February 10, 2014Figurative Language

Homework: Bring random object on Wednesday! Have vocabulary words and definitions written in your comp book by Wednesday! Objective: I can analyze the elements of poetry (figurative language) and evaluate how they impact a poem's meaning.

Warm Up (in your composition book)Copy down your objective into your notes. Write the following statement in your notes...Poetry differs from other forms of writing in the following ways:structure - what does this mean?sound devices - examplesfigurative language - examplesimagery

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1. What do we mean by a poem's structure?

2. What are the 5 most common sound devices found in poetry?

3. What are the 4 most common types of figurative language?

5 types of sound devices ***Hint...first, remember the 3 R's***

rhyme

rhythm

repetition

onomatopoeia alliteration

4 types of figurative language

simile 

metaphor

personification

hyperbole

Like Bookends - Eve Merriam

Like bookendsmy father at one sidemy mother at the other

propping me upbut unable to readwhat I feel.

Were they born with clothes on?Born with rules on?

When we sit at the dinner tablewe smooth out our napkins into polite folds.How was your day dear  FineAnd how was yours dear  FineAnd how was school  The same

Only once in a whilewhen we’re not trying so hardwhen we’re not trying at allour napkins suddenly whirl awayand we float up to the ceilingwhere we sing and dance until it hurts from laughing

and then we float downwith our napkin parachutesand once again spoon our soupand pass the bread please.

Identify, pull text for and explain the following:

 - simile  - hyperbole  - metaphor  - alliteration

Now think back to Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout

Come up with an example of each relating to the poem. Label each item and then write your example beside it.

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT - Shel Silverstein

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. And so it piled up to the ceilings: Coffee grounds, potato peelings, Brown bananas, rotten peas, Chunks of sour cottage cheese. It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window and blocked the door With bacon rinds and chicken bones, Drippy ends of ice cream cones, Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel, Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal, Pizza crusts and withered greens, Soggy beans and tangerines, Crusts of black burned buttered toast, Gristly bits of beefy roasts. . . The garbage rolled on down the hall, It raised the roof, it broke the wall. . .

Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs, Globs of gooey bubble gum, Cellophane from green baloney, Rubbery blubbery macaroni, Peanut butter, caked and dry, Curdled milk and crusts of pie, Moldy melons, dried-up mustard, Eggshells mixed with lemon custard, Cold french fried and rancid meat, Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.

At last the garbage reached so high That it finally touched the sky. And all the neighbors moved away, And none of her friends would come to play. And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said, "OK, I'll take the garbage out!" But then, of course, it was too late. . . The garbage reached across the state, From New York to the Golden Gate. And there, in the garbage she did hate, Poor Sarah met an awful fate, That I cannot now relate Because the hour is much too late. But children, remember Sarah Stout / And always take the garbage out!

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

Now turn in your Lit book to pg. 632 "Mooses"

Now I will assign you one of the two poems on pg. 630-631"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?""Is the Moon Tired?"

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"by Emily Dickinson

1. In lines 5-8, the speaker uses a simile to compare a public person - "Somebody" - to a frog, and uses a metaphor to compare the public to a "Bog." Are these flattering comparisons? Why or why not.

"Is the Moon Tired?"by Christina Rossetti

1. What words does Rossetti use to personify the moon?

Homework:

Bring random object and unit 4 vocabulary words and definitions for Wednesday's class!