Poetry

When you think of poetry, what do you think of? Turn in: Pre and post tests if you did it over the weekend Any late work (if you didn’t show/turn these in previously): Outline Rough draft Peer Review Sheet Final Essay Warm-Up

While we are learning all the parts of figurative language that add to writing, you are to create a scrapbook of each vocabulary word. When we are done reviewing these, you are to have a page per vocabulary word. On each page you are to have: 1. The word (1 pt) 2. It’s definition (2 pts) 3. An example from popular culture (3 pts) (you cannot use my examples) 4. A poetic example (3 pts) (you cannot use my examples) 5. Your own example (3 pts) Your overal project will get total points awarded based on creativity and effort (you can get up to 4 extra credit points) 14 pts – above and beyond 12 pts – above expectations 10 – meets expectations 8 – below expectations 6 – well below expectations You are to work on this EVERY night after class and is due after we finish going over all the vocabulary words. I will let you know and give you reminders when we are getting close! If you wait and do not work on this each night, you will NOT do well on the project, the unit, or your vocab quizzes!! Project

Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning. Writers can use figurative language to make their work more interesting or more dramatic than literal language which simply states facts. There are few different ways to use figurative language, including metaphors, similes, personification and hyperbole. See below for more information and examples of figurative language and how to use it. Figurative Language

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Pick one type of figurative language you learned about briefly yesterday and try writing your own sentence or mini-poem using it. Be ready to share! Warm-Up

On your own, write a poem that uses at least three of the five senses You can use any type of poetry which means it can rhyme, but it doesn’t have to! Be ready to share! Practice

My Grandmother Is Waiting for Me to Come Home My Grandmother is waiting for me to come home. We live with walnuts and apples in a one-room kitchenette above The Some Day Liquor Gardens. My Grandmother sits in a red rocking chair waiting for me to open the door with my key. She is Black and glossy like coal. We eat walnuts and apples, drink root beer in cups that are broken, above The Some Day Liquor Gardens. I love my Grandmother. She is wonderful to behold with the glossy of her coal-colored skin. She is warm wide and long. She laughs and she Lingers. Imagery – What do you “see”?

Can you describe the room where the grandmother is waiting? What does the grandmother look like? Where is the grandmother sitting? What do the grandmother and the grandchild eat? Where does the grandmother live? ????

My Grandmother Is Waiting for Me to Come Home My Grandmother is waiting for me to come home. We live with walnuts and apples in a one-room kitchenette above The Some Day Liquor Gardens. My Grandmother sits in a red rocking chair waiting for me to open the door with my key. She is Black and glossy like coal. We eat walnuts and apples, drink root beer in cups that are broken, above The Some Day Liquor Gardens. I love my Grandmother. She is wonderful to behold with the glossy of her coal-colored skin. She is warm wide and long. She laughs and she Lingers. Pick Out an Example for as many senses as you can…

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. Personification

What is personified in the poem In Winter?

Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In poetry, it emphasizes, evokes strong feelings, and creates strong impressions. As a figure of speech, it is usually not meant to be taken literally. Hyperbole

Are hyperbole’s only “sayings” that you can think of? Why or why not? d-situation-survival-guide.html d-situation-survival-guide.html

Personification is when you give a non-human thing human characteristics – write a poem using personification! Warm-Up

A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two. While a simile compares two items, a metaphor directly equates them, and does not use "like" or "as" as does a simile. Metaphor

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox). Simile

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Using similes and metaphors, create an Acrostic Poem (where you replace each letter in a word with a word/sentence) of your name. Practice

Can you identify similes and metaphors in the poem? How many of you play basketball? Have you been to a game? Picture the game in your head. How are basketball players like bad angels? Sea monsters? Sparrow hawks? Practice

