Seperation versus Comparison Flashcards
What are 4 connectors/lumpers
1)Based of Comparison: metaphor + simile
2)Association: Metonymy and synecdoche
3)Reference: Allusion + Quotation
4)Animation: Personification, Anthropomorphsom, Zoomorphism
3 Types of Separation/Splitters
1)Anithesis
2)Oxymoron
3)Paradox
Shakespeare Sonnets 18 and 30 demonstrate what?
Tropes of Comparison but are also about comparison
What does the use of comparison do in William Shakespeare sonnet #18?
Using thou it seems like it is about the subject but it is about comparison and what the comparision can do for its subject
Using thou versus you
You is plural, Thou is Singular
Thou= more personal
-Intimate pronoun, same social level as the speaker or who he is on intimate terms
-Something modern English cannot express
Tenor
Subject to which attributes are described
Vehicle
Subject from which attributes are drawn
Ground
The basis for comparison (similarities)
Tension
Difference between the two subject
Why is tension important
Tension is often overlooked (comparisons often invite you to focus on the ground) but tension prevents comparisons from developing into tautology (saying same thing twice)
Similes assert what
Likeliness but apply differences and the likeness is literal
(like a summers day but aren’t actually a summers day)
Metaphors assert what
Identity bit the ID can only be figurative
(if literal no tension)
What is one of the greatest challenges of love poetry (shakespere 130)
Convention: yesterday innovation quickly dwindles into today’s cliche and cliches come across as in authentic
What is Shakespere Sonnet 130 catergorized as?
Blazon: Itemizes elements if a woman’s appearance, praising them using conventional comparisons
hair like gold wire, eye like gems,
What is different about Shakespeare Sonnet 130
Mocks other blazon
Says those comparisons are unrealistic and says that other women are misrepresented by false comaprisons and that his love is true (other loves not true?)
Langston Hughes Harlem does what
Shows comparison
A question that triggers 3 sets of questions of this or that which are comparisons
-Raisin vs. Sore
-Rotten Meat vs. Syrup Sweet
-Heavy load vs. Explode
Good to Bad
Bad to Not Great
Both Bad
Dream deffered are bad as time goes on
Raisin vs. Sore
Ground
Tension
Ground: Moisture
Difference: Pleasent versus Pain
Rotten Meat vs. Syrup Sweet
Ground
Tension
Ground: Sensory Experience (meat stinks, syrup tastes sweet)
Tension: Bad smell versus good taste (but also could be bad)
Syrup wont sustain
Heavy load vs. Explode
Ground
Tension
Ground: Potential Energy or Pressure
Tension: Heavy load sinks down, Expoade goes up
Big Thief Velvet Ring first verse creates a mood of squalor, claustrophobia and menace how:
Tomb (metaphor), womb (simile), Fume (simile) linked by rhyme.
-Comparisons to negative things
(flickering like to violent womb, night thicker than a smokey fume, and kitchen to a city womb)
Big Thief Velvet Ring Point
Benny loves her but his love will never be enough.
Prostitute, and giving birth to a child that is not his and uncomfortable langauge
Sir Philip Sidney Atrophil and Stella usage
Shows difference between Paradox and Oxymoron
-Oxymoron: consistory words in short phrase
Dumb Eloquence
-Paradox: Self-Contractory phrase
I love not without I leave to love
(to prove I can love, I must stop loving)
What is Antithesis
Simple Opposition
You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
Oxymoron
Opposition words or concepts asserted to be simultaneously true
(Operates at the level of words)
Dumb Eloquence, a silence the communicates more effectively than words could
