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... Essential Questions 1. What can these writing teach us about what is means to be American, especially about the search for freedom? 2. What can these writings teach us about the story of American literature? To address the essential questions, please use the historical lens. Rationalism (1750-1800): ...
... Essential Questions 1. What can these writing teach us about what is means to be American, especially about the search for freedom? 2. What can these writings teach us about the story of American literature? To address the essential questions, please use the historical lens. Rationalism (1750-1800): ...
Introduction to the Study of English Literature
... taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (Midsummer Night's Dream) pleonasm (Unnecessary) accumulation of expressions that mean the same thing. I have a daughter, have while she is mine. (Hamlet) antithesis Parallel arrangement of opposite terms. Fair without, foul ...
... taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (Midsummer Night's Dream) pleonasm (Unnecessary) accumulation of expressions that mean the same thing. I have a daughter, have while she is mine. (Hamlet) antithesis Parallel arrangement of opposite terms. Fair without, foul ...
1 How to Read Poetry
... dactyl (YOU are right) or even on occasion broken into strong equal beats (SHUT UP) spondee. It was also OK to let a beat or pause represent a syllable, usually at the end of a line. (Row, row, row your boat/ Gently down the stream rest is a four-beat verse.) Any poet with an ear instinctively playe ...
... dactyl (YOU are right) or even on occasion broken into strong equal beats (SHUT UP) spondee. It was also OK to let a beat or pause represent a syllable, usually at the end of a line. (Row, row, row your boat/ Gently down the stream rest is a four-beat verse.) Any poet with an ear instinctively playe ...
8R.2.1.7ballad rhythm and meter
... 3. Every line in the poem is written with a specific meter—8 syllables per line. Think about your favorite song. If it was written in as a poem it might have a similar form—each line would be made up of a consistent number of syllables. 4. Every end word in each line rhymes with the end word for eve ...
... 3. Every line in the poem is written with a specific meter—8 syllables per line. Think about your favorite song. If it was written in as a poem it might have a similar form—each line would be made up of a consistent number of syllables. 4. Every end word in each line rhymes with the end word for eve ...
Chaucer`s Prosody
... octosyllabic meter and the second type decasyllabic – that is, whether his verse has a fixed number of syllables. English verse is accentual-syllabic, which means that you can think of Chaucer’s verse as designed around stress rather than syllable count. Take for instance the opening lines of The Bo ...
... octosyllabic meter and the second type decasyllabic – that is, whether his verse has a fixed number of syllables. English verse is accentual-syllabic, which means that you can think of Chaucer’s verse as designed around stress rather than syllable count. Take for instance the opening lines of The Bo ...
Introduction to Poetry Versification The mechanical process of poetic
... Each verse in a poetic composition is characterized by a uniform, measured movement which results from the regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. This characteristic, the essential quality of all verse, is called rhythm. And the sheen / of their spears / was little stars / on the s ...
... Each verse in a poetic composition is characterized by a uniform, measured movement which results from the regular recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. This characteristic, the essential quality of all verse, is called rhythm. And the sheen / of their spears / was little stars / on the s ...
30 DAY POETRY CHALLENGE This poetry challenge is in honor of
... 30 DAY POETRY CHALLENGE accompany it. The poem need not be directly related to the song. Day 11: Write a list poem. Day 12: Tell your life story in 6 words (see smithmag.net for more on this . . . ). Day 13: Write a short poem that a child would like. Day 14: Write a bad poem, make it as lousy as y ...
... 30 DAY POETRY CHALLENGE accompany it. The poem need not be directly related to the song. Day 11: Write a list poem. Day 12: Tell your life story in 6 words (see smithmag.net for more on this . . . ). Day 13: Write a short poem that a child would like. Day 14: Write a bad poem, make it as lousy as y ...
