Example: "Splat!"
Significance: Onomatopoeia's are important parts of poetry because they help let you understand what the object sounds like. Onomatopoeia's make poetry better because it gets you thinking more on things in poetry.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Onomatopoeia
Defenition: A word that imitates the sound it represents.
Example: "Splat!"
Significance: Onomatopoeia's are important parts of poetry because they help let you understand what the object sounds like. Onomatopoeia's make poetry better because it gets you thinking more on things in poetry.
Example: "Splat!"
Significance: Onomatopoeia's are important parts of poetry because they help let you understand what the object sounds like. Onomatopoeia's make poetry better because it gets you thinking more on things in poetry.
Personification
Defenition: Giving non human objects human characteristicts.
Example:
Significance: Personification's are important parts of poetry because it gives animated objects feelings. Personification's make poetry better because it helps connect the reader to the object.
Imagery
Defenition: Words in a poem that help you feel like your in the poem and imagine what it is like using your five senses. (See, Taste, Touch, Smell, Hear)
Example: "The fresh popcorn out of the microwave."
Significance: Imagery is an important part of poetry because it helps you understand a poem by having an image in your head to understand the poem well. Imagery makes poetry better because it helps you imagine that your in the poem.
Example: "The fresh popcorn out of the microwave."
Significance: Imagery is an important part of poetry because it helps you understand a poem by having an image in your head to understand the poem well. Imagery makes poetry better because it helps you imagine that your in the poem.
Simile
Defenition: A figure of speech in which two different things are compared usin like or as.
Example: "She is as short as a leprochaun."
Significance: Simile's are an important part of poetry because it makes it so people don't have to explain too much in poetry. Simile's make poetry better because it makes it fun to learn.
Example: "She is as short as a leprochaun."
Significance: Simile's are an important part of poetry because it makes it so people don't have to explain too much in poetry. Simile's make poetry better because it makes it fun to learn.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Repetition
Defenition: To repeat.
Example: In the poem if "If" when they say "If you can..." because it repeats it in every sentence.
Significance: Repetition in poetry is important because if the poet repeats the the title or word it gives it more meaning. Repetiton makes poetry better because it gives meaning to poems.
Example: In the poem if "If" when they say "If you can..." because it repeats it in every sentence.
Significance: Repetition in poetry is important because if the poet repeats the the title or word it gives it more meaning. Repetiton makes poetry better because it gives meaning to poems.
Tone
Defenition: Feelings and attitude towards something.
Example: "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue," from the poem "If" because it shows how the man feels about growing up and becoming a man.
Significance: Tone's are important parts of poerty because it shows how someone feels in the poem, which helps to understand the poem better. Tone's make poetry better because it helps someone give their attitude in a poem that can be either sad or happy.
Example: "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue," from the poem "If" because it shows how the man feels about growing up and becoming a man.
Significance: Tone's are important parts of poerty because it shows how someone feels in the poem, which helps to understand the poem better. Tone's make poetry better because it helps someone give their attitude in a poem that can be either sad or happy.
Interpretation
Defenition: Your explanation on something.
Example: "You'll be a man." The line can be interpeted as a man talking to his son.
Example: "You'll be a man." The line can be interpeted as a man talking to his son.
Significance: Interpretation's are an important part of poetry because it makes the poetry unique to a person. Interpretation's make poetry better because eveyone has their own thinking on the poetry.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Extended Metaphor
Defenition: A metaphor introduced and then developed throughout all part of the literary work.
Example:
Significance: Extended Metaphor's are an important part of poetry because they make it so you can write as much as you want about metaphors. Extended Metaphor's make poetry better because they help ewxplain a lot about you in a cool and fun way.
Example:
"My Life is Basketball
My eyes are big before the game starts
My body covered in hope
18 years of practice
My mind is focussed
I have only one purpose
I visualize everything I want to do
My home the court
The crowd surrounding with their big eyes watching
Attracted to the bright lights
My team behind me
Weaving in and out of expectant fans
Making our way to the court
Endless cameras
Each other's families
Still sensing the sudden thrill of anticipation
We circle up, hands together, chanting
A team together
All focussed on glory
Where we will Live forever"
My eyes are big before the game starts
My body covered in hope
18 years of practice
My mind is focussed
I have only one purpose
I visualize everything I want to do
My home the court
The crowd surrounding with their big eyes watching
Attracted to the bright lights
My team behind me
Weaving in and out of expectant fans
Making our way to the court
Endless cameras
Each other's families
Still sensing the sudden thrill of anticipation
We circle up, hands together, chanting
A team together
All focussed on glory
Where we will Live forever"
Significance: Extended Metaphor's are an important part of poetry because they make it so you can write as much as you want about metaphors. Extended Metaphor's make poetry better because they help ewxplain a lot about you in a cool and fun way.Metaphor
Defenition: A figure of speech in which a phrase or term is said said that is isn't literally.
Example: "A mighty fortress is our God."
Significance: Metaphor's are an important part of poetry because it helps people get to the point of what their saying. Metaphor's make poetry better because it is fun to use metaphor's, which helps you learn.
Example: "A mighty fortress is our God."
Significance: Metaphor's are an important part of poetry because it helps people get to the point of what their saying. Metaphor's make poetry better because it is fun to use metaphor's, which helps you learn.Thursday, May 17, 2012
Speaker
Defenition: The point of view which the poem is told.
Example:
Example:
Significance: The speaker is an important part of poetry because they show the feelings in the poem to help you understand the emotions in poetry. The speaker makes poetry better because they make it emotional (either sad or happy), which helps you understand more.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Symbol
Defenition: A representation of an idea using a picture, object, or thought.
Example:
Example:
Significance: Symbol's are an important part of poetry because they help explain things more in a poem. Symbol's make poetry better because it makes poems more fun and easy to read. It adds imigination and figurtive language.
Couplet
Defenition: A couplet is a pair of lines that can or cannot ryhme and are the same length.
Example:
Significance: Couplet's are an important part of poetry because it keeps poems short and simple. Couplet's makes poetry better by helping people not right too much and make it better to understand.Stanza
Defenition: A stanza is an arrangment a certain lines that is usually for or more and is made into a poem.
Example:
Significance: Stanza's are important parts of poetry because theey help make it orginized and they let you right more. It makes poetry better because it helps people tell and share more emotions they have.
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