Monday, December 6, 2010

Additional Poetic Device

Please identify an additional poetic device used in your novel (not metaphor, personification, alliteration, or simile). Please include the page number where you found the example. Potential devices may be rhyme scheme, allusion, onomatopoeia, symbolism, imagery, etc.

Please identify which device you're using along with the example from the text.

28 comments:

  1. Imagery:
    Inside the sun's light is painted green and the children grow pale from breathing unripe air.
    Pg.71

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  2. Here is an example of a rhyme scheme, A B B C D E F G H I J K L M N O O D P Q R B. this rhyme scheme is found on page 111.

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  3. Imagery:

    "Boy almost there
    ladder creaks,
    water tank shifts,
    metal hitting concrete"

    creaking ladder, metal hitting.. Page 79 Trash.

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  4. Rhyme Scheme ps 43 in Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

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  5. Imagery pg. 2 in SOng of the Sparrow.
    "..Where the drums beat and beat."

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  6. Rhyme Scheme
    "I don't know why he is so evil some days
    with his stupid angel voice
    and mean as the devil ways

    pg 43 in Locomotion

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  7. Onomatopoeia
    thump-thump, thump-thump
    page 50

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  8. Imagery
    "...the fire took off
    so fast. a divine
    sight, neighbor,
    the flames spread
    from the base to the
    top. in a matter of
    minutes the cross arm
    pulsed with fire. the
    flames leaping,
    seeking heaven,
    neighbor, the white
    crucifix scoring
    the night
    blazed perfect.
    pg 52 in Witness.

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  9. Onomotopoeia:
    "...and it has quiet music most of the time whisp meow swish."
    Page 32 of Love That Dog.

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  10. Imagery-
    "Shattered glass in the house, and the iron bed, blackened."
    pg. 87 in By the River.

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  11. "Tropical Secrets"
    Imagery- page 132

    "but sometimes I feel like I am surrounded by so many secrets that the truth would need light from a whole galaxy of suns in order to shine past the shade I make with both hands each time I watch a bird leave my dovecote to explore the dangerous sky."

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  12. Bright red lipstick
    and bad breath
    Page 100

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  13. Imagery:
    The screaming goes on
    Goes on,
    I shut her voice, her words
    But cant escape
    Their awful weight

    pg. 115 in "Street Love"

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  14. An example of Repetition in my novel is on page 119 in "Everything Is Fine".

    finally she came out.
    10:01.
    Finally she got in the car.
    10:02
    She turned on the car.
    10:03

    The repetition is the times being presented over and over.

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  15. "Puckering our lips
    we were making ooooo oooo ooooo sounds."
    page 32

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  16. Onomatopoeia- "Bang!" page 192.

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  17. Rhyme Scheme:

    "I miss
    Jordan's
    questioning brown eyes,
    his curly hair,
    his busy building hands.

    I miss his
    strings of facts,
    experiments off track,
    long days just knowing he's there."

    Page 138 of Reaching For Sun

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  18. Onomatopoeia:
    "...thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP..."
    Page 162

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  19. Onomatopoeia- squished
    page 100 in Kaleidoscope Eyes

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  20. An example of an onomatopoeia in Wolf Pack would be the wolves barking and howling. HOOOWWWLLL!!!!!!

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  21. Repetition
    "Until this year
    my parents lived
    four block apart
    in Cincinnati.

    Until this year
    I went
    to Liberty Elementary.

    Until this year
    I was average height
    had clear skin and didn't need glasses
    to see the blackboard.

    Everything
    was easier
    until this year."
    Page 1

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  22. Onomatopoeia pg. 116, Announcement in the book "Jude"
    "The loudspeakers crackle. Zzkrrch!"

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  23. onomatopoeia- tick, tock, tick
    page 78 in shakespeare makes the playoffs

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  24. "I can feel the heat of them,
    parting just slightly,
    brushing across my cheek."

    Imagery, page 6

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  25. Imagery:
    " The women who greets us at the door
    is dressed like a sheep. Cobwebs crisscross
    the corners and pumpkins with candles inside them flicker on high shelves"
    pg. 57

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  26. Metaphor
    "If I could stand on tip toe and reach up and sculpt the mountains"
    Being creative in your own way
    Pg. 27 Bronx Masquerade

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  27. rhyme scheme page 8 in brushing moms hair. abbcdefghijaklmn

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  28. Imagery...
    "theres a stone fire place, the antique stained glass lamp, and the cozy window seat"
    she is describing her perfect room
    page 44

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