Tangled up in a falling, Muscles were a bright motor Double-flashing to the metal hoop Nailed to our oak. When Sonny Boy’s mama died He played nonstop all day, so hard Our backboard splintered. Glistening with sweat, We rolled the ball off Our fingertips. Trouble Was there slapping a blackjack Against an open palm. Dribble, drive to the inside, & glide like a sparrow hawk. Lay ups. Fast breaks. We had moves we didn’t know We had. Our bodies spun On swivels of bone & faith, Through a lyric slipknot Of joy,& we knew we were Beautiful & dangerous Slam, Dunk,& Hook Fast breaks. Lay ups. With Mercury’s Insignia on our sneakers, We outmaneuvered to footwork Of bad angels. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk Ten feet out. In the roundhouse Labyrinth our bodies Created, we could almost Last forever, poised in midair Like storybook sea monsters. A high note hung there A long second. Off The rim. We’d corkscrew Up & dunk balls that exploded The skullcap of hope & good Intention. Lanky, all hands & feet...sprung rhythm. We were metaphysical when girls Cheered on the sidelines.

Is the poem only about basketball? What else do you think the poem is about? Think About: Are the players boys or girls? Are they short or tall? Do they seem almost like they are more than human? In the middle of the poem, the speaker tells us about Sonny Boy. You can almost miss this part of the poem if you read it too quickly, but this reveals that the players’ love of basketball runs deeper than just a game. What does basketball mean to Sonny Boy?

What did you find most difficult about figuring out author’s tone from figurative language? Warm-Up

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle). Onomatopoeia

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light). Idioms

Figurative language is used to create tone Tone is how the author WANTS you to feel This doesn’t mean you do feel that way, the way you actually feel is mood You HAVE to LOOK at and ANAYLZE what an author writes in order to figure out what they mean and how they want you to feel For example: The trees leaves were like the hands of a withered old witch. The trees leaves were like the petals of a flower in spring. The trees leaves were like a light prism. What tone do you think each of these examples create? Figurative Language and Tone (not a page in your book)

Pick one of the poems you used for yesterday’s assignment Reread the poem and determine what TONE the author was going for Pick out uses of figurative language that helped you determine this For each example you find, explain how it helped you determine the tone Then, put it into CSET Practice - CSET

The trees leaves were like the petals of a flower in spring. Spring typically means new birth or a fresh start. When the author combines the words spring with flower petals, it gives the reader a sense of beauty and new birth. Based on the author’s use of all of these words in the simile, “The trees leaves were like the petals of a flower in spring,” and the fact that most people are excited for and look forward to new starts, birth and the future, the author’s tone is optimistic (could also use jovial, reverent). The more examples you use, the better you can support and explain why you picked that specific tone. Example

We are going to read a story that uses ice as a symbol. What do you think ICE could symbolize? 6 th Warm-Up

What part do you think repetition plays in letting the reader know the theme or the tone of a poem? 8 th Grade

How do you think you can use figurative language to determine the theme of a poem? 7th

a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract Symbol (symbolism)

Read 562 and 565 answer #5 and #7 on pg 564 Read 597, 598, and Compare the structure of the three poems to determine which was most effective at conveying the theme or main idea. 7 th Grade

Create chart on 857 to record repetition Create chart on 860 to record imagery Fill in the charts using the poems on 858 and 859. Then answer #3 and #7 (your question answers are the only thing you are turning in – the charts are to help you answer the questions). Read A Dream of Freedom on 861 (you will analyze it tomorrow). Then work on vocab, reading, Hunger Games questions, or poetry book! I want to Write, Sit-ins, A Dream of Freedom 861

Get out your notebook and something to write with. We are finishing poetry today! You also need your “game” sheet as we are going to replay it and see if your answers change. Also, remember you have amplify testing tomorrow and Friday. We are in 209 – try to remember so you don’t come down here and then end up being late! Make sure you bring something to work on so if you finish early you aren’t bothering others. Vocab quiz is switched until Monday! Warm-Up

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Assonance - in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence). Consonance - the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody). Alliteration

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry Internal Rhyme - a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. End Rhyme - the use of rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry, or an example of this Near Rhyme - rhyming in which the words sound the same but do not rhyme perfectly. Also called off rhyme.off rhyme Rhyme

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference Allusion

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