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| a narrative that has a second meaning beneath the surface |
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| a figure of speech in which something means more than what it is |
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| a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman |
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| the central idea of the poem |
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| a restatement of the content of a poem designed to make its prose meaning as clear as possible |
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| the standard written English sentences and essays we use to state facts and explain |
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the representation through language of sensory experience
example: The lady laughed like a demonic echo of tears
example: soft, scurrying labels of time |
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| any poetic device (all the words on this page) that representbexpression in a nonliteral way |
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| language employing figures of speech; language that is implied or suggested - the opposite of literal |
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| the feeling evoked by the poet through his/her imagery |
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a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things using, most commonly, "like" or "as", "than" or "seems",
"resembles" or "similar to"
example: His heart flutters like a bird's wing.
example: Mr. Norris resembles a hatchet man with blood on his mind. |
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a figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things directly or indirectly
example: My husband is a god of the flute.
example: The guitarist bent over her wooden frame with devotion in his eyes. |
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a figure of speech describing a smaller object to represent a larger idea or experience
example: a toad might represent all foolish men
example: a saw might represent inevitable death |
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figure of speech which refers to something explicitly or implicitly in literature or history and now culture
example: the Barbie doll
example: the Great Train Robbery
example: the Sermon on the Mount or one of Shakespeare's characters or events |
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: a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object or a concept
example: Music lifts my soul and carries me on her shoulders.
example: "Because I did not stop for Death--/He kindly
stopped for me--" |
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| writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject (in the piece) |
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an apparent contradiction that is, somehow, true
example: In Of Mice and Men, George loves Lenny but he hates him for ruining things |
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| Hyperbole or Overstatement |
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a figure of speech using an exaggeration of the truth for an effect
example: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
example: I'll die if I don't get an A in this class |
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a figure of speech saying less than one means about the truth
example: I think I burned my hand ( it's really third degree)
example: The car accident is minor; he just lost a limb |
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a kind of literature which exposes a social evil with the intention of reform or correction - it is serious; it is NOT Saturday Night Live
example: Jonathon Swift's, A Modest Proposal
example: Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau |
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a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant
example: Marge Piercy uses the words, "the magic of
puberty" in her poem, Barbie Doll, to describe the
ugliness (not beauty) of adolescent truth |
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dramatic - a discrepancy between what the speaker says and what the poem means
example: Tom Dacre's happiness can only be achieved through death in William Blake's poem, The Chimney Sweeper |
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a discrepancy exists between the actual circumstances and the expectation
example: Ozymandias was NOT a great ruler because the people he ruled so cruelly destroyed his self-created monuments in Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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