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ENG 207 Fa '12 Midterm Review
Studies in Poetry
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English
Undergraduate 1
10/02/2012

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Denotation
Definition
dictionary meaning or meanings of the word.
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Connotation
Definition
what a word suggests beyond what it expresses: its overtones of meaning.
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Imagery/Image
Definition
the representation through language of sense experience.
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Simile
Definition
used as a means of comparing things that are unalike. Similes express comparisons by the use of some word or phrase, such as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems.
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Metaphor
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used as a means of comparing things that are unalike. Comparisons are not expressed in metaphors; they are created when a figurative term is substituted for or identified with the literal term. 
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Personification
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consists of giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, object, or a concept. 
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Apostrophe
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consists of addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if the person or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said. 
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Synecdoche
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the use of the part for the whole.
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Metonymy
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the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant.
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Symbol/Symbolism
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may be roughly defined as something that means more than what it is.
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Allegory
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a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface.
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Paradox
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an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true. Is a statement. 
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Overstatement (hyperbole)
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simply exaggeration, but exaggeration in the service of truth.
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Understatement
Definition
saying less than one means; may exist in what one says or merely in how one says it.
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Irony
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has meanings that extend beyond its use merely as a figure of speech. It is a literary device or figure that may be used in the service of sarcasm or ridicule or may not.
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Allusion
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a reference to something in history or previous literature. A means of suggesting far more than what it says.
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Musee des Beaux Arts

 

 

W. H. Auden

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"In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may"
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Meeting at Night

 

 

Robert Browning

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"And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, 

Than the two hearts beating each to each!"

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The Snow Man

 

 

Wallace Stevens

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"One must have a mind of winter

To regard the frost and the boughs

Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;"

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The Snow Man

 

 

 

Wallace Stevens

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"And, nothing himself, beholds 

Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."

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