Poetry Notes Day 2 Figurative Language Hyperbole Personification

Poetry Notes: Day 2 Figurative Language, Hyperbole, Personification, Metaphor, & Simile

Material Details Create Emotion 1. What is the saddest make and model of a car? (include more description if you like) 2. What is the most depressing flower name? 3. What is the happiest tree species? 4. What is the most adventurous writing utensil? (be very, very specific) 5. What is the most romantic cereal?

Material Details Create Emotion As human beings, it is often easier for us to understand abstract ideas (love, aging, life, death) by relating them to concrete realities. This is one reason figurative language is so much a part of poetry (and of our everyday lives).

Figurative Language • Figurative language – language that uses words or expressions that go beyond the words’ literal meaning Ex. Your mother is a cow. (metaphor) Life is like a box of chocolates. (simile) Yo momma is so dumb, not even Google could translate her. (hyperbole)

Hyperbole • Hyperbole – a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration Ex. “Your backpack weighs a ton!” “I was so embarrassed, I died. ” “Yo momma so fat, she sat on an i. Phone and turned it into an i. Pad. ”

Personification • Personification – a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate (non-human) objects or ideas human characteristics Ex. “The wind cried in the dark. ” “The fire swallowed the entire forest. ” “Looks at my car. She’s a beauty, yeah? ”

Metaphor & Simile • Metaphor: a direct comparison between two things (NOT using like or as!) • Simile: an indirect comparison between two things USING like or as

Metaphor and Simile Warm-Up What does the wind taste like in the painting you are about to see? In your notebook, write down: The wind tastes like. . . Answer in as many ways as possible.

Describe the TASTE of the WIND in this picture using 5 SIMILES “the wind tastes like ____”

Terms Review For each of the next slides, identify the literary term that BEST describes the example given.

Terms Review The smooth skin of a just-bathed infant

Terms Review Juana’s eyes gleamed like those of a lioness

Terms Review Thin Bony vs. Slender

Terms Review The piercing howls of the madhouse

Terms Review Bro, did you see that dunk? He flew like 20 feet!

Terms Review Standing. Waiting. Sitting. Standing Again. Minutes slunk by like hours.

Terms Review This computer is just so stubborn – why can’t I get it to work?

Terms Review She has a heart of ice

Choose a card… … that appeals to you most.

On your own paper: Describe your card in 5 -10 descriptive sentences (not in a poem). Use imagery! Consider: How does it smell? How does it feel when you touch it? What’s happening? Who are the characters? What are their problems? Where is this?

Poem Analysis • Extended Metaphor – a comparison that continues throughout a series of lines in a poem. • Often used to stretch our thinking and reveal multiple complex similarities between two things we normally wouldn’t consider together.

Abstraction Word Brainstorming Each of these poems was about a big idea: HOPE, LOVE, or DEATH. We call these big ideas “abstractions. ” More abstraction words:

In your writer’s notebook. . . The ________ of ________ food abstract noun (feeling, idea) x 3 Ex: The collard greens of nostalgia The fruit roll-up of patriarchy

Metaphor writing • Begin your poem with your abstraction word • Then describe how the abstraction is like any part of your picture. Use detailed, concrete imagery to very specifically describe it. • Length: at least 15 lines (more if possible!) • The trick is to let yourself get carried away with your image and its story. Forget about the abstraction and be very specific with the imagery. See where your imagination takes you.

Examples That, my greatest fear, is a jellyfish dead on the beach Invisible against the sand but still dangerous against my too-small feet The lighthouse of my childhood sits far From the haze of the sea, nestled in rocky Memories that now and then I climb after running My battered ship against them My rebellion, is every bit as fine as a field of yellow Tulips, heads bouncing in the wind The scent comes on spring breezes from the shores of Dutch lowlands and builds over Atlantic trade routes

Student Example Love is like an ocean You can float or you can sink It can be filled with joy or sadness You can be tied like a knot, or loose like a wave The waves can pull you deeper in than You could ever imagine

Metaphor writing Poem starters: ______ is ________ (abstraction) (concrete image) ________ is every bit as fine as __________ (abstraction) (concrete image) The ________ of my ___________ (concrete image) (abstraction)