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Sound Devices
Poetry Basics
Figuratively Speaking
Form
Writer's Devices
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The sound device being used in this example: Garry’s giraffe gobbled gooseberry’s greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.
What is alliteration? The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the word.
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A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
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What is the simile in this poem “Lost” and what is being compared? Desolate and lone/ All night long on the lake/ Where fog trails and mist creeps,/ The whistle of a boat/ Calls and cries unendingly,/ Like some lost child/ In tears and trouble/ Hunting the harbor’s breast/ And the harbor’s eyes.
What is 1. “the whistle of a boat/calls and cries unendingly,/like some lost child”. 2. What is being compared are the whistle and a lost child. Simile: Comparing two unlike things using LIKE, AS, AS IF
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A short poem that expresses personal thoughts and feelings on a subject.
What is a lyric poem?
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What is the tone of “Lost”? Desolate and lone/ All night long on the lake/ Where fog trails and mist creeps,/ The whistle of a boat/ Calls and cries unendingly,/ Like some lost child/ In tears and trouble/ Hunting the harbor’s breast/ And the harbor’s eyes./
What is scared or afraid? The tone is the emotion that the writer wants you to feel.
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The sound device being used in this example: I lie down by the side of my bride/ Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese/ Hear the lark and harden to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground/ -- Pink Floyd
What is assonance? The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of the words and not ending with the same consonant sound.
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This TYPE of poetry may not have a specific number of lines, a rhyme scheme, conventional spelling or punctuation.
What is organic poetry.
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The figurative language being used in these examples: My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it. The thunder grumbled like an old man. The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze.
What is personification? A description of an object, an animal, a place, or an idea in human terms.
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A 14-line lyric poem written in four distinct line groups: three quatrains and followed by a couplet.
What is a sonnet?
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The underlying message. The big idea. The lesson of the poem.
What is theme?
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The sound device shown in this example: How it swells!/ How it dwells/ On the Future! how it tells/ Of the rapture that impels/ To the swinging and the ringing/ Of the bells, bells, bells,/ Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,/ Bells, bells, bells-/ To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!/ -- Edgar Allan Poe
What is repetition? A word, phrase, or line that is repeated for emphasis and unity.
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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
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The figurative language used in these examples: You could have knocked me over with a feather. Her brain is the size of a pea. He is older than the hills.
What is hyperbole? An exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect.
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This formal form of poetry consists of four-line stanzas with a simple rhyme scheme, narrates a single tragic incident through dialogue.
What is a traditional ballad?
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A variation of a language from people who inhabit a particular region or who belong to a particular social or ethnic group.
What is dialect?
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What sound device represent these words? BOOM, KAPOW, BANG, SHHH, BZZZ, MEOW, AAAHHH
What is onomatopoeia?
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This TYPE of poetry has a specific number of lines in each stanza, rhyme scheme and beat.
What is traditional poetry?
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The figurative language used in these examples: "Life is a zoo in a jungle." (Peter De Vries) "Life is a journey. Enjoy the Ride." (Nissan)
What is metaphor? A comparison between two unlike things but without the words LIKE or AS.
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Has a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
What is a sonnet?
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What images are being presented and what senses are being appealed to? Desolate and lone/ All night long on the lake/ Where fog trails and mist creeps,/ The whistle of a boat/ Calls and cries unendingly,/ Like some lost child/ In tears and trouble/ Hunting the harbor’s breast/ And the harbor’s eyes.
What is Sight: fog trails and mist creeps Sound: whistle of the boat Smell: fog and mist Touch: fog, mist, tears Taste: tears
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A tattered weather-beaten swag, A silent mate To send His duMB warM coMfort to the heart, A fount where dreams ascend." Joseph Burrows, The Road That Has No End
What is consonance? This sound device is the repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of a word.
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A poem's structure.
What is form?
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The figurative language used in this example: Picture yourself in a boat on a river/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly/A girl with kaleidoscope eyes/ Cellophane flowers of yellow and green/Towering over your head/Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes/And she's gone/ Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain/ Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies/ Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers/ That grow so incredibly high/ Newspaper taxis appear on the shore/ Waiting to take you away/ Climb in the back with your head in the clouds/ And you're gone/ Picture yourself on a train in a station/ With plasticine porters with looking glass ties/ Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile/ The girl with kaleidoscope eyes/ --Lucy In the Sky by The Beatles
What is imagery? Words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for readers.
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A poetic form with no regular pattern of rhyme or rhythm. Often seems more like everyday speech. Can be structured as one long, unbroken stanza or with many stanzas of varying length.
What is free verse?
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What is the rhyme scheme of this poem: Through broken walls and gray/ The winds blow bleak and shrill;/ They are all gone away.
What is ABA?