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Significance: It makes the reader see the pattern of the poem or the idea, also can be just used for creativity.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Meter
Definition: An arrangement of words in a poem in regularly measure, sometimes rhyming, lines or verses.
Example:
The poem is about a tree and has it's lines put into a tree image.
Significance: It makes the reader see the pattern of the poem or the idea, also can be just used for creativity.
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Example:
Significance: It makes the reader see the pattern of the poem or the idea, also can be just used for creativity.
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Rhyme
Definition: A verse or poetry having repeating words that have correspondence to other words in a stanza/couplet or paragraph/lyric.
Example: There once was a lady called magie.
Whose dog was very shaggie.
Significance: It is significant, as it is a creative way to organize similar/relating ideas and make it sound good.
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Example: There once was a lady called magie.
Whose dog was very shaggie.
Significance: It is significant, as it is a creative way to organize similar/relating ideas and make it sound good.
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Rhythm
Definition: A patterened repetition at regular intervals.
Example: The warping night air having
brought the boom
Of an owl's voice
in her darkened room
Singificance: It's significant because it keeps the reader on track in a pattern.
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Example: The warping night air having
brought the boom
Of an owl's voice
in her darkened room
Singificance: It's significant because it keeps the reader on track in a pattern.
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Onomatopoeia
Definition: A word that imitates the sound it represents.
Example: CRASH!!!, BOOM!!!, SPLAT are all onomatopoeias.
Significance: You can visualize the damage/impact or hear the sound.
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Example: CRASH!!!, BOOM!!!, SPLAT are all onomatopoeias.
Significance: You can visualize the damage/impact or hear the sound.
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Imagery
Definition: The vivid description and visualization of a scene, moment, memory, idea, or other various concept. It usually make the literary work more readable and interesting for the reader.
Example: Writing about a furious character might have you using imagery and writing about him pulling his hair out in frustration.
Significance: It makes the work more vivid and pleasureable to read.
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Example: Writing about a furious character might have you using imagery and writing about him pulling his hair out in frustration.
Significance: It makes the work more vivid and pleasureable to read.
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Personification
Definition: When an inanimate object is give human-like qualities.
Example: "The sun was glaring down upon the school." The sun isn't actually glaring, this is just a metaphorical term personifying it.
Significance: It makes the reader get into the literary work more and get a feel for the object/scene.
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Example: "The sun was glaring down upon the school." The sun isn't actually glaring, this is just a metaphorical term personifying it.
Significance: It makes the reader get into the literary work more and get a feel for the object/scene.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
METAPHOR & EXTENDED METAPHOR
A metaphor is a phrase that compares 2 things without using "like" or "as", an extended metaphor compares 2 things over more than just a sentence.
Example:
("You'll have a whole eternity to think inside the box.")
Significance: A methaphor assists you n comparing ideas and getting your messge across to the reader.
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Example:
Significance: A methaphor assists you n comparing ideas and getting your messge across to the reader.
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