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.

quatrain


def- is a stanza consisting of for lines.

example-" tyger tyger burning bright

in the forest of the night

what imoral hand or eye

could frame the fearful syymetry"

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

simile


simile-when you compare two nouns(person,thing,or idea)that are unlike,with "like" or "as"



  • "THE WATER IS LIKE THE SUN"