Poetic Devices
Name 3 poetic devices (without using your sheet)
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Name all of the senses used in this example:
The musty scented velvet carpet fibers moved as I brushed them, up and down and up and down, like red waves rolling on the sand.
Based on the sentence, what is the definition of seldom?
I seldom see my best friend who now lives in another country.
Rarely/not often
What are 3 poetic devices that Maya Angelou utilizes in her poems that we read?
Repetition, rhyme, simile, rhetorical question, metaphor, etc
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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
They both compare things, but a simile uses "like" or "as" while a metaphor will say something "is" something or things "are" things.
What is Imagery?
When a writer puts visual pictures into a reader's mind by appealing to the 5 senses.
What is the definition of the word deferred based on this sentence:
I hope that my dream deferred does not fester within me.
Delayed, not yet completed/achieved
What is the definition of dialogue?
Characters talking
Identify the spelling errors in this passage:
Todd journied across the ocean to win a global Spartan medil.
journeyed and medal
Ask me a rhetorical question.
Good Job!
yeah
What is the definition of sojourn?
Temporary visit/stay
EVERYONE Write your own example of a simile.
Noice
I won't be here for prom :(, where will I be instead!?
Michigan
What is alliteration?
Bonus: How is it different from consonance?
Repetition of a specific sound at the beginning of words.
Consonance is the repetition of a consonant at the beginning of words.
In this passage from The Pedestrian, who are "The grey phantoms?"
Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles and return only at midnight to his house. And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows. Sudden grey phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls where a curtain was still undrawn against the night, or there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomb-like building was still open.
The people living in houses
What is the definition of haven?
A safe place
EVERYONE Write your own example of a metaphor.
Very Noice
Eyo what's today's wordle?
idk i think it starts with an e tho
EVERYONE CAN DO THIS FOR THE 500. Write me something that uses irony, alliteration, enjambment, and a metaphor. You may use your handout to write this.
That was good prolly!
Identify the metaphorical imagery used in this passage. What metaphor is used and what senses are appealed to?
He came to a cloverleaf intersection which stood silent where two main highways crossed the town. During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, the gas stations open, a great insect rustling and a ceaseless jockeying for position as the scarab-beetles, a faint incense puttering from their exhausts, skimmed homeward to the far directions.
The cars are scarab beetles which describes them as living insects moving about. Sight and *hearing (thunderous surge)
Trill: A sound of two notes or tones repeated quickly
Hasten: to do quickly/rushed
Write me an example of alliteration that includes enjambment.
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Thank you all for being a part of my class, I hope you all have a great prom and long weekend!
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