abstract language: Language that describes ideas or qualities rather
... azure dome). Since the eighteenth century, however, poets have been incorporating all kinds of diction in their work and so there is no longer an automatic distinction between the language of a poet and the language of everyday speech. imagery: descriptive language that creates sensations in the rea ...
... azure dome). Since the eighteenth century, however, poets have been incorporating all kinds of diction in their work and so there is no longer an automatic distinction between the language of a poet and the language of everyday speech. imagery: descriptive language that creates sensations in the rea ...
Introduction to Poetry
... External/End Rhyme: words rhyme at the end of lines in a poem Hector the collector collected bits of string Collected dolls with broken heads And rusty bells that would not ring. ...
... External/End Rhyme: words rhyme at the end of lines in a poem Hector the collector collected bits of string Collected dolls with broken heads And rusty bells that would not ring. ...
poetry_ppt
... The six words that end each of the lines of the first stanza are repeated in a different order at the end of lines in each of the ...
... The six words that end each of the lines of the first stanza are repeated in a different order at the end of lines in each of the ...
Homework/Reminders
... SP EV: That day as we drove to our white suburban home fifty miles from the reservation. “Be Proud that you are Indian, but be careful who you tell.” (lines 27-32) Likes: On that blistering day/as the heat waves rose/from the black tarred highway (lines 1-3). I like the imagery Tahnahga uses. I can ...
... SP EV: That day as we drove to our white suburban home fifty miles from the reservation. “Be Proud that you are Indian, but be careful who you tell.” (lines 27-32) Likes: On that blistering day/as the heat waves rose/from the black tarred highway (lines 1-3). I like the imagery Tahnahga uses. I can ...
Poetry Project
... 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 most frequently deals with folk-lore or popular legends. They are written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with graphic ...
... 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 most frequently deals with folk-lore or popular legends. They are written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with graphic ...
the mayhem poets - Victoria Theatre Association
... William Shakespeare is probably the world’s best-known performance poet; his plays were written in verse and were meant to be performed not read. It was Shakespeare’s actors who wrote down the text of his plays, and if they hadn’t done so, we would not be studying and performing those works today. p ...
... William Shakespeare is probably the world’s best-known performance poet; his plays were written in verse and were meant to be performed not read. It was Shakespeare’s actors who wrote down the text of his plays, and if they hadn’t done so, we would not be studying and performing those works today. p ...
File - AP English at Centennial High School
... Dirge: A funeral song lamenting someone’s death. Doggerel: Crude, shallow verse, sometimes consciously employed for comic effect. Dramatic Monologue: A type of lyric poem in which a person speaks to a silent audience and, in the course of doing so, reveals a critical aspect of his own character. Ele ...
... Dirge: A funeral song lamenting someone’s death. Doggerel: Crude, shallow verse, sometimes consciously employed for comic effect. Dramatic Monologue: A type of lyric poem in which a person speaks to a silent audience and, in the course of doing so, reveals a critical aspect of his own character. Ele ...
english 10: literary terms for poetry
... ASSONANCE: the repetition of vowel sounds. Many of our common expressions—such as “down and out” and “quick as a wink”—contain assonance. Complete the well-known expressions below, each of which is an illustration of assonance. Fit as a __ __ __ __ __ __ . Time and __ __ __ __ waits for no man. Mad ...
... ASSONANCE: the repetition of vowel sounds. Many of our common expressions—such as “down and out” and “quick as a wink”—contain assonance. Complete the well-known expressions below, each of which is an illustration of assonance. Fit as a __ __ __ __ __ __ . Time and __ __ __ __ waits for no man. Mad ...
File
... (alternating hexameter and pentameter lines). More broadly, elegy came to mean any poem dealing with the subject-matter common to the early Greco-Roman elegies--complaints about love, sustained formal lamentation, or somber meditations. The poem tends to be longer than a lyric but not as long as an ...
... (alternating hexameter and pentameter lines). More broadly, elegy came to mean any poem dealing with the subject-matter common to the early Greco-Roman elegies--complaints about love, sustained formal lamentation, or somber meditations. The poem tends to be longer than a lyric but not as long as an ...
Types of and Elements of Poetry
... (For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,) Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love; For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space, Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near, I kno ...
... (For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,) Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love; For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space, Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near, I kno ...
Jewish Faith Glossary - Jewish Online Museum
... The Midrash was composed by the great talmudic sages around the same period as the Talmud. Mikvah Body of natural water used for ritual cleansing / purification. There are thousands of Mikvahs in use today in Jewish communities around the world. According to Jewish tradition, the Mikvah is seen as a ...
... The Midrash was composed by the great talmudic sages around the same period as the Talmud. Mikvah Body of natural water used for ritual cleansing / purification. There are thousands of Mikvahs in use today in Jewish communities around the world. According to Jewish tradition, the Mikvah is seen as a ...
