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"The Minefield" by Diane Thiel |
Pg. 425 "He brought them with him - the minefields./ He carried them underneath his good intentions./ He gave them to us - in the volume of his anger,/ in the bruises we covered up with sleeves." denotation and connotation |
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"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop |
Pg. 434 "Like medals with their ribbons/ frayed and wavering,/ I stared and stared/ and victory filled up/ the little rented boat," imagery |
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"Metaphors" by Slyvia Plath |
Pg. 452 metaphors for pregnancy metaphor |
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"Love and Friendship" by Emily Bronte |
Pg. 460 compares love to rose-briar and friendship to holly-tree "Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now/ And deck thee with the holly's sheen,/ That when December blights thy brow/ He still may leave thy garland green." simile |
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"The Silken Tent" by Robert Frost |
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"Ozymandius" by Percy Shelley |
Pg. 614 |
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"The One Girl and the Boys' Party" |
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"Men at Forty" |
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denotation |
the literal, dictionary meaning of a word |
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connotation |
an association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry, apart from its literal denotation or dictionary definition. A word may pick up connotations from the uses to which is has been put in the past. |
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suggestion |
the power of a word to imply unspoken associations, in addition to its literal meaning |
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image |
A word or series of words that refers to any sensory experience. An image is a direct or literal recreation of physical experience and adds immediacy to literary language. |
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imagery |
The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work. |
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visual imagery |
Imagery that refers to the sense of sight or presents something one may see. |
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auditory imagery |
Imagery that refers to the sense of hearing. |
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tactile imagery |
Imagery that refers to the sense of touch. |
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simile |
A comparison of two things, indicatedby some connective, usually like, as, or than, or a verb such as resembles. A simile usually compares two things that initially seem unlike but are shown to have a significant resemblance. |
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metaphor |
A statement that one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense, it is not. A metaphor creates a close association between the two entities and underscores some important similarity. |
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Implied metaphor |
A metaphor that uses neither connectives nor the verb to be. |
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Mixed metaphor |
The (usually unintentional) combining of two or more incompariable metaphors, resulting in ridiculousness or nonsense. |
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personification |
The endowing of a thing, an animal, or an abstract term with human characteristics. |
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Apostrophe |
A direct address to someone or something |
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Overstatement |
Also called hyperbole. Exaggeration used to emphasize a point. |
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Understatement |
An ironic figure of speech that deliberately describes something in a way that is less than the case. |
