My fancy wall by Jay Grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv Made with serendipity en-us 2017-10-05 12:31:01 UTC 2025-11-19 17:40:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Simile: Comparing something with like or as jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195539126 Their smile was as bright as the sun.]]> 2017-10-10 12:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195539126 Imagery: the elements in a poem that spark off the senses jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195540727 With smell of steaks in passageways.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.]]> 2017-10-10 12:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195540727 Mood: Gives certain feeling or vibes in readers through words and description. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195543332 The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.]]> 2017-10-10 12:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195543332 Stanza four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195544799 Whether or not we find what we are seeking
is idle, biologically speaking.]]> 2017-10-10 12:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195544799 repetition Repeating words, phrases lines, or stanzas jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195547891 If you think you can do it, you can do it.]]> 2017-10-10 12:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195547891 Onomatopoeia The us or format of words whose sounds imitate their meaning jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195974587
  • The phrase “the cock crew loud” uses an antiquated past-tense of the word “crow,” which sounds like the noise a rooster makes.
  •  Morte D’Arthur
    • ]]>     2017-10-11 12:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195974587     Figure of Speech: Figure of speech. An expressive, nonliteral use of language. Figures of speech include tropes and schemes jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195974647 Hadn’t she felt it in every touch of the sunshine, as its golden finger-tips pressed her lids open and wound their way through her hair?
    The Mother’s Recompense by Edith Wharton]]>     2017-10-11 12:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195974647     Speaker: the speaker is the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195974681 The speaker in Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is a conflicted person, who does not tell anything about himself. However, the readers of this poem know that he is undergoing a big decision, that he has chosen a single path according to which he is directing his life, and this splits into two options ahead.]]> 2017-10-11 12:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195974681 Alliteration: a literary device that repeats a speech sound in a sequence of words that are close to each other. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195974968 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.]]> 2017-10-11 12:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195974968 Rhyme: A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975011 And here on this turning of the stair. Between passion and doubt, I pause and say a double prayer.  One for you, and one for you. And so they cancel out.
    Midstairs by Virginia Hamilton Adair]]>     2017-10-11 12:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975011     Poetry: AQ form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975056 I come with no wrapping or pretty pink bows. 
    I am who I am, from my head to my toes. 
    I tend to get loud when speaking my mind. 
    Even a little crazy some of the time.]]>     2017-10-11 12:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975056     Rhythm is expressed through stressed and unstressed syllables. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975084 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”]]> 2017-10-11 12:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975084 Meter is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975119 People become what they believe.]]> 2017-10-11 12:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975119 Free Verse is an open form of poetry. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975155 The fog come
    on little cat feet.
    It sits looking
    over harbor and city
    on silent haunches
    and then moves on
    ]]>     2017-10-11 12:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975155     End Rhyme when the last syllables within a verse rhyme. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975197 A word is dead
    When it is said]]>     2017-10-11 12:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975197     Metaphor is a comparison between two things that replaces the word or name for one object with that of another. jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975301 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?]]> 2017-10-11 12:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975301 Internal Rhyme is jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975333 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,]]> 2017-10-11 12:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975333 Personification in poetry can show inanimate objects taking on human characteristics, making them seem more relatable, and often funny jay_grooms https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975407 Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn’t she?]]> 2017-10-11 12:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jay_grooms/dcjwfhbpidzv/wish/195975407