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Poetry Toolbox:

Poetry Toolbox:. Or “Figurative Language Tricks and Techniques”. Figurative language. Using metaphors, similes, imagery, idioms, hyperbole and personification to describe things Flowery Language “It’s raining cats and dogs!” “The sky opened up and cried when it found out you left me.”.

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Poetry Toolbox:

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  1. Poetry Toolbox: Or “Figurative Language Tricks and Techniques”

  2. Figurative language • Using metaphors, similes, imagery, idioms, hyperbole and personification to describe things • Flowery Language • “It’s raining cats and dogs!” • “The skyopened up and criedwhen it found outyou left me.”

  3. Literal Language Precise, realistic language “It is raining out. “ “I was sad when you left.”

  4. End Rhyme • Two lines that end in the same sound (does not need to be spelled the same!) • Hickory DickoryDock- The mouse ran up the clock.

  5. Internal rhyme • Think: where are your internal organs? • This rhyme is inside the middle of one line of poetry • Hickory DickoryDock, • Faded jaded jazz floats out of a cafe

  6. Rhyme Scheme • Plan for rhyme- might be couplets (aabbcc) • Or another plan like a limerick: There was a young lady ofNiger A Who smiled as she rode on the back of atiger A They returned from a ride B With the lady inside B And a smile on the face of thetiger A (anonymous)

  7. Free verse • “No rules just right” • No rhymes at the end, sounds and looks more like speech You can’t order a poem like you order a taco Walk up to the counter and say “I’ll take two” and get them handed back to you on a shiny plate. (Naomi Shihab Nye)

  8. Imagery • Vivid picture in one’s mind from powerful words • “…The road was a ribbon of moonlight…” (Alfred Noyes) Or “So much depends upon The red wheelbarrow Glazed with rainwater Beside The white chickens” (williamcarloswilliams)

  9. Personification • Giving non-human objects human-like personality traits or actions “…and then my heart with pleasure fills Anddances with the daffodils” (William Wordsworth) Also: “Rikki –Tikki-Tavi” (Rudyard Kipling) The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

  10. Simile and Metaphor • SimiLe • Comparing two things using LIKE or AS • “hairlikemoldy hay” (A. Noyes) • Metaphor • Comparing two things WITHOUT using like or as” • “moon was a ghostlygalleon” (A. Noyes) • “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine”

  11. Alliteration When the EXACT sound is repeated in the beginning of two words (spelling does not matter) “dazzling diamonds” Prickly Pear

  12. Consonance When a consonant is repeated in a line of words She sells seashells down by the seashore The sailor sings of ropes and things

  13. Assonance When vowel sounds are repeated (not always about the letter because in English we pronounce vowels many different ways!) “daylight faded gracefully away” Lucy Liu

  14. Repetition When whole words or phrases are repeated “…Tap, tap, tapping on my chamber door” (Edgar Allen Poe) One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish (Dr. Seuss)

  15. Onomatopoeia Words that mimic what they represent Tap, knock, boom, crash, whisper, zip, buzz, hum… (Story time!)

  16. Rhythm (The only word in the English language without a vowel…!) The measured beat of poetry Woman much missed, how you call to me, callto me or There once was a student named Andy (3) Who said “Oh no, I would nevereat candy!” (3) He refused to eat sweets(2) On his phone he would tweet (2) I feel fine and my teeth are just dandy! (3)

  17. The End Now you will be able to construct poems of great magnificence and charm. Take care of your toolbox!

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