The Hobbit Poetry Unit

The Hobbit
Poetry Unit

Imagery examples --->
Imagery is the representation through language of sense experiences.

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Quick Recap:
Imagery

Multiple Choice

IMAGERY RECAP: Select what sense is being used:

The quick brown fox scurried off under the verdant green bushes.

• Visual

• Tactile

• Auditory

• Gustatory

Multiple Choice

What sense is being used here?

Gordon Ramsey almost gag after tasting the disgusting school lunch.

• Olfactory

• Visual

• Auditory

• Gustatory

Multiple Choice

IMAGERY RECAP: Select what sense is being used:

Brogan sat on the janky chair that squeaked and creaked with the slightest movement.

• Visual

• Tactile

• Auditory

• Gustatory

Multiple Choice

What sense is being used here?

I could tell it was Luke Donhoff down the hall by the sound of his shoes dragging along.

• Auditory

• Visual

• Olfactory

Multiple Choice

What sense is being used here?

When we walked outside our building, we were hit by a blast of hot, windless, concentrated air, intensified by the sea of concrete and glass which amplified the brutal sunlight.

• Tactile

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Oldfactory

Multiple Choice

When the sweaty middle school students returned from gym class, the teacher could hardly stand the stench in the classroom.

• Tactile

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Oldfactory

Multiple Select

Pick the 3 senses:

As the sun rose on a dewy, crisp morning,

the fragrance of sizzling and popping bacon emanated from the kitchen, where Jolene's father was cooking. "Are you ready for your big day?!" he said as she lazily walked up to the counter, yawning.

• Tactile

• Visual

• Olfactory

• Auditory

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Poetry Terms:

DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION:

The average word has three component parts: sound, denotation, and connotation.

Denotation – the dictionary meaning or meanings of the word.

Connotation – suggests beyond what it expresses; its overtones of meaning

For example:
"Childlike" and "childish" – both mean “characteristics of a child” as a denotation.

"Childlike" suggests meekness, innocence and wide-eyed wonder.

​"Childish" suggests pettiness, selfishness, and temper tantrums.

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Poetry Term:
Figurative Language

Figurative Language = Language that cannot be taken literally only.

Metaphor - comparison is expressed but not stated
Simile - uses like, as, or seems
Personification - human attributes to inanimate object or anything non-human

Synecdoche - the use of a part for the whole:
The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow is swift, the gate is strong;

(All of these nouns are referring to the mountain fortress and dwarves being ready to fight in battle)

Multiple Choice

What figurative language uses a part as a whole --for example: calling a car "wheels."

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Synecdoche

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

All sentences use metaphor EXCEPT

• Her tears flowed like a river.

• Sasha is a diamond in the making.

• Randy is the class clown.

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Poetry Term:
Symbol

A symbol functions literally and figuratively at the same time.

In poetry, a symbol can have many meanings.

Symbol:
To seek the pale enchanted gold
To claim our long-forgotten gold
To win our harps and gold from him.

"Gold" is a symbol that represents wealth to the dwarves AND represents their lost home, lost heritage, and lost identity.

Multiple Choice

What do the named swords (Glamdring, Sting, Orcrist) symbolize?

• Love, friendship, and loyalty
• bravery, heroic deeds and actions

• Hope, joy, and celebration

Multiple Choice

What does Smaug symbolize?

• Charity

• Greed

• Loneliness

• forgiveness

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Poetry Terms:
Sound

Poets use language to convey information and use the sound as a means of reinforcing meaning.
Poets use "verbal music" to communicate more than just
information.

Sound:
An essential element of poetry is the use of repetition, variation, and verbal music like connotation, imagery, and figurative language.
Repetition -- is pleasing to hear, emphasizes the repeated words, and gives structure.
Alliteration = the repetition of consonant sounds: hallow halls, made mighty, dungeons deep.
Assonance = repetition of vowel sounds: "pound them up with a thumping pole"
Consonance = repetition of final consonant sounds: "Send them down the hall to roll"

Multiple Select

Which companies have alliterations in their names?

• Best Buy

• Dunkin' Donuts

• Bed, Bath, & Beyond

• Coca-Cola

• Paypal

Multiple Select

Choose the Assonance(s)

• No pain, no gain

• “I was in a dark room, loud tunes, looking to make a vow soon.”

• Dunkin Donuts

• Rhyme

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Poetry Terms:
Rhyme

the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds.

Masculine - When the rhyme sounds involve only one syllable:
"Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
Smash the bottles and burn the corks!"
Feminine -- when the rhyme sounds involves two or more syllables:
"Sing we now softly, and dreams let us weave him!
Wind him in slumer and there let us leave him!"

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Poetry Terms:
Rhyme

the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds.

Internal Rhyme - When one or more rhyming words are within the same like:
"We must break away ere break of day"
End Rhyme -- when rhyming words are at the end of the line:
"For over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old"
Refrain -- when whole words, phrases, lines or groups of lines are repeated

that is all the poetry terms for today :}