Pride By: Dahlia Ravikovitch

Period 4

Mrs. Anderson

Academic Eng.

Dec. 20, 2010

ASHLEY

MALLORREE

PRIDE

I tell you, even rocks crack,and not because of age.For years they lie on their backsin the heat and the cold,so many years,it seems peaceful. They don’t move, so the cracks stay hidden.A kind of pride.Years pass over them, waiting there.Whoever is going to shatter them hasn't come yet.And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed whips around,the sea pushes through and rolls back---the rocks seem motionless.And suddenly the rock has an open wound.I told you, when rocks break, it happens by surprise.And people, too

FORM

Form:

the way a poem looks

Free Verse

A type of poetic style in which lines are organized in a loose conversational way

Why?

It’s not put into groups of lines

TYPES OF RHYME

Internal

Rhyme within a line

They don’t move, so the cracks stay hidden

(line 7)

End

Rhyme at the end of a line

I tell you, even rocks crack, and not because of age. For years they lie on their backs

(line 1-3)

IMAGERY

Figurative description or illustration

-ex:

ALLITERATION

Repetition of sounds in the beginning of words

Ex: So the cracks stay hidden (line 7)

Till a little seal comes to run against them

(line 16)

ASSONANCE

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

Ex:

- Whoever is going to shatter them

- A kind of pride.

ONOMATOPOEIA

Use of words whose sound suggest their meaning

Ex: I tell you, even rocks crack ( line 1 )

And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed whips around (line 12 & 13)

Whoever is going to shatter them ( line 10 )

PERSONIFICATION

Giving human qualities to non-living objects

Ex:

-For years they lie on their backs ( line 3 )

-And suddenly the rock has an open wound

( line 18 )

METAPHOR

Comparing two items without using “like” or “as”

Ex:

-I told you, when rocks break, it happens by surprise. And people, too. ( line 19-20 )

REPETITION

Repeating of sounds

Ex:

ALLUSION

Implied or indirect reference in literation to a familiar person, place, or event

Ex:

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SYMBOLISM

An object used by an author to represent something else

Ex:

SPEAKER

The voice the reader hears relating the ideas of a poem, not necessarily the poet.

IDENTIFY/ANALYZE/EXPLAIN

A person can only endorse so much criticism and distress until they finally break down.

Why?

The poem says that rocks can take only so much pressure just like people.

Hurtful words can leave a huge impact on a person’s life.

MERRY CHRISTMAS