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

2. 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"

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

4. 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.”

5. “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.”

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

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

15. 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.

16. 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.

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

18. 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.

19. 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 __________.

20. 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?