Video: "Oranges" by Gary Soto Lego version found on youtube: Watch the clip and in your Journal draw a graphic organizer to describe the similarities and differences from the first time you read the poem. What new discoveries did you make, after watching the video, explain your answer in your journal.
This is a great rap for Onomatopoeia, check it out!!!
These are the lyrics to the Dave Matthew's Band song we listened to for the imagery activity:)
This is an Awesome video that will help you understand how to ANALYZE poetry:
Poetry Vocabulary
Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy."
Ballad A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. The Anonymous medieval ballad, "Barbara Allan," exemplifies the genre.
Connotation The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in connotation.
Denotation The dictionary meaning of a word. Writers typically play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations, or suggested and implied associational implications
Diction The selection of words in a literary work. A work's diction forms one of its centrally important literary elements, as writers use words to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify themes, and suggest values.
Figurative language A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. Examples include hyperbole or exaggeration, litotes or understatement, simile and metaphor, which employ comparison, and synecdoche and metonymy, in which a part of a thing stands for the whole.
Free verse Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. The verse is "free" in not being bound by earlier poetic conventions requiring poems to adhere to an explicit and identifiable meter and rhyme scheme in a form such as the sonnet or ballad.
Hyperbole A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Image A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. Imagery refers to the pattern of related details in a work. In some works one image predominates either by recurring throughout the work or by appearing at a critical point in the plot. Often writers use multiple images throughout a work to suggest states of feeling and to convey implications of thought and action.
Lyric poem A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. Most of the poems in this book are lyrics. The anonymous "Western Wind" epitomizes the genre:
Western wind, when will thou blow, The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!
Metaphor A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as likeor as. An example is "My love is a red, red rose,"
Meter The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
Ode A long, stately poem in stanza of varied length, meter and form.
Onomatopoeia The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic.
Personification The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. An example: "The yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze." Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" includes personification.
Rhyme The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. The following stanza of "Richard Cory" employs alternate rhyme, with the third line rhyming with the first and the fourth with the second:
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him; He was a gentleman from sole to crown Clean favored and imperially slim.
Rhythm The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. In the following lines from "Same in Blues" by Langston Hughes, the accented words and syllables are underlined:
Isaidto mybaby, Baby take itslow.... Lulu said toLeonard Iwantadiamondring
Simile A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. An example: "My love is like a red, red rose."
Stanza A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another.
Symbol An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
Theme The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.
Tone The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work
This is an acronym "ART WARS" to help you ANALYZE poetry: Use it each time you come across a poem and you need to understand it better.
Unit 2: "Soaring Through our Imagination" Fiction:
The following literary elements will be discussed as we study short stories:
PLOT:The sequence of events that explains to us what happens in a story
Conflict:aka "the Hook": A struggle between two opposing characters or forces
Conflict: Every story has a conflict - a struggle between two opposing forces. The conflict may be between two people or it may be between a person and some other force, regardless, every story revolves around conflict and it's important for you to understand the various kinds of conflict.
Internal Conflict: is a struggle that occurs within the main character. This struggle happens within the character's own mind.
External Conflict: is a struggle that the main character has with another character, with society, or with a natural force.
Character: A person, animal, or imaginary creature in a story, play, or another literary work
Setting: The time and place of a story's action.
Theme: The general idea or message about life that is revealed through a work of literature
Plot and the Plot Diagram: Plot is the series of events in a story that explain to the reader what is happening. One of the easiest ways to understand plot is to look at the mountain shaped plot diagram and think of story in terms of climbing a mountain.
Stage 1 - Exposition
Exposition is at the base of the mountain or the beginning of the story. This is where the author sets up the story including characters, setting, and main conflicts.
Stage 2 - Rising Action
The Rising Action occurs as you begin to move throughout the story. This is where conflicts start to build just like when you climb a mountain you are moving further along.
Stage 3 - Climax
The Climax is the turning point of the story. You have reached the top of the mountain and you cannot go any further, you have to turn and go down. This point in the story is when things finally start to move in a different direction and it may not always be a positive direction.
Stage 4 - Falling Action
Falling Action occurs after the climax as things start to work themselves out in the story. You are coming down the mountain just as you are coming down from the excitement of the climax.
Stage 5 - Denouement
The Resolution is the solution to the problem as you have reached the bottom of the mountain. The solution might not be what you want, but the conflict has been resolved.