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The word 'onomatopoeia' comes from the combination of two Greek words, "onoma" meaning 'name' and "poeia" meaning 'I make'.  So onomatopoeia literally means 'the name (or sound) I make'.

Example:

water  :  splish, splash, splosh
voice  :  growl, hollered
collison  :  crash, boom, bang
air  :  poof, woosh
animals :  woof, oink, meow, moo

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Personification is when human qualitise or abilities are given to an object or animal.  It is a literacy tool that adds interest and fun to a poem or a story.  When a writer brings a non-human object to life, it can help us understand better what they are trying to say ( Read more... )

• AUG 20, 2017,

To become single in your 50s can leave you unsteady. But you take stock of your life, and your linen, and figure out that everything can be fixed with Tabasco.

There's big trouble brewing in Yio Chu Kang. There is a man in the mirror I am not certain I recognise. He used to think Muji was a Japanese dish and now he's a self-appointed ( Read more... )

Heard this the other day and I don't wanna forget.

痴線蜘蛛啲蜘蛛絲黐住枝樹枝. 😜

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Many of those free newspaper that I pick up from the street are in Cantonese and so are the countless signboard in HK. I guess I could now decipher many of the HK words by guessing. ☺️


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December 21, 2014

The grandest treasures of my childish universe lay in my father’s cupboard. It was unlocked and yet forbidden, full of manly secrets not to be shared with a boy. So, of course, when he went to work, I turned burglar. In a small tray, lay a huddle of riches. A half-eaten packet of peppermints. Two quickly swallowed. A one- ( Read more... )

I have not been reading as much to the youngest and it makes me feel kinda guilty sometimes. I tried to surf for some interesting poems and read to her though.

Here are some of them.

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May 24, 2014

You can’t imagine the nausea. Can’t feel the fatigue. Can’t touch the sores in the mouth. Can’t experience the diarrhoea or constipation. Can’t see what this drip of a chemotherapy drug does to the body. Except the hair. Always, in movies, in photographs, we see the hair gone. Falling in clumps from the head, vanishing from the ( Read more... )

Over the past two years, I realised Andrea's English has improved tremendously, all thanks to her English teacher in school.  Her teacher has always encouraged kids to be original in their writing and to avoid creche.   We really enjoyed reading some of her essays as they are rather refreshing ( Read more... )