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Listening To Syllables So what are we actually doing when we listen for syllables? We're identifying the difference between a coda and an onset through our intuitive knowledge of how ...

Syllable Composition A syllable is a part of speech, sure, but what is it made of? The quick answer is a vowel and consonants. Linguistics have called these parts the ...

Linguistics So I actually did a bit of research to see how better to describe this to people who just aren't getting the first method. Here's what I've found: This ...

Just Do It For a lot of people what works best is to listen to how a word is pronounced and decide where the parts of those words are. For ...

Index Introduction Index Just Do It Linguistics Syllable Composition Listening to Syllables Index

Counting Syllables Syllable counting is one of those things that poets are supposed to know how to do. Why? Well there are a lot of reasons. Having the same amount ...

Summary Some of the ways that emotion in poetry can be expressed include using specific types of language and adding details about certain situations. Develop an understanding of how you ...

Adding Emotion to a Poem The above sections are all about how to find emotion in poetry and what some of the different tools are that you can use to ...

"You're Not The Boss of Me" Test This test (YNTBoM) is geared towards discovering imperative language and assumptions in poetry by reading the poem and, after each line, filling in ...

Preaching in Poetry One of the hazards of writing poetry is that you may end up becoming "preachy." This is mostly because as a writer you want to say me, ...

Clichés Clichés phrases that everyone is already familiar with or words being used in familiar, worn-out ways. As a new writer or someone who doesn't read much, these will be ...

Specificity A trick in poetry is being specific enough for readers to see and feel the events of the poem while avoiding being too specific, to the point where the ...

Loaded Language Along with button words comes loaded language. This is language that evokes one of the five senses: sight, smell, touch, hearing, or taste. To get these senses tingling, ...

Button Words Button words are words that create an emotional response from the reader automatically because of our connotations with the word. This could be something positive, such as "patriotic ...

Finding Emotion in Poetry Writing emotional poetry can be difficult, but finding emotion in a poem is often more challenging as you approach a poem you have written and read ...