Judeo-Arabic: Cultural Symbiosis of the Jews in the Islamicate Context
... suggested that the text wrote in Arabic but in Hebrew charactershence IbnThābit only need to familiarize with the characters (in Adang, 1996, p. 6).On the other hand, Gordon Newby suggested that al-yahūdīyyah of the text must be a mere dialect rather than distinct language. It would not difficult fo ...
... suggested that the text wrote in Arabic but in Hebrew charactershence IbnThābit only need to familiarize with the characters (in Adang, 1996, p. 6).On the other hand, Gordon Newby suggested that al-yahūdīyyah of the text must be a mere dialect rather than distinct language. It would not difficult fo ...
On Music and Sound in Poetry
... syllables; when placed together in a line of poetry, these syllables create meter and rhythm (mer/ri/ly or doz/en). The combination of sounds and syllables in a line of poetry helps to create its music and rhythm, which are both critical to poetry. Though there are other ways to measure a line, thes ...
... syllables; when placed together in a line of poetry, these syllables create meter and rhythm (mer/ri/ly or doz/en). The combination of sounds and syllables in a line of poetry helps to create its music and rhythm, which are both critical to poetry. Though there are other ways to measure a line, thes ...
Literary Terms Teaching Powerpoint
... syllables, and 5 syllables Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. -untitled haiku by Richard Wright ...
... syllables, and 5 syllables Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. -untitled haiku by Richard Wright ...
Interactive Poetry Practice
... And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ...
... And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ...
LITERARY TERMS For AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
... Third person objective: The narrator does not tell what anyone is thinking; the “fly on a wall” Third person limited: The narrator is able to tell the thoughts of one character Third person omniscient: The narrator is able to tell the thoughts of any character Novella-A short novel usually under 100 ...
... Third person objective: The narrator does not tell what anyone is thinking; the “fly on a wall” Third person limited: The narrator is able to tell the thoughts of one character Third person omniscient: The narrator is able to tell the thoughts of any character Novella-A short novel usually under 100 ...
JEWISH SPIRITUALITY RESOURCE GUIDE
... Hebrew language has advantages and disadvantages. It brings a feeling of authenticity to the service, but it may also be alienating if everyone is singing along and you are having trouble following. There are several ways to cope with Hebrew. The most elegant but also most time-consuming solution is ...
... Hebrew language has advantages and disadvantages. It brings a feeling of authenticity to the service, but it may also be alienating if everyone is singing along and you are having trouble following. There are several ways to cope with Hebrew. The most elegant but also most time-consuming solution is ...
Eng2FigLangandPoetic Elements2016
... stories told in song, using the voice and language of everyday people. They were composed orally, and singers often added or changed details to make the songs meaningful for their audience. These early ballads, typical of the medieval period, are known as folk ballads. ...
... stories told in song, using the voice and language of everyday people. They were composed orally, and singers often added or changed details to make the songs meaningful for their audience. These early ballads, typical of the medieval period, are known as folk ballads. ...
Poetry Journals 2016-2017-26av38y
... poem slowly will not just make the poem easier to hear; it will underscore the importance in poetry of each and every word. A poem cannot be read too slowly, and a good way for a reader to set an easy pace is to pause for a few seconds between the title and the poem's first line. ...
... poem slowly will not just make the poem easier to hear; it will underscore the importance in poetry of each and every word. A poem cannot be read too slowly, and a good way for a reader to set an easy pace is to pause for a few seconds between the title and the poem's first line. ...
Literary Analysis Guiding Questions
... Personification heightens a reader’s emotional response to what is being described by giving it human qualities and therefore human significance. Repetition: Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry. It may reinforce, s ...
... Personification heightens a reader’s emotional response to what is being described by giving it human qualities and therefore human significance. Repetition: Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry. It may reinforce, s ...
rhyme scheme
... And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ...
... And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ...
Types of Poetry
... And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou o ...
... And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou o ...
POETRY
... syllables, and 5 syllables Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. -untitled haiku by Richard Wright ...
... syllables, and 5 syllables Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. -untitled haiku by Richard Wright ...
Poetry Vocabulary
... syllables, and 5 syllables Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. -untitled haiku by Richard Wright ...
... syllables, and 5 syllables Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. -untitled haiku by Richard Wright ...
By: Lorna Dee Cervantes
... wind arabesque, an island risen, brown Atlantis, at low tide; she probes the shoreline and beyond grassy dunes for where the land might slope off into night. Hers is no common emptiness, but a vaster silence filled with terns’ cries, an abundant solitude. Nearby, the three dry gas pumps, worn surviv ...
... wind arabesque, an island risen, brown Atlantis, at low tide; she probes the shoreline and beyond grassy dunes for where the land might slope off into night. Hers is no common emptiness, but a vaster silence filled with terns’ cries, an abundant solitude. Nearby, the three dry gas pumps, worn surviv ...