Figurative Language Muhammad Ali Quotes

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see." Ali before 1974 Foreman fight

"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room, and got into bed before the room was dark.” Ali before 1974 Foreman fight

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick." Ali before the 1974 Foreman fight

Figurative Language “Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.” ~Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry," Reasons for Moving, 1968

Simile a comparison using “like” or “as”. “The referee cost us the game. He was as blind as a bat!”

Metaphor a comparison where one thing is another; no “like” or “as” The Auburn Maroon Volleyball team were tigers last night, mauling their opponents.

Hyperbole an extreme exaggeration Why does Charlie, who’s fast as a jet, Take all day—and sometimes two, to get to school?

Personification Giving a human quality, to something non-human “Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.”

concrete, free-verse, rhymes Types of Poems concrete, free-verse, rhymes

Free Verse Poems Poems that do not follow regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm

Concrete Poems Poems that form a picture of the topic http://bolee.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/ipod- concrete-poem.jpg

Rhymes Poems that contain predictable end/internal rhyme schemes.

Point of View 1st and 3rd Person

1st person point of view the narrator participates in the action of the story

3rd person point of view the narrator does not participate in the action of the story

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” ~Carl Sandburg