1/17/2018 0 Comments Reading Journal #16untitled poem by amanda lovelace from the princess saves herself in this one
This poem is made up of eight triplets. Throughout this poem, there is no rhyming. The first line of each stanza encompasses the same phrase of "i need your", which is then concluded with different things for each stanza. There is not really a clear mood that is set only by the sounds made throughout the poem, there are variations of sounds. The eminent mood of the poem that is portrayed throughout is one of longing or nostalgia in a way.
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1/17/2018 0 Comments Reading Journal #15Modern Vampires by Dawn Lanuza from The Last Time I'll Write About You
In this poem, there are lots of soft sounds, using many words that begin with an "s". The structure of this poem is a Rhymed Verse, there are end rhymes and it has a regular meter. The rhyme scheme follows a ABCB DEDE pattern. All lines rhyme with the second away from it, omitting the first and third lines of the first stanza. It is made up of two quatrain stanzas. 1/11/2018 0 Comments Reading Journal #14normal by Madisen Kuhn from eighteen years
In this poem, almost every stanza is a quatrain, but has an extra line indented directly beneath it before the next stanza begins. This poem is structured in blank verse. There is no rhyming in this poem, but the same idea or message is portrayed in a repetition sort of way in the indented line underneath each stanza. This repetition is also denoted at the beginning of each stanza. For example, it starts with "at the age of seven," then "at the age of nine," and continues on to when the girl is twelve and fourteen, then lastly, when she is sixteen. Throughout this poem, the sounds remain very soft, there are no harsh sounding letters. 12/8/2017 0 Comments Reading Journal #13In most young adult books, it's all essentially the same plot. Two unlikely kids fall in love, blah blah blah. It isn't very different for Looking for Alaska. However, it breaks the cycle of a traditional young adult book by not having the girl fall in love with the boy, instead the book is her just leading him into a way of him falling in love with her, and not showing any slightest hints at her feeling the same way.
This book is full of the typical kinds of characters, but each has a special twist that makes them more unique than those who are in other books. All of the characters have their backstories explained, not just the two main characters. 12/8/2017 0 Comments Reading Journal #12In Looking for Alaska, the author, John Green foreshadows in the books from the very beginning. Each day he writes about has a countdown. 112 days before, 63 days before, 2 days before. The first time you read the book, you have no clue what the countdown is leading to, but when it gets there you are definitely surprised. When "before" ends, it happens. Then the rest of the book is continued in a backwards countdown in a way. 4 days after, 23 days after, and so on.
11/10/2017 0 Comments Reading Journal #10Throughout this book, it is told in both past and present tense. In we all looked up, there are many flashbacks to the past that they then connect to the present.
11/10/2017 0 Comments Reading Journal #9The structure of we all looked up includes chapters that vary in different lengths. Most are 5-6 pages long, with the perspectives interchanging when the next begins. Most of these chapters consist of flashbacks, the current time, or lots of dialogue between the characters.
11/5/2017 0 Comments Reading Journal #8A literary device that is heavily used in we all looked up is Euphemism. Considering the book is about a huge meteor coming straight for earth, the author had lots of chances and opportunites to use Euphemisms. An example of this:
"Might as well have been a guy in a black robe with a scythe" - Insinuating that the news might as well have been the grim reaper, reffering to the fact that he would die. 11/5/2017 0 Comments Reading Journal #7In relation to journal #6, there are also chapters where the author hardly includes any dialogue. For example, there is a chapter that has multiple long paragraphs that consist mostly of one of the characters having a "flashback". In this "flashback", the character Peter is recollecting on things he's done in the past. This gives the reader some insight to what lives were like before the pressure of a meteor hitting earth was on them. It also allows the reader to make more of an emotional connection with the characters in the book.
11/5/2017 0 Comments Reading Journal #6 A certain thing that is heavily present in we all looked up is the use of dialouge. Each chapter has a considerable amount of dialouge throughout it. The way the author uses it can get pretty confusing. He does not always include a dialogue tag, leaving you to decifer who the conversation is going back and forth between. For example,
Misery smiled hugely. "You are? Really?" "I said no, Miz." "Yeah, but you had to think about it. That means it's just a matter of time. Start the countdown." The author includes names in the responses, which can make reading it easier and more smooth. |
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