The Written and
Spoken Word is more powerful than any artificial threat. Words can change
colonies to countries, slaves to free, sinners into Saints.
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We
are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect. ~ Chief
Seattle |
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle
and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true
beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
~ Elizabeth Kübler-Ross |
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~ Oprah Winfrey |
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THE PARTS OF SPEECH:
| Noun:
A noun is a person, place, thing,
idea
Examples: pencil, girl, supermarket,
happiness |
| Verb:
Verbs are action or existence
words that tell what nouns do.
Examples: to fly, to run, to be, jump,
lived |
| Adjective: An adjective describes
a noun.
Examples: hairy, crazy, wonderful |
| Adverb:
An adverb describes a verb, adjective,
or adverb. It often ends in "ly".
Examples: carefully, easily, barely |
| Interjection:
An outcry or sudden utterance.
Usually starts a sentence.
Examples: Wow, Gosh, Darn |
| Preposition:
A preposition describes the relationship
between a noun and another noun (or verb or adverb) and shows
direction.
Examples: to, under, for, at, by, from |
| Conjunction:
A conjunction joins together
words, phrases, or clauses.
Examples: and, or, but, because,
therefore |
| Pronoun:
A pronoun replaces a noun
or noun phrase that is understood from context.
Examples: he, it, they |
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life
by what we give.
~ Sir Winston Churchill |
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There comes that mysterious meeting in life when
someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits
of our highest potential.
~ Rusty Berkus |
POETIC
TERMS
ACROSTIC POEM
A poem in which certain letters of the lines, usually
the first letters, form a word or message relating to the subject.
BALLAD
A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four
lines and usually a refrain. The story of a ballad can originate from a wide
range of subject matter but most frequently deals with folk-lore or popular
legends.
CINQUAIN
A five-line stanza of syllabic verse, the successive
lines containing two, four, six, eight and two syllables.
COUPLET
Two successive lines of poetry, usually of equal length
and rhythmic correspondence, with end-words that rhyme.
EPIC
An extended narrative poem, usually simple in construction,
but grand in scope, exalted in style, and heroic in theme, often giving
expression to the ideals of a nation or race.
EPIGRAM
A sarcastic couplet
FREE VERSE
A fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional
patterns of meter and rhyme,
HAIKU
A Japanese form of poetry. It consists of three unrhymed
lines of five, seven and five syllables.
JINGLE
A short poem marked by catchy repetition
LIMERICK
A light or humorous verse form of five verses of which
lines one, two and five rhyme and lines three and four rhyme. The scheme
is aabba.
NURSERY RHYME
A short poem for children written in rhyming verse
and handed down in folklore
QUATRAIN
A poem, unit or stanza of four lines of verse.ABAB,
ABBA, AABB
SONNET
A fixed form consisting of A fourteen lines verse.
In the English or Shakespearean sonnet, the lines are grouped in three
quatrains.
abab cdcd efef gg
ITALIAN SONNET
abab bcbc cdcd ee.
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