Wednesday, June 8, 2011

 

Meter

Meter: prosody in nouns denoting lines of poetry with a specified number of feet or measures
Example:
I like to play with my cat
He likes to get in a hat.

Significance: It creates the rhythm to the poem so it will be more interesting to listen.
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Alliteration

Alliteration: the occurrence if the same at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Example:
Rain races,
Ripping like wind.
Its restless rage
Rattle like
Rocks ripping through
The air.
Significance:
Alliteration gives poems imagery and makes poems more memorable and interested to read.


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Assonance: A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two
words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.

Example:
Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!

Significance: words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.

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Onomatopoeia : An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.

Example:
Proud penguins
Walking wobbling
Swimming splashing
Divine dolphins
Performing playing
Spinning swiftly.
Significance:
Onomatopoeia helps bring sound to poems and allows poets bring sound and sense together. This is also a descriptive language because it can affect our hearing.
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