When you mean more than what you actually say… Figurative Language When you mean more than what you actually say…

Terms… Simile A comparison is made between two essentially unlike things usually using like, as or than “O my love is like a red, red rose"

Terms… Metaphor A comparison between two unlike things, not using like, as, or than. “Life is a highway.”

Terms… Personification A type of metaphor in which distinctive human characteristics, e.g. honesty, emotion, volition, etc., are attributed to an animal, object or idea “My car was happy to be washed.” “Fate frowned upon him.”

“I've told you a million times don't exaggerate.” Terms… Hyperbole A bold overstatement or exaggeration. Not intended to be taken literally, it is used as a means of emphasizing something. “I’m starving! I'd give my right arm for a piece of pizza.” “I've told you a million times don't exaggerate.”

Terms… Alliteration The repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of words that are close together. "wild and woolly” “She sells sea shells”

Terms… Onomatopoeia: The use of words which imitate sounds.

The Rose That drowns the tender reed. Some say love it is a razor Some say love it is a river That drowns the tender reed. Some say love it is a razor That leaves your soul to bleed. Some say love it is a hunger An endless, aching need I say love it is a flower, And you it's only seed. It's the heart afraid of breaking That never learns to dance It's the dream afraid of waking That never takes the chance It's the one who won't be taken, Who cannot seem to give And the soul afraid of dying That never learns to live. When the night has been too lonely And the road has been too long. And you think that love is only For the lucky and the strong. Just remember in the winter Far beneath the bitter snow Lies the seed that with the sun's love, In the spring, becomes the rose.

Bridge Over Troubled Water When you're weary Feeling small When tears are in your eyes I will dry them all I'm on your side When times get rough And friends just can't be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down When you're down and out When you're on the street When evening falls so hard I will comfort you I'll take your part When darkness comes And pain is all around Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Sail on Silver Girl, Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine If you need a friend I'm sailing right behind I will ease your mind I will ease your mind.

Mother to Son Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark

Where there ain't been no light. So, boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps. Don't you fall now— 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Terms… Repetition The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, line or an entire stanza. “They came, they fought, they conquered.”

Terms… Assonance Repitition of similar vowel sounds within non-rhyming words. It is often used instead of end rhyme in free verse. The teens need to find a seat.

Terms… Consonance When two words have different vowel sounds, but share a consonant sound. “I can read regret in her fingers.”

Rhythm Whose woods these are I think I know. How would you mark the unstressed (U) and stressed (/) syllables in the following poem excerpt? Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

End Rhyme vs. Internal Rhyme At the end of a line. In the middle or beginning of a line.

The Bells Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Limerick You will soon hear the distinctive beat pattern of all limericks. The rhythm is just as important in a limerick as the rhyme. Try completing this limerick. There once was a pauper named Meg Who accidentally broke her _______. She slipped on the ______. Not once, but thrice Take no pity on her, I __________.

Limericks 1. Practice the rhythm of limericks by clapping you hands or snapping your fingers. 2. Think of some funny names, places, or situations. 3. Using the a a b b a 5-line form, write an original limerick. 4. How would you illustrate the page if your poem was published in a book of limericks? What types of art would you use?