Poetic Devices

hello everybody thanks for joining me this video is going to cover poetic devices and it's going to serve as quick summary to help guide you through all of the different terms that we discussed in class over the course of our time together we are going to introduce and review the poetic devices present in the poems that we read and the songs that we listen to throughout this video we will cover alliteration assonance enjam hyperbole idiom imagery metaphor automonopia personification rep rhyme and last but not least simile first on our list is alliteration which is the repetition of an initial consonant sound this essentially means that it is the same consonant sound repeated over and over again at the beginning of words so when we say repetition of an initial consonant sound we want to make sure that we know what consonant is in the first place these letters right here these are going to be our vowels so if if if it's one of these letters being repeated that is not going to be alliteration because those are vowels and we're going to use another term for that moving forward with our examples here because want this video to be relatively quick for all of you let's look at the green grass grew in the graveyard now said before it's the repetition of the initial consonant sounds there's lot of the same thing going on with few of these words that's going to be the green grass grew in the graveyard so not only is it just the it's the sound that green grass grew so we didn't say repetition of the initial consonant letter which could be it could be we're saying it's the repetition of the initial consonant sound next we've got what Tale of Terror and now their turbulency tells did not Circle that because it didn't give the same sound as the other words in there which which were tail Terror turbulent tells there it doesn't really match what we were looking for he keeps the kitchen calm and clean something neat that's going on with this one we go from the sound coming out with these letter K's here and here but then we switch over to calm spelled with and clean spelled with so it once again does not have to be the consonant letter it's the it sound and throwing things back to an earlier example that we had Paul's such poor Poltergeist partially plagues the play pen there's lot of them here Paul such poor Poltergeist partially plagues the play pen just for clarification sake want to walk us through some non-examples the cyclist carries chocolate as we were looking at with the previous examples we were saying that it isn't always the letter because yeah the same consonants coming up over and over again it's the same letter but they are all voiced very differently and the sounds are not the same so you can't spot alliteration through mere read through of poem or song or text if you don't completely understand how the word is pronounced in the first place so if didn't know how these C's were voiced would assume that it would probably be literation because it's the repetition of the same consonant however as we've talked about it is not the same consonant sound so the cyclist carries chocolate those don't work it's not alliteration our next one we're not looking any sort of different voicing of letters at the initial spot the Stars blow winds and clouds so this was actually pitfall that had made previously so winds clouds Stars yeah it's the same consonant sound we got that but we want to make sure it is the initial consonant sound so it needs to come at the beginning of the word in order for it to be valid case of alliteration and with our last non-example here we have the the same consonant sound coming up or consonant letter coming up through tough tsunami Waters it's every single time but that doesn't mean that the is pronounced the same way throughout all these words through tough tsunami same letter different pronunciations it's not alliteration somewhat similar to alliteration we have asants which is going to be the repetition of vowel sounds which are usually internal now we talked about consonants with the last one and wrote out set of letters for you and then immediately cross them off this is going to be case in which we are interested in those previous letters that's going to be and sometimes something interesting note with this definition here we said that it's usually internal this sound is going to be something that usually ends up internalized within the words so to compare with alliteration where it must be the initial sound assonance is generally most of the time going to appear in the middle of these words rather than at the front or at the end but it doesn't always have to be that way so for our first example he saw the cost and hauled off he saw the cost and hold off this is another one where maybe just reading it in your head may not do it justice because you won't catch these pronunciation patterns if it's just in your head if you don't know the true pronunciation of the word so this is another reason why it helps to read things out loud next we've got the snow and the Rose Garden Gran the snow in the Rose Garden groan once again is as we've seen even just so far lot of these are internalized they're not ending up at the very beginning of the word not all of them are at the very end most of them appear in the middle of letters next the engineer tried to steer out of fear of veering near the deer deer so the engineer tried to steer out of fear of veering near the dear deer the spelling it all you need to do is come up with pronunciation that is repeated so as we see here we have EA EA EA and regardless of how they're spelled they are all sound the same and last for our examples for the rare and radiant Maiden who the angels named Lenor for the rare and radiant Maiden whom the angels named Lenor so that's rep repetitive sound and of course we've got our non-examples through thorough thought English isn't too tough though like using this sentence as an example just because it shows how wacky English can be sometimes lot of these words they look the exact same to non-native English speaker someone just picking up English for the first time they'd probably think maybe they are the same word but as we know as I've just read through thorough thought English isn't too tough though none of those words you know carry repetitive vowel sound that's matching for our first word this is through then we have thr so through through and this is English isn't to of so all of them end up doing something little different and they are so different that we can't really count those as asants at all even though they look like it would now then we got Peter Piper picked peck of pickled peppers this isn't ainin however this is great example of something called alliteration moving away from just looking at letters and sounds we've got enjam which is moving from one line to another without any sort of pause or punctuation the uses of this poetic device would generally be for flowing of thought from one line to the next allowing ideas to run from one line to another line and it all helps lead itself towards building Rhythm and faster pacing so let's look at this example end Demian by John Keats and we're going to start out by reading thing of beauty is joy forever and we've got this colon here so considering how how we move from one line to another without any punctuation or pause this is not an example of Enchantment but its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness but still will keep bow quiet for us and sleep full of sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing moving on we've got hyperbole which simple enough it's just an extreme exaggeration it's way of explaining feeling some sort of emotion without being so cut and dry about it so this is generally for dramatic effect with our examples when say that am sick with love I'm I'm sick with it I'm essentially just telling you I'm really in love but it's not as powerful as me on my knees yelling into the rain am sick with love you know it's less dramatic when we're when we're writing English we're writing these texts we're reading these poems by some pretty passionate authors it just doesn't do enough to just say I'm very in love it works lot better when am sick with love or I'm so hungry could eat horse must be pretty hungry but I'm not just going to say I'm super hungry today no by saying I'm so hungry could eat horse I'm being overly dramatic simply for effect to underline and emphasize exactly how hungry am so hungry that could eat this extremely heavy huge Beast then we've got wow this is Fluffy it's so fluffy I'm going to die you one of those is lot more dramatic than the other one is and would argue that it's I'm so it's so fluffy I'm going to die all right everyone we've reached just about the halfway point here so thanks for sticking with me idiom that is an expression generally defined by culture and or language so we're going to look why added that specific tag in there but essentially it's some sort of expression it's figure of speech so here are English examples up here that will cost you an arm and leg if I'm talking about perfect example school when you when you go to an institution of Higher Learning try and further your education Beyond High School generally there is some sort of tuition cost for attending degree granting institution like college lot of people lot of students they'll apply for scholarships why would they apply for scholarships because that tuition will cost you an arm and leg now you don't see lot of these college graduates walking out with less limbs than how many they entered so what we're just trying to say there is that it's really expensive it's just figure of speech just like hyperbole we're being dramatic with this one but just figure of speech and it doesn't translate that well into other languages so this is something that is unique to English as most idioms generally are unique to their own language next I'm feeling bit under the weather mean all of us are always bit under the weather weather we don't operate above clouds mean life takes place on on the surface of the Earth weather takes place above the surface so all of us are under the weather but when say I'm feeling under the weather weather I'm saying that am sick I'm saying don't really feel 100% but it's just an alternative way for me to say that without just plat out saying I'm feeling kind of sick last it's raining cats and dogs it doesn't rain animals it just is saying that there is lot of rain coming down from the sky so much so it resembles the size of small pet now didn't want to give you non-examples just because mean if an idiom is an expression non-example would be something that's non-expression which is most speech but do want to give you some Global examples to show that idioms they don't translate the same from language to language and an idiom in English will not really make sense in Spanish it won't make sense in Portuguese it won't make sense in German and so on so as I've said in other videos Spanish will be the the fallback that have for lot of our language examples just because it's the only language besides English that have extensively studied so with our first example we've got no which in Spanish means no need to look for five paws on cat now I've never heard anyone any English speaker say something like that think it means something along the lines of there's no need to look for problems when there aren't problems but it just makes more sense within the home language than it does when you translate it to another one because lot of meaning is lost now I'm not even going to try to pronounce this polish idiom but what this says right here and for all of my viewers watching that speak Polish hopefully you can pick up on this idiom lot more than was able to but it translates to think of blue almonds and essentially that's just saying that you're daydreaming you're thinking of blue almonds you've caught yourself just thinking about stuff that doesn't exist lastly jumping back to English on the wabby track now that is something that is spoken in English however we cannot forget that English is spoken on multiple continents multiple countries also speak English so in Australia by saying you're on the wabby track you're just pointing out that someone doesn't have job this is all unique to Australian English and if was walking in the street and said on the wabby track don't think many of the American English speakers will be able to pick up exactly what I'm talking about because it's an idiom that was lost because idioms are generally defined by culture and or language doesn't have to be either one next we've got imagery which is text that seeks to engage those senses our five senses which is seeing hearing tasting touching and smelling some examples here words spread like leaves in storm that's going to try and give us that picture of leaves swirling around in Storm's wind which when we say words spreads like leaves in storm we're saying that word gets around fast one statement is going to get passed from person to person just like these leaves get past from Street to Street yard to yard town to town powerful wind we've got the chirping crickets fill the air chirping crickets that's going to engage hearing so we can imagine those the sounds of those chirping crickets the Eerie silence was shattered by her scream once again we're going towards that audit auditory hearing sense and then lastly the music coursed through US shaking our bodies as if it came within us so I'm talk talking about music but am linking that to the sense of feeling touching it's it's feeling our bodies Shake as if this music came within us so am furthering the description of Sound hearing through something that can physically feel which when say it came from within us it's not necessarily touch but it is that sensation of touch for metaphor and simile wanted to put them both on the the same page just so that we can compare and contrast the two poetic devices because these two are extremely similar and often times mixed up we've done lot of really good work with simile in class not so much with metaphor because we haven't done lot of it yet but wanted to put them side by side for you just so that you can see exactly why some people may confuse the two and so that you won't whenever we practice with metaphor so with metaphor that is speaking of one thing in the terms of another so both of these are going to be some sort of comparison but they're unique in how they compare metaphor is direct comparison it is saying that this is something else Life is Highway Love is Battlefield the cookies were Stones you shoot me down but won't fall am titanium so knowing that both of these things are comparisons with our first statement am comparing life to highway highways they're long they're windy they have other cars on there sometimes there are detours sometimes there's bumps in the road am doing this direct comparison of life and Highway and describing all of the characteristics of life as though it is highway Love is Battlefield think about the different descriptions that we can use to describe the characteristics of battlefield and I'm linking those directly back to love the cookies were Stones you know think of stone and think of you know that being really hard generally so when say that the cookies were Stones I'm most likely suggesting that they were kind of old really hard and probably hurt my teeth CU if you st if you chew on Stones it's probably not going to go so well for you lastly you shoot me down but won't fall am titanium so there I'm simply just saying that am titanium am this precious metal am unbreakable it's this direct comparison and it's generally stronger than than simile so I'll add that they're they're usually on the stronger side and and then we've got simile of course which we've practiced little bit it is the comparison of two things using like or as so either one of those in order to get our point across then we've got life is like box of chocolates My Love is Like Burning Flame these cookies are as hard as rock you lived your life like Candle in the Wind like Candle in the Wind so the two that think are pretty similar are the cookies were Stones the cookies are as hard as rock I'm essentially saying the same thing there one of them is done in little bit more of concise manner which is this one and by concise mean it's just cleaner it's