The schwa is the term given to the symbol that indicates the indeterminate vowel sound. It is also considered as the unstressed central vowel in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The schwa is also one of the most commonly misunderstood sound in the English alphabet and are known as the lazy vowels. A lot may have heard about it but only a few knows that it is the most common unaccented syllables or words in the English dialect.
1 the man talking on his phone missed his bus 2) the tv show we watched last night wasn’t very good 3) the actor appearing in the play is from france 4) i love the photos taken from the book
"Islands and Icebergs" by Ralph Semino Galan is a poem about reading a poem. <u>The speaker asks readers to imagine the paper as being the ocean and the words to be floating on the that ocean. That is a clue as to why he writes three lines per stanza. The length of the lines, along with their number, reminds us of the waves, even the foam, to floats up and down, back and forth, on the ocean. The author wrote three lines per stanza as a way to make the poem itself resemble an ocean, instead of simply asking as to imagine it.</u>
