RECOGNIZING ROLES IN LIFE

You, like others, have important roles to play that make you interested in shaping yourself to become a
healthy and developed young adult. Learning how to recognize and to perform your roles effectively is a
good indicator that youre a responsible individual using even your past experiences to make a difference
in your life.
ROLES a part of someone or something has in a particular activity or situation.

RHYMES
External rhymes one of two or more words or phrases that end in the same sounds
Internal rhymes rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same
line or within another line

ONOMATOPOEIA
-Is a sound device used by poets to suggest action, movements, and meanings.
e.g. The hissing of the snake made me shoo it away.
The bubbling brook breaks.

REPETITION
-is a central part of poetry that adds to the enjoyment of a poem.
- Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the word like :
Doubting , drearing dreams no mortal enter dared to dream before.
- Edgar Allan Poe, from THE RAVEN
-Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words;
e.g. along the window sill, the lipstick stabs glittered in their steel shells.
- Rita Dove, from Adolescence III
-CONSONANCE is the repetition of consonants sound within and at the end of the words.
e.g. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
- E.A. Poe, from THE RAVEN

IMAGERY
-language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind.
Through the words used by the poet, as expressed by the persona /speaker, the vivid images, clear
sounds, and exact feelings are clearly conveyed. The descriptions help in making sense of the poem.
 CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION MARKS
When you read poems, you dont pause or stop at the end of the lines, but you watch out for
commas or periods to guide you. Use punctuation marks to help you find the sensible meaning of what
youre reading. Clarity of expressions in poetry or prose compositions exits if the sentence are
appropriately punctuated and the words are properly capitalized.

A short history of punctuation

By Polly M. Robertus
EARLY GREEKS HAD HARDLY ANY PUNCTUATION
AND EVEN CHANGED THE DIRECTION OF
THEIR WRITING AT THE END OF EACH LINE LATER.
THEY CHANGED TO AWAY OF WRITING
THAT FAVORED RIGHT HANDED PEOPLE AND SHOWED
WHERE A NEW PARAGRAPHBEGAN BY UNDERLINING
THE FIRST LINE OF IT. LATER THE GREEK PLAYWRIGHT
ARISTOPHANES INVERTED MARKS TO SHOW WHERE
THE READERS SHOULD TAKE BREATH.
THE ROMANS MADE WRITING MUCH EASIER
TO READ BY PUTTING DOTS BETWEEN WORDS
AND BY MOVINGTHE FIRST LETTER OF A
PARAGRAPH INTO THE LEFT MARGIN. THEY
ADAPTED SOME OF GREEK MARKS SUCH AS
THE COLON MARK TO INDICATE PHRASE ENDINGS.
IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES THIS SYSTEM OF PUNCTUATION
BROKE DOWN BECAUSE VERY FEW PEOPLE COULD READ
AND WRITE, BUT WRITERS KEPT A SPACE AT THE END OF
A SENTENCE AND CONTINUED TO MARK PARAGRAPHS
EVENTUALLY WORDS WERE SEPARATED AGAIN, AND
NEW SENTENCES BEGAN WITH A LARGER
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