Lesson Plan For Types of PIC-LITS: Traditional & Contemporary Poetry Show OBJECTIVE:
DEFINITIONS: Nature’s first green is gold” The tenor “first green” is compared to the vehicle “gold.” The connotations of “gold” are scarce, precious, and valuable. This helps us see that, for the speaker, the first signs of life in spring are scarce, precious, and valuable. A simile is an explicit comparison between two unlike things that uses “like,” “as,” “seems,” or “resembles” to make the comparison. For example: “I wandered lonely as a cloud Metonymy is a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or associated detail of an experience or object is used to represent the whole experience or object. It is always a comparison between whole and part, not two disparate wholes. For example: “For oft when on my couch I lie —William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Personification is a figure of speech that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human characteristics. For example: “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Poetry Analysis: The Writer In her room at the prow of the house I pause in the stairwell, hearing Young as she is, the stuff But now it is she who pauses, The whole house seems to be thinking, I remember the dazed starling And retreated, not to affright it; And iridescent creature And wait then, humped and bloody, It lifted off from a chair-back, It is always a matter, my darling, —Richard Wilbur Metaphors: The “it” refers the comparison between the tenor—the daughter’s ability to find inspiration to write another passage—and the vehicle—the bird’s ability to find the open window. If the daughter does not write, then she will die emotionally and professionally; if the bird does not fly out, then it will die imprisoned in the room. The tenor of the bird lifting off the chair back and passing over the “window sill” is compared to the vehicle of the daughter finding the right passage and overcoming her writer’s block. Thus, both the bird and the daughter enter into the world they have been struggling to enter into. The mutual elation of the bird and daughter are strongly felt. The tenor of another metaphor is the daughter experiencing writer’s block, where the vehicle is the “trapped starling.” As the bird hopes to find the right window and return to its home in nature, the daughter hopes to find the right words to express the “heavy cargo” of her life experiences on paper. Extended Metaphors:
Simile: The tenor “starling” is compared to the vehicle “glove” which drops to the hard floor. The image of the dropping glove enhances our perceptions of the battered starling dropping to the ground after hitting the window. The solid thump is more easily heard through the simile and the feelings of defeat are felt. Metonymy: Personification: Worksheet for Figurative Language in Poetry: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud Continuous as the stars that shine The waves beside them danced; but they For oft, when on my couch I lie —William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Find an example for each use of figurative language below. Introduce the quotation, identify the poetic device, and explain how the example of figurative language contributes to your thesis statement about the poem. Thesis statement: 1. Simile: 2. Simile: 3. Personification: 4. Metonymy: GUIDED PRACTICE WRITING PROMPT: Write a brief paragraph on how the influence of the metaphor or simile, personification, and metonymic phrase assist the creation of your poem’s meaning. What is metaphor simile and personification with example?A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using words 'like' or 'as' while metaphor is a comparison between two words but without using 'like' or 'as'. Personification involves giving human qualities to non-living things, while hyperbole is an exaggeration.
How do you identify simile metaphor and personification in a poem?A metaphor occurs when a word or phrase is applied to an object or action in a way that cannot be taken literally. A simile is a comparison between two dissimilar objects that uses the word "like" or "as." Lastly, personification is when a comparison applies human attributes to something nonhuman.
What are examples of a simile poem?I can swing on this play gym just like a monkey. ' She swung bar to bar until one bar she missed, Then she fell and was so mad like an angry cat she hissed."
What is an example of personification poem?Examples of Personification in Poetry
A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. By describing the daffodils as "dancing in the breeze" (line 4), Wordsworth is able to create an image of whimsy by personifying the flower.
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