3-2-12

•Review:•Analyzing a Poem

Today’s Agenda

• MINI LESSON: Sound devices in poetry• WORK TIME: Scavenger Hunt for

sound devices in the SAME poems!• HOMEWORK: finish the Scavenger

Hunt

Personification• When a writer makes a thing, idea, or an

animal do something only humans can do• When a non-human subject is given

human characteristics

• Example-The wind yells.

Personification continued…

Create your own personification examples using the following nouns.

-iPod - Uggs -Kindle -Laptop

Hyperbole• an extreme exaggeration• can be used to create mood and evoke

strong feelings

• Example: “I ate a billion cookies!”

Hyperbole continued…Create a hyperbole about your PCR book’s protagonist, or about something the protagonist did.

• Example-”Cap Anderson’s hair stands ten feet high!”

Alliteration

• the repetition of a consonant sound or sounds at the beginning of words that are close together.

• Two repeated sounds is ok; three is better!

• Example:Hear the loud alarum bells--Brazen bells!What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

--Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"

Alliteration

• Create an alliteration using your PCR book’s title.

• It should convey the book’s mood.

• Crazy kids in Connections not being kind

Onomatopoeia• the use of words to imitate sounds • words whose sounds suggest their

meaning

Zoom Buzz Zing Fizz

Ding dong POW Ping Bang

Beep Rattle SNAP! Hiss

RING BOOM! Pop Crackle

Sizzle Whack Hum

Onomatopoeia

• Give an example of onomatopoeia for each category.

-car sound-an animal

• Invent an onomatopoeia word to imitate a sound.

Rhyme• Repetition of sounds at the end of words• Gives a song-like quality to a poem

end rhyme -words rhyming at the end of linesThe way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a Hemlock tree from “Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost

internal rhyme -rhyming words within linesOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

Couplet

• A structure of some poems• A pair of lines that have an end rhyme

Example:He came upon an ageBeset by grief, by rage

from “Martin Luther King” by Raymond Richard Patterson

Rhythm• Pattern of repeated stressed and unstressed

syllables.• In poetry and music, it creates a beat or pulse.Example: Pause at the /

“I pledge allegiance/ to the Flag/ of the United States of America/ and to the Republic/ for which it stands/one nation/under God/ indivisible/with liberty /and justice for all.“

Non-Example: Pause at the /“I pledge/ allegiance to the Flag of/ the United States of America/ and /to the Republic for which it stands, one nation/ under God indivisible with liberty /and justice for all."

Rhythm

• Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in language

Sound Devices in MUSICListen and T2T for these songs: find figurative

language and sound devices!“Unwritten” lyrics “Unwritten” song“Life is a Highway” lyrics “Life is a Highway” song

Feel free to bring in or email a favorite song that is full of sound devices and figurative language!

Scavenger Hunt Part 2

Use the same poems from yesterday’s

scavenger hunt to find sound

devices.