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Poetry Unit: English 9 OHS 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
sonnet
def-is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from europe.
example-"talking to myself there
someone had overhead
i was lost for a word."
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allusion
def-is a refrence to or representation of a place,event,literary work,myth or work of art, either directly or by implication.
example- a terrible sorrow
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mood
def-a characteristic habitual or state of being.
example-"life is full of misery,lonilness ,and suffering and its all over much to soon"
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personification
def-is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.
example-fear knocked on the door. faith answered. there was no one there.
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Stanza
Stanza-
is a unit within a larger poem.stanza consists of a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pqattern of meter and rhyme.
Example
:stanzas can be given a specific name depending on their structure and rhyme pattern. List of stanzas names according to number of lines:
2 lines=couplet
3 lines= tercet
4 lines= Quatrain
and so on
rhyme
def- if one word rhymes with another or if two words rhyme they have a similar sound. words that rhyme with each other are often used in poems.
example-"wayup north where thers ice and snow there lived a peguin named joe"
Metaphors
Metaphors
are comparisons that shows how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way.
Metaphors
state that something is something else.
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