Bellringer : May 16th

1. Bellringer : May 16th • DIRECTIONS: Copy the sentence. Identify any • figurative language or sound devices that are • used. • Bob bellowed like a bear when Wild Willy wrecked • his bike. Alliteration Simile

2. Agenda • Poetry • Quiz Check : Figurative Language • Notes : Sound Devices • SOL Prep • Passage #3 : Check

3. Stanzas can be given a specific name depending on their structure and rhyme pattern. List of stanza names according to number of lines: Poetry Form : Stanza • A stanza consists of a grouping of lines set off by a space.

4. “The Cruel Sister” There lived a lady by the North Sea shore, Lay the bent to the bonny broom Two daughters were the babes she bore. Fa la la la la la la la la. As one grew bright as is the sun, Lay the bent to the bonny broom So coal black grew the other one. Fa la la la la la la la. Poetry Form :Refrain • The repetition of one or more sounds, words, phrases or lines at certain intervals, usually at the end of each stanza • Similar to the chorus in a song • Create a circular sound pattern in a song or poem.

5. Rhyme and Poetry • Two (or more) words begin with different consonant sounds, then have identical stressed vowel sounds. • Any other following sounds are also identical. • Perfect rhymes do not have to be spelled the same way. Examples: rink, wink / gratitude, latitude. • Choice and voice • Maine and Spain • Dog and Fog • School and Cool

6. Internal Rhyme • two words within a line of poetry rhyme. Pussy said to the Owl, “You elegant fowl!” Owl rhymes with fowl and they’re in the same line.

7. End Rhyme • The last words in two consecutive lines of poetry rhyme. • This is also known as a couplet • My last defense • Is the present tense • It little hurts me now to know • I shall not go • Cathedral hunting in Spain • Nor cherrying in Michigan or Maine • Gwendolyn Brooks

8. Rhyme Scheme • Rhyme Scheme : the pattern of rhymed lines in a poem. • Each new sound is given a new letter of the alphabet. • When she I loved looked every day • Fresh as a rose in June, • I to her cottage bent my way • Beneath the evening moon.” A B Does ‘June’ rhyme with ‘day’? A Does ‘way’ rhyme with ‘day’? B Does ‘moon’ rhyme with ‘day’? Does ‘moon’ rhyme with ‘June’?

9. From Talib Kweli's song Memories Live. Yo it kind of make me think of way back when, I was a portrait of the artist as a young man, All those teenage dreams of rapping, Writing rhymes on napkins, Was really visualization, making this here actually happen, From Nas's song NY State of Mind I got so many rhymes I don't think I'm too sane, Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain, and be prosperous, though we live dangerous, cops could just arrest me, blaming us, we're held like hostages Approximate Rhyme What are the Approximate Rhymes? • A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only. Slant rhymes do not have to be spelled in different ways. • Also called forced, half, or slant rhyme.

10. Alliteration • The repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases. • A consonant is all letters besides vowels : A, E, I, O, U. • Tongue twisters rely on alliteration • How much wood would a woodchuck chuckIf a woodchuck could chuck wood?He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,And chuck as much as a woodchuck wouldIf a woodchuck could chuck wood.

11. Alliteration "Isn't that what being an international man of mystery is all about?" Austin Powers "Have you forgotten you'refacing the single finest fighting force ever assembled." --delivered by Dan Akroyd in Dragnet "Step forward, Tin Man. You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk...And you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to ask for a brain! You billowing bale of bovine fodder!" -- delivered by Frank "Wizard of Oz" Morgan (from the movie The Wizard of Oz

12. Alliteration What consonant sound repeats? • Don’t delay dawn’s disarming display • Dusk demands daylight. • --Paul McCann “Dewdrops Dancing Down • Daisies” • Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods • and the wheat-lot • --Walt Whitman “Song of Myself” • This gruesome creature was called Grendel • -- Beowulf

13. The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping here,To watch his woods fill up with snow. Consonance • The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words. • Focus on the last syllable of each word. • Words should be close together.

14. Assonance • Repetition of similar vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U) followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together. And so all the night tide, I lie down by the side, Of my darling, my darling, my life and bride. -- from “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe Strips of tinfoil winking like people --from Sylvia Plath “The Bee Meeting”

15. Assonance What vowel sound repeats? The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying in knots. --from Annie Dillard’s “Holly the Farm” Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage, against the dying of the light." --from Dylan Thomas’ "Do not go gentle into that good night"

16. Onomatopoeia • The sound of the word imitates the sound of the thing spoken of. The ‘clip clop’ of a horse walking. The ‘buzz’ of a bee. The ‘vroom!’ of a motorcycle.

18. Tone : the attitude a writer has towards his/her subject. Mood vs. Tone • Mood : the feeling a poem creates for a reader. • Subject of poem • Word Choice • Verbs • Adjectives • Adverbs

19. Bellringer : May 15th • Copy the sentences. • Identify the rhyme scheme. • Identify and label examples of alliteration • Identify and label examples of assonance • Identify and label any similes, metaphors, or uses of personification. But the sea was eager to beat me backAnd the waves grew huge and deadly blackAnd the gray clouds rumbled over my headAnd I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead “Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish

20. Bellringer • Identify the rhyme scheme. But the sea was eager to beat me backAnd the waves grew huge and deadly blackAnd the gray clouds rumbled over my headAnd I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead A A B B “Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish

21. Bellringer • Identify and label examples of alliteration But the sea was eager to beat me back And the waves grew huge and deadly black And the gray clouds rumbled over my head And I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead “Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish

22. Bellringer • Identify and label examples of assonance But the sea was eager to beat me back And the waves grew huge and deadly black And the gray clouds rumbled over my head And I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead “Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish

23. Bellringer • Identify and label any similes, metaphors, or uses of personification. The sea is personified here. It is ‘eager’ to defeat the person who is in the sea. The sea is often personified, as we will see in Homer’s Odyssey. But the sea was eager to beat me backAnd the waves grew huge and deadly blackAnd the gray clouds rumbled over my headAnd I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead “Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish

24. Agenda • Poetry • Video of a Poem • Vocabulary for a Poem • Reading and Analysis of a Poem • SOL Prep • Passage #4 : Informational Text