1. -What is the most difficult part about poetry to you?
-stanzas/lines
-assonance
-allusion
-imagery
-tone/mood
-onomatopoeia
-simile/
metaphor
poetry
-dialect
-personification
-alliteration
-rhythm
-hyperbole

2. Only take notes on what’s new or FUZZY.
Note time .
Only take notes on what’s new or FUZZY.

3. What is the structure/organization?
Stanzas: “paragraphs”
Lines: “rows”
T/F: They must be sentences.

4. What exactly is imagery?
word pictures visualize!
Sensory details, 5 senses:
1. See
2. Hear
3. Smell
4. Taste
5. Feel (not feelings)

5. Imagery hear a sound smell an odor or even taste something
Sometimes an image helps us imagine that we
hear a sound
smell an odor
feel a texture
or even taste something

6. Imagery Think-Write-Pair share:
What sensory details does the following excerpt contain?
Out on the land White Moon shines. Shines and glimmers against gnarled shadows, All silver to slow twisted shadows Falling across the long road that runs from the house.
from “Baby Face” by Carl Sandburg
Out on the land White Moon shines. Shines and glimmers against gnarled shadows, All silver to slow twisted shadows Falling across the long road that runs from the house.
from “Baby Face” by Carl Sandburg

7. Allusion Famous reference
Ex: from history, Bible, geography, or religion, pop culture…
Who do you think you are, trying to fight the school bully? Superman?
Harriet Tubman was called the Moses of her time.
She had Aphrodite’s charm.

8. Figurative Language
What is a metaphor - implied comparison between very different things w/o like or as. Can be direct or implied .
Ex. “He’s a tank, coach!”
Ex. “Her mind is a calculator.”
(which is implied?)
What is a simile - Comparing 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”.
Ex: “He was as tall as the highest tree.”
Ex: “Her beauty was like a sun setting over the beach.”
No: She’s like her sister.

9. Metaphors: X Is Y
direct metaphor = directly compares two things by using a verb such as is.
This computer is a dinosaur.
The computer isn’t really a dinosaur, but it is old and out of date like one. =

10. Metaphors: X Is Y
implied metaphor implies/suggests a comparison between two things (rather than stating the comparison directly).
Gabi stared at me with venomous eyes and hissed out her reply.
Gabi stared at me with venomous eyes and hissed out her reply.
Gabi is being compared to a snake, as these words imply.
With what is Gabi being compared?

11. Personification Giving human qualities to inanimate objects/animals.
EX1: During the test, the clock laughed at me.
EX2: Love smiled at me warmly and filled his heart with her soft voice.

12. Personification a type of metaphor
*What’s being personified below? How?
Spring caresses the earth with her warm, delicate hands.
Spring caresses the earth with her warm, delicate hands.
Given human hands and the ability to caress, the season of spring is personified.

13. Types of RHYME End: rhyming at the end of a line
Internal: 2 words in the same line
Approximate: (Half, Slant, Forced)
ex: orange and porridge
ex: mind and time

14. End:
Internal:
Approximate:

15. Rhythm? the beat you hear when you read a poem
musical quality based on repetition.
the beat you hear when you read a poem

16. Alliteration
Repeating initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. (paraphrase)
Ex:
-Sally searched for seashells on the seashore.
Which is better?
1. Betty purchased some butter.
2. Betty bought a batch of butter.

17. Assonance
repetition of vowel sounds (not consonant sounds) in neighboring words.
Ex: The cat in the hat
sat down on the mat.

18. What is Onomatopoeia? imitates the sound it represents.
Ex: woof, bang, clank, buzz, zap

19. An exaggeration or overstatement.
I feel as big as a house.
You’re killing me!
I’m going to kill myself if I fail this test!

20. Dialect: Howdy, ya’ll! a socially distinct variety of a language
Not standard language
EX: Crikey! Look at that, mate!
Write another example (maybe not from U.S.)

21. The BATTLE: Tone vs. Mood
___ is feeling in reader; ___ is writer’s attitude.
Imagine reader’s voice: sad? happy? angry?
Below: What’s the tone + mood?
Ex1: Today, the rain refreshed the flowers Bringing new life to the world.
Ex2: Yesterday, the rain battered my windows.
Shattering glass upon the flowers.

22. TONE CAN HELP YOU IDENTIFY THE MOOD!!!