Monday, 3/21 Let's Get Fired Up for Poetry

REVIEW: Punctuation ~ slash, dash, ellipsis, brackets and parentheses.

FYI: QUIZ tomorrow, Tues., 3/22

EQ: Why is important to know and understand literary devices?

Good question. Here's a list you'll need to know for our poetry unit.
Take notes as we roll through the power point.

DEVICES FOR FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• synecdoche
• metonymy

DEVICES FOR SOUND

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• onomatopoeia
• slant rhyme

DEVICES FOR REFERENCE

• allusion
• apostrophe 
• Now test yourself with this poetic devices quiz.
• Click here for a Quizlet of the terms

HMWK: Prepare for your punctuation quiz.

West Only: MEMORIZATION: "If" by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: