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__ Poetry Analysis Project __ **__ NOTE __** : DO ALL WORK ON **SEPARATE** PIECES OF PAPER & NUMBER YOUR EXERCISES CAREFULLY.

** PART ONE: SIMILES & METAPHORS **

The Simile: A **__simile__** is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two dissimilar objects. For example: //His feet were as big as boats.// We are comparing the size of feet to boats.

= The Metaphor : A __metaphor__ states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use like or as to make the comparison. For example: Her hair is silk. The sentence is comparing (or stating) that hair is silk. =

EXERCISE #1: Identifying Similes and Metaphors 1. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves. 2. As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!" 3. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack. 4. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day. 5. I feel like a limp dishrag. 6. Those girls are like two peas in a pod. 7. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test. 8. No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket. 9. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath. 10. Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs. ­­­­­­ EXERCISE #2: Identifying the Words and Meaning of Metaphors and Simile
 * //__ Directions __//** : Decide whether each sentence contains a simile or a metaphor. Write the word SIMILE if the sentence contains a simile and underline the simile. Write the word METAPHOR if the sentence contains a metaphor and underline the metaphor.
 * //__ Directions: __//** On your own paper, find the metaphor or simile and write it down, and write the words being compared on your paper. Write the meaning of the simile or metaphor based on the context of the sentence.
 * 1) The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves.
 * 2) As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!"
 * 3) The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.
 * 4) The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day.
 * 5) I feel like a limp dishrag.
 * 6) Those girls are like two peas in a pod.
 * 7) The fluorescent light was the sun during our test.
 * 8) No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket.
 * 9) The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath.
 * 10) Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs.

** PART TWO: PERSONIFICATION ** Personification: **__ Personification __** is giving human qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics to inanimate objects. For example: The window winked at me. The verb, wink, is a human action. A window is an inanimate object. EXERCISE #3: Identifying Personification 1. The wind sang her mournful song through the falling leaves. 2. The microwave timer told me it was time to turn my TV dinner. 3. The video camera observed the whole scene. 4. The strawberries seemed to sing, "Eat me first!" 5. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell. 6. The daffodils nodded their yellow heads at the walkers. 7. The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers. 8. The snow whispered as it fell to the ground during the early morning hours. 9. The china danced on the shelves during the earthquake. 10. The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard. EXERCISE #4: Creating Personification 
 * //__ Directions __//** : On your own paper, write the object being personified and the meaning of the personification.
 * //__ Directions __//** : Match the words from List A with a word from List B & then put in a sentence (see example below).

__ List A __

 * 1) sun
 * 2) moon
 * 3) stars
 * 4) sky
 * 5) sea
 * 6) stone
 * 7) night
 * 8) mountain
 * 9) dawn
 * 10) tree

__ List B __
tells shows reminds teaches listens remembers dances dreams guides takes

__ Example __ : 1. stone listens 2. The stone listens carefully to the grass as it grows around it.

** PART THREE: IMAGERY ** Imagery: **__ Imagery __** is the use of vivid description, usually rich in sensory words, to create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind. Imagery involves one or more of your five senses (hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight). An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses. These memories can be positive or negative which will contribute to the mood of your poem. EXERCISE #5: Finding Imagery  My father lies black and hushed Beneath white hospital sheets He collapsed at work His iron left him Slow and quiet he sank Meeting the wet concrete floor on his way The wheels were still turning--they couldn't stop Red and yellow lights flashing Gloved hands twisting knobs--they couldn't stop And as they carried him out The whirring and buzzing and humming machines Applauded him Lapping up his dripping iron They couldn't stop. 
 * //__ Directions __//** : Use the chart below for the following poem. Create a new chart on a separate piece of paper. Use this chart as a guide.
 * The Worker ** by **Richard W. Thomas**

** PART FOUR: SOUND ** Rhyme: **__ Rhyme __** refers to the sound of words both within the lines of the poem and at the end of the lines, i.e. internal rhyme and end rhyme. Underline __internal rhymes once__ and __ end rhymes twice  __. Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem using a lettering sequence (abab or aabb). Rhyme Scheme : **__Rhyme Scheme__** refers to the pattern of rhyme in a poem. The structure is often reflected in the rhyme scheme. For example, in a **__sonnet__**, which you will be analyzing in this project, the **__meter__** reflects the beat of a poem, much like the beat of a song. Sonnets also have iambic pentameter, which is a pattern of unstressed, followed by stressed, syllables.

Exercise #6: Applying Poetry Literary Devices  1.  First, you will analyze Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” on page 234, finding the rhyme scheme and all figurative language (i.e. similes, metaphors, imagery, personification). Answer 1-2 on page 234 following your analysis. 2.  Next, you will analyze Millay’s “Sonnet 30” on page 235, again finding the rhyme scheme and all figurative language (i.e. similes, metaphors, imagery, personification). You will answer 1-2 and 4-6 on page 236 following your analysis.  3. Finally, when you have completed this entire packet and the analysis of both sonnets, you will complete exercise 2 under “Writing Options” on pg. 237, which gives you an opportunity to apply your new skills. Please type all work and have ready to turn in to Ms. Llewellyn on Tuesday, February 17, 2009
 * //__Directions __//**: After you have completed this poetry packet on a separate piece of paper, you will apply all of these literary devices to Shakespeare and Millay’s sonnets, found on pages 233-235 in your textbook.

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