shorter the cookies were Stones but the other one have to explicitly say these cookies are as hard as rock all right so all of that work is done by me saying the cookies were Stones cuz I'm implying that the stones are hard and then through that suggesting that the cookies are hard too but with simile have to first establish that the cookies are hard and then need to link that to something that is hard which are rocks just to prove that sort of emphasis that I'm trying to do through my comparison it was fun one automonopia can never spell it always going to need to use spell check in order to get that one right it is just word formed through sound so just around the word itself I've got Boom Pow Wham crack with our examples with click of the mouse was able to order my mom's birthday present Tick Tock time is running out it was impossible to stay calm when heard the buzz of bee near me hate the can't hate this is typo can't stand blue cheese so that is our anopia but this is supposed to say can't can't stand blue cheese also can't stand typos so I'm sorry about that with personification we are giving human or living qualities to nonhuman things what are our examples time grabs you by the wrist and directs you where to go so this is time that is our nonhuman object that we're talking about and we are saying that it grabs you so time all it does is it passes by us indifferently we can't control time we can't touch time in our dimension of existence is just something that happens so time can't really physically grab us but through personification can give these human qualities two time say that grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go opportunity was knocking on my door so opportunity that is our object and the action that living quality that is doing it's knocking on my door the toast jumped out of the toaster so the toast action that it's doing jumps out of the toaster lastly the cookies were calling my name we've got cookies that is our non living nonhuman action and they were calling my name with repetition we simply looking at when word or phrase is used over and over again with our examples free at last free at last thank God Almighty we are free at last so right here famous quote Martin Lu Luther King Jr free at last free at last thank God Almighty we are free at last horse is horse of course of course and no one can talk to horse of course that is of course unless the horse is famous Mr Ed so there's little bit of different kinds of repetition going on in here so we're going to start out with horse so horse is horse of course of course and no one can talk to horse of course horse that is of course unless the horse is famous Mr red so horse is repeated over and over again but we also have phrase horse is horse of course of course and no one can talk to horse of course that is of course unless the horse is famous Mr Ed so we have combination of repeating words with horse but we also have repetition of phrases with of course and then lastly we've got rhyme when vowel and and final sounds of two or more words is identical some examples there was an old man from Peru who dreamt he was eating his shoe he awoke in fright in the middle of the night and found it was perfectly true so with this I'm going to underline all of our our end Rhymes because in the poems that we'll be reading and lot of the songs that you've listen to the rhyme generally ends up at the very end of line so there was man from Peru who dreamt he was eating his shoe he awoke in fright in the middle of the night and he found it was perfectly true so here are three Rhymes that match Peru Shu and true however there is another rhyme that takes place he awoke in fright in the middle of the night so this is this is more talking about rhyme scheme this is unique to the type of poem that our author wrote here so we're going this is an so all of our A's match up and our B's match up but it doesn't necessarily mean that each consecutive line has to rhyme and then our non-example the engineer tried to steer out of fear of veering near the deer deer that example actually came up earlier as we know that is not necessarily rhyme it's the repetition of vowel sounds in word and that is going to be called something else that something else is ainin and then last we lastly for the rare and radiant Maiden whom the me angels named Lenor once again that is not the vowel and final sounds of two or more words that is identical that is the pairing of internal vowel sounds which isn't necessarily rhyme once again that is asins so everyone hope you have found some use out of this video do understand it's pretty long so hopefully there figured out how to put links in the description of the YouTube video so if you wanted to go to the description at the bottom have highlighted where each segment begins so that you'll be able to just quickly jump to the point in the video that you're interested in for example maybe you completely understand let's see you know how to do alliteration you know asant en jamond hyperbole but for whatever reason you you got to just cover idiom once again that was the seventh slide in our presentation so hopefully I've I've placed link for you just to jump straight to that point but like said I'm new to YouTube and this hasn't made it to YouTube yet so so I'm still working with the formatting of how these videos go do appreciate your patience though with me exploring how to give 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