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What Is Prose?

What Is Prose?. Any piece of literature written in sentences and paragraphs. What Is Poetry. Any piece of literature written in verse!. How is poetry similar to prose?. Poetry: She stands In the quiet darkness, This troubled woman Bowed by Weariness and pain Like an

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What Is Prose?

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  1. What Is Prose? Any piece of literature written in sentences and paragraphs.

  2. What Is Poetry Any piece of literature written in verse!

  3. How is poetrysimilar to prose? Poetry: She stands In the quiet darkness, This troubled woman Bowed by Weariness and pain Like an Autumn flower... Prose : He awoke suddenly with the snap of a fist smashing against his face, crunching painfully the right cheekbone.

  4. How is poetry similar to prose? • Expression of an idea or experience • Creates images • Uses figurative language • Expression of feelings to be remembered forever • Narrates an event

  5. How is poetrydifferent from prose? Poetry: She stands In the quiet darkness, This troubled woman Bowed by Weariness and pain Like an Autumn flower... Prose : He awoke with the snap of a fist smashing against his face, crunching painfully his right cheekbone.

  6. How is poetry different from prose? • Reader must use imagination • Uses more complex sentence structures • Written in lines • Plays with rhyme • Plays with rhythm • Plays with sound • Compresses thoughts/few, exact words

  7. Dictionary Definition: A poem is a composition designed to convey a vivid and imaginative sense of experience characterized by the use of condensed language chosen for its sound and suggestive power as well as its meaning, and by the use of such literary techniques as structured meter, natural cadences, rhyme, or metaphor.

  8. Prose or Poetry? How do you know? A CHRISTMAS TREE A x-mas tree Gawky and odd-looking Transformed in a few minutes Into a beautiful creation. Lights, tinsel, garland, ornaments. Sitting alone in a darken room, the tree sheds it Pink, green, blue red, proudly...

  9. What subject can a poem be about? A CHRISTMAS TREE A pine tree, Gawky and odd-looking, Transformed in a few minutes Into a beautiful creation A Christmas tree. Lights, tinsel, garland, ornaments. Sitting alone in a darkened room, the tree sheds its Pink, green, blue, red, sparkling light so proudly...

  10. SUICIDE His smoky blue eyes were transfixing And the vitality he radiated Could heat a room. My Jason was magnetic-- He drew people to him. He was very vulnerable, though-- Too sensitive to the pressures And fears of the world… One day he made the decision To no longer go on living.

  11. AN EVENT Walking into the arena lining up to make the run bolting off to the first barrel a sharp turn is made now heading for the second sand flying in every direction then, anxiously approaching the third barrel making a clean run while crossing the finish line with the winning time...

  12. T-ball Memories Batter up! I approach the plate, butterflies busily dancing in my stomach. Ten dirt-streaked faces focus on me, attempting to drone out the merry tunes drumming from passing ice-cream trucks. With scorching rays of sun beating on my back, I swing at the dingy white ball towering on the tee. Connecting with a deafening ring, my bat sends the ball sailing past third base. Running with all my heart, the soft dirt parting under my feet, I finally pounce onto home plate. My first homerun!

  13. But Ashley, I want to learn more about poetry, don’t you? I hope she tells us more next time! Shilo, it’s finally over, Yippee... To be continued, by popular demand!

  14. History of Poetry • Ancient form of literature • Thousands of years old • Chants, songs, prayers/psalms • Professional story-tellers • Ancient Greece/Rome • Troubadours/Rhapsodes • Epics • Rhythm/rhyme • Shakespearean Drama Rhapsodes William Shakespeare

  15. Form Stanza? She stands In the quiet darkness, This troubled woman Bowed by Weariness and pain Like an Autumn flower In the frozen rain... The old woman stood in the quiet darkness. Her body was bowed by the weariness and pain she had to endure in her lifetime. This troubled woman stood there like an autumn flower in a frozen rain. End-stop lines? Run-on lines?

  16. Sound Alliteration? The Optileast Is a cheerful beast; The least little thing Makes his joy-bells sing The Pessimost Is given to boast That there’s always room For more and more gloom. Assonance? Onomatopoeia?

  17. Speaker: The VOICE Saying the lines • Not necessarily the writer: Grandma sleeps with my sick grand- pa so she can get him... Who is the speaker?

  18. Rhyme: Repetition of sounds at the ends of words Lane/explain Hands/understands Night/upright

  19. External Rhyme: The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine hat, Tucson and Deadwood and lost Mule Flat. couplet Internal Rhyme: The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast.

  20. Internal/External Rhyme? Rhyme Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children’s faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. Rhyme Scheme? Traditional or free verse? Couplet? Imagery Figurative Language?

  21. Rhythm Poetic foot? Stressed/unstressed syllables? Strange Optileast and Pessimost, Neither is guest, neither is host. They couldn’t be brothers, they couldn’t be wed, Yet they’ll live together until they’re dead. For however peculiar it may be, They’re both alive, alive in me. How does the writer use punctuation to emphasize the differences in the Optileast/Pessimost?

  22. Grandma sleeps with my sick grand- pa so she can get him during the night medicine to stop the pain Traditional verse or free verse? Speaker? Mood?

  23. I don’t think so, Ashley. There’s a whole lot more to learn about poetry. I-- can’t--wait! Hey Shilo, This time I think it’s really over, Yippee... To be continued...

  24. Structure and Meaning Poetry I loved you, my friend. subject verb object My friend, thee how I love object subject verb

  25. Understanding long sentences...use punctuation clues Who knows if the moon’s a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? (and if you and i should get into it, if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: Stanza 1 Stanza 2 Stanza 3

  26. Pictures in Poetry

  27. Imagery • Appeals to the senses • sight: black on white/crow in snow • taste: caramel cream filling • touch: silky pajamas, smooth and sleek • sound: hooting of owls in silent wood • smell: sweet, pungent smoldering embers , two hours old

  28. Strong Feelings Word Pictures Creating Images Where fog trails and mist creeps The whistle calls and cries like some lost child in tears and trouble

  29. Creates Feelings in the Reader What Feeling? Desolate and lone All night long on the lake Where fog trails and mist creeps What Images?

  30. A figure if speech ... ...is based on a comparison She’s no spring chicken anymore. ...makes connections between two very different things that share one common quality The moon shines like a fifty-cent piece ...is not literally true

  31. What happens to a dream deferred? Does is dry up like a raisin in the sun? They were women then My mama’s generation How they battered down Doors... to discover books.

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