EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY – Music,
Here’s the deal. FOR EXTRA CREDIT DO THE FOLLOWING . . .
Post to this discussion. Listen for examples of literary techniques, figurative language, and poetic devices used in the media below.
EVERY post will get extra credit points provided the post has no errors.
Points can be used (divided up or not) to bring any grade to the next letter grade. For example:
- If youhave an A on an assignment, the points can NOT be used for that assignment.
- If you have and 84 (C), you can only use one (1) point for that assignment to bring it up to 85 (B).
- If you have a 30 (F) – you put the effort in and turned the assinment in, you can use 40 points to bring it up to a 70 (D).
- You can not use the points on “ZERO” grades (assignments you never turned in).
- 100 points – most poetic techniques and most quoted examples with no errors
- 92 points – 2nd most with quoted examples with no errors
- 84 points – 3rd most with quoted examples with no errors
- 76points – 4th most with quoted examples with no errors
- Anyone else can have 10 extra credit points if you post with no errors
OK READY? Scroll down, click play and listen closely. Listen as many times as you want to. GET THOSE POINTS.
Personification: “The clouds prepare for battle”
Personification: “Bruised and sullen stormclouds” This is personification because clouds do not have feelings.
Metaphor: “Thunderheads are rumbling
In a distant overture…” This compares thunderheads with an overture.
Imagery:”Light streams down in bright unbroken beams…”Sense of sight.
Rhyme Scheme: “Follow men’s eyes as they look to the skies. The shifting shafts of shining weave the fabric of their dreams”
-Personification: “The clouds prepare for battle in the dark and brooding silence”
-Imagery: “Thunder heads are rumbling” (sense of hearing)
-Metaphor: “Thunder heads are rumbling in a distant overture” (compares thunder heads to a distant overature)
-Rhyme Scheme: “Follow men’s eyes as they look to the skies. The shifting shafts of shining weave the fabric of their dreams”
“light of day obscured”
“clouds prepare for battle”
“in the dark and moving silence”
“looming low and ominous”
“twilight premature”
“thunderheads are rumbling in a distant overture”
You have to label each technique for what it is.
In this video the jacob ladder, the 2 main things they are
comparing are the darkness with the clouds because they show how they cause thunderstorms and dissapointments to the
setting like the houses breaking apart and the loud noises
they make during the distruction. the music affects the setting
because it has a sound of beating and thunder and a booming
noise .this video sounds like a unhappy situation to be in.