HKMS Team 8-1 and Mrs. Landry Quick Literary Device Review for CMTs…

1. HKMS Team 8-1and Mrs. LandryQuick Literary Device Review for CMTs…

2. What is Poetry • Poetry is one of the four major genres, or categories, of literature. The four major genres are: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. • Writing poetry is the ultimate exercise in descriptive writing and word choice.

3. Poetry Allows all people to: • Play with language • Express feelings • Explore ideas • Discover the extraordinary in the ordinary things around us. • In the end, poetry should make you feel and think. • To be a poet, you must see the world around you differently. You must look beyond the literal and embrace figurative language.

4. Poetry – What does this have to do with me? The study of poetry improves your command of spoken and written language in FOUR ways: • 1. Poetry study is a powerful way of mastering language - improving your command of spoken and written language. Poetry provides powerful images and ideas.

5. Poetry – What does this have to do with me? • 2. Poetry study is a way of training and developing our EMOTIONAL intelligence. Poetry reveals how language communicates feeling through images and associations – figurative language.

6. Poetry – What does this have to do with me? • 3. We realize that HOW something is said is an essential part of what is actually being said. Tone, inflection and rhythm carry real meaning.

7. Poetry – What does this have to do with me? • 4. Poetry study enlarges our humanity and give us the power to express it. Our experience is widened, allowing us to see the world through the eyes of other people and other ages.

8. Poetry and Connections? • The study of poetry will help us make those text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections! • Poetry will help us with an understanding of important life events like: • Love and Desire • Earth and Death • Loneliness and Loss

9. Poetry and My Journey? • Literature prepares us imaginatively and spiritually for our journey through life. • Helps develop an inner life capable of facing, comprehending, and mastering our external life. • Mastering poetry will help you with: • Language • Perception • Communication • Compassion

10. Poetry, the Universe, and Me? • As we study our place in the universe through our science connections in our astronomy unit, we must look deep within to really know who we are and where we are going. http://science.howstuffworks.com/enlarge-image.htm?terms=space+station&page=0

11. Poetry and Me? • Poetry is speech raised to its highest intensity; a way of using words in the most moving and memorable way possible. • Poetry is about memory and improvisation – just like a rap star! Shakespeare and Frost and 2Pac? -- yes!! • Poetry is about the wonder of our language through written word, speech and songs.

12. Poetry – Synonym Poem • Pick a word – any word • Write the word in capital letters on the first line. • Find three to five synonyms in a thesaurus. • Write the synonyms on the second line. • On the third line, write a descriptive phrase about the word. • The last two lines of the poem should rhyme.

13. Poetry – Synonym Poem LOVE Attachment, warmth, adore Love is pure, down to the core. By K. Brantley, Grade 10

14. Poetry – Synonym Poem SORRY Regretful, sympathetic, deplorable What I said made me feel horrible. By D. Shortell, Grade 7

15. Poetry – Synonym Poem MUSIC Melody, tune, song, beat You just can’t help but tap your feet. By S.Doelger, Grade 7

16. Poetry – Diamonte • DIAMONTE: a seven-lined, diamond-shaped poem that begins with one subject and ends with its opposite. Specific parts of speech are used to create the poem.

17. Poetry – Diamonte • What are the eight parts of speech and what do they do? • Noun: person, place, thing, or idea • Pronoun: replaces a noun or another pronoun. Examples: “He," "which," "none," and "you" make your phrases less repetitive. • Adjective: describes a noun • Verb: action word • Adverb: describes a verb or another adverb • Conjunction: combines words, phrases • Interjection: word or phrase that shows excitement or emotion – ugh! Oh! • Preposition: indicates position or relationship

18. Poetry – Diamonte subject/noun adjective adjective -ing verb -ing verb -ing verb noun noun noun noun -ing verb -ing verb -ing verb adjective adjective subject/opposite of top subject

19. Poetry – Diamonte Winter cold, icy freezing, frosting, snowing blizzards, flurries sunshine, sprinklers, melting, sweltering, sweating, warm, heat Summer.

20. Poetry – Cinquain • CINQUAIN: a five-line poem that follows the pattern of (1,2,3,4,1) words in each line. • Line 1: A subject/noun • Line 2: Two adjectives • Line 3: Three verbs • Line 4: Four-word phrase, statement, or feeling • Line 5: Repeated subject or synonym

21. Poetry – Cinquain Hatred Deadly, destructive Stirs, simmers, scalds More fatal than flames Rancor

22. Poetry – Cinquain Ocean Salty, immense Sprays, churns, moves Darker than any black Water By D. Mitchell, Grade 7

23. Poetry – Haiku • HAIKU: an ancient Japanese poetic form that contains 17 syllables in three lines of (5, 7, 5) syllables each. Nature’s wonder is often the haiku’s theme. • Line 1: 5 syllables • Line 2: 7 syllables • Line 3: 5 syllables

24. Poetry – Haiku One man and one fly buzzing alone together in a sunny room… By K. Issa Student, West Hartford

25. Poetry – Haiku Get out of my road and allow me to plant these bamboos, Mr. Toad. By M. Chora

26. Poetry – Haiku It comes out after all the rain has fallen down. Rainbow is its name. By C. Brooks, Grade 7

27. Poetry – Haiku Walking on the beach, the sand creeps between my feet. Ouch! A crab bit me. By J. Moss, Grade 7

28. Poetry Literary Devices or Figurative Language

29. Poetry • Candles cry wax tears. • Cats tango in the streets • I called out to the ocean, and she waved back to me. • Can these objects actually do these things? • Which literary device (figurative language) type is used here?

