1. Figurative Language in Poetry
Revised

2. Day 1

3. Simile comparison of two things using: like, as, than, resembles
Ex. 1: The moon is like a spotlight
Ex. 2: The moon is as bright as a spotlight.
Ex. 3: The moon is brighter than a spotlight.
Ex. 4: The moon resembles a spotlight.

4. Personification when a thing, an animal, or an
abstract term (truth, nature) is made human
or given a human trait
Ex. 1: The tree danced in the wind.
Ex. 2: When mother nature gets mad, she
cries out.

5. Hyperbole emphasizing a point with a statement containing exaggeration
Ex. 1: I’ve told you a thousand times.
Ex. 2: That cost me an arm and a leg.

6. Life by Grace Treasone Life is like a jagged tooth
That cuts into your heart;
Fix the tooth and save the root,
And laughs, not tears, will start.

7. The Wind by James Stephens
The wind stood up and gave a shout.
He whistled on his fingers and
Kicked the withered leaves about
And thumped the branches with his hand
And said he’d kill and kill,
And so he will and so he will.

8. Poems “Tiburon” By Martin Espada (p. 430) “Boy at the Window”
By Richard Wilbur (p. 451)

9. In your poetry folder… You will have: Table of Contents
All literary terms Assigned poems
About the author

10. Table of Contents
Lists all poems and page numbers each poem is found on
Literary terms
Poems:
Simile Poem
Hyperbole

11. Literary Terms Literary Terms
List all literary terms from the notes form the Power Points
Literary Terms
1. Simile: comparison using like, as, than, or resembles
2. Personification: when a thing, an animal, or an abstract term (truth, nature) is made human or given a human trait

12. Pages with your poems…
Every poem must have a title and list the author
Title may be “untitled” but it must be written above the poem
May use pin name, but EVERY poem must have an author’s name at the beginning or the end of the poem
You may put multiple poems on a page or just one poem per page
Must label the type of poem

13. Your Assignment… 1. Write a poem using similes and personifications
a. 20+ words
b. At least 2 similes
c. At least 1 examples of personification
d. Highlight each instance and label
2. Create your own hyperbole

14. Flowers Simile and Personification By Ms. Wellmeyer
The flower, like a yellow bowtie,
Danced in the wind
As graceful as a ballerina.
The flower smiled at the little ants
Like a person smiles
At the sight of a long lost friend.
Simile in red
Personification in blue

15. Day 2

16. idiom expressions belonging to a group of
people that mean something different
from the literal meaning
Ex: It’s raining cats and dogs.
Ex: I heard it through the grapevine.

17. Pun play on the multiple meanings of a word
or on 2 words that sound alike but have
different meanings
Ex: The chef took some cheese and
made some grate things.

18. Moon by anonymous O moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face
Careering along through the boundaries of space,
The thought has often come into my mind
If I shall see thy glorious behind.

19. from Calvin & Hobbes My mother has eyes on the back of her head!
I don’t quite believe it, but that’s what she said.
She explained that she’d been so uniquely endowed
To catch me when I did Things Not Allowed.
I think she must also have eyes on her rear.
I’ve noticed her hindsight is unusually clear.

20. Funny Puns Why do people preserve fruits and vegetables?
Because they 'can'.

21. He became a math teacher due to some prime factors.
During the meeting about earthquakes, there were several motions.

22. Soon after he joined the band, the guitarist was instrumental.
He was to carry two flags in the parade, but decided that would be a double standard.
The fisher said he liked the sea. On the surface of it.

23. Haiku Japanese poem consisting of 3 lines with 17 syllables
Line one and three: 5 syllables;
Line two: 7 syllables
Usually describes an image from nature

24. Examples of Haiku by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Green frog, Is your body also freshly painted?
Sick and feverish Glimpse of cherry blossoms Still shivering.

25. Techno-Haiku A file that’s so big? It might be useful,
But now it is gone.
The web site you seek
Cannot be located
Countless more exist

26. Windows NT crashed
I am the Blue Screen of Death
No one hears your screams
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

27. A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone
Having been erased
The document you’re seeking
Must now be retyped

28. Your assignment… Write 2 Haikus One traditional one about nature
The second one about any topic

29. Day 3

30. Metaphor
comparison of two things WITHOUT using: like, as, than, resembles

31. Direct Metaphor comparison of two things by the use of
a verb, such as, is
Ex. 1: The moon is a spotlight.
Ex. 2: My love is a red rose.

32. Implied Metaphor comparison of two things WITHOUT stating it directly
Ex: My love has petals and sharp thorns.
(by reading this, you can imply that the
comparison is a person to a rose because
roses have petals and thorns)

33. Extended Metaphor extended or developed over several
lines or the entire poem

34. Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

35. Poems… “Hope” is a thing with feathers Fog Fire and Ice
By Emily Dickinson (p. 435)
Fog
By Carl Sandburg (p. 440)
Fire and Ice
By Robert Frost (p. 441)

36. Your assignment…
Write an extended metaphor poem that uses both direct and implied metaphors
Must be at least 30 words
Highlight the direct and implied metaphors

37. Life is a roller coaster. It goes up and down, and spins and spirals,
Metaphor Poem
Life
Life is a roller coaster.
It goes up and down,
and spins and spirals,
and loops around itself
until is comes to a screeching
stop at the bottom
only to reload and start all over
Again.
Direct metaphor=blue
Implied metaphor=red

38. Metaphor for a Family by: unknown
My family lives inside a medicine chest:
Dad is the super-size band aid, strong and powerful but not always effective in a crisis.
Mom is the middle-size tweezer, which picks and pokes and pinches.
David is the single small aspirin on the third shelf, sometimes ignored.
Muffin, the sheep dog, is a round cotton ball, stained and dirty, that pops off the shelf and bounces in my way as I open the door.
And I am the wood and glue which hold us all together with my love.