WARM-UP (PLACE YOUR PROJECT ON YOUR DESK)1. Fold the paper I gave you in to fourth, as it is displayed

below.2. Copy the titles into the middle of each box.

Last Quarter Feelings

Hope 4 This Quarter

Triumphs/Failures

Strategies 4 Achieving

Goals

POETIC DEVICESThe Sounds of Poetry

Source:www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative.../poetic-devices-lesson.pp

SIMILE

When two items are compared using the words, like or as.

Examples

She runs as fast a as a cheetah.

HYPERBOLE

Using words to exaggerate and overemphasize a point that the author is trying to make.

Examples

Ms. Pinkney could eat 14,000 Thanksgiving dinners right now.

ALLITERATION

When the first sounds in words repeat.

Example

Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.

Slim-pinioned swallows sweep and pass

METAPHORComparing two object together WITHOUT using like or

as.

Example

The feather floated lightly in the air flowing as bald eagle surviving the Earth.

PERSONIFICATION

Objects possess human features.

Example

The bells sing out, “Yankee Doodle,” on top of the chapel.

ONOMATOPOEIA

When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound.

Examples

Buzz Fizz WoofHiss Clink BoomBeep Vroom Zip

REPETITION

Repeating a word or words for effect.

Example

When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day.

RHYME

When words have the same end sound.Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines.

Examples

WhereFairAirBearGlare

CONNOTATION (FIGURATIVE MEANING)

Connotations are the associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition. Many words have connotations that create emotions or feelings in the reader.

Example:  And once again, the autumn leaves

were falling. This phrase uses ‘autumn’ to signify

something coming to an end.Source:http://literary-devices.com/content/

connotation

DENOTATION (LITERAL MEANING) Denotation refers to the use of the dictionary

definition or literal meaning of a word. Example:  “They built a house.” In the above sentence, house is meant literally

as in a building where a family lives. If the word "home" was used instead in the above sentence in place of "house", the meaning would not be so literal as there are many emotions associated with the word "home" beyond simply the structure where people live (connotation)

Source:http://literary-devices.com/content/connotation

PRACTICE QUIZ

I’ll put some lines of poetry on the board.Write down which techniques are used:

Alliteration, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and onomatopoeia.

Some poems use more than one technique.

1

Oh! To be a wave Splintering on the sand, Drawing back, but leaving Lingeringly the land.

2

Drip--hiss--drip--hiss– fall the raindrops on the oaken log which burns, and steams, and smokes the ceiling beams. Drip--hiss--the rain never stops.

3

A trumpet-vine covered an arbourWith the red and gold of its blossoms.Red and gold like the brass notes of Trumpets.

4

I passed through the gates of the city, The streets were strange and still,Through the doors of the open churches The organs were moaning shrill.

5

Upon the enchanted ladder of his rhymes,Round after round and patientlyThe poet ever upward climbs.

ANSWERS

1. Rhythm, rhyme, consonance, alliteration.2. Onomatopoeia, consonance, repetition, rhyme3. Alliteration, consonance, repetition4. Rhythm, rhyme, alliteration5. Repetition, rhyme, light alliteration