Monday, December 12, 2011
How Figurative Language Builds Mood/Tone/Feeling
Figurative language is a way to express what you feel in non-literal ways. Some of them might seem not so "figurative" such as repetition, alliteration and assonance because they are just how you organized letters and words in a sentence. Tone and mood are created in a piece of literature by figurative language, for example; when you use metaphors and similes you are comparing one thing to another in two different ways. The way you compare this (good or bad) sets the mood and the feeling in a story. If all the story was told in literal format nothing would have sense and it would be really boring. Figurative language (meaning = NOT LITERAL) makes the story have sense of humor in different ways and it can tell the reader what type of genre it falls into to. Just because all the figurative language stories have their own specific traits.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Poem = International Exchange Of Currency
Dollars, euros, pounds and yens,
Everybody knows these now and then,
All very easy to exchange
But to do that you have to convert,
World exchange is very important,
Changing from one currency to another,
Makes the entire world work properly,
And let everyone live happily,
There are 1000.. many currencies in the world,
Pesos, dollars, euros and yens, and more
So many your head goes wild,
Some are strong are some are weak, so weak :(
This is how you convert USD to COP,
Every USD is 1800 COP
So you just multiply by 1800
If it drops or if it rises,
Multiplication is like magic.
This is how go from USD to EURO,
Every EURO is 1.3 USD,
It's easy!
Just multiply,
Multiplication is your savior,
Everybody knows these now and then,
All very easy to exchange
But to do that you have to convert,
World exchange is very important,
Changing from one currency to another,
Makes the entire world work properly,
And let everyone live happily,
There are 1000.. many currencies in the world,
Pesos, dollars, euros and yens, and more
So many your head goes wild,
Some are strong are some are weak, so weak :(
This is how you convert USD to COP,
Every USD is 1800 COP
So you just multiply by 1800
If it drops or if it rises,
Multiplication is like magic.
This is how go from USD to EURO,
Every EURO is 1.3 USD,
It's easy!
Just multiply,
Multiplication is your savior,
Dollars, euros, pounds and yens,
Everybody knows these now and then,
All very easy to exchange,
But to do that you have to convert,
This is how you go from EURO to POUND,
Every POUND is 1.5 USD,
Not rocket science,
Multiply! Multiply! Multiply!
And this is how you go from COP to POUND,
Every POUND is 3.000 pesos
Put your brain to work!
Multiply!
Now these can change in every moment,
So looks daily in the International Stocks; take a look
It may go up, it may go down,
Or it could just stay the same,
The strongest currency now is the Kuwaiti Dinar,
Kuwait is little but the economy is big,
Petroleum and oil make it live like a king,
The weakest currency in the world is the Zimbabwe Dollar,
Economy in Zimbabwe is very very weak,
Even more than you think,
Even more than you think,
Tourism is the only things that keeps them on their feet,
Dollars, euros, pounds and yens,
Everybody knows these now and then,
All very easy to exchange
But to do that you have to convert,
Figurative Language In Poems And Songs
Onomatopoeia:
•Boom boom boom boom boom boom
-Super Bass, Nicki Minaj
Assonance:
• I wish nothing but the best for you too
-Someone Like You, Adele
Repetition:
•Bass bass bass bass bass bass bass
-Super Bass, Nicki Minaj
Rhyme:
•I said excuse me you a hell of a guy, i mean my my my my your like pelican fly
-Super Bass, Nicki Minaj
Alliteration:
•Ship ship, drip drip, lip lip
-Super Bass, Nicki Minaj
Personification:
•We just wanna make the world dance
-Price Tag, Jessie J
Metaphor:
•You are the thunder and i am the lightning
- Naturally, Selena Gomez
Simile:
• All eyes on me in the center ring just a like a circus
-Circus, Britney Spears
Imagery:
•The chilly weather into your bones, those once green leaves turn red, yellow and brown
-Fall, Natasha Niemi
Hyperbole:
•I would catch a grenade for you
-Grenade, Bruno Mars
Synecdoche:
•The world treated him badly
-Madness, John Smith
Apostrophe:
•Busy old fool, unruly sun, why dost thou thus, through windows and through certain curtains call
-The sun rising, John Donne
Irony:
•Why are the things that have no death the ones that neither sight nor breath!
-Irony, Louis Huntermeyer
Understatement:
•I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
-This is just to say, W.C. Williams
•Boom boom boom boom boom boom
-Super Bass, Nicki Minaj
Assonance:
• I wish nothing but the best for you too
-Someone Like You, Adele
Repetition:
•Bass bass bass bass bass bass bass
-Super Bass, Nicki Minaj
Rhyme:
•I said excuse me you a hell of a guy, i mean my my my my your like pelican fly
-Super Bass, Nicki Minaj
Alliteration:
•Ship ship, drip drip, lip lip
-Super Bass, Nicki Minaj
Personification:
•We just wanna make the world dance
-Price Tag, Jessie J
Metaphor:
•You are the thunder and i am the lightning
- Naturally, Selena Gomez
Simile:
• All eyes on me in the center ring just a like a circus
-Circus, Britney Spears
Imagery:
•The chilly weather into your bones, those once green leaves turn red, yellow and brown
-Fall, Natasha Niemi
Hyperbole:
•I would catch a grenade for you
-Grenade, Bruno Mars
Synecdoche:
•The world treated him badly
-Madness, John Smith
Apostrophe:
•Busy old fool, unruly sun, why dost thou thus, through windows and through certain curtains call
-The sun rising, John Donne
Irony:
•Why are the things that have no death the ones that neither sight nor breath!