Poetry
... Line 1 - Title (one or two syllables to describe the topic.) Line 2 - Two words or syllables to describe the title. Line 3 - Three words or six syllables to describe what the topic does. Line 4 - Four words or eight syllables to describe the feeling or mood. Line 5 - One word or two syllables with a ...
... Line 1 - Title (one or two syllables to describe the topic.) Line 2 - Two words or syllables to describe the title. Line 3 - Three words or six syllables to describe what the topic does. Line 4 - Four words or eight syllables to describe the feeling or mood. Line 5 - One word or two syllables with a ...
ABC poem = a poem that has five lines and creates a mood, picture
... 18. Diminished Hexaverse = A poem containing stanzas of 5 lines, then 4 lines, then 3 lines, then 2 lines, ending with one word. The syllables in each stanza correspond to the number of lines, i.e. 5 in each line in the first stanza, 4 in the second stanza and so on. This form may contain more than ...
... 18. Diminished Hexaverse = A poem containing stanzas of 5 lines, then 4 lines, then 3 lines, then 2 lines, ending with one word. The syllables in each stanza correspond to the number of lines, i.e. 5 in each line in the first stanza, 4 in the second stanza and so on. This form may contain more than ...
By Richard N. Krogh
... This poem tells the story of a childhood memory of the poet. A young girl is apparently found drowned in a lake and is pulled out and resuscitated by the poet’s mother as a crowd watch on. The girl is taken home by the poet’s father to a run-down house where she is beaten for getting herself into tr ...
... This poem tells the story of a childhood memory of the poet. A young girl is apparently found drowned in a lake and is pulled out and resuscitated by the poet’s mother as a crowd watch on. The girl is taken home by the poet’s father to a run-down house where she is beaten for getting herself into tr ...
The Tides of “We Real Cool” by Juli Grace
... reading and exploring this poem is by digging through and past the words, beyond the typical intellectual ways of "knowing" verse. By diving in and experiencing "how" the message is being delivered rather than focusing on "what" the message might be -- by immersing into the movement of the poem -- t ...
... reading and exploring this poem is by digging through and past the words, beyond the typical intellectual ways of "knowing" verse. By diving in and experiencing "how" the message is being delivered rather than focusing on "what" the message might be -- by immersing into the movement of the poem -- t ...
Poetry Powerpoint File
... Draw the shape of your poem. Using a pencil, lightly draw an outline of the shape you want your text to fit into. Consider the length of your poem and desired text size when drawing your shape. Fill the shape with text. If you are writing by hand, use pencil so that you can easily adjust the siz ...
... Draw the shape of your poem. Using a pencil, lightly draw an outline of the shape you want your text to fit into. Consider the length of your poem and desired text size when drawing your shape. Fill the shape with text. If you are writing by hand, use pencil so that you can easily adjust the siz ...
Analyzing Poetry
... "least/feast"? Is there a rhyme scheme or sound pattern at the ends of lines, as with the interlocking rhymes of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"? Does rhyming occur within a line (internal rhyme), as in "black flak" in Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"? ...
... "least/feast"? Is there a rhyme scheme or sound pattern at the ends of lines, as with the interlocking rhymes of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"? Does rhyming occur within a line (internal rhyme), as in "black flak" in Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"? ...
introduction to literature
... furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. It requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's meaning. For example, if someone tells you that it is raining cats and dogs, you know that there are not actually cats and dogs falling from the sky. You know it really ...
... furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. It requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's meaning. For example, if someone tells you that it is raining cats and dogs, you know that there are not actually cats and dogs falling from the sky. You know it really ...
Literary Terms and Techniques
... 60. pun – a play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike 61. quatrain – a stanza or poem made up of four lines, usually with a definite rhythm and rhyme scheme 62. refrain – a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza ...
... 60. pun – a play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike 61. quatrain – a stanza or poem made up of four lines, usually with a definite rhythm and rhyme scheme 62. refrain – a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza ...
Glossary of Terms
... Symbol: An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. ...
... Symbol: An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. ...
