Figurative language & literary devices

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE & LITERARY DEVICES

PowerPoint Created By: Mr. Brooks

THE “WHAT” DEFINE POETRY!

• Poetry (from the Greek "ποίησις", poiesis, a "making") is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.
• WHAT DOES ALL THAT MEAN??!!

THE “REAL” DEFINITION OF POETRY IS…

• THE “REAL” DEFINITION OF POETRY IS…

UP TO YOU!

• UP TO YOU!
• TAKE A MOMENT TO WRITE YOUR OWN DEFINITION OF POETRY AND LET’S DISCUSS IT…

THE “WHY” WHY IS POETRY IMPORTANT?

• Poetry takes a simple concept and makes it more powerful and beautiful
• Which one of these poems is better? Why?

• The Turtle
• breaks from the blue-black
• skin of the water, dragging her shell
• with its mossy scutes
• across the shallows and through the rushes
• and over the mudflats, to the uprise,
• to the yellow sand,
• to dig her ungainly feet
• a nest, and hunker there spewing
• her white eggs down
• into the darkness…
• By: Mary Oliver

• The Turtle
• comes out of the water
• walks across the sand
• digs a nest
• and lays some eggs
• By: Mr. Brooks