Download
1 / 24
320 likes | 407 Vues
Elements of Poetry. Borrowed and Revised from Henry County Schools Fall 2007. Onomatopeia. The use of words that imitate sounds, such as hiss or buzz. Examples The snake hissed softly. The cat meowed loudly. The boy’s suitcase bumped down the stairs as he ran away from home.
E N D
Elements of Poetry Borrowed and Revised from Henry County Schools Fall 2007
Onomatopeia The use of words that imitate sounds, such as hiss or buzz. Examples The snake hissed softly. The cat meowed loudly. The boy’s suitcase bumped down the stairs as he ran away from home.
Haiku An unrhymed poem of seventeen syllables derived from Japanese verse; it is made up of three lines, lines 1 and 3 have five syllables, line 2 has seven. See next slide for examples…..
Examples of Haiku Rain gusts A cricket disturbed the electricity goes the sleeping child; on the porch on and off a man smoked and smiled. Low winter sun Road from Banbury raspberry leaves glow a man spilled from his crushed car red and green dead eyes full of rain
Tone The attitude of the author, evident from the diction, use of symbolism, irony, and figures of speech. Tone can be described as playful, sad, happy, humorous, sarcastic, etc.
Metaphor Items from different classes are implicitly compared, WITHOUT a connective such as "like" or "as." Examples She is the rose, the glory of the day. The center of the football team, Jimbo, is a wall; no offense can get past him.
Speaker The speaker or voice of a literary work, i.e., who is doing the talking. Thus persona is the "I" of a narrative or the implied speaker of a lyric poem.
Simile Items from different classes are compared using "like," "as," "than”, "appears" or "seems." **If the objects compared are from same class, e.g., "New York is like Chicago," NO simile is present. Examples of simile: She is beautiful like the rose. My neighbor is as busy as a bee. She ran from the building like a frightened deer. Autumn came blowing in like a tornado through the trees.
Hyperbole(pronounced hye-PURR-buh-lee) Overstatement or exaggeration. Examples: He died a thousand deaths. They have tried a million times to call you today. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Assonance The repetition, in words of proximity, of identical vowel sounds preceded and followed by differing consonant sounds. Examples: Whereas tide and hide are rhymes, tide and mine are assonantal. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
Personification Giving human qualities to abstractions or inanimate objects such as love, beauty, etc. Examples: The cat, disappointed, wondered where I'd been all day. When love calls, wild hearts fly. The sun smiled upon the land.
Extended Metaphor A metaphor which is drawn-out beyond the usual word or phrase to extend throughout a stanza or an entire poem, usually by using multiple comparisons between the unlike objects or ideas.
Rhyme Scheme The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines, such as the ababbcc. See the example on the next slide.
Example of Rhyme Scheme Hickory dickory dock a The mouse ran up the clock a The clock struck one b The mouse ran down b (it doesn’t rhyme exactly) Hickory dickory dock a
Apostrophe An address to a person or thing not literally listening. Examples: O Santa, bring me that Porsche I've always wanted.... O lovely rose, your perfume fills the air.
Ballad A long singing poem that tells a story (usually of love or adventure), written in quatrains - four lines alternatively of four and three feet - the third line may have internal rhyme.
Stanza A rhythmical unit in which lines of poetry are commonly arranged (from an Italian word meaning "room" or "stopping-place").
Imagery Sensory content of poems; appeals to the five senses – paints a picture in your head Example (imagery in bright type): As the last seconds ticked down, the fans gripped their chilled drinks in anticipation. After the clock hit zero, the yellow and black suits stormed the green beaten field. They cried in excitement and exhaustion while they hugged teammates. From the sky red, blue, and white streamers danced down through the gentle smoke from the fireworks. The head coach was showered with freezing cold Gatorade that soaked every inch of his body andran into his mouth and greeted him with sweetness. The look on his face was proud as he was clearly in disbelief that this happened to him-yes, he won the Super Bowl. http://www.seymour.k12.wi.us/shs/teachers/brogley/10/units/pnarrative/imageryparagraph.htm
Pun A word play suggesting, with humorous intent, the different meanings of one word or the use of two or more words similar in sound but different in meaning. Examples: Does fuzzy logic tickle? What do you get when you cross the Atlantic Ocean with the Titanic? ... Half way. The world's full of apathy, but I don't care. The more times you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
Figurative Language The general category of language meant to be taken symbolically or metaphorically, including metaphor, simile, personification,
Refrain A phrase or stanza that repeats in a ballad or song lyric; a refrain may hold the main theme or idea of the poem or song
Alliteration Sometimes defined as the repetition of initial sounds. For example All the awful auguries Bring me my bow of burning gold She sells seashells by the seashore. And sometimes as the prominent repetition of a consonant. For example After life's fitful fever
Internal Rhyme Rhyme occurs within lines. Example: Each narrow cell in which we dwell.
Slant Rhyme Words share same vowel or similar vowel sound & same end sound, they "sort of" rhyme. Ex: which & fish have same vowel sound, but end sounds not exactly same. If you scan for rhyme scheme, you could say these two words rhyme.
