Monday, April 18, 2011

Poetry Terms: Tone ♥

 
DEFINITION
The pitch or strength of your voice when you read a poem. When your voice goes up and down, it can create different moods to the poem.



EXAMPLE
What are words
If you really don't mean them
When you say them
What are words
If they're only for good times
Then they don't
When it's love
Yeah, you say them out loud
Those words, They never go away
They live on, even when we're gone

    (What Are Words - Chris Medina)
 


SIGNIFICANCE
If you read the poem out loud with some tones in it, you can feel the moods and the emotions that the author's trying to create. By using tones, the poem will sound more dramatic and emotional, lively and realistic.

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