVICE: ALLITERATION- repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the

BEGINNING of at least two words in a line of poetry.

Examples of Alliteration• “Frank the frog frolicked frivolously on the furry

forest floor.”• “…Little skinny shoulder blades Sticking through

your clothes…”• “Sandy sold seashells by the seashore.”

WHAT IS FORM? • It is the physical arrangement of the words on

the page, sometimes involving rhyme and rhythm. (How does the poem look on the paper?)

LINE: a sentence or fragment of sentence.STANZA: a group of lines in a poem.

Prose = paragraphs and sentencesPoetry = stanzas and lines

FORM: COUPLET

-a pair of lines that rhyme. A couplet may be a poem in itself or part of a larger poem.

What is an example of a COUPLET?The artist stirred some blue and greenTo paint an underwater scene.

FORM: HAIKU-an unrhymed poem consisting of three lines and seventeen

(17) syllables. These poems are normally about nature.

The first line is five (5) syllables. The second line is seven (7) syllables. The third line is five (5) syllables.

What is an example of a HAIKU?

The autumn wind blows, (5 syllables)Calling the leaves on the ground (7 syllables)To join him in dance. (5 syllables)

FORM: LIMERICK-a funny five-line poem made up of thirteen (13) beats

with an “AABBA” rhyme scheme. The poem is named after the city of Limerick in Ireland.

Example of a LIMERICK…There was a young boy from Caboo, (3 beats)Who had trouble tying his shoe. (3 beats)

He said to his ox, (2 beats)“I’ll just walk in my socks.” (2 beats)

Now all of his friends do that, too! (3 beats)

FORM: FREE VERSE• Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm. The

lines flow more naturally and have “everyday speech” rhythm. Poets who write in free verse often use the sound devices we have already discussed.

“Southbound on the Freeway”They all hiss as they glide,

like inches, down the markedtapes. Those soft shapes,shadowy insidethe hard bodies – are theytheir guts or their brains

- by May Swenson

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT TODAY’S LESSON:

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• SOUND DEVICES

• FORM