1. 3-2-12 Review: Analyzing a Poem

2. Today’s Agenda MINI LESSON: Sound devices in poetry WORK TIME: Scavenger Hunt for sound devices in the SAME poems! HOMEWORK: finish the Scavenger Hunt

3. Personification When a writer makes a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do When a non-human subject is given human characteristics Example-The wind yells.

4. Personification continued… Create your own personification examples using the following nouns. -iPod - Uggs-Kindle-Laptop

5. Hyperbole an extreme exaggeration can be used to create mood and evoke strong feelings Example: “I ate a billion cookies!”

6. Hyperbole continued… Create a hyperbole about your PCR book’s protagonist, or about something the protagonist did. Example-”Cap Anderson’s hair stands ten feet high!”

7. Alliteration the repetition of a consonant sound or sounds at the beginning of words that are close together. Two repeated sounds is ok; three is better! Example: Hear the loud alarum bells-- Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! --Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"

8. Alliteration Create an alliteration using your PCR book’s title. It should convey the book’s mood. Crazy kids in Connections not being kind

9. Onomatopoeia the use of words to imitate sounds words whose sounds suggest their meaning ZoomBuzzZingFizz Ding dong POW Ping Bang BeepRattleSNAP! Hiss RINGBOOM!PopCrackle Sizzle WhackHum

10. Onomatopoeia Give an example of onomatopoeia for each category. -car sound -an animal Invent an onomatopoeia word to imitate a sound.

11. Rhyme Repetition of sounds at the end of words Gives a song-like quality to a poem end rhyme -words rhyming at the end of lines The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a Hemlock treefrom “Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost internal rhyme -rhyming words within lines Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

12. Couplet A structure of some poems A pair of lines that have an end rhyme Example: He came upon an age Beset by grief, by rage from “Martin Luther King” by Raymond Richard Patterson

13. Rhythm Pattern of repeated stressed and unstressed syllables. In poetry and music, it creates a beat or pulse. Example: Pause at the / “I pledge allegiance/ to the Flag/ of the United States of America/ and to the Republic/ for which it stands/one nation/under God/ indivisible/with liberty /and justice for all.“ Non-Example: Pause at the / “I pledge/ allegiance to the Flag of/ the United States of America/ and /to the Republic for which it stands, one nation/ under God indivisible with liberty /and justice for all."

14. Rhythm Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in language Sound Devices in MUSIC Listen and T2T for these songs: find figurative language and sound devices! “Unwritten” lyrics“Unwritten” song “Life is a Highway” lyrics“Life is a Highway” song Feel free to bring in or email a favorite song that is full of sound devices and figurative language!

15. Scavenger Hunt Part 2 Use the same poems from yesterday’s scavenger hunt to find sound devices.