LITERARY ELEMENTS
Imagery, Irony, Satire, Parody, Rhythm,
Parallelism, Archetypes
IMAGERY
Imagery is words or phrases that appeal to one or
more of the five senses. Writers use imagery to
describe how their subjects look, sound, feel,
taste, and smell.
The hot July sun beat relentlessly down, Identify the
IMAGERY
Imagery
casting an orange glare over the farm
buildings, the fields, the pond. Even the sight
usually cool green willows bordering the smell
pond hung wilted and dry. Our sun-baked taste
backs ached for relief. We quickly pulled off
our sweaty clothes and plunged into the touch
pond, but the tepid water only stifled us sound
and we soon climbed onto the brown, dusty
bank. Our parched throats longed for
something cool--a strawberry ice, a tall
frosted glass of lemonade.
We pulled on our clothes, crackling
underbrush, the sharp briars pulling at our
damp jeans, until we reached the
watermelon patch. As we began to cut open
the nearest melon, we could smell the
pungent skin mingling with the dusty odor
of the dry earth. Suddenly, the melon gave
way with a crack, revealing the deep, pink
sweetness inside.
IMAGERY
Directions Smell
Write a sentence full
of imagery for each of
the five senses
Write according to the
pictures
IMAGERY: WRITE A SENTENCE FOR EACH
Touch Taste
IMAGERY: WRITE A SENTENCE FOR EACH
Sight Sound
MOONS BY JOHN HAINES
There are moons like continents,
diminishing to a white stone
softly smoking
in a fog-bound ocean.
equinoctial moons,
immense rain barrels spilling
their yellow water.
moons like eyes turned inward,
hard and bulging
on the blue cheek of eternity.
and moons half-broken,
eaten by eagle shadows…
but the moon of the poet
is soiled and scratched, its seas
are flowing with dust,
and other moons are rising,
swollen like boils—
in their bloodshot depths
the warfare of planets
silently drips and festers.
“THE EAGLE” BY LORD ALFRED
TENNYSON
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
IMAGERY POETRY
Raw material for a
poem:
Mood-
Sights-
Smells-
Sounds-
Tastes-
Touch-
Thoughts-
SENSE POEM
Think of an object or a I see ___________
place that is important I smell _________
to you
I hear __________
Then jot down
I feel ___________
imagery/sensory words
that relates to your I taste __________
object or place I think __________
Mood:
Sights:
Smells:
Sounds:
Tastes:
Touch:
Thoughts:
After you have written
FINISHED PRODUCT out the sentences,
remove the pronouns,
verbs, and articles
I see sage-covered
desert
Sage-covered desert
I smell the freshness of Freshness of morning
the morning Scream of the hawk
I hear the scream of the Dew of the wind
hawk New day born
I feel the caress of a
breeze
I taste the dew on the
wind
I think the new day is
born
HOMEWORK
Bring a picture of the object/place you described
in your sense poem
Next time we will share our poems with the
pictures
These pictures and poems will go into your poetry
file
Verbal Irony:
IRONY
when a speaker
says one thing
but means
another
Dramatic Irony:
when the
audience
understands
something that
the characters do
not
Situational
Irony: when
something
happens but a
reversal of the
expectations or
outcome occurs
When a
VERBAL IRONY
speaker
says one
thing but
means
another.
DRAMATIC IRONY
When an event occurs whose significance the
audience understands but the characters do not.
For example: in Romeo and Juliet when Romeo
thinks Juliet is dead but the audience knows she
is just knocked out by a sleeping potion.
How does this
CHITTY CHITTY
demonstrate
irony?
What types of
irony are being
used here?
BANG BANG
http://www.webert
ube.com/video/777
9/chu-chi-face
THE OATMEAL
Not Ironic:
―It’s like ten thousand spoons when all
you need is a knife‖ –Alanis
Morissette’s ―Ironic‖
Why isn’t it ironic? It’s just an
unfortunate scenario; there is no
reversal of expectations.
ISN’T IT IRONIC—ALANIS MORISSETTE
An old man turned ninety-eight And life has a funny way of helping you out
He won the lottery and died the next day when
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay You think everything's gone wrong and
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late everything blows up
And isn't it ironic... don't you think In your face
It's like rain on your wedding day A traffic jam when you're already late
It's a free ride when you've already paid A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's the good advice that you just didn't take It's like ten thousand spoons when all you
Who would've thought... it figures need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly And then meeting his beautiful wife
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids And isn't it ironic...don't you think
goodbye A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do
He waited his whole damn life to take that think...
flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought It's like rain on your wedding day
"Well isn't this nice..." It's a free ride when you've already paid
And isn't it ironic... don't you think It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
It's the good advice that you just didn't take Life has a funny, funny way of helping you
Who would've thought... it figures out
Helping you out
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on
you
When you think everything's okay and
everything's going right
Ironic: this was posted on facebook
THE OATMEAL
Love your site! I am a stickler for
grammar, punctuation, and spelling;
not hard to understand yet some
people still don’t get it…glad your
educating the minions…
Why is it ironic?
Having read my grammar comics and
being a self –proclaimed grammar
stickler, you’d expect this person to
know the proper usage of your.
Do not weep, maiden, Raged at his breast, gulped,
for war is kind. and died,
WAR IS KIND BY STEPHEN CRANE
Journal # ?
Because your lover threw wild Do not weep.
hands toward the sky War is kind. April 4, 2011:
And the affrighted steed ran What is ironic
on alone, Swift blazing flag of the about this
Do not weep. regiment, poem?
War is kind. Eagle with crest of red and What type of
gold, irony is it?
Hoarse, booming drums of the These men were born to drill
regiment, and die. What is the
Point for them the virtue of author trying to
Little souls who thirst for accomplish?
fight, slaughter,
(why does he
These men were born to drill Make plain to them the use irony, what
and die. excellence of killing is the overall
The unexplained glory flies And a field where a thousand effect?)
above them, corpses lie.
Great is the Battle-God, great,
and his Kingdom— Mother whose heart hung
A field where a thousand humble as a button
corpses lie. On the bright splendid shroud
of your son,
Do not weep, babe, for war is Do not weep.
kind. War is kind.
Because your father tumbled
in the yellow trenches,
SATIRE AND PARODY
Satire Parody
A literary A humorous or
composition, in satirical imitation
verse or prose, in of a serious piece of
which human folly literature or
and vice are held writing
up to scorn or To imitate (a
ridicule. composition, author,
etc.) for purposes of
ridicule or satire
Satire Parody
Something spoken in A mimicry of an
humor without established
reproducing the concept, idea, or a
subject directly. person
More subtle, involves
mockery but without Just mimicry, only
mimicry. reflecting the actual
Makes a serious subjects
point through
humor
Satire Parody
Depicts an anger or Just pure
frustration entertainment
Stands for a social Does not contain
or political change anything serious;
Stand for changing just fun for fun’s
society sake
Stand for fun and
making fun
SATIRE
The Butter Battle
The Sneetches
The Lorax
Yertle the Turtle
PARODY
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