Of all the texts that we've read this year, which one is your favorite, and why? Which one is your least favorite, and why?
My favorite text that we read this year was definitely The Great Gatsby. I liked The Great Gatsby because it is very lively and visual. I also enjoyed the movie with all of the colors and the actors. My least favorite book was The Merchant of Venice. I disliked this book because I don't understand Shakespear. To be honest I didn't really understand the book. For me it was a very bland book. The Great Gatsby and The Merchant of Venice are two very different books. In the end I prefer The Great Gatsby.
Prompt: Discuss the use of sound devices (alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyming) in one of the poems in your sub-genre reader. How does the author use these elements to create meaning? Please include the poem as part of your response. In the poem "A Poison Tree" from the Romanticism era, there is a lot of examples of rhyming. The rhyme scheme was AABB stanza (4 times). The poem seemed very happy because of the rhyming. It seemed like a happy poem but it was actually the poem was quite dark. I think that the author used the rhyming to make the poem seem happy but when you read it again you realize it is about a man being poisoned under a tree. I also think the poem was written in a joyful way because during the poem the main character was resenting the man that was poisoned. In the last line he/she says that his/her friend was glad to see the friend poisoned. I was angry with my friend; (A) I told my wrath, my wrath did end...
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