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    Matsuo Basho

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    can be happened to everyone and everywhere. Both haiku and the modern free-verse poetry are the styles of the poem, and readers can image about both types of the poem. The difference of the haiku is that haiku only has three lines with seventeen syllables, but modern vers libre poetry does not have the limit for the length. The modern free-verse poem just requires no rhythm and rhyme. Although, haiku and vers libre poetry are different, the modern free-verse poetry looks like a longer and…

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    in keeping with the mythical kingdom theme. The predominant rhythm that the poem uses is the anapest, a type of meter consisting of three syllables, with one stressed syllable occurring after two unstressed syllables (Poe's Annabel Lee). For example in the first line, the first syllable of “many” and the word “year” receive stress after two unaccented syllables, as shown here: Itwasma / nyandma / nyayear / a / go (Shmoop Editorial Team). The anapest rhythm adds excitement and a climactic aspect …

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    Jaiden's Assessment

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    concepts. One thing a parent could do to prevent this is to have your child follow along with his/her finger as you read a story. In the Phonological Awareness assessment syllable blending and pronouncing and phoneme alliteration and discrimination were some of his strengths. While on the other hand some of his weaknesses were syllable segmenting and counting, phoneme substitution, phoneme deletion, and phoneme isolation of medial sounds. Another strategy that could be helpful is counting the…

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    “The Ghost” Author: Robert Harris INTRODUCTION: Robert Harris wrote an interesting novel or story the title is “The Ghost”. Robert Harris is the author of “Impremium, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland, and Selling Hitler”. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the Sunday times (London) and the daily telegraph. His novels have sold more than Ten Million copies and Ten Translated into thirty-seven languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and…

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    John Donne's Holy Sonnets

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    ‘blood’. Although they are spelt alike, they have different pronunciations. However, there is a possibility that people from some places may pronounce them alike. A regular iambic pentameter line is line eleven. There are five feet of unstressed syllables followed by beats. A reversed iambic foot within a line appears at the beginning of line five and six. ‘All’ is stressed to emphasize that the category is so comprehensive that it contains nearly every kind of people. In the first line, ‘round…

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    literary techniques – such as personification and rhyme schemes – to fully describe this transformation in only twenty lines. Dickinson’s use of rhythm through number of syllables separates “This World is not Conclusion” into three distinct parts. The poem alternates syllables in an “ABAB” pattern, with line “A” having seven syllables and line “B” having six. This pattern…

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    on. Mertler (2014) helped me guide my action research by collecting the information using the guide questions he provided. My dilemma since I started working as a teacher over seven years was helping struggling readers and writers master their syllables. According to the state standards, students are expected to know the letters and its sound once reach first grade. This expectation is not completely accurate, at least in my years of teaching. As a dual immersion teacher in the Spanish…

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    boys than girls with a ratio of 2 or 3:1 (Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Incidence and Prevalence, 2015). Three features that appear consistently with a deficit in planning and programming speech movements include: inconsistent errors in repeated syllable or word productions, lengthened and disrupted transition between sounds and…

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    An Explication of “Death” by Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson’s poem “Death” is structured in quatrains, four line stanzas. It is in Iambic meter, so each foot has one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The first and third lines of each quatrain have eight syllables, and the second and fourth have six. This means the first and third lines of each stanza consist of four feet, so those lines are in Iambic tetrameter. The second and fourth lines have three feet each, making them…

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    “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same” by Robert Frost is a sonnet that describes and compares the voice of someone he admires to the sounds of the birds and the way their sound travels. An initial inference before reading this sonnet reveals itself in the title. Frost reveals that there will be a change in the birds’ song –it will never be the same. In order to understand the change that will occur in this sonnet, it is important to understand the entirety of the sonnet—the theme, sound…

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