VWO 4 Intro to poetry new

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

 English poetry

Lesson goals- being able to:

• Recognize and name literary devices
• Analyze the technical aspects of poetry
• Appreciate and enjoy poetry

I think poetry is....

The difference between poetry and prose is....

I already have a favourite poem in English and it is...

What do we need to read poetry?

• an open mind
• a working knowledge of poetic devices
• a working knowledge of historical periods (kenmerkende aspecten)
• Determination (looking up what we don't know) 

What is a 'narrator'?

Alliteration is:

1. The repetition of a consonant sound, particularly the initial consonants of two or more words.
2. The repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words.
3. An obvious exaggeration made for effect.
4. A of short series words that work together to convey a particular meaning.

Alliteration example:

Peter Piper picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers

A simile:

1. Makes a comparison by saying one thing is another.
2. Is an obvious exaggeration made for effect.
3. Makes a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" .
4. Is a speech by an actor spoken as if thinking aloud.

Example simile:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.

Which tone of voice is saying the exact opposite of what you mean?

1. satire
2. hyperbole
3. irony
4. alliteration

Look up, my people,
The dawn is breaking,
The world is waking,
To a new bright day,
When none defame us,
Nor colour shame us,
Nor sneer dismay.

The rhyme scheme for this poem is:

1. people; breaking, waking; day, dismay; us, us
2. ABBCDDC
3. ABCDEFG
4. AABBCCD AABBCCD AABBCCD AABBCCD AABBCCD

Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.

This is an example of:

1. Assonance
2. Alliteration
3. Simile Simile
4. Metaphor

"Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -" is an example of...

This is an example of:

1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Simile
4. Metaphor

The ghostly galleons grab greedily

This is an example of:

1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Simile
4. Metaphor

Fear knocked on the door.

is an example of:

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Symbolism
3. Personification
4. Hyperbole

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

This extract is an example of:

1. Symbolism
2. Paradox
3. Personification
4. Onomatopoeia

Examples of onomatopoeia include:

1. He ran like the wind.
2. The hose is a green snake on the lawn.
3. The bottle fizzed then popped.
4. Wild horses wouldn't drag me away.

What is meant with the 'form' of a poem?

What is the poem about? What are some themes in the poem?

Vegetarians   -                  Roger McGough 

Vegetarians are cruel, unthinking people. 

Everybody knows that a carrot screams when grated. 

That a peach bleeds when torn apart. 

Do you believe an orange insensitive 

to thumbs gouging out its flesh? 

That tomatoes spill their brains painlessly? 

Potatoes, skinned alive and boiled, 

the soil's little lobsters. 

Vegetarians   -                  Roger McGough 

Don't tell me it doesn't hurt 

when peas are ripped from the scrotum, 

the hide flayed off sprouts, 

cabbage "shredded", onions beheaded. 

Throw in the trowel 

and lay down the hoe 

Mow no more 

Let my people go! 

LITERARY DEVICES IN VEGETARIANS

FIND AN EXAMPLE OF:

PERSONIFICATION

METAPHOR

ONOMATOPOEIA

PUN* an amusing use of a word or phrase that has several meanings or that sounds like another word e.g. She's a skillful pilot whose career has—no pun intended—really taken off.

Vegetarians

1) Why does the narrator feel that vegetarians are cruel and unthinking people?

2) What happens when "a carrot screams when grated" "a peach bleeds when torn apart" and "a tomato spills its brains"? What literary device is this?

Vegetarians

3) What does the narrator mean when he says that "potatoes,..., the soil's little lobsters"?  What literary device is this?

4) The narrator makes a final appeal in the  last 4 lines. 

A) What is he saying? B) What is the origin of these lines (where do they come from)?

5) Why does McGough write such a poem on Vegetarians? 

      What does he want to express with it?

Vegetarians Key

Q. 1 - Cruel and unthinking vegetarians -> Because they kill and torture vegetables, like butchers do with animals ->  animals are kept and killed in different ways, this also happens to vegetables and fruit.

Q. 2 - Fruit and vegetables are seen as having human qualities - literary device = personification

Q. 3 - Soils little lobsters = a metaphor (a comparison without as or like). Both lobsters and potatoes are boiled alive and eaten

Q. 4A. Stop eating vegetables

Q. 4.B. - spirituals; the Bible

Q. 5. He wanted to ridicule vegetarians, and show that their arguments, as valid as they may be, can also be used as counterarguments to validate meat eaters. 

What literary devices in English do you know now?