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Drummer Hoff is an illustrated children's book by Barbara and Ed Emberley.Ed Emberley won the 1968 Caldecott Medal for the book's illustrations. [1] Written by Barbara Emberley, it tells a cumulative tale of seven soldiers who build a cannon named "Sultan", and Drummer Hoff, who fires it off, with the book exploding into a blast of colors.
Kaboom is an onomatopoeic term representing the sound of an explosion. Kaboom may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, media. Literature. Kaboom ...
The poem relies on many sound-based techniques, including cognate variation and chiasmus. [66] In particular, the poem emphasises the use of the "æ" sound and similar modifications to the standard "a" sound to make the poem sound Asian. Its rhyme scheme found in the first seven lines is repeated in the first seven lines of the second stanza.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...
”Ka-Boom!” logo. Ka-Boom! was an off-Broadway musical that ran at the Carter Theatre in New York City in 1980. Directed by Godspell co-creator John-Michael Tebelak, [1] with book and lyrics by Bruce Kluger and music by Joe Ercole, [2] the two-act musical told the story of the five sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust that had destroyed the world, who were spared by God so that he could ...
A quatrain is any four-line stanza or poem. There are 15 possible rhyme sequences for a four-line poem; common rhyme schemes for these include AAAA, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, and ABCB. [citation needed] "The Raven" stanza: ABCBBB, or AA,B,CC,CB,B,B when accounting for internal rhyme, as used by Edgar Allan Poe in his poem "The Raven" Rhyme royal: ABABBCC
Rondel (or roundel): a poem of 11 to 14 lines consisting of 2 rhymes and the repetition of the first 2 lines in the middle of the poem and at its end. Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes; in English, they typically have 10 syllables per line. Caudate sonnet; Crown of sonnets (aka sonnet redoublé) Curtal sonnet
John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...