WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Poe Review
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Talk with your groups about the connections you
found between Poe’s life and his short stories.
Address these questions:
 What
relationships in the stories were similar to
relationships in Poe's life?
 How did Poe’s portrayal of women reflect his ideas and
attitudes toward them? With regards to the time
period?
 What were some things that interested Poe in his life
that were also apparent in his stories?
Journal!
What words and ideas come to mind when you think
of poetry? Do you like poetry? Why or why not? Is
poetry difficult or easy for you to understand?
Explain.
Make a list of poetic devices that you are familiar
with and ones that you may not be so familiar with
or don't understand.
Poetic Devices
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simile
a
direct comparison of two unlike things using “like” or
“as”
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example
 song:
“Shine bright like a diamond”- Rihanna
Poetic Devices
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metaphor
a
direct comparison of two unlike things, stating that
one is the other or does the action
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example
 song:
“Baby, you’re a firework!”- Katy Perry
Poetic Devices
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onomatopoeia
 words
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that sound like their meanings
example
 song:
“Boom, Boom, POW!”- The Black Eyed Peas
Poetic Devices
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personification
 attributing
human characteristics to an inanimate object,
animal, or abstract idea
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example
 “The
sun is on my side, take me for a ride”- Natasha
Bedingfield
Poetic Devices
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rhyme
 words
that have different beginning sounds but whose
endings sound alike
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example
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rhyme scheme
 pattern
established by the arrangement of rhymes in a
stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of
the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines
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example
Poetic Devices
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alliteration
 repeated
consonant sounds at the beginning of words
placed near each other, usually on the same or
adjacent lines
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example
 song:
“Whisper words of wisdom, let it be”- The Beatles
Poetic Devices
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assonance
 repeated
vowel sounds in words places near each
other, usually on the same or adjacent lines
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example
 song:
“You better lose yourself, in the music the
moment. You own it, you better never let it go.”Eminem
Poetic Devices
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consonance
 repeated
consonant sounds at the ending of words
placed near each other, usually on the same or
adjacent lines
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example
 song:
“Slowly sinking, wasting. Crumbling like pastries.”
–Ed Sheeran