2. Choose one of the folded slips of paper that are taped to the board. Go to a computer and look up the definition of that word. Write it down in the vocab section of your binder AND in the comment section below.
3. Now go to this website: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/200 and start browsing through poems until you find 3 examples of your word. Write down each of the examples in the comment section below. Include the name of the poem and the poet who wrote it.
A ryhme is a repetion of similiar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs.
ReplyDeleteassonance (n) resemblance of sounds
ReplyDeletealliteration:the repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other; noun
ReplyDeleteimagery is the work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general or en masse.
ReplyDeleteThe Vampire
ReplyDeleteConrad Aiken
And like a sea
Of stumbling deaths we followed
Who dies for me,
He shall possess me secretly
Then poets forgot their jeweled words
And cut the sky with glittering swords
an example of imagery is in "the bluefish" by Isaac Mclellan.
ReplyDelete"The weaker tenants of the main
Flee from their rage in vain,
The vast menhaden multitudes
They massacre o'er the flood;
With lashing tail, with snapping teeth
They stain the tides with blood."
Halloween
ReplyDeleteby:Arthur Peterson
These are examples of rhyme.
All the spirits, good and evil,
Fay and pixie, witch and wizard,
On this night will sure be stirring,"
Thought I, as I walked along;
"And if Puck, the merry wanderer,
Or her majesty, Titania,
Or that Mab who teases housewives
If their housewifery be wrong,
(ALONG)(WRONG)/(LEAN)(HALLOWEEN)
another example/sign of the times
by:Paul Dunbar
Mek me open up my eyes;
Seems lak it's a-lookin' at me
Jes' a-la'in' dah sayin' "Pies
(EYES)(PIES)
last example/Walter Landor
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife,
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life,
(STRIFE)(LIFE)
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
ReplyDelete"his crypt the cloudy canopy,"
"upon the growing gloom."
Song of Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"and one of the salt sea-sand"
Symbolism:the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
ReplyDeletethis is another example of imagery in "adam's curse" by William Butler Yeats.
ReplyDelete"And in the trembling blue-green of the sky
A moon, worn as if it had been a shell
Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell
About the stars and broke in days and years".
SYMBOLISM
ReplyDeleteThomas T.
(example)
The second half of my life will be black
to the white rind of the old and fading moon
(OLD AND FADING MOON)
allusion:a figurative or symbolic reference; noun
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