Sharing Poems and Preparing for Tomorrow

Rounding off your poetry collection: We will share poems in class. Do any poems fit your theme? It might not be an obvious fit, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work.

HW: Be sure to study all poetic devices. Look below for a quick guide:

Poetic Devices/Terms:

Tone: A poem's tone, conveyed by the speaker, is the attitude toward its theme or subject matter. Tone can shift throughout a poem. Ex. A hopeful tone that becomes hopeless by poem’s end.

Mood:  The mood, conveyed by imagery, is the feeling or atmosphere of a piece. The mood can be many different things. Some examples included: a feeling of love, a feeling of doom, a feeling of fear, a feeling of pride, an atmosphere of chaos, an atmosphere of peace.

Metaphor: A metaphor takes two things and claims they are the same, without using “like” or “as.” (figurative language)

Simile: A simile takes two things and claims they are the same using “like” or “as.” (figurative language)

Imagery:  Details that appeal to our five senses:  hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste.

Personification: Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects: The summer wind’s bitter hot breath gave no relief to the tired workers. (figurative language)

Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines within a poem; the blank line between stanzas is known as a stanza break. There is not set number of lines for a stanza.

Repetition: A word or phrase is repeated for emphasis, oftentimes to develop a theme, mood, or tone.

Symbolism- When one object or idea represents another object or idea.

                                                      

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Alliteration: occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound.

1.     Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.

2.     Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping.

• Alliteration does not need to be an entire sentence. Any two-word phrase can be alliterative (Dunkin’ Donuts)

Consonance: The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern, especially at the ends (and sometimes middle) of words, as in blank and think or strong and string.

1.      stroke of luck

2.      odds and ends

3.      came home

Assonance: is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. It is used to reinforce the meanings of words or to set the mood. 

1. It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!" - slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners

2. Hear the mellow wedding bells

3. The crumbling thunder of seas