Poetic Devices PPT. - Language Arts with Miss Weber
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Poetry Terms and Definitions
Poetic Devices
Are tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.
Speaker
A Character who says the poem.
The speaker is usually not named.
Mood
Feeling created in the reader by a poem
Created by writer’s choice of words, events, or physical setting.
Examples
Name different types of poetic devices
Metaphor, simile, imagery, rhythm, personification, onomatopoeia, allusion, hyperbole, etc.
What would the mood be of:
A haunted house
Disneyland
A mystery novel/television show
Tone
The attitude of the speaker towards the subject.
May be formal or informal, friendly or distant, personal or impersonal.
Example
What is a person’s tone when…
They go on a job interview
They hang out with their friends
Speak to a family member about a serious issue
Theme
Underlying meaning of a poem.
The idea a poem presents about people and life.
Stanza
Groups of lines in a poem, usually separated by spaces.
Each stanza states a single main idea.
Stanza Lengths
Couplet – 2 Lines
Tercet – 3 Lines
Quatrain – 4 Lines
Figurative Language
Expressions to get across certain ideas or concepts more vividly.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
A comparison of 2 objects using “like” or “as”.
Example: Life is like a box of chocolates
Create your own TWO examples of a simile.
Metaphor
A comparison of 2 objects without using “like” or “as.”
A metaphor typically states that object 1 IS object 2.
Example: “My love is a blossoming flower”
Create two metaphor of your own.
Personification
Comparison that gives human qualities to inanimate objects.
Example: The flowers danced in the wind.
Create two pieces of personification of your own.
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration
Evokes some sense of ridiculousness
Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Create a hyperbole of your own.
Imagery
Creating a picture in the reader’s mind through the senses of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.
Think of a place you have been before (somewhere familiar or popular)
Describe that place using the 5 senses.
DO NOT NAME THE PLACE—the class is going to guess what your imagery is describing.
Symbol
a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well
Think of the sword and the stone in many King Arthur tales.
Yes a sword can stand for war or political power.…
But when the little boy draws the sword out of the stone, the sword comes to stand for the child’s glittering future as the power king of Camelot, as well as his close alliance with magic.
The Sick Rose by William Blake O rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of Crimson joy,
And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
What do roses symbolize?
What do worms symbolize?
Rhyme
1.Repetition of sounds at the end of words.
Rhyme Scheme
A regular pattern of rhyming in a poem.
Uses letters of alphabet to distinguish lines that rhyme.
Roses are Red.-A
Violets are blue.-B You look like a monkey.-C And you smell like one too.-B
Mini Task: Find the Rhyme Scheme in the following poem excerpt. It’s a pretty good zoo, Said young Gerald McGrew, And the fellow who runs it Seems proud of it too. But if I ran the zoo, Said young Gerald McGrew
I’d make a few changes. That’s just what I’d do
Answer: aaba aaca It’s a pretty good zoo, a Said young Gerald McGrew, a And the fellow who runs it b Seems proud of it too. a But if I ran the zoo, a Said young Gerald McGrew a
I’d make a few changes. c That’s just what I’d do. a
Mini Task
Create a poem about your one of your favorite hobbies, songs, or people.
Use a rhyme scheme aaba aaca.
Share with a partner.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in words. “Now this looks like a job for me So everybody just follow me Because we need a little controversy Because it feels so empty without me.”
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds in words.
I'll swing by my ankles. She'll cling to your knees.
As you hang by your nose, From a high-up trapeze. But just one thing, please, As we float through the breeze, Don't sneeze. - The Acrobats by Shel Silverstein
Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
“ She sells sea shells by the sea shore.”
Onomatopoeia
A word whose pronunciation suggests their meaning or makes the sound of the action it describes.
Examples: crack, pow, boom, snap, creak, buzz, etc.
Create Your Own
Create a 3-stanza QUATRAIN (4 lines) poem with the rhyme scheme ABBA
Keep the topic school appropriate.
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