Monday, March 4, 2013

3-4-2013 assignment

  1. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor
          Similies use like and as to compare things, while metaphors do not.

  1. What is the difference between a direct and indirect metaphor
          A direct metaphor compares two things without like or as directly, while an indirect metaphor replaces the main topic being compared with the thing it is being compared to.
  1. What is the difference between a simple and complex simile/metaphor
           Simple similies/metaphors are plain and abvious, while complex ones add onto the simple ones, explaining them further.
  1. What is the rhyme scheme for a limerick
           a
           a
           b
           b
           a
  1. What is the rhyme scheme for a sonnet
           a-b-a-b  c-d-c-d  e-f-e-f  g-g
  1. What is onomatopoeia
          Words that sound like they are said, i.e. Crunch
  1. What is personification
           Giving an imanimate object/ object or thing that doesn't act like us human like features.
  1. Compose limericks/Sonnets that use a
    1. Simile
                    Water is like blood, giving us life
                    However constantly giving us strife
                    I really do hate this constant pain
                    That pummles us all like rain
                    It cuts strait to our hearts like a knife
    1. Metaphor (direct/indirect/simple/complex)
                   The man a mountian
                    Sat down by a fountian
                    We didn't know why
                    We gave him some pie
                     But leftover tins left us countin'
    1. Personification
                    Being its carer
                    Living in terror
                    Fears the setting of the sun
                    Hoping that death won't come
                    Sits the lonely pallbearer
    1. Onomatopoeia
                    Malicious eyes shone through the dark
                    And leaving its beak sounded a CARK!!
                    Doubled all over
                    It hacked up a clover
                    And so the raven left its mark

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