What is Poetry?

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What is Poetry?

• Poetry a genre of literature that uses figures
  of speech, imagery, and sound designed to appeal
  to emotion and imagination
• Prose any genre of literature that is NOT
  Poetry

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A Poems Form and Structure

• Stanza a group of lines that form a single unit
  in a poem. (like paragraphs of poetry)
• Lines make up the stanzas (like the sentences in
  poetry).

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How many Stanzas and Lines?

• I have wished a bird would fly away,
• And not sing by my house all day
• Have clapped my hands at him from the door
• When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
• The fault must partly have been in me.
• The bird was not to blame for his key.
• And of course there must be something wrong
• In wanting to silence any song.

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Four Stanzas, Eight Lines

• Stanza ONE
• I have wished a bird would fly away, line 1
• And not sing by my house all day 2
• Stanza TWO
• Have clapped my hands at him from the door 3
• When it seemed as if I could bear no more. 4
• STANZA THREE
• The fault must partly have been in me. 5
• The bird was not to blame for his key. 6
• STANZA FOUR
• And of course there must be something wrong 7
• In wanting to silence any song. 8

• Show what 4 lines in a stanza would look like.
• Show what 6 lines in a stanza would look like
• Show what 8 lines in a stanza would look like

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• Rhythm the beat, accent in a poem. Some poems
  do not have rhythm.
• Rhyme sounds that are similar at the end of
  words, NOT all poems have to rhyme
• hall -- sensational
• General -- dull

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Literal vs. Figurative Language

• Literal the exact or primary meaning of a word
  or words means exactly what it says
• Figurative involving a figure of speech, not
  literal really means something else

it is raining cats and dogs
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• What is figurative language?
• Whenever you describe something by comparing it
  with something else, you are using figurative
  language.

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• Figurative Language
• Effect create an image in the readers mind

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Figurative Language Imagery Devices

• Purpose to create an image in the readers mind
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tell what images you picture in your head with
each of the following examples
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1. Simile

• compares 2 unlike things using the words like or
  as

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Examples of a similes

• Bob is hungry as a wolf.
• Bob and wolf are two things being compared using
  as
• Sue smells like a rose
• Sue and rose are tow things being compared using
  like
• Lisa looks like a total fox today.
• Lisa and fox (using like)
• Matt is as fine as chocolate syrup on ice cream
• Matt and syrup (using as)

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2. Metaphor

• compares 2 unlike things without using like or as

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Examples of Metaphors

• Bob is a hungry wolf.
• Bob is compared to a wolf.
• Sue is a rose, filling the room with her sweet
  scent.
• Sue (or Sues scent and rose (or roses scent)
  are being compared.
• My sister is such a witch.
• Sister is compared to a witch
• This class is my ticket to success on TCaP!
• (this) class is compared to success

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3. Personification

• Refers to a non-human thing as if it was a
  person/human
• Personification

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Examples of Personification

• The wind whispered her name.
• Wind is being personified Wind whispered
  because wind cant actually whisper.
• Love is blind.
• Love is being personified because love has no
  eyes that could be blinded.
• (If something had eyes, saying it is Blind
  that is not personification. Cat is blind is not
  personification because it has eyes)
• IF THE THING can already do it it is NOT
  personification!

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Title your papers The River Scavenger
Hunt
a Lyric Poem
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Rules

• You and your partners must work QUIETLY. If you
  talk loudly, other tables will steal your points!
• Correct answers will be tallied at the end for
  only those teams that have not been disqualified.
  
• For every correct answer, you earn a point.
  Tables with the most points win the Hippo on the
  Table for the Week and a piece of candy ?

