ODE TERMS Ode- A poem in praise of something divine or
expressing some noble idea Mood a feeling a reader gets when
reading a literary work Personification giving human
characteristics to an animal, object, or idea Metaphor the
comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
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ODE TO AN ARTICHOKE BY PABLO NERUDA Identify: Metaphors Similes
Personification Plot of the poem
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IDENTIFICATION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN ODE TO AN ARTICHOKE
MetaphorsSimilesPersonification **The entire poem is an extended
metaphor what two items are being compared? Dressed up like a
warrior she observes it /Up against the light like it was an egg,
The carrot /With its red mustaches / Was sleeping The cabbage
/Dedicated itself /To trying on skirts Artichoke /There in the
garden, / Dressed like a warrior, Like a proud /Pomegrante Thus
ends /In peace / This career /Of the armed vegetable
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ODE TO MY SOCKS BY PABLO NERUDA Identify: Metaphors Similes
Personification Plot of the poem
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IDENTIFICATION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN ODE TO MY SOCKS
MetaphorsSimilesPersonification my feet were two fish made of wool,
two long sharks two socks as soft as rabbits I slipped my feet into
them / as if they were two cases my feet seemed to me unacceptable
/ like two decrepit firemen to save them somewhere as schoolboys
/keep fireflies /as learned men collect /sacred texts Like
explorers in the jungle
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ODE ASSIGNMENT Create an original Ode, about anything, that
has: an identifiable mood labeled at the top 3 examples of
personification underlined 1 Metaphor - circled some rhyme scheme
labeled on the right **extra credit for Shakespearean Rhyme Scheme:
a,b,a,b c,d,c,d e,f,e,f g,g at least 12 lines, may have up to 15
format your writing like a poem (spacing, separation of stanzas)
Completed poem Due Thurs 05/07
