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.
Imagery:
ReplyDeleteInside the sun's light is painted green and the children grow pale from breathing unripe air.
Pg.71
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.
ReplyDeleteImagery:
ReplyDelete"Boy almost there
ladder creaks,
water tank shifts,
metal hitting concrete"
creaking ladder, metal hitting.. Page 79 Trash.
Rhyme Scheme ps 43 in Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
ReplyDeleteImagery pg. 2 in SOng of the Sparrow.
ReplyDelete"..Where the drums beat and beat."
Rhyme Scheme
ReplyDelete"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
Onomatopoeia
ReplyDeletethump-thump, thump-thump
page 50
Imagery
ReplyDelete"...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.
Onomotopoeia:
ReplyDelete"...and it has quiet music most of the time whisp meow swish."
Page 32 of Love That Dog.
Imagery-
ReplyDelete"Shattered glass in the house, and the iron bed, blackened."
pg. 87 in By the River.
"Tropical Secrets"
ReplyDeleteImagery- 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."
Bright red lipstick
ReplyDeleteand bad breath
Page 100
Imagery:
ReplyDeleteThe screaming goes on
Goes on,
I shut her voice, her words
But cant escape
Their awful weight
pg. 115 in "Street Love"
An example of Repetition in my novel is on page 119 in "Everything Is Fine".
ReplyDeletefinally 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.
"Puckering our lips
ReplyDeletewe were making ooooo oooo ooooo sounds."
page 32
Onomatopoeia- "Bang!" page 192.
ReplyDeleteRhyme Scheme:
ReplyDelete"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
Onomatopoeia:
ReplyDelete"...thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP..."
Page 162
Onomatopoeia- squished
ReplyDeletepage 100 in Kaleidoscope Eyes
An example of an onomatopoeia in Wolf Pack would be the wolves barking and howling. HOOOWWWLLL!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRepetition
ReplyDelete"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
Onomatopoeia pg. 116, Announcement in the book "Jude"
ReplyDelete"The loudspeakers crackle. Zzkrrch!"
onomatopoeia- tick, tock, tick
ReplyDeletepage 78 in shakespeare makes the playoffs
"I can feel the heat of them,
ReplyDeleteparting just slightly,
brushing across my cheek."
Imagery, page 6
Imagery:
ReplyDelete" 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
Metaphor
ReplyDelete"If I could stand on tip toe and reach up and sculpt the mountains"
Being creative in your own way
Pg. 27 Bronx Masquerade
rhyme scheme page 8 in brushing moms hair. abbcdefghijaklmn
ReplyDeleteImagery...
ReplyDelete"theres a stone fire place, the antique stained glass lamp, and the cozy window seat"
she is describing her perfect room
page 44