What do you know about COUPLET?

Definition:

Couplet is a fancy word for two lines of poetry of equal length, one after the other. Sometimes it's necessary for rhyming, sometimes it's not necessary for rhyming.

Example:

•  Oh how the sun come shining above/Showering me with a sky full of dove.
• People say madness is not the cure/And I think either is being pure.
• I hate homework so much, it drives me crazy/But I think not doing them, is called being lazy.

Why is it important in Language Arts?

Couplet is the most common thing people would learn in Language Arts, it helps people get familiar with poetry and rhyming.

PERSONIFICATION connects with us!

Definition:
 
When an author uses human actions on an object, uses human feelings on an object, describing the object's mood and telling it what to do.

Example:

• The rabbit weep into its Mother's fluffy, stained chest. He sobbed and sobbed and sobbed, first his Father, then his Brother, now his last family member, how could the giant creatures do this to his family? His tears kept falling down his furry cheeks, the salty drops of water stained the fur.

Why is it important in Language Arts?

Personification is using a character to represent a new abstract idea. Abstract ideas are hard for a lot of people to understand, since you cannot imagine them, see them, hear them or touch them! Using personification in an animal or object character helps us understand them much easier and faster that way!

SIMILE explains twins!

Definition:

A word or phrase that compare a subject with another subject, using the words like or as! Using simile to describe the similarities between two subjects.



Example:

• His skin was as white as the clouds and cold as the snow. She brushed her fingers over his cheeks and pulled back immediately, the chilliness made her shivered and her mind caught with fear. Her face paled and her arms wrapped around her own body, her lips turned purple like grapes' skin.

Why is it important in Language Arts?

Using simile helps the author to compare the subject to a character, describing the feelings, the moods and giving out the information for the reader to visualize the picture in their heads.

EXTENDED METAPHOR allows you to get into its heart

Definition:

A metaphor that is explained and extended through a poem or a stanza. Usually have different comparisons in different subjects.

Example:

• Her emerald eyes represented the fire in her soul, always looking fierce and strong. Ever since she was a child, her eyes helped her showing other people that she would be a strong and confident woman in the future, she needed no help. But her strong eyes did not only contained her confidence, it also held the color of the clear grass that matched perfectly with the clear blue skies. One moment her eyes will contain the fierceness, the next her eyes contain the love that only a Mother can contain.

Why is it important in Language Arts?

Extended metaphor helped the reader to have more ideas of a certain character or a certain scene without thinking critically and making a schema up in their heads. It is also super important because that way, the author could increase the vocabulary list and add up the descriptive words while explaining the character or scene effectively.

METAPHOR increases the fun in everything

Definition:

A phrase used to describe a subject, in order to show that the two things have similar qualities and similarities. This is different from comparing!

Example:

• Her heart was made out of stone, firm, strict and hard to break. But somewhere deep inside the stone, its soft spot always seem to find its way out of the hard shell.
• He was an exact replica of Pumbaa, all chubby and big, not to mention his friendliness and the ability of accepting and not denial.
• Her fingers were paintbrushes on those white paper, working effectively, patiently, yet softly and silky. The way her fingers moved, the way they swayed whenever she finished an artwork.

Why is it important in Language Arts?

  Metaphor also adds up to the list of 'How can you improve your imagination?' by using 2 or more different subjects to describe them without telling the audience. Metaphor will help you realize the personalities, the event or the characters of a story, the more metaphor there are, the better the story will get!

IMAGERY is super important!

Definition: Language that helps people that read or think to form images in their minds. Imagery also helps people increase their imagination and how pictures will form into their own unique ways in their minds! Imagery is a friend of descriptive words.

Example: 

• The sweet smell of apple pies lingered in the living room, dragging all the little kids into the kitchen.
• Her eyes distanced as the sun began to set, the orangey-red color covered the skies.
• The thumpa-thumpa continued throughout the club, people began to dance themselves onto the dance floor and followed the rhythm in their minds.
• He licked the brown-colored popsicle on his hand, the soda taste stuck on his tongue. He moaned at the sugary sensation.
• She reached out for the gooey subject on the table, her index finger dipped into the liquid and shivered at the coolness at the tip of her finger.

 Why is it important in Language Arts?


Imagery helps people to hear, to taste, to smell, to sense, and to see whatever they are reading about. Just like my examples above, I did not tell their actions, but I described them out, helping the audience to take a look inside my mind and imagine what I was imagine. Imagery would work best with descriptive words and would help you increasing your imagination!

What is POETRY?

Definition: A form of art being made into words, using rhythm, descriptive words and your imagination. Poetry is often used for describing your emotions, your life, your friends, family and your surroundings. Poetry with good rhyming can make it sounds like a song or lullaby!

Example:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Ice cream is sweet,
And so are you!
But the roses are wilting
The violets are dead
The ice cream's empty
And so is your head!

Why is poetry important in Language Arts?


Because poetry is beautiful and deserves to be appreciated. It's another form of beautiful literature that not only help us improve our imagination, but also to help us recognize music within only words without sounds! Poetry has its own special way to express the author's feelings, by using short verses and beautiful, colorful words to say it. It deserves as much attention as literature throughout the World!