Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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Lines
Definition: A combination of words in a single line.
Example:
You are the best teacher for yourself. [A line => A sentence]
Linda - ME!
Significance: We use lines to break down the poem into many parts. A poem can't be a poem without lines. Lines create poems. When we go to a next line, the reader will have time to stop and think about the previous lines. Onomatopoeia
Definition: The words that describe the sound of something.
Example:
Crack an Egg
Crack an egg.
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stoke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.
Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.
Breakfast's in.
Denise Rodgers
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stoke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.
Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.
Breakfast's in.
Denise Rodgers
Significance: We use onomatopoeia to demonstrate the sound of something. It will help the reader imagine the action, the sound better.
Assonance
Definition: Repetition of the vowel sounds
Example:
El Dorado
Gaily bedight,
A gallant night
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of El Dorado.
But he grew old -
This knight so bold -
And - o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like El Dorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow -
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be -
This land of El Dorado?"
"Over the mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied -
"If you seek for El Dorado!"
Edgar Allen Poe
Gaily bedight,
A gallant night
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of El Dorado.
But he grew old -
This knight so bold -
And - o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like El Dorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow -
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be -
This land of El Dorado?"
"Over the mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied -
"If you seek for El Dorado!"
Edgar Allen Poe
Significance: We use assonance like we use alliteration. It will make our poems sound cooler, better and funnier. It will help the reader remember better and attracts more readers.
Alliteration
Definition: Repetition of the consonant sounds of two or more words in the poem
Example:
Laughing Lions
Laughing lions laugh
like jumping jaguars
on top of talking trees.
When
the
talking trees start
talking,
the joking
jaguars fall
off.
Rachel
Significance: We use alliteration because it is very creative and when we read it out loud, it sounds very cool and funny. We can write an alliteration sentence and keep reading it to help us in pronunciation.
Elegy
Definition: A sad poem that wrote for someone who had died
Example:
Where are you mom
Where are you Mom, where did you go
You have gone to a place I do not know
Your new world does not include me
It’s rather cloudy, from what I see
You sit there in your chair
With such a vacant empty stare
I wish I could bring back the better times
Love Buddy
Couplet
Definition: Poems with two lines next to each other that rhymes.
Example:
On a Sea-Storm Nigh the Coast
The weighty seas are rowled from the deeps
In mighty heaps,
And from the rocks' foundations do arise
To kiss the skies.
Richard Steere
The weighty seas are rowled from the deeps
In mighty heaps,
And from the rocks' foundations do arise
To kiss the skies.
Richard Steere
Significance: We use couplet as another type of rhyming poetry. It is easy for the reader to recognize the rhymes within the lines.
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