30. Poetry – Using Personification • PERSONIFICATION: a literary device used to give human traits to places, objects, animals, or ideas.

31. Poetry – Using Personification I know what I see The blue spruce outside my window Is kneeling for morning prayers. Meanwhile, the oak across the street Scratches the back of the tired sky And a small bush next door Embraces the innocent sparrow. --From “I Think I Shall Never See…” By Jim Heynen

32. Poetry – Using Personification The morns are meeker than they were The nuts are getting brown – The berry’s cheeks are plumper – The Rose is out of town. The Maple wears a grayer scarf – The field a scarlet gown – Lest I should be old fashioned I’ll put a trinket on. --#12 by Emily Dickinson

33. Poetry – Using Personification The short, thin body of the tree With its long, tangled hair Stands all alone Against the forlorn, pale sky. --“A Tangled Mess” By M. Visgilio, Grade 7

34. Poetry • An ocean is as deep as our memories. • The teacher’s voice is like sandpaper. • The night is like a blanket. • What two things are being compared in each of these sentences? • Which literary device is used here?

35. Poetry – Using Similes • SIMILE: A literary device used by writers to show that two unrelated things may have something in common. • A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as” to make the comparison.

36. Poetry – Using Similes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? “ A Dream Deferred” By Langston Hughes

37. Poetry – Using Similes The light shade of purple slowly fades into yellow. The end of many petals looks like 100 hands reaching for you. The glowing petals feel as soft as a silk blanket. The petals look as graceful as a ballerina spinning in a tutu. The smell is as sweet and thick as a jar of honey. This is my beautiful flower. “My Flower” By S. Doelger, Grade 7

38. Poetry • What sound does a duck make? • How about a dog? • A cat? • Lunchtime? • Bedtime? • There is a literary term for words like quack, woof, meow, munch, and snore. What is it?

39. Poetry – Using Onomatopoeia • ONOMATOPOEIA: a literary device that appeals to sound. It is the imitation of natural sounds. The word itself sounds like the actual sound.

40. Poetry – Using Onomatopoeia Was there really a man’s squeaky voice? Or was it Thomas just making a noise? The dancers dancing: tap, tap, tap! Someone trying to come in: rap, rap, rap! The flashing lights, The dressed-up boys, Lots of commotion, And much noise. “Party” By M. Li, Grade 7

41. Poetry – Using Onomatopoeia Cats swing dance In the middle of the alley, As the trumpet screams At the top of its lungs, Until it is red in the face. Beep-beep-boo-bop-bop the music goes. When it will stop, Nobody knows. “Swing Music” By K. Smyth, Grade 7

42. Poetry • The ocean is a memory. • The teacher’s voice is sandpaper. • The night is a blanket. • What two things are being compared here? • How is the comparison different than the other day? • What literary device is used here?

43. Poetry – Using Metaphors • METAPHOR: a literary device used by writers. A metaphor is used to compare two unlike objects thought to be the same. A metaphor does not use “like” or “as” to compare the objects.

44. Poetry – Using Metaphors The sky is the ocean, an endless boundless sea, A stormy sea of white-capped waves. The front is an endless line sweeping across the sky. A low-flying plane is a seagull struggling against the wind. The waves froth back and forth, rocking the boat that is me. The thunder is the song of whales calling in the distance. The lightning is a lighthouse calling me back. The classroom is a harbor where I am safe from the waves. The storm comes. “The Sky is an Ocean” By A. Schoell, Grade 8

45. Poetry – Using Alliteration • Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. Sometime poets use alliteration as a substitute for rhyme. • And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind. (Wordsworth)

46. Poetry – Alliteration Edwin Markham's "Lincoln, the Man of the People" is in unrhymed blank verse, but there are many lines of alliteration: She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need A man to match the mountains and the sea The friendly welcome of the wayside well Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man" begins: Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the tableWaiting for Warren. When she heard his step. . . . The eye immediately sees the alliteration in the "m's" in "Mary sat musing" and the "w's" in "Waiting for Warren. When. . . .”

47. Poetry – Using Rhyme • Rhyme is very simply the similarity between syllable sounds at the end of two or more lines. • Some kinds of rhyme include: Couplet: a pair of lines rhyming consecutively. • Eye rhyme: words whose spellings would lead one to think that they rhymed (slough, tough, cough, bough, though, hiccough. Or: love, move, prove. Or: daughter, laughter.)

48. Poetry – Rhyme Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. “Fire and Ice” By Robert Frost

49. Poetry – Pictures and Free Verse The tears start rolling Down his dirty cheeks, Like a rainstorm sprouting In the stark parched desert. His famished body weak and tired, He stands there, desperate for a better life. He is all alone, living in a country overcome by poverty, Without the necessities for a complete life. “A Tear Drop” By M. Visgilio, Grade 7

50. Poetry – Picture Poem As she looks at me, With guilt in her eyes, There is no frown, no smile, Only a smirk highlights the pale skin That the sun could not embrace. Looks as if she thinks of herself as a disgrace. “Looking at Me” By A. Ross, Grade 7