1. the poetry term that you were assigned with its definition
2. 2 different examples (from poems or songs) that display your poetry term
3. a brief explanation (3-4 sentences) expanding on how the term applies or how the
poet or songwriter used the poetry term in his/her poem/song.
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Simile: a comparison of two different things often by using the words 'like' or 'as'.
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"'roared like the ocean" -Pat Mora, My Own True Name
"open as sunflowers in my hands" -Pat Mora, My Own True Name
In these exerts, similes are used to describe how something happened. In the first one, the simile is showing how loud and powerful her mothers voice was and in the second one it shows how beautiful and delicate the kids have become.
Personification: A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.
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I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
WHERE THE CITY SLEEPS
and I'm the only one and I walk alone
- "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" Green Day
Poem Example:
“Hey diddle, Diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The COW JUMPED over the moon;
The little DOG LAUGHED
To see such sport,
And the DISH RAN AWAY WITH THE SPOON.”
- Mother Goose
In both of the following, personification appears. In the line, "where the city sleeps" is an example of personification because cities are always lively and they never truly "sleep". In the poem, "the cow jumped", "dog laughed", and "dish ran away with the spoon" are also personification because a cow cannot jump over the moon, dog's cannot laugh, and a dish and spoon cannot run.
Onomatopoeia- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
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Sir Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘Come Down, O Maid’
“… the moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.”
Crack an Egg
Crack an egg.
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stoke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.
Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.
Breakfast's in .
by Denise Rodgers
In both of the poems above onomatopoeia occurs. In Sir Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Come Down, O Maid’ he talks about hearing the moan of doves and murmuring of bees. This describes the sounds that doves and bees make. In Denise Rodgers’ ‘Crack an Egg’ she talks about hearing the crack of an egg when you break it open and the sizzling of the butter on the hot pan.
H.N.
Symbolism: the use of symbols to to represent an idea or thought
ReplyDeleteRing around the rosey,
A pocketful of posies.
ashes, ashes.
We all fall down.
Ring Around the Roise meaning was in reference to the circular rose colored rash seen on the skin of those who were infected by the bubonic plague. A Pocket Full of Posies was in reference to the sweet herbs that were collected in pockets or pouches. These herbs were carried around to prevent the disease, as the people believed it was transferred by bad smells. Thus, posies helped ward off evil and protect one against infections. Ashes, ashes/ We all fall down refers directly to death. These ashes were direct indication of the dead who were cremated. It was seen that 60% of the population was wiped off by the bubonic plague infections. It was the Great Fire of London in 1666 that burned out all the rats to ashes that were carriers of the plague.
Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends
like my father's come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when September ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when September ends
Wake Me Up When September Ends is a song about the tragedies of 9/11. Drenched in my pain again is symbolic for him being extremely sad because of what happened.
Imagery- the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
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DAFFODILS
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Imagery in Songs:
I took a walk around the world to
Ease my troubled mind
I left my body laying somewhere
In the sands of time
I watched the world float to the dark
Side of the moon
I feel there is nothing I can do
--"Kryptonite" by Three Doors Down
In both readings the writer described things using words or phrases to paint a picture in your mind. In Kryptonite the phrase "I took a walk around the world its painting a picture of what he did. In Daffodils "Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze" shows where the daffodils were and what they were doing , and this paints a picture in your mind to what it looked like.
Tone: The attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience
ReplyDeleteBut I still don't have a reason
And you don't have the time
And it really makes me wonder if I ever gave a flip about you
I need something to believe in
Cause I don't believe in you anymore, anymore
I wonder if it even makes a difference to try
So this goodbye
- "Makes Me Wonder" Maroon 5
That's all right, that's okay
If you don't feel important honey all I've got to say is
To the world, you may be just another girl
But to me, baby you are the world
- "The World" Brad Paisley
In the first song, the tone is very angry, disappointed, and upset. He is showing the listener what he feels like. In the other parts of the song, he gives a story about how things went wrong and now what he feels like about the situation.
In the second song, the tone is loving, caring, and sympathetic. In the other parts of the song he tell the listeners that the girl is just another girl to everyone else. Then in the chorus he tell them that he thinks she's a lot more than a checking account, house, fare, or head of hair.
Alliteration: The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals
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from the poem"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out!":
"Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel,
Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal, "
- Shel Silverstein
note: basically the whole poem has alliteration, but that was just an excerpt from it
Example #2
from "The Raven"
"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary (1);
Rare and radiant maiden (11);
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain (13);
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, / Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before (19-20)."
In the poem "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out" by Shel Silverstein, there are many examples of alliteration. Even her name is one because it repeats the same consonant sound (s) at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other. In "Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel" there is the same consonant sound (p)."gloppy glumps" is also one because it of the same reason except repeating the "g" sound.
In the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, "silken sad" and "doubting, dreaming dreams" show alliteration because of the same reason: they repeat the consonant at the beginning of 2 or more words immediately succeeding each other (in this case it would be the sound "s" and "d").
H.L.
assonance:having many similar vowel sounds in a row.
ReplyDeleteOkay, guess who's back, back again
Shady's back, tell a friend
Now everyone report to the dance floor
To the dance floor, to the dance floor
Now everyone report to the dance floor
Alright stop, pajama time
as u can see Eminem puts alot of assonance in his song.
Come here little kiddies on my lap
Guess who's back with a brand new rap
And I don't mean rap as in a new case
Of child molestation accusates
Ah ah ah ah ah, no worries
Papa's got a brand new bag of toys
What else could I possibly do to make noise?
