1. figurative language in poetry
March 19, 2015
figurative language in poetry
Homework:
Study your 20 flashcards!
Objective
I can analyze the elements of poetry and evaluate the impact of figurative language on a poem's meaning.
Warm Up:
Number 1-5 in your notes. In your vocabulary book, turn to pg. 41 and complete #s 1-5 in the VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT section.

2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

3. 3 main elements of poetry

4. 3 main elements of poetry
sound devices

5. 3 main elements of poetry
sound devices
figurative language

6. 3 main elements of poetry
sound devices
imagery
figurative language

7. 1. What do we mean by a poem's structure?
2. What are the 5 most common sound devices found in poetry?
3. What are the 4 most common types of figurative language?

8. We will start off today reading a poem called Like Bookends.
If you had to make a prediction about what this poem is referring to, what might you compare to bookends?

9. Turn to pg. 583 in your Literature book
Like Bookends

10. Like Bookends - Eve Merriam
my father at one side
my mother at the other
propping me up
but unable to read
what I feel.
Were they born with clothes on?
Born with rules on?
When we sit at the dinner table
we smooth out our napkins into polite folds.
How was your day dear
  Fine
And how was yours dear
And how was school
  The same
Only once in a while
when we’re not trying so hard
when we’re not trying at all
our napkins suddenly whirl away
and we float up to the ceiling
where we sing and dance until it hurts from laughing
and then we float down
with our napkin parachutes
and once again spoon our soup
and pass the bread please.
Identify, pull text for and explain the following:
 - simile
 - hyperbole
 - metaphor
 - alliteration

11. So now let's review both sound devices and figurative language by taking a look at Shel Silverstein's poem
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout

12. SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT - Shel Silverstein
Would not take the garbage out!
She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans,
Candy the yams and spice the hams,
And though her daddy would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the garbage out.
And so it piled up to the ceilings:
Coffee grounds, potato peelings,
Brown bananas, rotten peas,
Chunks of sour cottage cheese.
It filled the can, it covered the floor,
It cracked the window and blocked the door
With bacon rinds and chicken bones,
Drippy ends of ice cream cones,
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel,
Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal,
Pizza crusts and withered greens,
Soggy beans and tangerines,
Crusts of black burned buttered toast,
Gristly bits of beefy roasts. . .
The garbage rolled on down the hall,
It raised the roof, it broke the wall. . .

13. Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs,
Globs of gooey bubble gum,
Cellophane from green baloney,
Rubbery blubbery macaroni,
Peanut butter, caked and dry,
Curdled milk and crusts of pie,
Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,
Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,
Cold french fries and rancid meat,
Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.
At last the garbage reached so high
That it finally touched the sky.
And all the neighbors moved away,
And none of her friends would come to play.
And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said,
"OK, I'll take the garbage out!"
But then, of course, it was too late. . .
The garbage reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate.
And there, in the garbage she did hate,
Poor Sarah met an awful fate,
That I cannot now relate
Because the hour is much too late.
But children, remember Sarah Stout / And always take the garbage out!

14. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Sound device Onomatopoeia Rhythm Repetition
Rhyme 
Rhythm
Repetition 
Alliteration
Sarah
Cynthia
Sylvia
Stout

15. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Figurative language Hyperbole Metaphor
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Sarah
Cynthia
Sylvia
Stout

16. Your turn! And there, in the garbage she did hate,
Your assignment is to create an 8 line stanza to add to this poem in which you actually do describe the awful fate that Sarah met as a result of her disobedience. Your stanza will pick up here:
And there, in the garbage she did hate,
Poor Sarah met an awful fate,
What WAS the fate???
Somewhere within this stanza you must include:
- rhyme (AABB rhyme scheme)
- rhythm (lines should sound musical)
- one example of onomatopoeia
- alliteration (3+ examples in one line) - NOT SCSS
- one example of a metaphor
- one example of a simile
- one example of personification
- one example of a hyperbole
Avoid putting multiple things in one line or using one example for two elements. Circle each example, draw an arrow out to the side and label each item.
Your 
turn!