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Poetry Project. Michael Rosebrook CP English 11 Mrs. Ventresco Period 9. Definitions of Terms. Figures of speech – an unusual use of words to produce a desired effect such as a metaphor or a simile.

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  1. Poetry Project Michael Rosebrook CP English 11 Mrs. Ventresco Period 9

  2. Definitions of Terms • Figures of speech – an unusual use of words to produce a desired effect such as a metaphor or a simile. • Metaphor - a figure of speech in which word or phrase is used to denote something different from the usual meaning. • Symbolism – representation by symbols in art and literature. Sound Effects in Poetry ; • Rhythm – pleasant rise and fall of words. • Rhyme – close similarity of sounds in words or final syllables. • Meter – poetical rhythm. • Alliteration – recurrence of same stressed sounds in verse or prose. • Onomatopoeia – formation of words by imitation of sounds associated with object named, like cuckoo, hiss. • Assonance – rhyming of vowel sounds. • Consonance – harmony of sounds

  3. Edgar Allan Poe “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” from - “The Raven” Here in this line Poe uses Rhyme and assonance in the words “dreary” and “weary” because the ending syllables and the vowel sounds are very similar. “Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore” from - “The Raven” In these two lines Poe uses onomatopoeia in the words “flirt” and “flutter” because they describe the sounds that the raven was making.

  4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls” from - “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” Here Longfellow uses assonance and rhyme in the words “falls” and “calls” because they are both similar in vowel sounds and in there final syllables. He also uses rhythm because his writing presents a pleasant rise and fall of words they all just flow together to make a decent sounding poem.

  5. Oliver Wendell Holmes “Where it is dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,” from – “The Chambered Nautilus” In these lines Holmes uses assonance and rhyme in the words “dwell” and “shell” in that they have similar sounding vowels and similar sounding ending syllables. These lines also use rhythm as they mysteriously all flow together to make it “roll off the tongue”

  6. William Cullen Bryant “She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy” from – “Thanatopis” Bryant uses assonance in the words “smile” and “mild” in that they have similar vowel sounds.

  7. “go to the grave where friends are laid, And learn how quickly mortals fade, Learn how the fairest flower must droop, Learn how the strongest form must stoop” from – “Go To the Grave” These words include assonance and rhyme in the words “laid” and “fade”, and the words “droop” and “stoop” because they have similar vowel sounds and they also have similar ending syllables. My beliefs of what he is saying is that even the strongest ones in life are at some point put below the weaker people in life as they fade away from doing what is wrong and disrespectful of them.

  8. Effects of the Monumental Changes The writing that these poets did in the 1800’s reflect on us the time period and how things went on then, from this we should understand to write about ourselves and our time period so that the people after us can be influenced by our writings just as we are of these famous poets 1. Poe’s The Raven is a great example of the monumental changes of today because it shows the example of the woman leaving the man and being “nevermore” through the words of a raven. 2. Holmes’ The Chambered Nautilus reveals the fear of shipwreck that is as equal now as it is then. 3. Bryant’s Thanatopis relates to how a loved one can always make us feel better no matter what the circumstance is they will always be there for us in this world today as well as in the 1800’s.

  9. Works Cited • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe • http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fairy-Land • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving • http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/125/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cullen_Bryant • http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/blithedale_romance/ • http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=30307&rendTypeId=4 • http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/pictures/Wendell-Oliver-Holmes.jpg • http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/go_to_the_grave.html • Elements of literature text book, fifth course, essentials of American literature

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