Poetry

Poetry

Mr. Strawser

Open Ended

What is poetry?

General Definitions

"A literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm"

-Dictionary definition.

"An inexplicable (though not incomprehensible) event in language; an experience through words." -Edward Hirsch

Multiple Choice

What is a rhyme?

• Words that match up at the end of a line

• Words that do not go together

• synonyms

Rhyme Example: Found A Way By: Drake Bell

If you open up your mind

See what's inside

It's gonna take some time, to realign

But if you look inside, I'm sure you'll find

Over your shoulder you know that, I told you

I'll always be pickin' you up when you're down

So just turn around

Multiple Choice

What is lyric poetry?

• Poetry told from someone’s personal point of view using details and emotions from their own life

• Poetry that tells a story

• Poetry meant for performance or to be acted out on a stage

Lyric example: Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd

There is no pain, you are receding

A distant ship, smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying

When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse

Out of the corner of my eye

I turned to look, but it was gone

I cannot put my finger on it now

The child is grown, the dream is gone

Multiple Choice

What is narrative poetry?

• Poetry that tells a story

• Poetry that doesn't stick to any particular form

• Poetry that is meant to be performed

Narrative Poetry Example: Love Story by Taylor Swift

We were both young when I first saw you

I close my eyes, and the flashback starts

I'm standing there

On a balcony in summer air

See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns

See you make your way through the crowd

And say, "Hello"

Little did I know

Multiple Choice

What is spoken word poetry?

• poetry meant to be read out loud

• poetry that tells a story

• Poetry told from someone’s personal point of view using details and emotions from their own life

Spoken Word Poetry Example:

Phil Kaye “Repetition”

“If you just wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up,

one day you’ll forget why…”

Multiple Choice

What is figurative language

• language that branches of from the literal definition of a words in a poem

• language that means what it says in the dictionary

• language that doesn't mean anything

Figurative Language Example: Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Don't know where it goes

But it's home to me, and I walk alone

I'm walking down the line

That divides me somewhere in my mind

On the borderline

Of the edge, and where I walk alone

Multiple Choice

What is a simile?

• Comparison using "like" or "as"

• Comparison meant to embarrass the subject

• A comparison that does not make sense

Simile Example: LIke A Stone Audioslave

On a cobweb afternoon in a room full of emptiness

By a freeway, I confess I was lost in the pages

Of a book full of death, reading how we'll die alone

And if we're good we'll lay to rest, anywhere we want to go

In your house I long to be

Room by room patiently

I'll wait for you there, like a stone

I'll wait for you there, alone

Multiple Choice

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not use "like" or "as"

• A comparison meant to make one think of something else

• A comparison that is not true

Metaphor Example: Tom Sawyer By Rush

A modern day warrior

Mean, mean stride

Today's Tom Sawyer

Mean, mean pride

Though his mind is not for rent

Don't put him down as arrogant

His reserve, a quiet defense

Riding out the day's events

The river

What you say about his company

Is what you say about society...

Multiple Choice

What is Hyperbole?

• an extreme exaggeration in a poem

• a realistic element in a poem

• something made up by the author to mislead the reader

Hyperbole Example: Fireflies by Owl City

You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies

Lit up the world as I fell asleep

'Cause they'd fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere

You'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• The people that inhabit a poem

• Giving non-human objects or animals in a poem human-like characteristics.

• The voice of a poem.

Personification Example: Fireflies by Owl City

'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugsAs they tried to teach me how to dance

A foxtrot above my head, a sock hop beneath my bed

A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

Multiple Choice

What is imagery?

• the action of a poem

• the argument of a poem

• language that makes the reader feel as if they have experienced what is in the poem.

Imagery Example: Blackbird by The Beatles

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these broken wings and learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Multiple Choice

What is irony?

• when something in a poem occurs that was expected

• something you use to get the wrinkles out of a shirt

• where one speaks or acts in a way that brings about the contrary result to what they thought or expected.

Irony Example: Somebody That I Used To Know By: Gotye

Now and then I think of when we were together

Like when you said you felt so happy you could die

Told myself that you were right for me

But felt so lonely in your company

But that was love and it's an ache I still remember