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    Rita Dove Poetry

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    when I read T.S. Elliot’s poetry is that the wants people to use their brains and think about things‚ to learn constantly. When I read " The Hollow Men‚" a part of me wanted to prove him wrong‚ that I am not going to end my life with a whimper‚ but a bang. Perhaps this was the effect he was looking for.

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    Pros vs Poetry

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    PROS VS POETRY PART I Prose version: A woman stands on a mountain top with the cold seeping into her body. She looks on the valley below as the wind whips around her. She cannot leave to go to the peaceful beauty below. In the valley‚ the sun shines from behind the clouds causing flowers to bloom. A breeze sends quivers through the leaves of trees. The water gurgles in a brook. All the woman can do is cry. Poetry version The Woman on the Peak

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    Terms Used In Poetry

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    Terms Used in Poetry Types of Poems: 1. Ballad: A slow popular song typically about love‚ narrated‚ any light‚ simple song especially about romantic events. 2. Elegy: a sad poem or song: a poem or song that expresses sorrow for someone/Something who is dead 3. Epic: telling a story about a hero or about exciting events or adventures\ 4. Epitaph: something written or said in memory of a dead person; especially: words written on a gravestone 5. Idyl: a simple poem or other piece of writing that

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    The Defense of Culture in Ama Ata Aidoo’s No Sweetness Here: The Use of Orality as a Textual Strategy Ode Ogede‚ Ahmadu Bello University‚ Nigeria In her book African Novels and the Question of Orality‚ Eileen Julien bitterly attacks the notion that there is anything particularly African about orality or anything essentially oral about African culture. The "oral form‚" she contends‚ "is not the concrete literary simulacrum of African essence but is‚ rather‚ a manifestation of social consciousness

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    Modernist Poetry: Effectiveness When it comes to opinions everyone has one. Saying that Modernist poetry has no specific structure or form and therefore means it is not as ‘effective’‚ is like myself saying curry is spicy‚ sweet and doesn’t fit in with my taste buds and therefore curry is the worst seasoning. Poetry is far too complex to reduce to a simple “effective” or “not effective” dichotomy. To object to an opinion maybe you need to understand where they are coming from. Taking a look

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    Poetry and Younger Walter

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    Literary terms: Dialogue: words that characters in play speak to each other. Playwright: person who writes plays. Conflict: problem or struggle that drives a story’s plot. Verse: group of lines in a poem or a song. Rhyme: repetition of the final sounds of words that creates a musical effect. Rhyme scheme: pattern of rhymes. (ABCB) Rhythm: musical quality that poets create by repeating sounds‚ words and lines. Stanza: a section or verse of a poem. Drama: writing that is meant to be performed

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    “The Cyclist” poetry commentary “The Cyclist” is a poem by Louis MacNeice which romanticizes the fleeting joys of childhood. These joys are emphasised through imagery of summer – be it activities‚ food‚ the beach‚ a bicycle ride‚ various techniques such as juxtaposition and enjambment are used to evoke fond memories from the reader. MacNeice’s poem is set in the southwest of England‚ on a hill with a chalk horse carved into it. It is during the height of summer‚ when the grasshoppers are buzzing

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    Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

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    Her career started to take off when she decided she wanted to be a poet‚ she spent so much time doing poetry when finally people started to notice it. Phillis married John peters a freed slave. They had three children‚ two miserably dying at a young age from sickness and hunger. Sadly John peters was taken to jail for not paying taxes and had to leave Phillis

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    GRADE 12 GRAAD 12 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 12 ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE P3 NOVEMBER 2010 MEMORANDUM MARKS: 100 This memorandum consists of 9 pages. Copyright reserved Please turn over English First Additional Language/P3 2 NSC – Memorandum DBE/November 2010 INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION This memorandum must be used together with the attached English FAL assessment rubrics for SECTIONS A‚ B and C. SECTION A: ESSAY QUESTION 1 Instructions to Markers: • • • • Candidates are

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    Poetry, Figures of speech

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    FIGURES OF SPEECH: literary resources used to provide vividness‚ intensity and beauty to poetry and prose.” RESEMBLANCE METAPHOR: transfers attributes from one object to another‚ identifies. The bishop was a pillar of the church (pillar=strength : bishop= strength) He was a very serpent on my path (serpent= evil‚ danger: he=evil‚ danger) SIMILE: compares two things to clarify the meaning of one of them by using “as” or “like” to link them The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold

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