Unit 4- Poems That Describe: Imagry & Figurative Language Flashcards
Words are chosen for their _________ (literal meanings)
Denotations
The poet may paint word pictures through ________, the use of the words which appeal to our senses.
Imagery
What includes various types of comparisons as well as language used on more than one level?
Figurative language
Figurative language includes various types of comparisons which are:
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Apostrophe
Words are chosen for their _________ (suggested meanings or associations)
Connotations
Who was the American journalist who was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania; earned a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University, and then returned from England and became an editor for several magazines including “Saturday Review” and wrote “Smells”?
Christopher Morley
Who was the Spanish poet who’s simple poems used nature and folk themes and wrote “Platero and I”?
Juan Ramón Jiménez
What is an expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words “like”,”as”,”resembles”, or “similar to” are used?
Simile
Who was one of the leading English poets of the Victorian period and was considered the voice of the Victorian age and wrote “The Oak” and “The Deserted House”?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
What is an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another?
Metaphor
What is a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal?
Personification
Who was the popular German romantic writer from a Jewish family who was especially known for his lyrical poetry, which is characterized by intense emotion and irony and wrote “A Lonely Pine Is Standing”?
Heinrich Heine
Who was not a famous American poet until after she died, and after attending Amherst Institute and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, isolated herself in Amherst, Massachusetts; dressing herself only in white and seeing no one but close friends, and wrote “I Like to See It Lap the Miles” and “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves”?
Emily Dickinson
Sometimes a poet will exaggerate to emphasize a truth. What is this exaggeration called?
Overstatement or hyperbole
What author was born in Hope, Illinois, had a Ph.D. from Columbia University, was a literary editor for “The Nation” magazine, his biographies include “Shakespeare” and “Nathaniel Hawthorne”, and he received a Pulitzer prize for his “Collected Poems” and wrote “The Story Teller?”
Mark Van Doren
What has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself?
Symbol
Who was a German poet, novelist, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for literature, some of his famous novels being “Siddhartha”,”Steppenwolf”, and “Magister Ludi”, and his poems and novels express man’s spiritual loneliness and wrote “Alone”?
Hermann Hesse
What poem is a comparison of life with a tree?
“The Oak”
What poem is a description of a locomotive train?
“I Like to See It Lap the Miles”
What poem is a description of snow?
“It Sifts from Leaden Sieves”
What poem describes a tree’s dream of a better life?
“A Lonely Pine Is Standing”
Who was an Irish poet, dramatist, and leader of the Irish Renaissance, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923, was in love with Maude Gonne but she rejected him, and wrote “The Folly of Being Comforted”?
William Butler Yeats
Who wrote “Meeting at Night”?
Robert Browning
