Poetry

Poetry refers in totality to the deployment of certain devices such as figure as figures of speech (emotion), rhyme and rhythm, stanzaic divisions, metre, subject matter in a body of words in order to express an idea.

FEATURES

1. Imagery: this refers to the selective and effective use of words to create pictorial impression in the imagination of the reader.
2. Stanza: It is a collection of verses to form a section of the poem
3. Rhythm: It is the measured flow of words and phrases in poetry.
4. Rhyme: It is the sameness of sounds between words in poetry.

EVALUATION

Write a poem, using the listed features

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT: 

1. Effective English, book 1. Page 133. Practice.
2. Write a letter of complaints to your school authority

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TENSES

SPEECH WORK

FORMAL LETTER

ADVERBS