Test 1 Flashcards
A bird came down the walk: Author
Emily Dickinson
Words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions
Imagery
It is from a metaphor and it’s the original subject being described
Tenor
It’s image the tenor is being compared to
Vehicle
Expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself
Metonomy
Uses a part of something to stand for the whole
Synecdoche
Fire and Ice: Author
Robert Frost
Explain the poem in 4 ideas (Fire and Ice)
- The poem is comparing two opposite things
- The opposite things are good and evil; good represents ice and evil represents fire
- Evil can be the one that destroy ourselves with hate and with coldness
- It also talks about how experience in life can help us from a great destruction
A Dream within a Dream: author
Edgar Allan Poe
Write 4 ideas explaining what the poem is about (A Dream within a Dream)
- The poem is telling at the beginning how the author is losing his love forever because there is nothing more to save
- It says how everything they lived was totally like a dream and how sad it is that it can’t be safe
- The author is holding in his hand sand that represents the memories of the two of them
- He says how he can’t do anything to revive the beautiful memories nor stopping them from going away
The Haunted Palace: author
Edgar Allan Poe
Write 4 ideas explaining what the poem is about (Haunted Palace)
- It starts talking a haunted palace deep in the Valley that is abandoned, it says why
- It says that the palace long time ago was beautiful on the outside and inside, but everything changed when an evil spirit appear and the house became terrified
- After the spirit came to the house it made it dark and people where afraid of it
- In my opinion this means how someone can change completely when an evil enters their life
Annabel Lee: author
Edgar Allan Poe
Analyse the entire poem by writing four ideas about it
- The poem starts to talk about a great love that was the love between the narrator and Annabel lee
- It talks about how the narrator lost his great love, the one greatest than everything
- Their love was so great that even the Angels were jealous
- It also says that even a wind had killed her, their soul was forever tied because of their love and finally how he still sees Annabel in his dreams