Definition: A thing that represents or stands for something else.
Example: America is a symbol of freedom
Significant: Symbol make the reader to make a visual and make the poems entertaining.
Vocab: Elegy
Definition: Poems that wrote about someone who past away
Example:
Example:
On September the nineteenth 1586 in London Tower
When the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flower
Dying in the cool winds of the early Fall
In words his tragic life he did recall.
When the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flower
Dying in the cool winds of the early Fall
In words his tragic life he did recall.
Significant: Elegy show an express sadness and resprect for the lost one.
Vocab: Couplet
Definition: Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, forming a unit.
Examples:
Examples:
Martin Luther King was not a king.
He did not have horses, a crown, or anything.
He preached a lot and had a dream
Of everybody eating ice cream.
He did not have horses, a crown, or anything.
He preached a lot and had a dream
Of everybody eating ice cream.
Significant: Couplet make the poems interesting and easy to read. Also fun as well.
Vocab: Rhyme
Definition: The last syllable which have the same sounds
Example: A bat wearing a basketball cap.
Significant: Ryhme create a song or a music to the poems. Ryhme makes the poems to be entertaining and enjoyable to read.
Example: A bat wearing a basketball cap.
Significant: Ryhme create a song or a music to the poems. Ryhme makes the poems to be entertaining and enjoyable to read.
Vocab: Rhythm
Definition: The rise and fall when you read something to make it outstanding.
Example: Do re mi fa son la si do re mi fa son la si do.
Significant: Ryhthm have an expression and that expression help the poems to be interesting
Example: Do re mi fa son la si do re mi fa son la si do.
Significant: Ryhthm have an expression and that expression help the poems to be interesting
Vocab: Speaker
Definition: Speaker is when the poem’s narrator personal expression and feeling are revealed.
Example: I can't find an example on google... Sorry Mr.Patrick
Significant: Speakers help the reader to have an emotions or a feelings of the poets. And that will make the reader have a stronger perspective of the poems.
Example: I can't find an example on google... Sorry Mr.Patrick
Significant: Speakers help the reader to have an emotions or a feelings of the poets. And that will make the reader have a stronger perspective of the poems.
Vocab: Personification
Definition: adding a human actions to a nonhuman.
The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!
Significance: personification helps the reader to visual object as a human.
Vocab: Tone
Definition: A quality that depends on pitch, volumn.
Examples: We need to use tone in our Audacity project or else the project would look bad.
Significance: Tone help poems leave a strong emotions for the readers.
Examples: We need to use tone in our Audacity project or else the project would look bad.
Significance: Tone help poems leave a strong emotions for the readers.
Vocab: Interpretation
Definition: A meaning or a symbol of something.
Examples: Red is a symbol of lucky in China
Significance: Interpretation helps us to understand meaning and the symbol better. Is also can helps us to visulize something in our head.
Examples: Red is a symbol of lucky in China
Significance: Interpretation helps us to understand meaning and the symbol better. Is also can helps us to visulize something in our head.
Vocab: Simile
Examples:
“Twinkle, twinkle little star,How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky.”
Significance: Similes are used to decribe things and make the poems can be visulize. While reading simile poems, we can imagine like a lion being a rabbit. Or the moon being a coin in the sky.
Vocab: Extended Metaphor
Definition: Is also a metaphor but they continue further.
Example:
Eve Merriam
The willow is like an etching,
Fine-lined against the sky.
The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,
Hardly worthy to be signed.
The willow’s music is like a soprano,
Delicate and thin.
The ginkgo’s tune is like a chorus
With everyone joining in.
Significance: Extended Metaphor can be use as a strong literary device. The meanings prolongs to life it-self.
Vocab: Metaphor
Examples: Mr. Blake is the heart of the basketball team.
Significance: Metaphor makes the reader to visualize what is happening.
We can also think in a strong perspective if the poems include metaphor.
Usually metaphor include in children books
Vocab: Stanza
Examples: I can't find an example Mr. Patrick
Significant: Stanza helps the poems by seperate the ideas. So that we can understand the poems in a clear way.
Vocab: Imagery
Definition: Use of senses so that the reader can have a visual of what going on by using descriptive language
Example:
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells
Significance: Imagery helps you to visualize and have a better view towards poem. Imagine an image also helps in create mood and tone which contribute the meaning.
Vocab: Poetry
Example:
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.
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.
Significance: Poetry is not just an ordernary literature. Poetry can also be use to express your feeling, you can always get a feelings after reading a poems
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