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Find

• 2 similes -- what do they mean?
• 4 metaphors what do they mean?
• 1 personification what does it mean?
• --------------------------------------------------
  ---------------
• Bonus 1 for each
• Alliteration
• True end rhyme
• Internal rhyme
• Hyperbole

Wait for Mrs. Young to check answers at the end
of time!
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Answer key

• 2 Similes
• Line 1 Dream is like a River goals change over
  time just like a river changes directions,
  currents, or size
• Line 35 good Lord as my Captain the Lord will
  guide my life just like a captain guides a ship
  (vessel)
• Line 11 like a bird upon the wind is NOT a
  simile just describing the bird soaring on the
  wind without flapping its wings HOWEVER Line
  12/11 these waters are like a bird both the
  water and bird are on a journey to their
  goal/destination
• 4 Metaphors
• Line 3 a dreamers just a vessel the person is
  following where the goal takes him through life
  just as a vessel (ship) follows where the river
  takes it
• Line 7 makes each day a constant battle every
  day is a struggle to achieve that goal things
  will often try to prevent you from reaching your
  goal
• Line 9 an I will sail my vessel I am trying
  to reach my goal just as a vessel is trying to
  reach its destination
• Line 12 these waters are my sky the water of
  the river is unlimited just as the path to your
  goal is unlimited just as the sky is unlimited
• 1 Personification although they are weak, they
  are still personified
• Line 18 let the waters slip away lose the
  water/dream/path
• Line 16 the river runs dry no more
  water/dream/path

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Answer key

• 2 Similes
• Line 1 Dream is like a River goals change over
  time just like a river changes directions,
  currents, or size
• Line 35 good Lord as my Captain the Lord will
  guide my life just like a captain guides a ship
  (vessel)
• Line 11 like a bird upon the wind is NOT a
  simile just describing the bird soaring on the
  wind without flapping its wings HOWEVER Line
  12/11 these waters are like a bird both the
  water and bird are on a journey to their
  goal/destination
• 4 Metaphors
• Line 3 a dreamers just a vessel the person is
  following where the goal takes him through life
  just as a vessel (ship) follows where the river
  takes it
• Line 7 makes each day a constant battle every
  day is a struggle to achieve that goal things
  will often try to prevent you from reaching your
  goal
• Line 9 an I will sail my vessel I am trying
  to reach my goal just as a vessel is trying to
  reach its destination
• Line 12 these waters are my sky the water of
  the river is unlimited just as the path to your
  goal is unlimited just as the sky is unlimited
• 1 Personification although they are weak, they
  are still personified
• Line 18 let the waters slip away lose the
  water/dream/path
• Line 16 the river runs dry no more
  water/dream/path

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Answer key

• 2 Similes
• Line 1 Dream is like a River goals change over
  time just like a river changes directions,
  currents, or size
• Line 35 good Lord as my Captain the Lord will
  guide my life just like a captain guides a ship
  (vessel)
• Line 11 like a bird upon the wind is NOT a
  simile just describing the bird soaring on the
  wind without flapping its wings HOWEVER Line
  12/11 these waters are like a bird both the
  water and bird are on a journey to their
  goal/destination
• 4 Metaphors
• Line 3 a dreamers just a vessel the person is
  following where the goal takes him through life
  just as a vessel (ship) follows where the river
  takes it
• Line 7 makes each day a constant battle every
  day is a struggle to achieve that goal things
  will often try to prevent you from reaching your
  goal
• Line 9 an I will sail my vessel I am trying
  to reach my goal just as a vessel is trying to
  reach its destination
• Line 12 these waters are my sky the water of
  the river is unlimited just as the path to your
  goal is unlimited just as the sky is unlimited
• 1 Personification although they are weak, they
  are still personified
• Line 18 let the waters slip away lose the
  water/dream/path
• Line 16 the river runs dry no more
  water/dream/path

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done
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done
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Bellwork

• Read A Good Reason to Look Up in Textbook
• Use the TOC to find the page

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• Write the main idea of A Good Reason to Look Up
  and compare it to The River by Garth Brooks
  (yellow paper in your folder)
• Write your comparison on your own paper ticket
  out the door