ASSONANCE

Definition:


The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are chose together to create rhyming.


Example:

   And frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day

    Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone,      

    And lives at last were washing away:

    To the shrouds they took,—they shook in the hurling and horrible airs. 

    Is out with it! Oh,      

    We lash with the best or worst   

    Word last! How a lush-kept plush-capped sloe      

    Will, mouthed to flesh-burst,

    Gush!—flush the man, the being with it, sour or sweet,

    Brim, in a flash, full!—Hither then, last or first.

Why is it important in Language Arts?

Assonance can create rhyming when add rhythm, beat or music into poems. Assonance can also affect the tone and mood of the poem.

ALLITERATION is complicated

Definition:


The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to each other. Alliteration can happens in the beginning, middle or end.

Example:


Don't delay dawns disarming display.
Dusk demands daylight.
Dewdrops dwell delicately
drawing dazzling delight.
Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.
Distinguished debutantes. Diamonds defray delivered
daylights distilled daisy dance.

Why is it important in Language Arts?


Alliteration makes poems form images and also make them more fun and interesting to read.

FREE VERSE is awesome

Definition:


Poems that don't follow a rhyme scheme or meter, but they include the basic elements of poetry like imagery, onomatopoeia, and figures of speech (metaphors, personification).

Example:


My heart flies when she runs
Her legs moving above the green grass
She looks so light, so peaceful
It's not love but it sure feels like it.

This LYRICS are different from songs

Definition:


Lyric poems are different from narratives, they don't tell stories but they express deep thoughts and feelings of the poet, and they tend to contain a very strong emotion.


Example:

"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My Mind was going numb -  And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here -
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -"

BALLAD is like a love song

Definition:


Ballads are songs or song-like poems that tell stories, mostly about love, betrayal and tragedy.

Example:


There lived a wife at Usher's Well,
And a wealthy wife was she;
She had three stout and stalwart sons And sent them o'er the sea

EPICS are totally epic

Definition:


Epics are long narratives that tell stories with descriptive and old English about a journey and adventure of great heroes.

Example:


By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

NARRATIVES tell us stories

Definition:

Narratives are poems that tell a story. Narrative always have a plot, a setting, themes and characters.


Example:


"Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred."


Example from 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson