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Alliteration/Assonance: Alliteration - repetition of consonant sounds. (EX: She sells seashells by the seashore) Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds. (EX: One oxen opened the oven)
From YouTube - Dr. Seuss' ABCs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyoWdUBWKqg
Ella Hour 5 Hyperbole: an overstatement or exaggeration to emphasize the truth or a element within the statement or poem. e.g. this insurance is going to cost me an arm and a leg
Trochee: The reverse of an iamb, trochee is a metrical foot of two syllables, one long (or stressed) and one short (or unstressed).
Works Cited Imbornoni, Ann-Marie. "Glossary of Poetry Terms." Infoplease. 2007. Family Education Network, Web. 5 Jan 2010. .
Metrical Feet by Samuel Coleridge Trochee trips from long to short From long to long in solemn sort Slow spondee stalks; strong foot yet ill able Ever to run with the dactyl trisyllable. Iambics march from short to long. With a leap and a bound the swift anapests throng.
Paradox: A statement containing seemingly contradictory statements, but can be seen as true when looked at from another angle. EX: His old age allowed him to be young again.
AN EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT (http://www.poeticbyway.com/xpope.htm#epistle)
couplet: In a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. EX: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shakespearean poems usually end in a capping couplet. http://www.infoplease.com/t/lit/shakespeare-sonnets/
ode: a poem that commemorates or celebrates. Contemporary odes are likely to be about more cynical or popular culture subjects.Classic Odes have three parts.
BALLAD A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. The story of a ballad can originate from a wide range of subject matter but frequently deals with folk-lore or popular legends. The plot is the dominant element, dealing with a single crucial episode, narrated impersonally, with frequent use of repetition. They are written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with graphic simplicity and force. Most ballads are suitable for singing and, while sometimes varied in practice, are generally written in ballad meter,
Example: Sailor: "We need another four able hands to sail this ship!" Non-Sailor: "What?" Sailor: "We need another four sailors! Don't you know what a synecdoche is?"
Unfortunately, i can't find a clever comic online so i'm just going to write a poem that uses it.
Four hands went out to sea on four sturdy sails back home soon they sure will be as they would never fail.
Definition: A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected.
Examples: river of doubt, valley of the shadow of death
Ambiguity: Applied to words and expressions, the state of being doubtful or indistinct in meaning or capable of being understood in more than one way, in the context in which it is used. Ambiguity can result from careless or evasive choice of words which bewilder the reader, but its deliberate use is often intended to unify the different interpretations into an expanded enrichment of the meaning of the original expression.
Example: http://www.ketzle.com/frost/snowyeve.htm Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve which many interpret as a poem about loneliness, others a poem about suicide, and still others a poem celebrating natural beauty
Rachel Y: Pastiche – an art that resembles or copies another well-known example of that art Example – Scary Movie 1 incorporates many components of various other movies and this makes it a pastiche of the actually frightening movies White and Nerdy on Youtube is an example of a Pastiche on “Ridin” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw Works Cited http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/pastiche.html http://en.allexperts.com/e/p/pa/pastiche.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_&_Nerdy
Oxymoron: The conjunction of words which at first seems contradictory, but whose suprising juxtaposition (place side by side) expresses a truth or dramatic effect.
Gabrielle Mosher (pr. 6): acrostic poem: A poem in which certain letters of the lines, usually the first letters, form a word or message relating to the subject g: girly a: ambitious b: brilliant (haha) b: boisterous i: inquisitive
example: (make your own) http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/
Deus ex Machina: (literally "god out of a machine"). In ancient Greek and Roman drama, a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.
Example: the ending of the Odyssey when the gods save Odysseus from the angry mob of the suitors' families. Athena then tells them to live peacefully together.
Limerick: A light, humorous poem of five usually anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba. A flea and a fly in a flue
Example: Were caught, so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee." "Let us fly," said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the flue. (http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/limerick.htm)
27 comments:
Alliteration/Assonance:
Alliteration - repetition of consonant sounds. (EX: She sells seashells by the seashore)
Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds. (EX: One oxen opened the oven)
From YouTube - Dr. Seuss' ABCs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyoWdUBWKqg
Maggie Johnson:
Visual Imagery:
Something described through sight, appears most commonly through poetry
Example: http://www.frostfriends.org/imagery.html#visual
Personification:
Giving human qualities to an object
Example(s):
http://www.life123.com/parenting/education/children-reading/personification-examples.shtml
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personification.html
Ceallach Gibbons, 5th Period
ELEGY: A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful.
Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc
Lauren French:
Allegory-
a symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Example: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/sunday.snippets/snip95-37.txt
Works Cited:
"Glossary of Poetic Terms." Online Learning Center. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Web. 5 Jan 2010. .
Ella Hour 5
Hyperbole:
an overstatement or exaggeration to emphasize the truth or a element within the statement or poem.
e.g. this insurance is going to cost me an arm and a leg
http://web.mac.com/arnold_zwicky/hyperbole.gif
Onomatopoeia:
a word used to imitate the sound of the object represented
Example:
Bees buzz
Cows moo
Pigs oink
Link: different types of onomatopoeia
http://www.thewriteprescription.com/catalog/Onomatopoeia.jpg
Trochee:
The reverse of an iamb, trochee is a metrical foot of two syllables, one long (or stressed) and one short (or unstressed).
Works Cited
Imbornoni, Ann-Marie. "Glossary of Poetry Terms." Infoplease. 2007. Family Education Network, Web. 5 Jan 2010. .
Metrical Feet
by Samuel Coleridge
Trochee trips from long to short
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow spondee stalks; strong foot yet ill able
Ever to run with the dactyl trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long.
