Friday, October 18, 2013

More literary terms and we analyzed a poem.

Today we had more literary terms:           

  alliteration-  two or more words of a word group start with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid.
             
            assonance- rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.

            connotation– something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described.

            denotationword that names or signifies something specific: “Wind” is the denotation for air in natural motion. “Poodle” is the denotation for a certain breed of dog.

            diction - an author’s choice of words
             
            hyperbolean extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
             
            onomatopoeiathe naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)
             
            rhymeone of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sounds

Then we used the TPCASTT learning strategy, and together as a class, we analyzed the poem The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur.  

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