Bellringer : May 16th
DIRECTIONS: Copy the sentence. Identify any
figurative language or sound devices that are
used.
Bob bellowed like a bear when Wild Willy wrecked
his bike.
Agenda
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Poetry
Quiz Check : Figurative
Language
 Notes : Sound Devices
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SOL Prep
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Passage #3 : Check
Poetry Form : Stanza
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A stanza consists of a
grouping of lines set off by a
space.
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Stanzas can be given a
specific name depending on
their structure and rhyme
pattern.
List of stanza names according to
number of lines:
Poetry Form :Refrain
“The Cruel Sister”
There lived a lady by the North Sea shore,
Lay the bent to the bonny broom
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The repetition of one or more
sounds, words, phrases or
lines at certain intervals,
usually at the end of each
stanza
Two daughters were the babes she bore.
Fa la la la la la la la la.
As one grew bright as is the sun,
Lay the bent to the bonny broom
So coal black grew the other one.
Fa la la la la la la la.
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Similar to the chorus in a
song
Create a circular sound
pattern in a song or poem.
Rhyme and Poetry
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Two (or more) words begin with different consonant sounds, then
have identical stressed vowel sounds.
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Any other following sounds are also identical.
Perfect rhymes do not have to be spelled the same way.
Examples: rink, wink / gratitude, latitude.
Choice and voice
Maine and Spain
Dog and Fog
School and Cool
Internal Rhyme

two words within a line of poetry rhyme.
Pussy said to the Owl, “You elegant fowl!”
Owl rhymes with fowl and they’re in the same line.
End Rhyme
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The last words in two consecutive lines of poetry rhyme.
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This is also known as a couplet
My last defense
Is the present tense
It little hurts me now to know
I shall not go
Cathedral hunting in Spain
Nor cherrying in Michigan or Maine
Gwendolyn Brooks
Rhyme Scheme
Rhyme
Each
Scheme : the pattern of rhymed lines in a poem.
new sound is given a new letter of the alphabet.
When she I loved looked every day
Fresh as a rose in June,
I to her cottage bent my way
Beneath the evening moon.”
A
B
A
B
Does ‘June’ rhyme with ‘day’?
Does ‘way’ rhyme with ‘day’?
Does ‘moon’ rhyme with ‘day’?
Does ‘moon’ rhyme with ‘June’?
Approximate Rhyme
What are the Approximate Rhymes?
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A partial or imperfect rhyme,
often using assonance or
consonance only. Slant
rhymes do not have to be
spelled in different ways.
Also called forced, half, or
slant rhyme.
From Talib Kweli's song Memories Live.
Yo it kind of make me think of way back when,
I was a portrait of the artist as a young man,
All those teenage dreams of rapping,
Writing rhymes on napkins,
Was really visualization, making this here actually happen,
From Nas's song NY State of Mind
I got so many rhymes I don't think I'm too sane,
Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain,
and be prosperous, though we live dangerous,
cops could just arrest me, blaming us, we're held like hostages
Alliteration
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The repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds in two or more
different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.
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A consonant is all letters besides vowels : A, E, I, O, U.
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Tongue twisters rely on alliteration
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Alliteration
"Isn't that what being an international man of mystery
is all about?" Austin Powers
"Have you forgotten you're facing the single finest
fighting force ever assembled."
--delivered by Dan Akroyd in Dragnet
"Step forward, Tin Man. You dare to come to me for a heart,
do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of
caliginous junk...And you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to
ask for a brain! You billowing bale of bovine fodder!"
-- delivered by Frank "Wizard of Oz" Morgan (from the movie The Wizard of
Oz
Alliteration
What consonant sound repeats?
Don’t delay dawn’s disarming display
Dusk demands daylight.
--Paul McCann “Dewdrops Dancing Down
Daisies”
Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods
and the wheat-lot
--Walt Whitman “Song of Myself”
This gruesome creature was called Grendel
-- Beowulf
Consonance
The
repetition of consonant
sounds at the end of words.
Focus
The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter
it gets.
on the last syllable of each
word.
Words
should be close together.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here,
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Assonance
• Repetition of similar vowel sounds (A, E, I, O, U) followed by
different consonant sounds in words that are close together.
And so all the night tide, I lie down by the side,
Of my darling, my darling, my life and bride.
-- from “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
Strips of tinfoil winking like people
--from Sylvia Plath “The Bee Meeting”
Assonance
What vowel sound repeats?
The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent
and ragged, their legs drying in knots.
--from Annie Dillard’s “Holly the Farm”
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light."
--from Dylan Thomas’ "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Onomatopoeia
•The sound of the word imitates the sound of the
thing spoken of.
The ‘clip clop’ of a horse
walking.
The ‘buzz’ of a bee.
The ‘vroom!’ of a motorcycle.
Mood vs. Tone
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Mood : the feeling a poem
creates for a reader.
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Subject of poem
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Word Choice
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
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Tone : the attitude a
writer has towards his/her
subject.
Bellringer : May 15th
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Copy the sentences.
Identify the rhyme scheme.
Identify and label examples of alliteration
Identify and label examples of assonance
Identify and label any similes, metaphors, or uses of personification.
But the sea was eager to beat me back
And the waves grew huge and deadly black
And the gray clouds rumbled over my head
And I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead
“Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish
Bellringer
1) Identify the rhyme scheme.
But the sea was eager to beat me back
And the waves grew huge and deadly black
And the gray clouds rumbled over my head
And I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead
“Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish
A
A
B
B
Bellringer
1) Identify and label examples of alliteration
But the sea was eager to beat me back
And the waves grew huge and deadly black
And the gray clouds rumbled over my head
And I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead
“Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish
Bellringer
1) Identify and label examples of assonance
But the sea was eager to beat me back
And the waves grew huge and deadly black
And the gray clouds rumbled over my head
And I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead
“Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish
Bellringer
1) Identify and label any similes, metaphors, or uses of personification.
The sea is personified here. It is ‘eager’ to defeat the person who is in
the sea. The sea is often personified, as we will see in Homer’s Odyssey.
But the sea was eager to beat me back
And the waves grew huge and deadly black
And the gray clouds rumbled over my head
And I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead
“Punch You in the Eye” -- Phish
Agenda
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Poetry
 Video
of a Poem
 Vocabulary for a Poem
 Reading and Analysis of a Poem
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SOL Prep
 Passage
#4 : Informational Text