POETRY+PROJECT

Is poetry still relevant today? Are poems only boring compositions to study at school? **Just click on 'DISCUSSION' at the top of this page, between 'PAGE' and 'HISTORY'.** Write your opinion and sign it!

But first.. would you take part in a very unusualbut very active lesson about poetry? Watch this: [|www.teachers.tv/video/22166]

Now find out about...:

[|www.frostfriends.org/sounddevices.html] 1.1 Alliteration http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/writing/style/alliteration
 * 1. SOUND DEVICES**

1.2 Assonance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assonance http://www.bartleby.com/68/58/5158.html

1.3 Onomatopoeia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=onomatopoeia

1.4 Stress

1.5 Rhyme [|www.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Rhyme**]; [|www.pangloss.com/seidel/Poem/]

[|www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/writing/style] http://www.quia.com/hm/80390.html
 * 2. FIGURES OF SPEECH**

2.1 Hyperbole http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/hyperbole/hyperbole2.html http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/hyperbole.htm

2.2 Metaphor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor 2.3 Oxymoron http://www.oxymorons.com/oxymorons.html 2.4 Personification http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/personification.html http://www.imschools.org/cms/Units/Poetry/personif.htm

2.5 Pun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun http://www.answers.com/topic/pun 2.6 Simile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile 2.7 Synaesthesia http://www.pfmb.uni-mb.si/eng/dept/eng/text/glosfram.htm http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=synaesthesia

2.8 Synecdoche [|en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche] [|www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/ dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=synecdoche]

2.9 Understatement http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/writing/style/understatement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understatement


 * 3. LAYOUT**


 * 4. WRITE YOUR OWN POEM**


 * 5. OUR FAVOURITE LINKS ABOUT POETRY**