Onomatopoeia

Mo Willems began his career as a writer and animator for the show Sesame Street on PBS. During this time, he earned 6 Emmy Awards for his writing. Willems worked on Sesame Street for nine seasons and created two animated series The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City. Codename: Kids Next Door was another show where Willems served as head writer at Cartoon Network, it was during this time that Willems began writing and illustrating books for children (Willems, Mo…

“The Raven” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1845. Poe was an American author known as “Father of the Detective Story.” He was born in Boston and became famous for his dark and eerie stories. He used what he knew about suffering to make his writing better. Although some of his stories are science fiction and mystery, most were filled with horror. He wrote with his madness, and he created characters that were insane. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is famous for the irony and…

He writes “boom, smash, and rattle” (265) to mimic the sounds of war. Dickens’ onomatopoeia enhances the violent and noisy nature of the villagers’ attack. I notice that the Carmagnole dance resembles the boys’ dance in Lord of the Flies. In both texts, the characters form a ring around someone in the center. They chant or sing a song…

The father of the Black Arts Movement is Amiri Baraka. He got this name because he wrote so many essays, poems, and plays about racial issues in Harlem. In the time there was a lot of racial injustice of African Americans civil rights. Baraka’s most known piece that he has written is his poem called “Black Art.” His works such as “Black Art” and many others have been centered around the lack of civil rights for black people. Baraka works can be interpreted in so many ways because it incites the…

In the poem, “Player Piano”, John Updike demonstrates a lot of feeling and emotion of an unhuman piano. By having detailed imagery of sounds, figures of speech, and rhyme, he portrays the reader into the picture of a machine-like device that has its own natural music language. This 12-line poem recalls the life and achievements of a player piano. In the first and second line, there is a lot of assonance (the repetition of sound in a vowel) and consonance (reassurance of similar sound) that are…

The poem that I pick to be a candidate for this contest call, “The Best Poem in the World” is call “Tahquamenon Falls” by Denise Rodgers. I pick this free verse poem which is compose of mostly using rhyming couplets, and with no set meter to be my entry for this contest because it uses a lot of the literary devices that we have talk about in this week. Starting off with the first stanza of this poem. In the starting line of this poem, it uses literal imagery to tell the readers to imagine some…

A. Background information/interests of student: Student T. is a six year old boy in first grade. He is the youngest of four children. During his interview, he told me that he loves playing video games. He went into detail about the different video games he plays and how to play them. His favorite video games are Minecraft and Clash of Clans, which he said he plays every day. He also enjoys playing flag football and basketball. Student T. said he likes to ride bikes with his brothers in their…

back to when Owen discussed the soldier dying from the gas attack therefore the phrase “fourth-corrupted lungs”. This is in relation to the gas that caused his lungs to fill with blood which ultimately cost him his life. The word “gargling” is an onomatopoeia used to show the pain and despair the solider was in before he died. Similes are used in the next line to convey just how evil and un necessary war is. The first one is “Obscene as cancer”, here he is comparing war to cancer and stating how…

small things such as, Mr. Baker’s growl, as stated in the paragraph above, and then moves onto other words such as Rocket’s friends’ names while the bird is in the south during the winter. Also, Mr. Baker’s growl, “Grrrrr” is a great example of an onomatopoeia. I really enjoyed how Hill explains the process that the bird takes to teach Rocket because the steps the bird takes are just like ones that actual teachers do in their classroom. The children reading this are able to relate these steps…

Romeo and Juliet Essay: The Manga version of Romeo and Juliet, illustrated by Sonia Leong is a Shakespearean tragedy written around 1597. The book is about love, hate, and mortality. In this essay, pages 124 and 125 of the Manga version will be analyzed. These pages show the bitter scene when her father demands her to marry Paris, though she denies it and is therefore slapped in the face and falls to the ground. This comes across as the worst idea ever. She is heartbroken and in despair. The…