POETRY

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POETRY
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POETRY

• A type of literature that expresses ideas,
  feelings, or tells a story in a specific form
  (usually using lines and stanzas)

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FIGURATIVELANGUAGE

• Figurative language is writing or speaking that
  purposefully departs from the literal meanings of
  words to achieve a particularly vivid,
  expressive, and/or imaginative image

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SIMILE

• A comparison of two things using like, as than,
  or resembles.
• She is as beautiful as a sunrise.

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METAPHOR

• A direct comparison of two unlike things
• All the worlds a stage, and we are merely
  players.
• - William Shakespeare

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EXTENDED METAPHOR

• A metaphor that goes several lines or possible
  the entire length of a work.

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Hope

• "Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in
  the soul,And sings the tune--without the
  words,And never stops at all,"And sweetest in
  the gale is heardAnd sore must be the
  stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept
  so many warm."I've heard it in the chillest
  land,And on the strangest seaYet, never, in
  extremity,It asked a crumb of me."(Emily
  Dickinson)

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IMPLIED METAPHOR

• The comparison is hinted at but not clearly
  stated.
• The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture
  venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the
  pressure of it.
• from The Pearl
• by John Steinbeck

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Hyperbole

• Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
• "I had so much homework, I needed a pickup truck
  to carry all my books home!"
• Hyperbole is supposed to evoke a ridiculous
  picture in your mind, ... and in the process,
  make the point effectively.

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Litotes

• Understatement - basically the opposite of
  hyperbole. Often it is ironic.

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PERSONIFICATION

• An animal given human-like qualities or an object
  given life-like qualities.

• "Wind yells while blowing"
• "Wind yells while blowing" is an example of
  personification because wind cannot yell. Only a
  living thing can yell.
• Necklace is a friend
• "Necklace is a friend" is an example of
  personification because Necklace is a thing, and
  necklaces cannot be friends. Only living things
  can have friends.

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SATIN DREAMS OF INDIA

• Satin dreams of India.Satin dreams of being
  made into a beautiful sari.A warm, Wonderful
  sari Worn on anIndian Princess.Swaying in the
  wind.Satin tell us to be soft andgentle like
  her

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SYMBOLISM

• When a person, place, thing, or event that has
  meaning in itself also represents, or stands for,
  something else.

• Innocence
• Canada
• Peace

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Allusion

• Allusion comes from the verb allude which means
  to refer to
• An allusion is a reference to something famous.

• A tunnel walled and overlaid
• With dazzling crystal we had read
• Of rare Aladdins wondrous cave,
• And to our own his name we gave.
• From Snowbound
• John Greenleaf Whittier

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IMAGERY

• Language that appeals to the senses.
• Most images are visual, but they can also appeal
  to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell.

then with cracked hands that ached from labor in
the weekday weather . . . from Those Winter
Sundays
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Cliché

• Any figure of speech that was once clever and
  original but has been overused and is now
  timeworn.
• Example-Busy as a bee

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Irony

• A contradiction of expectation between what is
  said and what is meant or an incongruity between
  what might be expected and what actually occurs.
  Often connected to a fatalistic or pessimistic
  view of life.
• Dramatic, situational, verbal

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Situational example The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner by Samuel Coleridge

• Water, water, every where,And all the boards
  did shrink Water, water, every where, Nor any
  drop to drink
• In this example it is ironic that water is
  everywhere but none of it can be drunk

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Oxymoron
-open secret -act naturally -found missing
-deafening silence -alone together

• a figure of speech that combines
  normally-contradictory terms.

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Metonymy

• a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a
  thing or concept is not called by its own name,
  but by the name of something intimately
  associated with that thing or concept

• Example Parliament stated today
• The Crown reported today

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Apostrophe

• Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener
  or inanimate object.
• Example O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip
  is done.

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Pun

• Word play in which words with totally different
  meanings have similar or identical sounds.

• Example Like a firefly, Im delighted

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Connotation

• The emotional, psychological or social overtones
  associated with a word.
• Can change from time to time frame, culture to
  culture.

• snake - "any of numerous scaly, legless,
  sometimes venomous reptiles having a long,
  tapering, cylindrical body and found in most
  tropical and temperate regions." snake - evil
  or danger

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Denotation

• The dictionary definition of a word, the literal
  meaning apart from any association or
  connotations.

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Re-Read the poems I have provided you with
and identify 5 meaning devices in the five that
you annotated for sound devices. Explain how
the meaning devices that you have identified
creates a deeper meaning.