-Irony, Louis Huntermeyer
Understatement:
•I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
-This is just to say, W.C. Williams
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
10 Ideas For Song
1. World Exchange
2. Variety of currency in the world
3. From USD to COP
4. From USD to EURO
5. From EURO to POUNDS (british)
6. From POUNDS to COP
7. Rules to convert
8. International stocks
9. Strongest currency and why
10. Weakest currency and why
2. Variety of currency in the world
3. From USD to COP
4. From USD to EURO
5. From EURO to POUNDS (british)
6. From POUNDS to COP
7. Rules to convert
8. International stocks
9. Strongest currency and why
10. Weakest currency and why
SONG/POEM
Someone Like You - Adele
I heard, that your settled down.
That you, found a girl and your married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things, I didn't give to you.
Old friend, why are you so shy?
It ain't like you to hold back or hide from the lie.
I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited.
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face & that you'd be reminded,
That for me, it isn't over.
Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best, for you too.
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead"
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead, yeah.
You'd know, how the time flies.
Only yesterday, was the time of our lives.
We were born and raised in a summery haze.
Bound by the surprise of our glory days.
I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited,
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face & that you'd be reminded,
That for me, it isn't over yet.
Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead", yay.
Nothing compares, no worries or cares.
Regret's and mistakes they're memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?
Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me, I beg, I remembered you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead"
Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me, I beg, I remembered you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead"
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead
I heard, that your settled down.
That you, found a girl and your married now.
I heard that your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things, I didn't give to you.
Old friend, why are you so shy?
It ain't like you to hold back or hide from the lie.
I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited.
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face & that you'd be reminded,
That for me, it isn't over.
Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best, for you too.
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead"
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead, yeah.
You'd know, how the time flies.
Only yesterday, was the time of our lives.
We were born and raised in a summery haze.
Bound by the surprise of our glory days.
I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited,
But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it.
I'd hoped you'd see my face & that you'd be reminded,
That for me, it isn't over yet.
Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead", yay.
Nothing compares, no worries or cares.
Regret's and mistakes they're memories made.
Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?
Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me, I beg, I remembered you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead"
Nevermind, I'll find someone like you.
I wish nothing but the best for you too.
Don't forget me, I beg, I remembered you said:-
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead"
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead
Monday, December 5, 2011
Word Pictures & Definitions
Contort: when you have a lot of flexibility
Distort: to twist of deform something
Retort: to reply in an educated way
Subvert: to overthrow
Subservient: the state of belonging to another rank
Tortuous: with a lot of twists; twisted
Adversity: fortunate
Avert: to turn away or prevent something
Introvert: a shy person
Perverse: to know what's going to happen
Prose: ordinary form of written language
Vertigo: to get dizzy
Extort: to take something illegally
Torque: something that produces rotation
Vertebrae: bones that make up the spinal column
Vortex: a whirlpool in the water
Tort: an act that produces an injury to another person
Distort: to twist of deform something
Retort: to reply in an educated way
Subvert: to overthrow
Subservient: the state of belonging to another rank
Tortuous: with a lot of twists; twisted
Adversity: fortunate
Avert: to turn away or prevent something
Introvert: a shy person
Perverse: to know what's going to happen
Prose: ordinary form of written language
Vertigo: to get dizzy
Extort: to take something illegally
Torque: something that produces rotation
Vertebrae: bones that make up the spinal column
Vortex: a whirlpool in the water
Tort: an act that produces an injury to another person
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Article
This is an article written by my sister in law; Myrna Domit
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/luiz_inacio_lula_da_silva/index.html?scp=1&sq=myrna%20domit&st=cse
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/luiz_inacio_lula_da_silva/index.html?scp=1&sq=myrna%20domit&st=cse
Figurative Language
Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word by imitating a sound.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied tosomething to which it is not literally applicable in order tosuggest a resemblance.
Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, using "like" or "as".
Rhyme: identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of wordsor lines of verse.
Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or character toinanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as arhetorical figure.
Repetition: the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
Hyperbole: obvious and intentional exaggeration.
Alliteration: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.
Assonance: resemblance of sounds in vowels.
Imagery: appealing to something with your 5 senses.
Allusion: a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention ofsomething, either directly or by implication.
Allegory: a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning throughconcrete or material forms; figurative treatment of onesubject under the guise of another.
Understatement: the act or an instance of understanding, or representing in a weakor restrained way that is not borne out by the facts.
Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the oppositeof its literal meaning.
Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or thewhole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special.
Apostrophe: is a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied tosomething to which it is not literally applicable in order tosuggest a resemblance.
Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, using "like" or "as".
Rhyme: identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of wordsor lines of verse.
Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or character toinanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as arhetorical figure.
Repetition: the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
Hyperbole: obvious and intentional exaggeration.
Alliteration: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.
Assonance: resemblance of sounds in vowels.
Imagery: appealing to something with your 5 senses.
Allusion: a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention ofsomething, either directly or by implication.
Allegory: a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning throughconcrete or material forms; figurative treatment of onesubject under the guise of another.
Understatement: the act or an instance of understanding, or representing in a weakor restrained way that is not borne out by the facts.
Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the oppositeof its literal meaning.
Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or thewhole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special.
Apostrophe: is a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply.
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