ROAR BY KATY PERRY AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

“ROAR” BY KATY PERRY AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

REVIEW OF TERMS Alliteration Repetition Idioms Personificati on Similes Onomatopoe End rhyme ia Hyperbole Allusion

SCAVENGER HUNT 1. Find four examples of ALLITERATION 2. Find six IDIOMS 3. Find two SIMILES 4. Find two examples of ONOMATOPOEIA 5. Find two ALLUSIONS to famous sports figures (name them) 6. Find two examples of REPETITION 7. Find one example of PERSONIFICATION 8. Find two examples of END RHYME 9. Find two examples of HYPERBOLE Why do you think the writer chose these particular words and phrases for this song? Pre-AP

SCAVENGER HUNT 1. Find two examples of ALLITERATION 2. Find four IDIOMS 3. Find one SIMILE, list the two things being compared 4. Find two examples of ONOMATOPOEIA 5. Find an ALLUSIONS to a famous sports figures (identify the person) 6. Find one example of REPETITION 7. Find one example of PERSONIFICATION 8. Find an examples of END RHYME Why do you think the writer chose these particular words and phrases for this song? OL

IMAGERY AND CONNOTATION Imagery Activity • Analyze the imagery in the lyrics for the song “Roar. ” • Circle the lines that produce an image in your mind. • Are they positive images? Explain. Write your examples of imagery in the top box provided. Explain your examples in the bottom box provided. Diction activity • Find examples of words that would NORMALLY have either a positive or negative connotation, but IN CONTEXT, have the opposite effect. Write your examples in the boxes provided.

TONE Syntax and Rhythm Activity • Analyze the lyrics of the song “Roar” for tone. Circle the words that help create the tone. Then, rearrange the words and analyze the effect. • Answer the following questions in the boxes provided. 1. What kind of tone Is established through the arrangement of the words and the rhythm of the song? 2. Choose two or three lines from the song and rearrange the words. Write them in the box provided. 3. How does the tone change in your new arrangement? Does it keep the same rhythm or develop a new one? Explain.

POETRY CONNECTIONS 1. Imagery – in “George Gray, ” the speaker uses the image of a boat as a metaphor for life. Explain this metaphor. 2. In “Roar, ” the speaker uses the idiom “rock the boat. ” How does the line in the song lyrics relate to the metaphor in “George Gray? ” 3. What have both speakers learned? Pre-AP

POETRY CONNECTIONS Read “See it Through” by Edgar Guest. Compare and contrast it to the song “Roar. ” How are themes similar or different? How is the figurative language similar or different? OL