Eisteddfod – 2009 The English Competitions
... lines. Lines may be organised into a number of stanzas, or organised as lines without a break • Your poem does not have to rhyme, but may do if you wish. You should aim to have some kind of rhythm within the lines of your poem • Your poem must be written on A4 paper, can be handwritten or typed. You ...
... lines. Lines may be organised into a number of stanzas, or organised as lines without a break • Your poem does not have to rhyme, but may do if you wish. You should aim to have some kind of rhythm within the lines of your poem • Your poem must be written on A4 paper, can be handwritten or typed. You ...
Two Haiku - Lesson Corner
... The modern Japanese Haiku, as we know it today, was born through influences of another form of poetry closely resembling it from ancient Japan. A form of poetry called Haikai was popular during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries or during the Edo period. Haikai was a longer poem that started ...
... The modern Japanese Haiku, as we know it today, was born through influences of another form of poetry closely resembling it from ancient Japan. A form of poetry called Haikai was popular during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries or during the Edo period. Haikai was a longer poem that started ...
Implementing Poetry--with a Focus on Contemporary Free Verse
... allow visual and sound effects through language, with no formal line length. Heck, repetition and short lines are a great element to contemporary free verse just like Williams’ lines about how the objects in the room are found all around (Poetry 1). However, there are some concepts of regulation to ...
... allow visual and sound effects through language, with no formal line length. Heck, repetition and short lines are a great element to contemporary free verse just like Williams’ lines about how the objects in the room are found all around (Poetry 1). However, there are some concepts of regulation to ...
Macquarie University Marcelle Freiman Ekphrasis, poetry and
... affect because initially we do not articulate or consciously register feelings associated with seeing (Shouse 2005 n.p.). Our affective state is experienced in the body and has a profound bearing on the trajectory and feeling conveyed in the poem, indeed on the motivation of its creation.3 Silvan To ...
... affect because initially we do not articulate or consciously register feelings associated with seeing (Shouse 2005 n.p.). Our affective state is experienced in the body and has a profound bearing on the trajectory and feeling conveyed in the poem, indeed on the motivation of its creation.3 Silvan To ...
Figurative Language – Definitions Imagery
... Repetition - When a word or phrase repeats itself in a piece of literature Metaphor - A comparison of two things without using like or as Alliteration - The repeating of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words that are next to or near each other. Symbolism - The creative use of symbols ...
... Repetition - When a word or phrase repeats itself in a piece of literature Metaphor - A comparison of two things without using like or as Alliteration - The repeating of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words that are next to or near each other. Symbolism - The creative use of symbols ...
Literary Terms Jeopardy
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... When viewing in Internet Explorer, click the Slide Show button found in the lower-left corner of the screen to view as a ...
8th Grade Poetry Unit
... There once was an ape in a zoo Who looked out through the bars and saw YOU! Do you think that it’s fair To give poor apes a scare? I think it’s a mean thing to do. ...
... There once was an ape in a zoo Who looked out through the bars and saw YOU! Do you think that it’s fair To give poor apes a scare? I think it’s a mean thing to do. ...
PoetryUnitPowerpoint
... There once was an ape in a zoo Who looked out through the bars and saw YOU! Do you think that it’s fair To give poor apes a scare? I think it’s a mean thing to do. ...
... There once was an ape in a zoo Who looked out through the bars and saw YOU! Do you think that it’s fair To give poor apes a scare? I think it’s a mean thing to do. ...
Literary Terms Jeopardy - Teaching English Language Arts
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Linguistic Aspects of Poetry - International Journal of Business and
... poem. This fact entails a considerable number and variety of linguistic particularities. The conventions of the poetic form entail features like rhyme, alliteration, meter and so on (Levin 59). Types of Deviations in the Language of Poetry Leech (1969) argues that any deviation from expected pattern ...
... poem. This fact entails a considerable number and variety of linguistic particularities. The conventions of the poetic form entail features like rhyme, alliteration, meter and so on (Levin 59). Types of Deviations in the Language of Poetry Leech (1969) argues that any deviation from expected pattern ...
Renaissance English Literature
... Write your own paper. All ideas and phrases that are not your own, whether they are derived from printed sources, resources on the internet, or lectures, must be acknowledged. Failure to acknowledge your sources will result in partial or total loss of marks for that piece of work. In more serious ca ...
... Write your own paper. All ideas and phrases that are not your own, whether they are derived from printed sources, resources on the internet, or lectures, must be acknowledged. Failure to acknowledge your sources will result in partial or total loss of marks for that piece of work. In more serious ca ...
Handout - Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
... stepsister.s “Well, it says I can bring two guests, so...” her voice trailed off. “Can we go, Mama?” said one stepsister. “Yes, pleeeeeeease?” said the other stepsister. “Of course you can go, my special ones. We can watch the cheerleaders and see the routines you’ll do someday!” the stepmother said ...
... stepsister.s “Well, it says I can bring two guests, so...” her voice trailed off. “Can we go, Mama?” said one stepsister. “Yes, pleeeeeeease?” said the other stepsister. “Of course you can go, my special ones. We can watch the cheerleaders and see the routines you’ll do someday!” the stepmother said ...
English 127
... Enjambment Carrying the sense of one line of verse over to the next line without a pause. In the first four lines of "My Last Duchess," by Robert Browning, enjambment joins the second and third lines (I call / That) and the third and fourth lines (Pandolf's hands / Worked): That's my last Duchess pa ...
