Literature Unit 4 Flashcards
Connotations
Suggested meanings or associations
Denotations
Literal meaning
Imagery
The use of words which appeal to our senses
Figurative language
Includes various types of comparisons (similes, metaphor, personification, apostrophe) as well as a language used on more than one level (symbolism, irony, paradox)
Simile
An expressed comparison of unlike things in which the word like, as, resembles, or similar to are used
Who wrote The Oak
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
What two things are compared in The Oak
Life and an oak tree
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet of Victorian period. Began writing poems as a boy and publish one the year he entered Cambridge University. Wrote In Memoriam and Idylls of the King (poems based of King Arthur). He was appointed the official poet of England. Buried in Poet’s corner of Westminster Abbey
Personification
A comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal.
Who wrote A Lonely Pine Is Standing?
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine
German romantic writer from a Jewish family. Know for his lyrical poetry (characterized by intense emotion and irony). Wrote “The Lorelei”
Metaphor
An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another (says one thing but mean another
Who wrote I Like to See It Lap the Miles?
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Became famous American poet after her death. Only seven of her 2,000 poems were published. Isolated herself in her Massachusetts home
Who wrote It Sifts from Leaden Sieves?
Emily Dickinson
