POETRY UNITLines are to sentences as stanzas are to paragraphs

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is poetry?

How is poetry or verse different from prose?

Do you like poetry? Explain why or why not.

LITERARY DEVICES/POETIC DEVICES

Figures of Speech or figurative language

Similes – compare unlike things using like or as Her hair is like a golden waterfall.

Metaphors – compare unlike things without using like or as She is the sun.

LITERARY DEVICES / POETIC DEVICES Personification – gives an object, idea, or animal human characteristics

The couch cried when the husky kid sat down.

Hyperbole – exaggeration or stretching the truth I took a thousand hour nap.

IMAGERYDESCRIBES THE FIVE SENSES

See

Hear

Smell

Taste

Touch

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF A SIMILE:

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF A METAPHOR:

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF PERSONIFICATION:

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF HYPERBOLE:

SOUND DEVICES

Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. For example – Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled

peppers

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. Tomorrow I need to borrow a surcease from sorrow

Onomatopoeia – words that mimic the sound of the object or action it refers to. hiss, buzz, bang, boom, roar

Internal Rhyme – rhyming within a line See how they run – like pigs from a bun.

End Rhyme – rhyming at the end of the line

Roses are redViolets are blueI’m out of my headWith thinking of you

RHYME SCHEME OR END RHYME

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF ALLITERATION

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF ASSONANCE

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF ONOMATOPOEIA

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF END RHYME

WRITE AN EXAMPLE OF INTERNAL RHYME

Why do poets use figurative language in their poems?

Why do poets use sound devices in their poems?