Sabado, Oktubre 15, 2011

Appreciating the use of Imagery and Poetic Devices

Imagery is a language that appeals to the senses.it refers to words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for the readers while the majority of images are visual,Imagery may also appeal to the senses of smell,hearing,taste,and touch.In poetry,the use of imagery adds rhythm and beauty to the lines of a poem 
imagery is one of the more commonly used poetic device.


Sound Devices
  1. Alliteration-repetition of initial consonant sounds.
  2. Assonance-repetition of vowel sounds.
  3. Onomatopoeia-use of words which imitate sound.
  4. Rhyme-the similarity of ending sounds existing between two words.
  5. Rhyme scheme-the sequence in which the rhyme occurs.the first end sound is represented as the letter "a" the second "b" etc.
  6. Repetition-the recurring of words,phrases,lines or stanzas.
Figurative Language
  1. Simile-a comparison between two objects using a specific word of comparison such as "like" "as" or "than".
  2. Metaphor-a comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them.
  3. Personification-a figure of speech which endows animals ,ideas or inanimate,objects with human traits or abilities.
Metrics
  1. Meter- the recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
  2. Stanza-a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length,metrical form,or rhyme scheme.
Point of View
Point-of-view the author's point of view concentrates on the vantage point of the speaker or "teller" of the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective (uses I)
3rd person Limited-the speaker is not part of the story,but tells about the other characters though limited information about what one character sees and feel.
3rd person Omniscient-the speaker is not part of the story but "knows"and describes what all characters are thinking.