... Enjambment Carrying the sense of one line of verse over to the next line without a pause. In the first four lines of "My Last Duchess," by Robert Browning, enjambment joins the second and third lines (I call / That) and the third and fourth lines (Pandolf's hands / Worked): That's my last Duchess pa ...
poetry toolbox
... Rhyme scheme is the pattern lines follow in their rhyme. Each ending sound is given a letter (like a variable in math). The lines from My November Guest would be labeled ABAAB. The As represent the long E sound at the end of lines 1, 3, and 4. The B represents the long A sound. Stopping by Woods on ...
... Rhyme scheme is the pattern lines follow in their rhyme. Each ending sound is given a letter (like a variable in math). The lines from My November Guest would be labeled ABAAB. The As represent the long E sound at the end of lines 1, 3, and 4. The B represents the long A sound. Stopping by Woods on ...
Vendler, Helen H. - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
... cofŠns of the dead; but there are also strange new rituals, to which I will come, outnumbering the conventional ones. And—most striking of all—there is a suppression of the coincidence of the day of the assassination with Good Friday, as well as a refusal to echo the Christian rituals of services an ...
... cofŠns of the dead; but there are also strange new rituals, to which I will come, outnumbering the conventional ones. And—most striking of all—there is a suppression of the coincidence of the day of the assassination with Good Friday, as well as a refusal to echo the Christian rituals of services an ...
Songs about Saint Petersburg by Sergei Slonimsky. On the Question
... ring composition, which gives the poem an inner harmony and completeness. In terms of phonetic, syntactic and composition aspects of the poem the verbal refrain “White night” in the beginning of the third line of each stanza plays a big role. This anaphora creates a structurally meaningful core of t ...
... ring composition, which gives the poem an inner harmony and completeness. In terms of phonetic, syntactic and composition aspects of the poem the verbal refrain “White night” in the beginning of the third line of each stanza plays a big role. This anaphora creates a structurally meaningful core of t ...
Wray Name: E10 Directions: Listen to the poem as you watch the
... the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is holding a gun bigger than his body you only leave home when home won’t let you stay. no one leaves home unless home chases you fire under feet hot blood in your belly it’s not something you ever thought of doing until ...
... the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is holding a gun bigger than his body you only leave home when home won’t let you stay. no one leaves home unless home chases you fire under feet hot blood in your belly it’s not something you ever thought of doing until ...
i, Poet: Automatic Poetry Composition through Recurrent
... iterative polishing generation schema. The white circles denote generated characters, which are observable. Shaded circles (grey and black) indicate hidden vectors in local and global hierarchies, which are hidden states to generate characters. Iterative polishing. To mimic a human poet, who may rec ...
... iterative polishing generation schema. The white circles denote generated characters, which are observable. Shaded circles (grey and black) indicate hidden vectors in local and global hierarchies, which are hidden states to generate characters. Iterative polishing. To mimic a human poet, who may rec ...
Literary Terms
... 7. Sonnet: Poems of strict form: fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Two types: English or Shakespearean, consisting of four quatrains (abab, cdcd, efef) and a couplet (gg) and Italian or Petrarchan, consisting of an octave (set of eight lines) ryhming abbaabba and a sestet (six lines) with a varie ...
... 7. Sonnet: Poems of strict form: fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Two types: English or Shakespearean, consisting of four quatrains (abab, cdcd, efef) and a couplet (gg) and Italian or Petrarchan, consisting of an octave (set of eight lines) ryhming abbaabba and a sestet (six lines) with a varie ...
Typewriter Poetry – About Nothing in Particular
... – we are suddenly confused: are we reading or taking dictation? Christensen’s postmodernism makes itself subtly present in such meta-poetic moments. Readers who know Danish will also respond to the self-reflexivity of the first lines. They tell us how a painted surface cracks and flakes off, and an ...
... – we are suddenly confused: are we reading or taking dictation? Christensen’s postmodernism makes itself subtly present in such meta-poetic moments. Readers who know Danish will also respond to the self-reflexivity of the first lines. They tell us how a painted surface cracks and flakes off, and an ...
Sonnet 102: The Nature of Lyric Economy
... song it is difficult to distinguish individual birds, yet the nightingale’s song stands out, alone, at night. In addition, the nightingale only sings for about six weeks beginning in mid April and ending before full summer in June when other songbirds become more prevalent. Sonnet 102 is written in ...
... song it is difficult to distinguish individual birds, yet the nightingale’s song stands out, alone, at night. In addition, the nightingale only sings for about six weeks beginning in mid April and ending before full summer in June when other songbirds become more prevalent. Sonnet 102 is written in ...
the mayhem poets - Victoria Theatre Association
... Mathematics: Like poetry, symmetry is definitely not mandatory in math, but often times it takes center stage. Examples of symmetry include: symmetric shapes, like circles or isosceles triangle and the use of symmetry when solving equations, as you must do the same thing to both sides of the equa ...
... Mathematics: Like poetry, symmetry is definitely not mandatory in math, but often times it takes center stage. Examples of symmetry include: symmetric shapes, like circles or isosceles triangle and the use of symmetry when solving equations, as you must do the same thing to both sides of the equa ...
My Papa`s Waltz
... Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!' Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl ...
... Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!' Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl ...
English I - Richland Parish School Board
... cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details, or analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or ...
... cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details, or analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or ...
WESTEST_2_Prep - Mrs. Alexander`s Site
... unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern. When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They repeat the pattern throughout the poem. ...
... unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern. When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They repeat the pattern throughout the poem. ...