1. Figurative Language How is meaning created in poetry?

2. Hyperbole : An extreme exaggeration. Used to express strong emotions or create a comic effect.

3. Example: “Your Momma so…..” I’ve told you a million times

4. Metaphor: A comparison between two things.

5. Example: Life is a journey; enjoy the ride. Her eyes were fireflies.

6. Simile A comparison between two things using LIKE or AS.

7. Example: The teacher kept the students as busy as bees. The moon was like an ancient torch in the sky.

8. Personification Giving human qualities to a non-human thing.

9. Example: The grass shivered in the breeze. The wind whistled in our ears.

10. Practice: What type of Figurative Language is this? “Baby, you’re a firework/ come on let your colors burst”

11. Metaphor: Comparing one thing to another: You and Firework

12. Practice: What type of Figurative Language is this? “I would love you ‘til the end of time/ I would wait a million years”

13. Hyperbole: And extreme exaggeration: Til’ the end of time/ a million years

14. Practice: What type of Figurative Language is this? “Take me down like I’m a domino”

15. Simile: Comparing one thing to another with the word LIKE: Me and domino

16. Practice: What type of Figurative Language is this? “You make me feel like I’ve been locked out of Heaven”

17. Hyperbole & Simile: And extreme exaggeration: Feel like I am locked out of Heaven

18. Practice: What type of Figurative Language is this? “We were like diamonds in the sky”

19. Simile: A comparison between two things using LIKE or AS: We and stars in the sky

20. Practice: What type of Figurative Language is this? “The daffodils nodded their yellow heads”

21. Personification: Giving human qualities to a non-human thing: The daffodils nodded

22. Sound Devices Why is sound important in poetry?

23. Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

24. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

25. Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

26. Example: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the Plains. ** Note – assonance is about the vowel sounds. They do not necessarily need to rhyme **

27. Consonance: Repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words

28. Example: Blank & Think Strong & String

29. Rhythm: The beat or tempo of language created by the use repetition.

30. Example: Till I collapse I’m spilling these raps long as you feel 'em Till the day that I drop you'll never say that I'm not killing them 'Cause when I am not then I'ma stop penning 'em And I am not hip-hop and I’m just not Eminem.

31. Rhyme: Repetition of vowel sounds, and all sounds following them, in words that are close together.

32. Types of Rhyme: End Rhyme: rhymes that are found at the end of each line. Internal Rhyme: rhymes found in the middles of a line.

33. Example END Rhyme: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor, I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.

34. Example INTERNAL Rhyme : Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.

35. Onomatopoeia: Use of a word to represent or suggest a sound.

36. Example: “Buzz” “Ring, ring” “Snap, Crackle, Pop” “Meow”

37. Practice: What type of Sound Device is this? 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.”

38. End - RHYME 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.”

39. Practice: What type of Sound Device is this? Hear the mellow wedding bells - Edgar Allen Poe

40. ASSONANCE: Hear the mellow wedding bells - Edgar Allen Poe

41. Practice: What type of Sound Device is this?

42. ONOATOPOEIA: Pew pew pew.

43. Practice: What type of Sound Device is this? Super Bowl Sunday Sink or Swim Black Berry

44. ALLITERATION: Super Bowl Sunday Sink or Swim Black Berry

45. Practice: What type of Sound Device is this? The chipmunks perched and munched much

46. Consonance: The chipmunks perched and munched much

47. Picture & Feeling How do we create a picture and feeling in poetry?

48. Writing that appeals to the senses

49. Baby you’re a song You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise Down a back road blowin’ stop signs through the middle Every little farm town with you In this brand new Chevy with a lift kit Would look a heck of a lot better with you up in it

50. The poet’s attitude towards his/her subject

51. Losing him was blue like I’d never known Missing him was dark grey all alone Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you've never met But loving him was red Tone = Sad, longing, depressed, nostalgic

52. Emotional atmosphere created in a poem

53. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution - with what foresight - with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. ~ E.A. Poe

54. What kind of imagery is created? “He fumed and charged like an angry bull.”

56. What kind of tone is created? Tonight, we are young so let’s set the world on fire we can burn brighter than the sun

57. Light-hearted/Carefree

58. What kind of mood is created? There's always gonna be another mountain I'm always gonna wanna make it move Always gonna be a uphill battle Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

59. Uplifting/Inspirational

60. Picture & Feeling How do we create a picture and feeling in poetry?