1. USING POETIC DEVICES IN WRITING
8 MAY 2017
BELL ACTIVITY: WRITE YOUR FIRST NAME OR INITIALS AT THE TOP OF THE POST NOTE ON YOUR DESK.
RECORD THE TITLE AND PAGE NUMBER OF THE POEMS YOU LIKE ON YOUR POST IT NOTE.
BROWSE THROUGH THE BROWN POETRY ANTHOLOGY ON YOUR DESK UNTIL I ASK YOU TO STOP. IF THERE IS A POEM LIST FROM LAST YEAR, CHECK THOSE POEMS OUT FIRST.
TODAY’S AGENDA:
USING POETIC DEVICES IN WRITING
Sensory write

2. Comparing Writing to Cooking OR Literature to Food
WRITE YOUR HEADING ON THE TOP OF THE NOTES PAGE PROVIDED.
READ THROUGH THE LIST OF TERMS.
PUT A STAR IN THE LEFT MARGIN NEXT TO ANY TERMS YOU ALREADY KNOW.
Comparing
Writing to Cooking OR
Literature to Food

3. Which allow us to paint pictures with words.
poetic devices
Which allow us to paint pictures with words.

4. Imagery
Imagery is language written to appeal to one or more of the five senses; to describe how a subject looks, sounds, feels, tastes, and smells.

5. Language that is not meant to be taken literally.
Figurative Language
Language that is not meant to be taken literally.
Figurative language is created using one of the following 5 poetic devices:
hyperbole
personification
simile
metaphor
symbolism
The moon in the sky chuckled when the March Hare, who was not the sharpest crayon in the box, figured out why a raven is like a writing desk and exploded with excitement like a British Christmas cracker.

6. Extreme exaggeration that is
Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration that is
obvious & intentional.
Examples:
There are a million people in here!
I could sleep for a year!
I have a ton of homework tonight!
One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

7. Personification
giving a nonhuman object or being, human qualities or characteristics. EX: The storm clouds cried sharp, penetrating tears, piercing the earth’s tender heart.
One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

8. classic examples of PERSONIFICATION
A smiling moon
Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie
My computer hates me, but the camera loves me.
Opportunity knocked at the door.
Winter tucked the city in that night under a snowy white blanket.
Trees danced in the wind.
The stream murmured softly as it rushed downhill.
One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

9. Simile
An indirect comparison of two seemingly different things using the words like or as.
Her smile was bright like the sun!
The peach was as delicious as a kiss.
My dog is as mean as a snake.
One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

10. Metaphor
A direct comparison of two seemingly different things WITHOUT using “as or like”
His face is a puzzle to me, I can never figure out what he is thinking.
One of the 5 poetic devices that create figurative language

11. Simile VERSUS Metaphor
The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.
As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!“
The giant’s steps were like thunder as he ran after jack.
The pillow was like a cloud upon which I floated after a long day.
The baby was an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.
As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, “This class is a three-ring circus!”
The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran after Jack.
The pillow was a cloud upon which I floated after a long day.
figurative language

12. Simile or Metaphor????
I feel like a bicycle tube after a ride through a field of goat heads.
The twin was a mirror reflection of his brother.
She was a single daisy in a field of crab grass.
The bar of soap was like a slippery eel during the dog’s bath.
Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail
in a room full of rocking chairs.
figurative language

13. Symbolism = luck = America =Peace
When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else.
= luck
= America
=Peace

14. COLORS ARE USED TO SYMBOLIZE CONCEPTS IN LITERATURE
WHITE = PURITY, INNOCENCE or DEATH
GREEN = LIFE, REBIRTH or MAGIC
BLACK = EVIL or DEATH
RED = LOVE, PASSION or BLOOD (DYING)

15. SENSORY WRITE ON THE FRONT LAWN

16. DESCRIBE IN DETAIL WHAT YOU HEAR, SEE, FEEL, SMELL
I will let you know when you have about a minute left.
DURING THE LAST MINUTE FOCUS ON AN AREA NEXT TO YOU ABOUT 3 INCHES SQUARE. DESCRIBE IT DOWN TO THE SMALLEST DETAIL.

17. Which allow us to create music with words
poetic devices
Which allow us to create music with words

18. Onomatopoeia Words that sound like the sound they represent. Sputter
Splash
Bark
Meow
Sizzle
Chuck
Flap
splat

20. “Onomatopoeia” The rusty spigot sputters, utters a splutter,
by Eve Merriam
The rusty spigot
sputters,
utters
a splutter,
spatters a smattering of drops,
gashes wider;
slash
splatters
scatters
spurts
finally stops sputtering
and plash!
gushes rushes splashes
clear water dashes.