Exploring Poetry Elements of Poetry 1 Figurative Language is language that is used imaginatively rather than literally to express ideas or feeling in new ways a Similes use like or as to compare two unlike ID: 225717
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Poetry Analysis
Exploring PoetrySlide2
Elements of Poetry
1.
Figurative
Language- is language that is used imaginatively, rather than literally, to express ideas or feeling in new ways.
a.
Similes
- use like or as to compare two unlike
things
“She runs like the wind.
”
b.
Metaphors
- also compares two unlike things and speaks of one thing in terms of another
,
“
All the world’s a stage.”
"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food." (Austin O'Malley,
Keystones of Thought
)
c.
Personification
- gives human traits to nonhuman things,
as
“The
trees danced in the wind”
"Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie." (slogan on a package of Oreo cookies)Slide3
Figurative Language Cont.
d.
Apostrophe
- a form of personification in which the absent, or dead, are spoken to as if present, and the inanimate, as if animate
.
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are...”e. Metonymy - a form of metaphor in which the name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated.Example: Robin Hood was accused of going against the crown.“Let’s go to bed”f. Synecdoche - form of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole. all hands on deck.Slide4
Elements of Poetry
2. Imagery - is descriptive language that makes vivid impressions through the use of the sensory language or the five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.Slide5
Sound
Devices-
Rhythm
is a pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of words in sequence. A pattern of rhythm is called a
meter.Rhyme is the repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words. A pattern of rhyme at the ends of lines is a rhyme scheme.Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds of nearby words. Beginning of words e.g. - light and lemonAssonance - is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
e.g. - date and fade.
"
If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got . . . fleeced." (Al
Swearengen
in Deadwood, 2004
)
Consonance
- is the repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the preceding vowels differ.
It is located within the middle and ending of words.
e.g
. - milk and
walk
He struck a streak of bad luck
.
The uncertain rustle of noise caused my poise
.
Onomatopoeia
- the use of words that mimic the sounds they describe
.
e.g. -hiss, buzz, bangSlide6
Types of Poetry
1.
Narrative
- poetry that tells a story with a plot, characters, and a setting.
a. Epic - is a long narrative poem about the feats of gods or heroes.
b. Ballad - is a song-like narrative with stanzas and a refrain2. Dramatic - poetry that tells a story using a character’s own thoughts or spoken statements3. Lyric - poetry that expresses the feelings of a single speaker. These are the more common poems.Slide7
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