Poetry Blackout

Poetry ?Stems

What is poetry?

Poetry

is a collection of words that express emotions or ideas, sometimes with a specific meaning, sound or rhythm.

Let's look a little deeper into poetry.

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Figurative Language

• Simile- compares 2 things using the words, "like" or "as". She is a sweet as sugar.

• Metaphor - compares 2 things without using the words "like" or "as". He is my knight and shining armor.

• Personification - giving non-human things, human qualities. The leaves danced in the wind.

• Onomatopoeia - SOUND words. The bacon sizzled in the skillet.

• Idiom - Is a group of words that mean something different from their real meaning. The ball is in your court.

• Imagery - uses your five senses (taste, touch, smell, hear & sight). The trees rustled as the winds whistled gently through the leaves.

Other Poetry tools:

• Alliteration - The same beginning consonant sound. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• Repetition - the repeating of the same words. Stop, stop, stop!

• Rhythm - a pattern of stressed syllables. It is like a song. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.

• Rhyme - words, phrases, or lines that sound alike. owl & howl

• Tone - is the attitude the poet has towards the audience or the subject. “I shall be telling this with a sigh" - Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken

• Mood - the feeling

Harlem - by: Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up

      like a raisin in the sun?

      Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

      Does it stink like rotten meat?

      Or crust and sugar over—

      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags

      like a heavy load.

      Or does it explode?

Multiple Choice

Based on the first stanza, the reader can conclude that the speaker....

• hates having dream

• is curious of what happens to dreams

• remembers all his dreams

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Line 9 and 10 appeal to

• the sense of sight

• the sense of sound

• both a and b

• the sense of touch

Multiple Choice

Which of the following lines is an example of imagery?

• "Or crust and sugar over"

• "Does it stink like rotten meat?"

• "Or does it explode?"

• "And then run?"