Chapter 3

Question 1

Image

Answer 1

any physical sensation

a word “picture” of any sense impression

Question 2

The word “concrete”

Answer 2

derives from root words meaning to grow together

Question 3

The word “abstract”

Answer 3

comes from root words meaning to remove and to pull away

Question 4

“Gloire de Dijon” by D.H. Lawrence

Answer 4

comparing a woman to roses

kinetic sense like things swaying

Question 5

“What the Dog Perhaps Hears” by Lisel Mueller

Answer 5

things the dog hears that humans can’t

click of snake stretching

Question 6

“Winter” by Shakespeare

Answer 6

poem about winter

owl saying tu-who

Question 7

Inner organic senses

Answer 7

pulse, heartbeat, cycles, digestion

Question 8

We respond immediately to language…

Answer 8

that seems to be experience, rather than language that seems to describe experience from a distance.

Question 9

Literal image

Answer 9

aims to replicate in words the object or experience

Question 10

Figurative image

Answer 10

likens an object or experience to something else (surprising)

Question 11

“Nantucket” by WCW

Answer 11

everything in the room is “just-so”

Question 12

“A Description of the Morning” by Jonathan Swift

Answer 12

all literal
Dublin street
active verbs
schoolboys lagging with satchels

Question 13

“Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford

Answer 13

pushing the deer of a cliff

image of headlights red glare, warmth of baby deer

Question 14

“Study of Two Pears” by Wallace Stevens

Answer 14

description of two pears

Question 15

Good figurative images…

Answer 15

seem new to the reader, not just decorative.

Question 16

A figurative image…

Answer 16

establishes connections between things we normally would not associate.

Question 17

By using a figurative image, poet intends to…

Answer 17

1. Expand sensory perception beyond the literal meaning (Mexican bus)
2. Give pleasure or surprise to the imagination (new imagery)
3. Impart vigor by the inclusion of another active sensory detail
4. Intensify the deeper intention in the poem by adding the new dimension of the figurative image (only this poet…)

Question 18

simile

Answer 18

An explicit equation
A is like B
like, as, as if, seems, appears
dissimilar comparison

Question 19

epic simile

Answer 19

makes extended comparison

“The Silken Tent” by Robert Frost

Question 20

metaphors

Answer 20

close, more direct comparison
removal of connectives
"to transfer"
lack of physical space between words
"Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath

Question 21

mixed metaphors

Answer 21

writer combines incompatible metaphors

“Question” by May Swenson

Question 22

synesthesia

Answer 22

one sensory perception expressed in terms of a different sense

Question 23

metonymy

Answer 23

an identifying emblem is substituted for the whole name

Question 24

synecdoche

Answer 24

a piece or part of the whole represents the whole

Question 25

difference between metonymy and synecdoche

Answer 25

synecdoche keeps to itself for its representing image; metonymy uses emblem outside itself but associated

Question 26

personification

Answer 26

an emotion or something inhuman given human qualities

Question 27

pathetic fallacy

Answer 27

nature personification

Question 28

oxymoron

Answer 28

contrasting words are juxtaposed in order to encompass contrary impressions or ideas

Question 29

conceit

Answer 29

a bold and/or extended simile or metaphor

love with compass for John Donne

Question 30

symbol

Answer 30

an image or action that stands for more than itself

suggests a range of connections

Question 31

archetyppes

Answer 31

images that have universal meaning

Question 32

private symbol

Answer 32

readers do not come to it with symbolic associations of their own
“The Knot” by Stanley Kunitz