Poetry Project

DAY 17

Vocabulary
Emotion - a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others

Tone - the general attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

Theme - the subject of a piece of writing

Connotation - an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

Prose - written language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

Rhythm - a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

DAY 18

Paraphrase -  to reword something written or spoken by someone else

Interpret - to explain the meaning of something

Analyze - to examine methodically and in detail

Simile - a figure of speech involving a comparison of "like" or "as," used to make a description more vivid

Metaphor - a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable (Sometimes uses "is", rather than "like" or "as"... such as "love IS a rose" instead of "love is LIKE a rose")

Personification - giving human characteristics to something nonhuman

Denotation - the literal meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests

DAY 19

Sonnet - a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line

Couplet - two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

Cover Song - a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

Poetry Slam - a competition at which poets read or recite original work

Pattern - a recurring design

DAY 20

"All Apologies" by Nirvana

 

 

"All Apologies" by Sinead O'Connor