IGCSE English Literature Paper 1: Section B (Poetry) Songs of
... constructed of words. These words – their meanings, their sounds, their length, their position in the poem itself – all have been specifically chosen because they best convey the ideas of the poet. Everything is there for a reason and a purpose – what is it? FORM AND STRUCTURE Form • Best thought of ...
... constructed of words. These words – their meanings, their sounds, their length, their position in the poem itself – all have been specifically chosen because they best convey the ideas of the poet. Everything is there for a reason and a purpose – what is it? FORM AND STRUCTURE Form • Best thought of ...
문 Poetry types 16P
... Fourteener (특히 약강격(弱强格)의) 14음절(7음보(音步)로 된 시행(詩行). = A metrical line of 14 syllables (usually seven iambic feet). A relatively long line, it can be found in narrative poetry from the Middle Ages through the 16th century. Fourteener couplets broken into quatrains are known as common measure or ballad ...
... Fourteener (특히 약강격(弱强格)의) 14음절(7음보(音步)로 된 시행(詩行). = A metrical line of 14 syllables (usually seven iambic feet). A relatively long line, it can be found in narrative poetry from the Middle Ages through the 16th century. Fourteener couplets broken into quatrains are known as common measure or ballad ...
May 13, 2015
... You should already be acquainted with most of the following terms. Go through the chart and =ill in the blanks. Each term should include a de=inition as well as an example. ...
... You should already be acquainted with most of the following terms. Go through the chart and =ill in the blanks. Each term should include a de=inition as well as an example. ...
Poetry Party
... In the morning, very early, That’s the time I love to go Barefoot where the fern grows curly And grass is cool between each toe, On a summer morning-O! On a summer morning! That is when the birds go by Up the sunny slopes of air, And each rose has a butterfly Or a golden bee to wear; And I am glad i ...
... In the morning, very early, That’s the time I love to go Barefoot where the fern grows curly And grass is cool between each toe, On a summer morning-O! On a summer morning! That is when the birds go by Up the sunny slopes of air, And each rose has a butterfly Or a golden bee to wear; And I am glad i ...
Understanding Poetry
... In the morning, very early, That’s the time I love to go Barefoot where the fern grows curly And grass is cool between each toe, On a summer morning-O! On a summer morning! That is when the birds go by Up the sunny slopes of air, And each rose has a butterfly Or a golden bee to wear; And I am glad i ...
... In the morning, very early, That’s the time I love to go Barefoot where the fern grows curly And grass is cool between each toe, On a summer morning-O! On a summer morning! That is when the birds go by Up the sunny slopes of air, And each rose has a butterfly Or a golden bee to wear; And I am glad i ...
File - Techno
... In the morning, very early, That’s the time I love to go Barefoot where the fern grows curly And grass is cool between each toe, On a summer morning-O! On a summer morning! That is when the birds go by Up the sunny slopes of air, And each rose has a butterfly Or a golden bee to wear; And I am glad i ...
... In the morning, very early, That’s the time I love to go Barefoot where the fern grows curly And grass is cool between each toe, On a summer morning-O! On a summer morning! That is when the birds go by Up the sunny slopes of air, And each rose has a butterfly Or a golden bee to wear; And I am glad i ...
Cliff`s Literature Terms
... Blank verse is the meter of most of Shakespeare’s plays. As well as that of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Dactyl A metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllablers. * end- stopped A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, colon, se ...
... Blank verse is the meter of most of Shakespeare’s plays. As well as that of Milton’s Paradise Lost. Dactyl A metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllablers. * end- stopped A line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, comma, colon, se ...
Module 2: Poetry
... From the ballad there developed the ballad stanza, which is acbc rhyme of four lines. I and 3 have eight syllables and 2 and 4 have 6. ...
... From the ballad there developed the ballad stanza, which is acbc rhyme of four lines. I and 3 have eight syllables and 2 and 4 have 6. ...