Form, Speaker, Sound, Imagery, & Figurative Language

Speaker
The voice of a poem that relates the story or ideas of

the poem.
May be the poet, speaking directly to the reader, or the
speaker may be a character or voice created by the
poet.
Use of dialect (a form of language spoken in certain
place by certain groups of people) may be used.

Form
Structured Form
A poem that has regular,

repeated patterns
Follow a consistent
framework based on features
such as line length, syllable
count, rhyme pattern,
rhythm, meter or a
combination of these.

Free Verse
A poem that has no regular

patterns
Free from limitations of
regular meter or rhythm and
does not rhyme with fixed
forms.

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

by Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one Heart from Breaking

I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help on fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in Vain

The Rider
by Naomi Shihab Nye
A boy told me
if he rollerskated fast enough
his loneliness couldnt catch up
to him,
the best reason I ever heard
For trying to be a champion.
What I wonder tonight
pedaling hard down King William Street
is if it translates to bicycles.
A victory! To leave your loneliness
panting behind you on some
street corner
while you float free into a cloud
of sudden azaleas,
luminous pink petals that have
never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell.

A Time to Talk
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I dont stand still and look around
On all the hills I havent hoes,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my how in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.

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Assignment
Think of your favorite thing and write a poem about it.

It can be a sport, an animal, a video game, etc.

Minimum of 12 lines in this poem.
Shape this poem in the shape of your favorite thing.
Hint: Write out the poem to get the lines. Then shape

the poem into the shape.

Sound
Rhyme
The repetition of similar

sounds at the ends of words.

Free verse poems do not
usually contain rhymes.
Rhythm
The pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables in each
line.

Repetition
Used with words, sounds, phrases, or whole lines and

is used to emphasize an idea or create a certain feeling.

Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning
of words
Onomatopoeia
The use of words whose sounds suggest their
meanings.

Rhyme

Repetition

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Assingment- Identify the following sounds for each poem:

Rhyme, Repetition, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia
Bonus: In poem 2, mark the correct stressed and unstressed
syllables, or the rhythm of the poem.

1. Drip--hiss--drip--hiss fall the raindrops

on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams.
Drip--hiss--the rain never stops.
2. I passed through the gates of the city,
The streets were strange and still,
Through the doors of the open churches
The organs were moaning shrill.

Imagery and Figurative Language

Simile

Simile poem by Unknown Author

A comparison that uses the

Friends are like chocolate cake

You can never have too many.
Chocolate cake is like heaven Always amazing you with each
taste or feeling.
Chocolate cake is like life with
so many different pieces.
Chocolate cake is like
happiness, you can never get
enough of it.

words like or as.

Metaphor for a Family

My family lives inside a medicine chest:

Dad is the super-size band aid, strong
A direct comparison, with out and powerful
the words like or as.
but not always effective in a crisis.
Mom is the middle-size tweezer,
which picks and pokes and pinches.
David is the single small aspirin on the
third shelf,
sometimes ignored.
Muffin, the sheep dog, is a round cotton
ball, stained and dirty,
that pops off the shelf and bounces in
my way as I open the door.
And I am the wood and glue which hold
us all together with my love.

Metaphor

By: Belinda
Excerpted from Writing Process

Imagery and Figurative Language

Analogy
A comparison between two

things that seem dissimilar,

in order to show the ways in
which they might be similar

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by
Robert Frost
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay

Personification
When an animal or object is

described as if it had human

qualities.

Nature's Chorus
by Sharon Hendricks
Willows bend to their partners
while the spruces curtsey in response.
Cherry trees form a circle
and the oaks dance just like debutantes
of woodpeckers tapping on their trunks
and squirrels chattering in the boughs.
Listen to the sounds of natures chorus
What fun it does arouse!

Assignment
Go to Dropbox and complete the questions. Listed

under Figurative Language Grade 7

When finished, upload it to drop box with label as

Last name figurative language

When complete, finish any unfinished homework.

If all homework is completed, DEAR time