Bell Ringer
10/18 (Date your paper)
Answer the prompt in your notes:
When writing formally, what do
you find most challenging?
Why?
Poetry Unit
Take Notes!
Essay Question
• How does the poet’s stylistic choices (rhyme scheme, figurative
language, literary devices) contribute the overall structure,
meaning, and impact of the poem?
• After reading poems by Bryant, Poe, Dickinson, and Frost, write
an essay that describes how the author’s style and use of
literary devices effect the presentation and meaning of the
poem and addresses the question. Support your discussion with
evidence from the text.
Aesthetic
• pertaining to the value of art for its own sake,
concerned with the appreciation of beauty
• We hired Susan as our interior decorator
because she has such a fine aesthetic sense.
Literary Device
• A particular word pattern or combination of
words used in a literary work to evoke a
desired effect or arouse a desired reaction in
the reader
Rhyme Scheme
• the repetition of identical or similar concluding
syllables in different words, most often at the
ends of lines
• describes the pattern of end rhymes. Rhyme
schemes are mapped out by noting patterns of
rhyme with small letters: the first rhyme sound
is designated a, the second becomes b, the
third c, and so on…
Parallelism
• Figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical
structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses,
sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same
or very similar grammatical structure
Not Parallel: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and to ride a
bicycle.
Parallel: Mary likes hiking, swimming, and riding a bicycle.
"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.”- Abraham Lincoln
Juxtaposition
• Placing of two items side by side to create a
certain effect, reveal an attitude, or
accomplish some other purpose
Juxtaposition
Alliteration
The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or
group of sounds in a series of words.
Alliteration includes tongue twisters. Examples:
• Suzie sells seashells by the seashore.
• Soldier’s Shoulder
• Rubber baby-buggy bumpers
Personification
• attribution of human qualities or capacities to non-human
objects or to abstractions
Example:
"To the fans in Chicago, St. Louis and Atlanta, I wanna say 'thank
you' for your support. Your chanting of 'B-r-u-u-u-c-e' as I
entered the game always gave me chills. I wish I could trot out
there and get that feeling again, but Father Time has caught up
with me. First he took my arm, then he took my hair, then he
took the color from my beard. But he cannot take the great
friendships and memories I have from being a baseball player."
-- Bruce Sutter, Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Address
Personification
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKexdSZNi
Lc&feature=player_embedded
Comparisons
• Simile - A figure of speech in which two
essentially unlike things are compared, often in
a phrase introduced by like or as
• Metaphor- is a figure of speech that makes a
comparison between two unlike things,
without using the word like or as
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIBdDiPio0&feature=related
Hyperbole
• deliberate exaggeration of a person, thing,
quality, event to emphasize a point external to the
object of exaggeration;
Examples:
1. My teacher is so old that she knew Shakespeare
personally and her wrinkles weigh more than she
does.
2. My dog is so ugly that we have to pay the fleas to
live on him.
Making an Inference
• is using clues from the text and your own knowledge and
experience to figure out what the author is trying to tell
you.
• This broad definition connects inferring to other active
reading skills, such as making predictions and making
connections, and allows you to focus on how your
detective work can help you make sense of a text.
• The sky looks gray and cloudy. What can you infer about
this statement?
• Greg is shy, but his brother is gregarious. What can you
infer about the meaning of “gregarious”?
Imagery
• Sensory details in a work; the use of figurative
language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an
idea, or describe an object. Imagery involves
any or all of the five senses
Six Types of Imagery
• Visual imagery - something seen in the mind's eye
• Auditory imagery - represents a sound
• Gustatory imagery - a taste
• Tactile imagery – touch
• Organic imagery - internal sensation: hunger,
thirst, fatigue, fear
• Kinesthetic imagery - movement or tension
Onomatopoeia
• A word capturing or approximating the sound
of what it describes, such as buzz or hiss
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR3zqPSu6
7o&feature=related
Allusion
• A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event,
or idea in history or literature
Example:
Chocolate is Kelly’s Achilles’ heel.
“Achilles’ heel” refers to a weakness a person
possesses.
In Greek Mythology, this refers to Achilles’
only vulnerable spot, where an arrow strikes and
leads to his death
Allusion to Hamlet
• The Lion King has many allusions to Hamlet.
When Simba is born to Mufasa, Scar realizes
he will lose his chance at the crown unless
Mufasa dies, so he kills him. Simba runs away,
leaving the kingdom under his uncle's rule.
Only when he is visited by the ghost of
Mufasa does he return to kill his uncle. These
events also occur in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Symbol
• is a person, place, thing, or event that stands
for something beyond itself.
• In poetry symbols are useful because they
allow the poet to communicate complex ideas
and feeling in only a few words.
Symbolism Example
Harry Potter
One clear symbol is a commonly used
one—the use of the snake to represent evil. It
is no coincidence that the symbol of Slytherin
House is a serpent.
What can be a symbol?
• An object
• Picture
• Written word
• Sound
• Numerals
• Language