Learning Log 6

Dear Mrs. Woo,

In your enjoyable literature lessons, I learnt a lot about literary devices. I know that these literary devices will help me score in my exams; hence, I made an effort to understand and memorize each and every one of them.  There are three types of literary devices that I have learnt during your lessons. In lesson one; I learnt about Imagery and Figurative language type of literary devices. In lesson two, I learnt another type of literary device called Sound devices. And in lesson three, I learnt the hardest and last type of literary device called Diction and Sentence Structure.

I found out that some of these literary devices were already covered during my secondary one period; this helps me to understand the old and new literary devices better. You also said that some of the literary devices in Imagery and Figurative language are important, such as, simile (comparison between two distinctly different things), kinesthetic (descriptions to do with movement), metaphor (qualities of an object is applied to another), personification (the attribution of human beings to inanimate objects), visual (descriptions to do with what we see) and symbol (an object that stand for something else, usually something more abstract). J

The new literary devices that I have never heard of during lesson one was, auditory( descriptions to do with what we hear), olfactory( descriptions to do with what we smell) ,gustatory( flavor descriptions) and tactile( descriptions to do with what we touch).

In lesson two, I learnt a literary device called sound devices. There are rhyme (the similarity of ending sounds existing between two words), rhythm (the beat stresses – claps – as you read a passage or poem) and tone (an oral expression). The sound devices that are new to me are, alliteration (the repetition of initial consonant sounds, to produce a rhythmical effect) and onomatopoeia (the formation of words, which echo the sounds that they describe.)  

In lesson three, all the literary devices, called diction and sentence structures, are quite difficult to understand and use. There are a total of ten of literary devices in this section. And they are, connotation (the associated images and ideas conveyed by a word), oxymoron (a single image, made up of contradictory), hyperbole (a deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a point or feelings), paradox (a statement which seems self-contradictory but turns out to make a good sense), simple sentence (a sentence with one main idea), complex sentence (one or more main idea in a phrase or clauses), incomplete sentence (truncated sentences which reflect excitement), exclamation (a strong statement showing feeling or emphasis), rhetorical question (a question to achieve an expressive tone different from a direct question.) and lastly, repetition (using a word or phrase to multiple times). 

In conclusion, I learnt a lot during your literary devices lessons and it helped me to understand more about these literary devices. I hope that you can give us more practices as I still don’t quite get the hang of it yet. I look forward your future lessons regarding about unseen poems.J

Melisa lukito (9)

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Learning Log 5

Dear Mrs. woo,

The previous lessons that you have with us was quite interesting and challenging at the same time. I learnt how to approach an unseen poem. Firstly, I need to understand the overall meaning of the text. Secondly, I should do a close reading. Lastly, I need to provide a personal response. I have learnt many literary devices such as connotation, paradox and hyperbole J But I have a hard time remembering them all. I suggest that you should give us more unseen poems so that we will know how to tackle unseen poems that we are not familiar with easily.

The new note on unseen poem that you gave me was really specific and new to me. In the new unseen poem notes, I learnt that there is nothing special about an unseen poem or prose passage, and you should approach them in the same way you would do with any piece of prose or poem. I learnt that tackling the unseen poem is slightly difficult as we will be competing with time. And when we approach the unseen poem, we must at least read it 3 times! This will take a long time to complete. I also learnt the DO’S and DONT’S when tackling the unseen poems. Organizing my answers is easy… as long I follow the rules (IBC / PEEL)

I understand that I must also be able to express my ideas coherently and persuasively. I already got the idea how to do this but I still need some help J so I think you need to give us loads of unseen poems in the future.

Melisa lukito (9)

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