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Poetry/Figurative Language

Poetry/Figurative Language. Mrs. Mcpherson English IV. “ We Got the Beat. Poetry has a beat or RHYTHM A major element of poetry is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE or FIGURES OF SPEECH. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/FIGURES OF SPEECH. Language that is shaped by the imagination.

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Poetry/Figurative Language

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  1. Poetry/Figurative Language Mrs. Mcpherson English IV

  2. “We Got the Beat • Poetry has a beat or RHYTHM • A major element of poetry is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE or FIGURES OF SPEECH

  3. 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.

  4. Metaphor • 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

  5. Simile • 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

  6. PERSONIFICATION • 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

  7. Symbol • 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.

  8. 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 now Is hung with blooms along the bough.”-Housman

  9. Rhythm/Meter • Poetry is a musical kind of speech. • Poetry is based on rhythm • Poets can use meter--a strict, rhythmic pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in each line • Iamb (u /)-insist • Trochee(/ u)-double • Anapest(u u /)-understand • Dactyl(/ u u)-excellent • Spondee(/ /)-football

  10. FREE 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.

  11. RHYME • 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Alliteration • Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in words that appear close together. • “Bright balloons bouncing on the boardwalk’--Sloan

  14. Onomatopoeia • Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like they they mean: • Examples: snap, crackle, pop, woof, meow--etc.

  15. Types of Poetry: Sonnet • Sonnet--strict structure • 14 lines--3 quatrains of 4 rhyming lines and ending couplet that rhymes

  16. 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

  17. 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…

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