I've done touched on everything but little boys
That's not a stab at Michael
That's just a metaphor, I'm just psycho
I go a little bit crazy sometimes
I get a little bit out of control with my rhymes
Good God, dip, do a little slide
Bend down, touch your toes, and just glide
To the center of the dance floor
Like TP for my bung hole and it's cool if you let one go
Nobody's gonna know, who'd hear it?
Give a little poot poot, it's okay
Oops my CD just skipped
And everyone just heard you let one rip
Now I'm gonna make you dance, it's your chance
Yeah boy, shake that ass, whoops I mean girl, girl, girl, girl
Girl you know you're my world, alright now lose it
(Ah ah ah ah ah)
Just lose it
(Ah ah ah ah ah)
Go crazy
(Ah ah ah ah ah)
Oh baby
(Ah ah)
Oh baby
(Ah ah)
It's Friday and it's my day
Used to party all the way to Sunday
Maybe 'til Monday, I don't know what day
Everyday's just a holiday
Cruisin' on the freeway, feelin' kind of breezy
Let the top down and my hair blow
I don't know where I'm goin', all I know
Is when I get there someone's gonna touch my body
Excuse me miss, I don't mean to sound like a jerk
But I'm feelin' just a little stressed out from work
Would you punch me in the stomach and pull my hair?
Spit on me, maybe gouge my eyes out, yeah
As u can see eminem has many assonance in his song.
“Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe:
From the second stanza:
Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
From the fourth stanza:
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
and so does Poe
Enjambment:
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is the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. It is to be contrasted with end-stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with a single line, and caesura, in which the linguistic unit ends mid-line. French word.
EXAMPLES-
Trees
by
Joyce Kilmer:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Example#2:
Romeo and Juliet-
A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished.
HOW IT APPLIES-
The short phrases and cut sentences are good examples of Enjambment
R.H.
1. Slant rhyme- two words that sound similar, but do not truly rhyme.
ReplyDelete2. The Difference Between Despair- Emily Dickinson
The difference between Despair
And Fear -- is like the One
Between the instant of a Wreck
And when the Wreck has been --
The Mind is smooth -- no Motion --
Contented as the Eye
Upon the Forehead of a Bust --
That knows -- it cannot see –
Candle in the Wind- Elton John
Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name
3. Poem 1: Slant rhyme is used in this in the beginning of the poem. The words “Despair” and “Wreck” have a similarity. Then, in the second section the words “Eye” and “see” represent a slant rhyme too.
Song 2: Slant rhyme is used in this because the words have very similar rhyming but are not fully alike. The words “all” and “crawled” are related. So are the words “brain” and “name”. Those words to some extent rhyme, but not completely.
AB
True Rhyme
ReplyDelete1) True rhyme is when words actually rhyme with the same sounds and same syllables. For example Cat and Hat.
2) a. Proud Mary By Tina Turner
Big wheel keep on turning
Proud Mary keep on burning
And we're rolling, rolling
Rolling on the river.
b. You Don't Know from Next To Normal
Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head?
Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead?
It's like living on a cliffside not knowing when you'll dive.
Do you know, do you know what it's like to die alive?
When the world that once had color fades to white and gray and , black.
When tomorrow terrifies you, but you'll die if you look back.
You don't know.
I know you don't know.
You say that you're hurting, it sure doesn't show.
You don't know.
You tell me let go.
And you may say so, but I say you don't know.
The sensation that you're screaming, but you never make a sound.
Or the feeling that you're falling, but you never hit the ground.
It just keeps on rushing at you day by day by day by day.
You don't know, you don't know what it's like to live that way.
Like a refugee, a fugitive, forever on the run.
If it gets me it will kill me, but I don't know what I've done.
3. In Proud Mary the true rhyme of burning and turning is used. These are true rhymes. In You Don't Know, a majority of the song is mainly in true rhyme with very few slant rhymes.
MLS
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ReplyDeleteAn end-stopped line is where the end of the line ends with the sentence or statement. End-stopped lines often end with punctuation. A few examples of end-stopped lines in poetry are:
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
Coral is far more red than her lips red. --Shakespeare
G-r-r-r--there go, my heart's abhorrence!
Water your damned flowerpots, do.
If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence,
God's blood, would not mine kill you!
-Robert Browning
In both poems, the statement or sentence ends with the line. There is also punctuation at the end of the line.
CJ
Metaphor-something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol.
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Song-Lil Wayne -‘fire man’
"It ain’t my birthday but I got my name on the cake"
This means that he has his name on a cake on any random day.
Metaphor
Poem Artist- Sylvia Plath
Poem-“Boarded the train there's no getting off.”
This means that after the train is boarded together there won’t be any getting off until it stops.
D.D
Consonance-a stylistic device most commonly used in poetry and songs, characterized by the same repetition of the same consonant two or more times in a short succession
ReplyDeleteA house on a hill- House and hill are two consonants that rhyme with each other
A freezer full of frozen fruits- freezer full of frozen fruits, there are 4 consonants in this line that go along with each other.
In both of these short lines they both have two consonants rhyming with each other.
Love these comments! Excellent job, overall! Please review each other's notes before the test this Friday!
ReplyDeleteAs Mr. Cook said, we also needed to know SIFTT and TPCASTT, Here are their meanings:
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Symbol
Imagery
Figurative Language
Tone/Mood
Theme
TPCASTT
Title
Paraphrase/Stanzaphrase
Connotation/Denotation (literal)
Attitude
Shift
Theme
Title