1. ODE POEMS Mrs. Adcock

2. ODE TERMS Ode- A poem in praise of something divine or expressing some noble idea Mood – a feeling a reader gets when reading a literary work Personification – giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea Metaphor – the comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”

3. “ODE TO AN ARTICHOKE” BY PABLO NERUDA Identify: Metaphors Similes Personification Plot of the poem

4. IDENTIFICATION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN “ODE TO AN ARTICHOKE” MetaphorsSimilesPersonification **The entire poem is an extended metaphor – what two items are being compared? Dressed up like a warrior she observes it /Up against the light like it was an egg, The carrot /With its red mustaches / Was sleeping The cabbage /Dedicated itself /To trying on skirts Artichoke /There in the garden, / Dressed like a warrior, Like a proud /Pomegrante Thus ends /In peace / This career /Of the armed vegetable

5. “ODE TO MY SOCKS” BY PABLO NERUDA Identify: Metaphors Similes Personification Plot of the poem

6. IDENTIFICATION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN “ODE TO MY SOCKS” MetaphorsSimilesPersonification my feet were two fish made of wool, two long sharks two socks as soft as rabbits I slipped my feet into them / as if they were two cases my feet seemed to me unacceptable / like two decrepit firemen to save them somewhere as schoolboys /keep fireflies /as learned men collect /sacred texts Like explorers in the jungle

7. ODE ASSIGNMENT Create an original Ode, about anything, that has: an identifiable mood – labeled at the top 3 examples of personification – underlined 1 Metaphor - circled some rhyme scheme –labeled on the right **extra credit for Shakespearean Rhyme Scheme: a,b,a,b c,d,c,d e,f,e,f g,g at least 12 lines, may have up to 15 format your writing like a poem (spacing, separation of stanzas) Completed poem Due Thurs 05/07