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 I believe that poetry is

What is Poetry? An emotional outlet for your most

intense thoughts

-Literary expression
 Literary Devices and Figurative Language
Poetry Term: Definition:
Alliteration the occurrence of the same letter or sound
at the beginning of adjacent or closely
connected words
Allegory a story, poem, or picture that can be
interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning,
typically a moral or political one.
Allusion an expression designed to call something to
mind without mentioning it explicitly; an
indirect or passing reference.
Assonance in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a
vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed
syllables near enough to each other for the
echo to be discernible
Example:
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
Zootopia (racism)
Your backyard is a Garden of Eden. (Biblical
allusion)
And stepping softly with her air of blooded
ruin about the glade in a frail agony of grace
she trailed her rags through dust and ashes,
circling the dead fire, the charred billets and
chalk bones, the little calcined ribcage.
 Literary Devices and Figurative Language
Poetry Term: Definition: Example:

Figurative Language Figurative language is language that uses Her head was spinning from all the new
words or expressions with a meaning that is information.
different from the literal interpretation.

Hyperbole Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration used She is so dumb, she thinks Taco Bell is a
to make a point. It is like the opposite of Mexican phone company.
understatement. Read more at
I am so hungry I could eat a horse

Imagery When a writer attempts to describe Where the ocean kissed the southern shore
something so that it appeals to our sense of
smell, sight, taste, touch, or hearing

Literary Device structures usually a word s or phrases in References, similes, hyperboles ect.
literary texts that writers employ to achieve
not merely artistic ends but also readers a
greater understanding and appreciation of
their literary works
 Literary Devices and Figurative Language
Poetry Term: Definition: Example:

Metaphor a figure of speech containing an implied He drowned in a sea of grief

comparison, in which a word or phrase
ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is
applied to another

Onomatopoeia words, such as buzz or boom, always

mimic the noises to which they refer

Personification A characteristics to something nonhuman,, The wind howled in the night.

or the representation of an abstract quality
in human form.

Pun a joke exploiting the different possible That pun was very punny
meanings of a word or the fact that there are
words that sound alike but have different
meanings.
Literary Devices and Figurative Language
Poetry Term: Definition: Example:

Repetition the simple repeating of a words or sounds, Because I do not hope to turn again
within a sentence or a poetical line Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn

Rhyme strong, regular, repeated pattern of The cat in the hat knows all about that
movement or sound - last letters

Simile a figure of speech involving the comparison He missed her like a child missed their
of one thing with another thing of a different blanket
kind (like or as)

Stanza a group of lines forming the basic recurring Any verse of a song
metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
 Make Me (Cry)

Lyrical
Breakdown Artist: Noah Cyrus ft. Labrinth

Songwriter: Noah Cyrus & Labrinth

 Lyrical Breakdown: Make Me (Cry)
I never needed you like I do right now Cause all you ever do is make me
I never needed you like I do right now Couldn't hear the thunder, but I heard your heart race Yeah, hey, hey yeah, ooh

I never hated you like I do right now Couldn't see the rain, we're too busy makin' hurricanes Keep makin' me scream and holler

'Cause all you ever do is make me Love ain't easy when it ain't my way Keep on makin' me cry

Gave you up 'bout twenty one times But it gets hard, when you ain't here makin' me crazy You don't know what you do to me

Felt those lips tell me twenty one lies Baby, say the word, darlin' Hey, hey, yeah

You'll be the death of me You know just how to hold the sucker down I never needed you like I do right now

Sage advice So I'll see you in the morning I never needed you like I do right now

Love, lovin' you could make Jesus cry I can't watch you walk out I never hated you like I do right now

When I hear you sayin', "Darlin', your kiss is like an antidote" I never needed you like I do right now 'Cause all you ever do is make me

I'm fightin' like I'm Ali I never needed you like I do right now
But you got me on the ropes I never hated you like I do right now
I never needed you like I do right now 'Cause all you ever do is make me
I never hated you like I do right now Cry, cry, cry
'Cause all you ever do is make me Hear the thunder, see the rain
I never needed you like I do right now Ooh, ooh, yeah, ooh
I never hated you like I do right now Keep on makin' me cry
'Cause all you ever do is make me
Lyrical Breakdown: Make Me (Cry)
Summary: I never needed you like I do right now, never hated you like I do right now. All you do
is make me cry, gave you up about 21 times. You told me over 21 lies. You will be the death of
me, couldn't see the rain we were to busy making hurricanes. I cant watch you walk out. I
never needed you like i do right now.

Interpretation: This story is about two people in a toxic relationship. I believe this because they
mention lying to each other and fighting but still wanting/needing each other.

Theme: The theme of this song is that even if its hard you have to surround yourself with positive
people, I believe this because throughout the song she speaks of her struggle staying away but she
still does despite the challenge
Lyrical Breakdown: Make Me (Cry)
Line from the song: Literary Device: Why the author might have chosen
this device:

Youll be the death of me Hyperbole To give the lyric a sense of intensity

I never needed you like I do right now Repetition Emphasis

I never needed you like I do right now

I never hated you like I do right now

Felt those lips tell me 21 lies personification For depth

Lovin you could make Jesus cry Hyperbole To really get the point of the song
across
Famous Poet: Biography: William W. was born in
William Cockermouth, England and grew up
to be one of the most influential
Wordsworth poets of the 17 hundreds due to his
romantic poetry - He is also known
1770-1850 as one of the greatest english
poets- He believed that poetry
was/is the spontaneous overflow of
feelings; it takes its origin from
emotion recollecting itself into
tranquility
Famous Poets: William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
(Daffodils) :
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Why I chose this Poet and
Poem:
The waves beside them danced; but they
Ou
I chose William W. because i
t-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
wanted an English poet from
In such a jocund company: the 17th century, out of all his
I gazedand gazedbut little thought poems i was drawn to I
What wealth the show to me had brought: Wandered as Lonely as a
Cloud because it was the
For oft, when on my couch I lie
poem he is most known for
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Types Of Poems
Poem Type: About This Poem:

ABC Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses while the first word of each
line is in alphabetical order.

Acrostic the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence

Bio A poem written about one selfs life, personality and ambitions.

Cinquain A poem with 5 lines, Line 1 has one word Line 2 has two words that describe the title.
Line 3 has three words that tell the action. Line 4 has four words that express the feeling,
and line 5 has one word which recalls the title

Elegy A deep poem with the theme of death

Types of Poems:
Poem Type: About This Poem:

Narrative A poem that tells a story

Rhyming poem A poem with repetition of a sound or word ending

Shaped poem/ Concrete poem A poem that is written in the shape of the poems topic

Sonnet A lyrical poem consisting of 14lines

Tanka A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the other seven.
 A Rainbow Concrete Poem
Firetrucks

Roses The Lorax Elmo

Apples Carrots Banana Pumpkin Watermelon

Oranges Rubber Duck Grass Sunflowers Cheetos

MIke Wazowski Blue raspberry Turtles MInt

Whales Ocean Eggplant Blueberries The Sky

Grapes Cauliflower Raisins Lavender

Short & Sweet
Blackout Poem
You Tell Me To write Rhyming Poem
You sit me down and tell me to write, I don't want to but I don't fight

Two days later not a line, you act as though Ive committed a crime

Write about your deepest fear, no way not while Im here

You sit me down and tell me to write, you dont get it, to me thats a fright

I dont want to reach into anything deep, I refuse to be surrounded by people as a

weep

So i suppose that this will have to do, if you dont like it thats a problem for you.
The Little Things Found Poem