Monday, April 25, 2011

Personification






the comparison, or description of an object using adjective to make it human-like

Example:
This pen is hard-working
It could write all day without stopping

Significance:
Personification usually used to describe objects as a human by using words that is used to describe humans, or making it do things that humans do

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Rhyme

 repetition of sounds between lines in the poem

The sun rises in the morning
And it's time to feel boring

Morning and boring are rhymed

Significance: Rhyme is what makes up a poem or should I say it's the essential need of a poem. Rhyme gives excitement and emotions to the readers

Rhythm

The movement of words that creates variety of tones, strong and weak elements of a poem

Example:

I hear the sound I love, the soung of the human voice,
I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused, or following,
Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night,
Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals...

(source: http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/rhythm.html)

Significance: Rhythm gives readers beats like music. It also make the poems more energetic

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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Speaker

The one who gives words in a poem through their points of view

Example:
I've lived the entire life and I know it very well
A bad situation will change as well as a good situation
It's best to keep everything balanced

Significance: The poem above may be autobiographical, but not every poem that has a speaker are biographical. Poems are like other work of literature, such as fiction and novel

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Tone

Tone is a feeling or attitude in a poem

Sonny's lost everything
He lost his family, and his best friend
He wandered around like a mental man
He broke his leg and could barely walk
He finally sat down in the corner and cried like he never did

The tone from the poem is sad, miserable

Significance:
The tone of a poem gives the reader the emotions and feelings of the authors through the words. The tone could help the readers to understand the poems easier

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Interpretation

A mental analysis that helps you understand the poems better.
Example
Thai is silly
His dog is also silly
They stepped on poop

Theme: Siliness does not bring fortune to one's luck
Vocab: silly

Significance:

Interpretation helps us understand poems easier, but breaking down the parts making it easier to understand but not making it understandable in your own words or your images

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Simile

A direct comparison between two objects

Flash runs so fast. He is as fast as the light.

Simile uses comparison words such as as, like, such as two compare two objects directly

Extended Metaphor

The continuous comparison  between two or more objects without using like, as, or such as to the next sentences


The world's a stage
All the women and men merely players
They have their exits and their entrances
(Source: Shakespear)
Extended metaphor also compares two objects characteristic, but it is continuous, and may develop a great amount of metaphorical sentences 





Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Metaphor

Comparision that does not use words such as as, like, such as, between one thing with one different things,

Mr. Edmund is so tall. He is a giraffe.

Metaphor helps strengthen the meaning of a sentence. It compares a human's act with an object's or an animal's characteristic.












Stanza

A stanza is lines that form a paragraph in a poem. Each stanza has a number of lines that are equal to others (usually)

(Stanza 1)
Dogs seem intelligent
But not as smart as people thought
Dogs could not do a thing
Beside bothering its owner
(Stanza 2)
Some dogs might be stupid
But they have what's called loyalty
You might treat them badly
But they will never leave their owners
(Sorry for the boring poem, I couldn't think of any good poems. I made them in rush)

A stanza divides verses in the poem equally, so that the beginning of the next stanza restarts its format



Monday, April 18, 2011

Imagery

A type of poetry which the words evoke its reader to see such pictures

The sun has woke up
shining the spreading light on the sky
The birds are chirping
and the trees are waving
The city gets busy, signaling a new day.

Imagery provides the readers with pictures through the words, helping them visualize what's the setting like in the poems



Poetry

Definition: a type of definition that's to be read and where authors express the feelings through words.

Example of a short poem:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
You look like an angel
That belongs in the zoo

Poetry carries all the feelings and the expressions within words and stanzas.