With a leap and a bound the swift anapests throng.
GABRIEL CHANG
Rachel Kinney
Paradox: A statement containing seemingly contradictory statements, but can be seen as true when looked at from another angle. EX: His old age allowed him to be young again.
AN EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT (http://www.poeticbyway.com/xpope.htm#epistle)
couplet: In a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. EX: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shakespearean poems usually end in a capping couplet. http://www.infoplease.com/t/lit/shakespeare-sonnets/
Zoe Burton
ode: a poem that commemorates or celebrates. Contemporary odes are likely to be about more cynical or popular culture subjects.Classic Odes have three parts.
Example:
Ode to a nightingale by John Keats
http://www.love-poems.me.uk/keats_ode_to_a_nightingale_l.htm
Ryan Hobert:
Cacophony:
Harsh, guttural, "d", "t","k","s"
Example: Beakers crashed onto jagged rocks.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrQyfjRdHB4&feature=related
Bayert
period 6
BALLAD
A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. The story of a ballad can originate from a wide range of subject matter but frequently deals with folk-lore or popular legends. The plot is the dominant element, dealing with a single crucial episode, narrated impersonally, with frequent use of repetition. They are written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with graphic simplicity and force. Most ballads are suitable for singing and, while sometimes varied in practice, are generally written in ballad meter,
http://www.studyguide.org/ballad_examples.htm
Synecdoche -
using a part to describe a whole
Example:
Sailor: "We need another four able hands to sail this ship!"
Non-Sailor: "What?"
Sailor: "We need another four sailors! Don't you know what a synecdoche is?"
Unfortunately, i can't find a clever comic online so i'm just going to write a poem that uses it.
Four hands went out to sea
on four sturdy sails
back home soon they sure will be
as they would never fail.
Edward Xie
Kristin Knutzen:
Metaphor
Definition: A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected.
Examples: river of doubt, valley of the shadow of death
Link: http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/spoon/metaphors.php
Caroline Blanchard
Period 6
Simile: A comparison between two things using "like" or "as".
Examples:
1) That dog swims like a fish.
2) His hugs were as warm as the sun.
3) She is tough as nails.
More Examples: http://www.greatsongwriting.com/examples-of-simile.html
Becca Goldsteen
Ambiguity:
Applied to words and expressions, the state of being doubtful or indistinct in meaning or capable of being understood in more than one way, in the context in which it is used.
Ambiguity can result from careless or evasive choice of words which bewilder the reader, but its deliberate use is often intended to unify the different interpretations into an expanded enrichment of the meaning of the original expression.
Example: http://www.ketzle.com/frost/snowyeve.htm
Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve which many interpret as a poem about loneliness, others a poem about suicide, and still others a poem celebrating natural beauty
http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
Rachel Y:
Pastiche – an art that resembles or copies another well-known example of that art
Example – Scary Movie 1 incorporates many components of various other movies and this makes it a pastiche of the actually frightening movies
White and Nerdy on Youtube is an example of a Pastiche on “Ridin”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
Works Cited
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/pastiche.html
http://en.allexperts.com/e/p/pa/pastiche.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_&_Nerdy
Andrew Bradley
Period 5
Epic:
A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure
An example of an epic would be the "Odyssey" by Homer and "Theogony" by Hesiod.
Online example:
http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/
Ashlee Johnson:
Oxymoron:
The conjunction of words which at first seems contradictory, but whose suprising juxtaposition (place side by side) expresses a truth or dramatic effect.
From: http://www.poeticbyway.com/gl-o.html#oxymoron
Example Sentence:
Jumbo shrimp
Same difference
Middle East
Worldly Example:
http://www.oxymoronlist.com/
Danyul Porter
School.
10th Grade.
English.
Ms.Campbell.
Period Sicks.
Couplet: A poem made up of two lines which rhyme with one another. Often used as parts of larger poems, such as in sonnets.
E.G.
"As long as men can breathe, and eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee." -Bill Shakespeare
Gabrielle Mosher (pr. 6):
acrostic poem:
A poem in which certain letters of the lines, usually the first letters, form a word or message relating to the subject
g: girly
a: ambitious
b: brilliant (haha)
b: boisterous
i: inquisitive
example: (make your own)
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/
Matt Nelson
Satire:
A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.
Example: (http://www.theonion.com/content/index)
Austin Wu:
Deus ex Machina: (literally "god out of a machine"). In ancient Greek and Roman drama, a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.
Example: the ending of the Odyssey when the gods save Odysseus from the angry mob of the suitors' families. Athena then tells them to live peacefully together.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nIWiKIscZJY/Ruby_F_NdaI/AAAAAAAAAT4/iBYJ0e93_PQ/s400/Deus.gif
Danny Foussard
Rhyme Scheme:
the pattern or sequence in which rhyme occurs
Example:
Say Shhh By Atmosphere follows an AABB rhyme scheme, where two lines rhyme consecutively followed by two lines that rhyme consecutively.
A: Got trees and vegetation in the city I stay
A: The rent's in the mail and I can always find a parking space
B: The women outnumber the men two to one
B: Got parks and zoos and things to do with my son
Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn6iU_c2cM0&feature=related
CJ Whitaker:
Limerick: A light, humorous poem of five usually anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Example:
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
(http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/limerick.htm)
Grant Whitaker
period 5
Allusion : an indirect reference toward someone or something.
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_ZqXlY2uA&feature=PlayList&p=6561A04320F099F2&index=0&playnext=1
Mary Cann:
Dactyl:
A stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables: BLUE-ber-ry.
Double Dactyl: Giggledy Piggledy
Example:
http://www.everypoet.net/poetry/blogs/bela/double_dactyl
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