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Poetry/Figurative LanguagePoetry/Figurative Language
CA IICA II
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“We Got the Beat“We Got the Beat
Poetry has a beat or RHYTHMA major element of poetry is
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE or FIGURES OF SPEECH
Poetry has a beat or RHYTHMA major element of poetry is
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE or FIGURES OF SPEECH
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/FIGURES OF
SPEECH
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/FIGURES OF
SPEECH Language that is shaped by the
imagination. A Figure of Speech is never literally
true--but suggests an idea to our imagination.
Language that is shaped by the imagination.
A Figure of Speech is never literally true--but suggests an idea to our imagination.
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MetaphorMetaphor
A comparison of unlike things in which a connection is revealed. A metaphor allows us to speak in an imaginative shorthand
“The fog comes in on little cat feet”--Sandburg
A comparison of unlike things in which a connection is revealed. A metaphor allows us to speak in an imaginative shorthand
“The fog comes in on little cat feet”--Sandburg
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SimileSimile
A figure of speech that uses the words--like, as, than or resembles.
In a good simile, the comparison is unexpected, but reasonable.
“My love is LIKE a red, red rose.”--Burns
A figure of speech that uses the words--like, as, than or resembles.
In a good simile, the comparison is unexpected, but reasonable.
“My love is LIKE a red, red rose.”--Burns
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PERSONIFICATIONPERSONIFICATION
Personification is when we attribute human qualities to nonhuman things or to an abstract idea.
“As I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me”--Dickinson
Personification is when we attribute human qualities to nonhuman things or to an abstract idea.
“As I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me”--Dickinson
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SymbolSymbol
A SYMBOL is often an ordinary object, event, person, or animal to which we have attached extraordinary meaning.
SYMBOLS like all figures of speech allow the poet to suggest layers and layers of meaning.
Common symbols: American flag, heart(love), etc.
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Imagery
Seeing with our minds. An image is a representation of anything we can:
SEE--HEAR--TASTE--TOUCH--SMELL
“The loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with blooms along the bough.”-
Housman
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Rhythm/Meter
Poetry is a musical kind of speech.Poetry is based on rhythmPoets can use meter--a strict, rhythmic pattern
of stressed/unstressed syllables in each lineIamb (u /)-insistTrochee(/ u)-doubleAnapest(u u /)-understandDactyl(/ u u)-excellentSpondee(/ /)-football
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FREE VERSEFREE VERSE
Free Verse is poetry that is free from the old metric rules.--Free Verse is a loose kind of rhythm in which the sounds of long phrases are balanced against short verses.
Free Verse is poetry that is free from the old metric rules.--Free Verse is a loose kind of rhythm in which the sounds of long phrases are balanced against short verses.
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RHYMERHYME
The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all following sounds in a word.
End rhyme--rhyme at the end of lines:”Three young rats with black felt hats Three young ducks with white straw flats.
The repetition of the accented vowel sound and all following sounds in a word.
End rhyme--rhyme at the end of lines:”Three young rats with black felt hats Three young ducks with white straw flats.
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RHYMERHYME
Internal rhyme--rhyme within a line. “It was on Wednesday night, the
moon was shining bright.’--anonymous
RHYME SCHEME is the pattern of rhyme.
Internal rhyme--rhyme within a line. “It was on Wednesday night, the
moon was shining bright.’--anonymous
RHYME SCHEME is the pattern of rhyme.
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Alliteration
• Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that appear close together.
• “Bright balloons bouncing on the boardwalk’--Sloan
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like they they mean:
Examples: snap, crackle, pop, woof, meow--etc.
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Types of Poetry: Sonnet
Sonnet--strict structure14 lines--3 quatrains of 4
rhyming lines and ending couplet that rhymes
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day Thou art more lovely and more temperate Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course,
untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his
shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ---William Shakespeare
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Ballad
A story poem meant to be sung: “Bonny Barbara Allen” anonymous Oh, in the merry month of May When all things were a-blooming. Sweet William came from the Western
states And courted Barbara Allen…