#apostophe

To appease me idle curiosity I walked through me old school And took a tour of the classrooms With a motley assortment Of chalk, and a carefully organized Syllabus ready to be placed Onto each student’s desk I have a momentary forgetfulness About time frames and bid a friendly ‘Here’ to me teachers who once took Attendance in these rooms. Today they wanted us to use metonymy. I took…

It's #NationalPunctuationDay. Time to get nerdy!

  24 September is National Punctuation Day, and it has me worrying that my love of punctuation makes me seem … well, persnickety.

  I know it’s nerdy to enjoy punctuation, but a Grammar Nazi I am not. I don’t get riled by other people’s misplaced apostrophes or their lack of an Oxford comma. I see the error, and move on.

I don’t shame people who overuse quotation marks or argue with those…

The Byronic Hero:  passionate, yet flawed individual-isms, intellectually searching and deeply sensual with ambitions doomed from the start.

Blank Verse: poetry written in iambic pentameter with five iambs per line. Often used in a less formal conversational manner. 

Romantic: a period where there was a fascination with youth and innocence, to questioning authority and tradition for idealistic purposes, and to developing an awareness of adapting to change.

Ode: a meditative poem which uses heightened, impassioned language and addresses some object.

Apostrophe: direct address of nonhuman objects through personification.

Synaesthesia: one sense experience (touch) is described in terms of another (taste).

Literary Ballad: a song-like poem that tells a story, is written in imitation of the folk ballads, which springs from genuine oral tradition.