For my Sister Molly Who in the Fifties
... As we begin our poetry mini-unit, I want you to remain open-minded about the beauty and complexity found in poetry. Many students are intimidated by poetry, and yet simple poetry— rhymes and limericks—were often our most favorite pieces of literature as children. I challenge you to approach the poet ...
... As we begin our poetry mini-unit, I want you to remain open-minded about the beauty and complexity found in poetry. Many students are intimidated by poetry, and yet simple poetry— rhymes and limericks—were often our most favorite pieces of literature as children. I challenge you to approach the poet ...
Literary Terms Handout
... pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes (for example, arrayed-said) Assonance The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat-ran-amber, veinmade). Ballad meter Stanzas formed of quatrains of iambs ...
... pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes (for example, arrayed-said) Assonance The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, hat-ran-amber, veinmade). Ballad meter Stanzas formed of quatrains of iambs ...
A Review of Margaret Avison`s Listening
... ocean, each with its beaches and promontories so there could be land greening day by day, at peace with the dark hours, He saw that it was good. ...
... ocean, each with its beaches and promontories so there could be land greening day by day, at peace with the dark hours, He saw that it was good. ...
Feeling into Words
... as an example of what one reviewer called ‘mud-caked fingers in Russell Square’, for I don’t think that the subject-matter has any particular virtue in itself—it is interesting as an example of what we call ‘finding a voice’. Finding a voice means that you can get your own feeling into your own wor ...
... as an example of what one reviewer called ‘mud-caked fingers in Russell Square’, for I don’t think that the subject-matter has any particular virtue in itself—it is interesting as an example of what we call ‘finding a voice’. Finding a voice means that you can get your own feeling into your own wor ...
1. Basic Terms syntax
... It is not now as it hath been of yore;-Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. The Horatian ode, named for the Roman poet Horace, is generally more tranquil and contemplative than the Pindaric ode. Less formal, less ceremonious, and better suited ...
... It is not now as it hath been of yore;-Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. The Horatian ode, named for the Roman poet Horace, is generally more tranquil and contemplative than the Pindaric ode. Less formal, less ceremonious, and better suited ...
Literary Fair Handbook - Falcon Cove Middle School
... A print comic book adapted from the Japanese art form with an emphasis on a complex story line and simple, artistic lines. The Manga MUST be adapted from a work of literature. Because he dialogue should be in English, the creator may choose to have the book read left to right and front to back or “u ...
... A print comic book adapted from the Japanese art form with an emphasis on a complex story line and simple, artistic lines. The Manga MUST be adapted from a work of literature. Because he dialogue should be in English, the creator may choose to have the book read left to right and front to back or “u ...
The Sonnet Form in Japanese - Electronic Journal of Contemporary
... Suisho wa doro da, and insisted that Japanese audiences would have no difficulty understanding this oxymoron, either by itself or in context. These first two factors can be demonstrated by comparing Shakespeare’s original texts with the numerous translations to have appeared since the Meiji Era, but ...
... Suisho wa doro da, and insisted that Japanese audiences would have no difficulty understanding this oxymoron, either by itself or in context. These first two factors can be demonstrated by comparing Shakespeare’s original texts with the numerous translations to have appeared since the Meiji Era, but ...
第十四课English Prosody
... As English prose can be divided into chapters and paragraphs, so is English poetry, (most types of them do, with the exception of blank verse and perhaps heroic couplets that can go on endlessly), capable of similar divisions. The smallest poetic unit equal to the paragraph in a piece of prose is kn ...
... As English prose can be divided into chapters and paragraphs, so is English poetry, (most types of them do, with the exception of blank verse and perhaps heroic couplets that can go on endlessly), capable of similar divisions. The smallest poetic unit equal to the paragraph in a piece of prose is kn ...
a glossary of literary terms
... COHERENCE is the clarity given to a piece of writing through a definite method of development and transitional devices. COMEDY is a play written largely for entertainment; in its broadest meaning, a drama which ends happily. COMEDY OF MANNERS form ridiculing social rather than individual faults. The ...
... COHERENCE is the clarity given to a piece of writing through a definite method of development and transitional devices. COMEDY is a play written largely for entertainment; in its broadest meaning, a drama which ends happily. COMEDY OF MANNERS form ridiculing social rather than individual faults. The ...
Name
... ____ is the term for the literary device of resolving some seemingly unresolved event- usually by the intervention of outside or supernatural forces. ...
... ____ is the term for the literary device of resolving some seemingly unresolved event- usually by the intervention of outside or supernatural forces. ...
Elements of Poetry - Team 743 Language Arts
... They say it’s all a story that His favorite little song, Was “Make these lubbers walk the plank!” I think, perhaps, they’re wrong. They say he never pirated Beneath Skull-and-Bones. He merely traveled for his health And spoke in soothing tones. In fact, you’ll read in nearly all The newer history bo ...
... They say it’s all a story that His favorite little song, Was “Make these lubbers walk the plank!” I think, perhaps, they’re wrong. They say he never pirated Beneath Skull-and-Bones. He merely traveled for his health And spoke in soothing tones. In fact, you’ll read in nearly all The newer history bo ...
File - Mrs Watson`s English Classroom
... you notice anything interesting about these words/phrases? An émigré is a person who has "migrated out", often with a connotation of political or social self-exile. The word is the past participle of the French émigrer 'to emigrate'. ...
... you notice anything interesting about these words/phrases? An émigré is a person who has "migrated out", often with a connotation of political or social self-exile. The word is the past participle of the French émigrer 'to emigrate'. ...
AP Literature and Composition Literary Terms
... mood: a mood or atmosphere is the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers. Mood is created through the use of plot, character, the author’s descriptions, etc. moral: a lesson that a story teaches. A moral is often stated directly at the end of a fable. motif (moh-TEEF): a recurring object, c ...
... mood: a mood or atmosphere is the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers. Mood is created through the use of plot, character, the author’s descriptions, etc. moral: a lesson that a story teaches. A moral is often stated directly at the end of a fable. motif (moh-TEEF): a recurring object, c ...
Poetry For Dummies - University of Houston
... to the students. Middle school is really a time for them to become independent readers and find what they are most interested in reading. Poetry may be the undiscovered genre for them. WHAT WILL THIS UNIT TEACH? The unit will teach poetry in oral and written form. The foundation of the unit will com ...
... to the students. Middle school is really a time for them to become independent readers and find what they are most interested in reading. Poetry may be the undiscovered genre for them. WHAT WILL THIS UNIT TEACH? The unit will teach poetry in oral and written form. The foundation of the unit will com ...
Glossary of Literary Terms
... memoir is about the author’s personal experiences. However, a memoir does not necessarily cover the author’s entire life. metaphor (met-AH-for): a type of figurative language in which a comparison is made between two things that are essentially unalike but may have one quality in common. Unlike a si ...
... memoir is about the author’s personal experiences. However, a memoir does not necessarily cover the author’s entire life. metaphor (met-AH-for): a type of figurative language in which a comparison is made between two things that are essentially unalike but may have one quality in common. Unlike a si ...
Honors English 10 Final Exam
... 1. Which of the following types of essays is incorrectly matched? a. Description: writing that presents an impression b. Narration: writing that relates a series of events c. Exposition: writing that explains a subject d. Persuasion: writing that presents a picture 2. In an autobiography, the writer ...
... 1. Which of the following types of essays is incorrectly matched? a. Description: writing that presents an impression b. Narration: writing that relates a series of events c. Exposition: writing that explains a subject d. Persuasion: writing that presents a picture 2. In an autobiography, the writer ...
translating wilfred owen in argentina
... stages of Owen’s brief poetic career, pararhyme is ornamental, in the mature war poems pararhyme is an unavoidable ingredient of the poetic effect.2 The main feature of pararhyme is that consonantal sounds of two different words are identical not only after the stressed vowel sound but also before i ...
... stages of Owen’s brief poetic career, pararhyme is ornamental, in the mature war poems pararhyme is an unavoidable ingredient of the poetic effect.2 The main feature of pararhyme is that consonantal sounds of two different words are identical not only after the stressed vowel sound but also before i ...
Teaching Poetry
... femininity, not that Brooks and his men were teaching any of the threenamed lady poets Hemingway had mocked. Understanding poetry was taught as a man’s job, a triumph of reason over emotion. But these days poetry has been dislodged from the center of the literary curriculum by fiction, drama, cultur ...
... femininity, not that Brooks and his men were teaching any of the threenamed lady poets Hemingway had mocked. Understanding poetry was taught as a man’s job, a triumph of reason over emotion. But these days poetry has been dislodged from the center of the literary curriculum by fiction, drama, cultur ...
Literary Terms Jeopardy
... The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images ...
... The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images ...
Analysing Poetry - Year12VCE
... Euphemism: substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant. *When the final news came, there would be a ring at the front door -- a wife in this situation finds herself staring at the front door as if she no longer owns it ...
... Euphemism: substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant. *When the final news came, there would be a ring at the front door -- a wife in this situation finds herself staring at the front door as if she no longer owns it ...
Poetry Terms Paradox
... Play on the multiple meaning of words Example: Seven days without a Wendy’s hamburger makes one weak. Throw that pie away; I don’t want it to go to waist. ...
... Play on the multiple meaning of words Example: Seven days without a Wendy’s hamburger makes one weak. Throw that pie away; I don’t want it to go to waist. ...
Literary Terms Jeopardy - Teaching English Language Arts
... The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images ...
... The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images ...
B - Creative Writing
... Japanese poet who invented the haiku as we know it: a tiny poem filled with a love of nature. He spent his life close to nature. After a year in 1683 during which his hut burned down and his mother died, he took to the road. From the age of forty (in 1684) he travelled from place to place, like a ...
... Japanese poet who invented the haiku as we know it: a tiny poem filled with a love of nature. He spent his life close to nature. After a year in 1683 during which his hut burned down and his mother died, he took to the road. From the age of forty (in 1684) he travelled from place to place, like a ...
PoetryUnitPowerpoint
... Doth with their death bury their parents’ STRIFE. The fearful passage of their death-marked LOVE And the continuance of their parents’ RAGE, Which, but their children’s end, naught could REMOVE Is now the two hours’ traffic of our STAGE; The which, if you with patient ears ATTEND, What hear shall mi ...
... Doth with their death bury their parents’ STRIFE. The fearful passage of their death-marked LOVE And the continuance of their parents’ RAGE, Which, but their children’s end, naught could REMOVE Is now the two hours’ traffic of our STAGE; The which, if you with patient ears ATTEND, What hear shall mi ...
8th Grade Poetry Unit
... Doth with their death bury their parents’ STRIFE. The fearful passage of their death-marked LOVE And the continuance of their parents’ RAGE, Which, but their children’s end, naught could REMOVE Is now the two hours’ traffic of our STAGE; The which, if you with patient ears ATTEND, What hear shall mi ...
... Doth with their death bury their parents’ STRIFE. The fearful passage of their death-marked LOVE And the continuance of their parents’ RAGE, Which, but their children’s end, naught could REMOVE Is now the two hours’ traffic of our STAGE; The which, if you with patient ears ATTEND, What hear shall mi ...
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language.Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. Readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as written in lines based on rhyme and regular meter; there are, however, traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other means to create rhythm and euphony. Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm. In today's increasingly globalized world, poets often adapt forms, styles and techniques from diverse cultures and languages.