Poetry revision and intro to metaphors, similes and personification


Poetry
The Melting Peanut Butter


Wonderful
Fear
Are you afraid of peanut butter?

Ehm Ehm hahahaha

It’s delicious

Soft. Anything else? That’s it
No, brown

Never eat peanut butter

Allergy Allergy help me

1 / 27
next
Slide 1: Slide
EngelsMiddelbare schoolhavo, vwoLeerjaar 3

This lesson contains 27 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

time-iconLesson duration is: 45 min

Items in this lesson


Poetry
The Melting Peanut Butter


Wonderful
Fear
Are you afraid of peanut butter?

Ehm Ehm hahahaha

It’s delicious

Soft. Anything else? That’s it
No, brown

Never eat peanut butter

Allergy Allergy help me

Slide 1 - Slide

Poetry revision:
Please write down what you still remember from the previous lessons on poetry!

Slide 2 - Open question

Poetry revision:
What makes a poem a poem according to you?

Slide 3 - Open question

Poetry

METAPHORS                             SIMILES                    PERSONIFICATION




Lesson Objective:
You can recognise metaphors, similes and personification in a text.

Slide 4 - Slide

Metaphor
  • Imagery (beeldspraak)
  • A comparison without using 'like' or 'as'

  • Does not literally mean what it states
    E.g.
  • Right before confronting her teacher she got cold feet.
  • She became afraid and did not want to do it anymore.
  • All the world is a stage (is a famous quote by Shakespeare)
  • Here the world is compared to a stage with actors on it, life is just a play

Slide 5 - Slide

Slide 6 - Slide

What is a 'metaphor' in this poem?

Slide 7 - Open question

Slide 8 - Slide

Simile
  • Comparison using 'like' or 'as.'

  • The dark clouds covered the city like a thick black blanket.
  • School is like hell. 

Slide 9 - Slide

Slide 10 - Slide

What is a 'simile' in this poem?

Slide 11 - Open question

Slide 12 - Slide

Personification
  • When something that's not human/inanimate is given human characteristics

  • I love my thesaurus, which always helps me when I need to find a more academic word! 
  • The sun tiptoed across the mountain top.

Slide 13 - Slide

Slide 14 - Slide

What is a 'personification' in this poem?

Slide 15 - Open question

Revision

Slide 16 - Slide

Make a really original poem with a metaphor or a personification or a simile. Max. 3 lines! No other conventions...;-)

Slide 17 - Open question

Poetry: use of sound
alliteration
consonance 
assonance
rhyme (full, half, eye, internal and external)
onomatopoeia

Slide 18 - Slide

Read the following first lines from this poem: what do you notice in the sound patterns?

Slide 19 - Open question

sound 
alliteration: fought fiercly
assonance: the fat cat sat
consonance: we slowly hissed along the polished ice
onomatopoeia: 'bang!' 'miauw'
rhyme: mat / sat

Slide 20 - Slide

structure
stanza
lines
form
rhyme scheme
enjambment

Slide 21 - Slide

Stanza
2 lines: couplet
3 lines: tercet
4 lines: quatrain
5 lines: quintain
6 lines: sestet
7 lines: septet
8 lines: octave

Slide 22 - Slide

Types of rhyme
external rhyme: rhyme at the end of a line in poetry
internal rhyme: rhyming words within a line of poetry
full rhyme: words at the end of a line on poetry that match exactly in sound: cat / mat
half rhyme: words that almost rhyme:   moon / run
eye rhyme/visual rhyme:  love / bough / tough

Slide 23 - Slide

enjambment
Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. 

For example, the poet John Donne uses enjambment in his poem 
"The Good-Morrow" when he continues the opening sentence across the line break between the first and second lines: 

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved?

Slide 24 - Slide

The Road Not Taken 
BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,



I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.kst
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Slide 25 - Slide

POEM ANALYSIS
*The 5Ws
* In imagery, sound and structure, what techniques are used to what effect?
*What is the message of the poem/what is driving the poem?

Slide 26 - Slide

Now using all of the things we learned in poetry: make a short analysis of the poem "the Road not Taken" Divide your analysis in 3 sections: imagery, sound and structure and comment on all three sections.

Slide 27 - Open question