POETRY EXERCISE

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POETRY EXERCISE

LINE - A line of the poem.

STANZA – A paragraph in a poem.

FORM - The appearance of the words on the page.

IMAGERY - Reading can cause sense perceptions like sights, sounds, tastes, or tactile sensations.

METAPHOR - A direct comparison of two things; Juliet is the Sun, and I am moon.

SIMILE – An indirect comparison of two things using like, as, or resembles … ; Juliet is like the Sun. I resemble the moon.

HYPERBOLE – Exaggerated figure of speech used to create emphasis; the path went on forever.

ONOMATOPOEIA - Words that imitate sounds:
Buzz , oink, meow, roar, zip, and zap.

PERSONIFICATION - Giving anthropomorphic qualities to animals or inanimate objects: “Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon.”

REVERSE PERSONIFICATION - Giving inanimate or animals animal qualities to people: I am the sky. I am the birds that fly.

ANASTROPHE - Inversion of normal word order:

Truly wonderful the mind of a child is. Yoda

Alliteration – repeating an initial sound: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

INTERPRET THIS POEM WITH THE ABOVE CONCEPTS

ANSWER

THE TIGER

By William Blake

Tiger Tiger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies,
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tiger Tiger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?