November 13th
Reminder: There is a QUIZ in English class on Wednesday, November 18th. In case you lost your notes: Concrete_poem: Concrete poetry experiments with the very materials of the poem itself: words, letters, format. The final product does what it says in that the meaning of the poem is demonstrated through some kind of concrete image made with words, letters, etc. Concrete poems rely heavily on the visual or phonetic to get across their meaning. Free_verse: Poetry that has no regular pattern of rhythm, rhyme or line length. Sonnet: 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words. Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they mean.“Buzz”, “hiss”, “splash” are typical examples. Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unalike things that does not use “like”, “as”, or “than”. Personification: Giving human characteristics to non-human things. Simile: A comparison between two unal