Introduction Vowel sounds present a considerable challenge to non-native speakers. Spoken English has an unusually high number of vowel sounds - from 5 written vowels (a‚ e‚ i‚ o‚ u) we produce 19 vowel sounds (see chart below). Do you know how many vowel sounds your language has? If it has less than English‚ you will need to learn the new sounds. Types of Vowel Sound A vowel sound is made by shaping the air as it leaves the mouth. There are four types of vowel in English: Short monothongs
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Petrarchan sonnet (puh TRAHR kun) a fourteen line sonnet consisting of two parts: the octave‚ eight lines with the rhyme scheme abbaabba‚ and the sestet‚ six lines usually with the rhyme scheme cdecde the octave often poses a question or dilemma that the sestet answers or resolves‚ beginning with a turn‚ also known as a volta also referred to as an Italian sonnet Example: Whoso list to hunt‚ I know where is an hind! But as for me‚ alas‚ I may no more; The vain travail hath
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trimetre; anapaestic means that there are two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable and trimetre means that there are three stresses in that line. The poem opens with the first speaker‚ ‘who could have supposed I should meet you in town’ (line 2)‚ where ‘who’ is unstressed followed by ‘could’ which is stressed and the line is continued in the conventional anapaestic metre. The opening of this line‚ is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed which is known as an iamb. This suggests
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Whether people would like to admit it or not‚ everyone does things that do not always make sense. For instance‚ many people talk to inanimate objects when they do not work the way they are supposed to work. Even though people know that no decipherable response will come from them‚ pets and other animals are also often the recipients of other such one-sided conversations. In addition to simply talking to animals‚ many people give animals human characteristics such as emotions and thoughts‚ perhaps
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follows a /ABABAB /‚ /CDCDCD/‚ / EFEFEF/ rhyme. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter‚ that is: Iambic refers to the pattern of stresses in the line‚ an iamb is an unstressed syllable‚ followed by a stressed syllable; and Tetrameter means that there are four unstressed syllables in the line (She walks in beau-ty‚ like the night Of cloud-less climes and star-ry skies). The poem opens with a line that doesn’t have punctuation (enjambment): it runs over
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THE RAVEN BY EDGAR ALLAN POE THE RAVEN - SETTING The chamber of a house at midnight. Poe uses the word chamber rather than bedroom apparently because chamber has a dark and mysterious connotation. THE RAVEN - NARRATION First-Person Narrator (Persona) A man who has lost his beloved‚ a woman named Lenore. He is depressed‚ lonely‚ and possibly mentally unstable as a result of his bereavement. THE RAVEN - SOURCE INSPIRATION OF The raven in Charles Dickens’ 1841 novel‚ Barnaby Rudge
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Technique | Definition | Example(If appropriate) | Alliteration | A sequence of repeated consonant sounds. | | Assonance | The close repetition of similar vowel sounds‚ in successive or proximate words‚ usually in stressed syllables. | | Blank verse | An unrhymed line of five feet in which the dominant accent usually falls on the second syllable of each foot (di dúm)‚ a pattern known as an iamb. | | Caesura | A pause or breathing-place about the middle of a metrical line. The word derives
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Middle English describes dialects of English in the history of the English language between the High and Late Middle Ages‚ or roughly during the three centuries between the late 12th and the late 15th century. * In 1066 the Normans invaded England‚ and the French of Normandy‚ together with Latin‚ was to become the language of court‚ religion and science * English was still used by the common people‚ but there was no literature written in it for 200 years. * However‚ this situation of
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The first poem ‘Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare has a humorous view on the traditional ideas of beauty. The poem is a five duplet metre with the stressed sounds starting on the second word of each line. Each line has the same amount of stressed and unstressed patterns which is very common for sonnets to make it quick and easy to read. The five duplet pattern never mimics human speech in the way a four duplet pattern does. The end of each alternating line has a distinct rhyming pattern
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Literary Devices – Poetry Allusion: An event or fact from an external context assumed to be known by the reader (e.g. historical‚ biblical‚ etc.). An allusion can increase one’s understanding of the poem in question by drawing parallels with other subjects. Anthropomorphism: The showing or treating of animals‚ gods and objects as if they are human in appearance‚ character or behaviour. Apostrophe: Something that addresses an object‚ abstract idea‚ or person who is dead as though it could
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