Direction: Identify if the literary works is prose
or poetry. 1. Sonnet 6. Biography 2. Noli Me Tangere 7. Florante and Laura 3. Summer Solstice 8. Canterbury Tales 4. Ibong Adarna 9. El Felibusterismo 5. Biag ni Lam-ang 10. The Monkey and the Turtle Quarter 2, Lesson 5
Poetic Devices SENSE OF THE POEM a. Denotation and Conotation b. Imagery - literary device that refers to the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader. • taste(gustatory imagery) • sight(visual imagery) • smell(olfactory imagery) • touch(tactile imagery) • hear(aural imagery) Imagery Determine the senses appealed to in the descriptive details. 1. There was a deafening noise in the forest. 2. Indarapatra held his brother’s hand and then embraced him. 3. A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 4. Darkness fell over the land 5. The eerie silence made him stop in his tracks. 6. The sweet fragrance of honey always reminded Jenny of her mother’s perfume. Figures of Speech Simile and Metaphor Both compare two distinct objects and draws similarity between them. The difference is that Simile uses “as” or “like” and Metaphor does not. Examples: 1. “My love is like a red red rose.” (Simile) 2. He is an old fox very cunning. (Metaphor 3. His response was as cold as ice.(Simile) 3. She is the apple of my eye. (Metaphor) Personification – human attributes are given to inanimate objects and abstract ideas. Examples: 1. The sun smiles to me. 2. The flowers are dancing beside the lake. Hyperbole – it is the use of deliberate exaggeration for effect.
Examples: 1. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. 2. I love you to the moon and back. Irony – a figure of speech in which the usage of words conveys the opposite of their literal meaning. These are often used in a humorous manner. Examples: 1. Thank you for eating my pack lunch. 2. During a rainy day, someone told “What a beautiful day’’ Apostrophe – is the device by which the writer addresses a person who is usually either absent or deceased, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea. Examples: 1. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are 2. Seven, you are my lucky number! Rhetorical question – is the asking of questions not to gain information but to assert more empathetically the obvious answer to what is asked. No answer is expected. Example: 1. Did you help me when I needed help? Sound of Poem Onomatopoeia – is the imitation of natural sounds by words.
Ex. the buzzing bee, the clucking
hen, the growl of the dog Assonance – a sound device in which vowel sounds within a word are repeated.
Ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers Consonance – is a sound device in which consonant sounds in conjunction with dissimilar vowel sounds are repeated.
Ex. Fill them with full of stars
Repetition – is the repeating of words and phrases more than once.
Ex. Tomorrow, tomorrow, and
tomorrow Rhyme – the similarity of ending sounds existing between two words or repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. Internal rhyme – when a rhyme occurs within the same line of a single line of verse. Ex. For the moon never beams without bagging me dreams End rhyme –rhyming of the final words of lines in a poem Ex. Out my window and through the fog I see very clearly a big black dog Eye rhyme – two or more words in the lines have similar syllables but have different sounds. Ex. No delay, for it is plain, I shall not pass this way again. Ear rhyme - two or more words in the lines have similar sounds but they have different end syllables. Ex. Oh, what sweet and beautiful hymn, The glory I offer unto Him. Rhyme Scheme – The sequence in which the rhyme occurs. The first end sound is represented as the letter a, the second b, etc. Ex. I am a seed A I am small as you can see B Yet deep inside this heart, I know C God is hard at work in me B Metric a. Meter – the recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. b. stanza – a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, rthyme scheme. • METRIC FEET The unit in which one line of verse can be divided. *A foot contains two syllables. * Monometer: One foot (2 syllables) • Dimeter: Two feet (4 syllables) • Trimeter: Three feet (6 syllables) • Tetrameter: Four feet (8 syllables) • Pentameter: Five feet (10 syllables) • Hexameter: Six feet (12 syllables) • Heptameter: Seven feet (14 syllables) • Octameter: Eight feet (16 syllables) Figures of Speech Determine the figures of speech used in the sentence. 1. The opportunity knocked at his door 2. He is as brave as a lion 3. She has got a pea-sized brain 4. Your hands are as clean as mud 5. The buzzing bee flew over my head 6. The man is a diamond in the rough. 7. Her tears plowed like a waterfall. 8. O, sleep, you are indeed the prisoner’s release. 9. She eats the sweet treats 10. The black sack is in the back. Complete the sentences. Choose your answer from the list. black lightning puppets an elephant a horse
1. He is as huge as _______________. 2. She is as quick as ________________. 3. The leaves are ____________ on strings of wind. 4. He eats like ______________. 5. Her hair is as ___________ as the night.
