1. Monday's bellwork Answer the following questions.
What is figurative language?
What are poetry devices?
Rate how you feel about poetry and figurative language.
1=I do not know; I have never study it
2=It is not fun; I hate similes and metaphors
3=I find it very easy
4=I love reading (or writing) poetry

2. What is poetry and figurative language?
literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm
Poetry is used in all types of music and song lyrics
Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal meaning
Figurative language is used in all types of poetry and song lyrics

3. Poetry Structure What makes a poem a poem? Stanzas! Rhyme! (sometimes)
 “A Minor Bird” by Robert Frost (pg. 554)
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day:
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.

4. Rhyme Types
End Rhyme- two or more lines that have the same ending sound
Slant Rhyme- when vowel sounds rhyme, but the words do not
Internal Rhyme- rhyming within the line

5. Rhyme Scheme
-the pattern made by the rhyming words at the end of lines in a poem
“A Minor Bird” by Robert Frost (pg. 554)
I have wished a bird would fly away, A
And not sing by my house all day: A
Have clapped my hands at him from the door B 
When it seemed as if I could bear no more. B
The fault must partly have been in me. C
The bird was not to blame for his key. C
And of course there must be something wrong D
In wanting to silence any song. D

6. Types of Poems -Narrative-tells a story
-Ballad-a narrative meant to be sung
-Free Verse-poem spoken without rhyme that sounds like everyday speech
-Extended Metaphor-a poem where the entire thing is a metaphor that represents something

7. What is the point of figurative language?
To help the reader visualize what is occurring in the poem or story.
To help readers experience the events of the poem or story like they are actually there.
To emphasize a point to the reader.

8. Simile -a comparison that uses like or as Example:
"Sodapop looks like a movie star." -The Outsiders
“He was as solitary as an oyster.” –p. 2 in ACC

9. "‘Cause, baby, you‘re a firework"
Metaphor
a comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT like or as.
"‘Cause, baby, you‘re a firework"
-Katy Perry

10. Personification
-giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

11. Hyperbole -an exaggeration used to make a point Example:
My brother and I ate enough food that evening to feed an entire village.

12. Idiom -a phrase that cannot be understood by its literal meaning
Example:
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

13. Symbolism -an idea represented by an object or thing Example:
dove=peace
Spring=rebirth
Winter=death, dying
White=purity
Black/gray=dark times

14. Sound Devices:
Sound Devices are literary devices that manipulate the way the words sound when read.
They include:
Rhyme
Rhythm
Repetition
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia

15. Repetition
-repeating a word or phrase to add rhythm or stress (to emphasize) an idea
“Winter Moon” by Langston Hughes
How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!
How thin and sharp and ghostly white
Is the slim curved crook of the moon tonight!

16. Alliteration -repeating the first sound in words Example: -p. 556
“… the slim curved crook of the moon…”

17. -words that sound like what they mean
Onomatopoeia
-words that sound like what they mean
“They were succeeded by a clanking noise.”
-p. 16 in ACC
“The chimes were ringing three quarters past eleven.”-p. 79 in ACC