Figurative Language and poets

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: CONCIET
• A conceit is a special kind of metaphor that is extended throughout most of the poem or over several lines.
• Authors use it to create striking, elaborate comparisons between two seemingly dissimilar objects.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: PERSONIFICATION
• A figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to objects or animals.
• Authors use it to give an inanimate object or animal a deeper meaning.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: HYPERBOLE
• A figure of speech that contains an exaggeration for emphasis, an extreme exaggeration.
• Authors use it to heighten the effect and sometimes to add humor to a poem or story.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND IMAGERY POPUP:
- Luncheon of The Boating Party-
• The luncheon of the boating party is like a back yard get together.
• The dirnks were piling high as the luncheon came to a close you could almost eat the air with the fragrance of the leftover food and wine. The drinks went so fast it was almost as if they were flying off the shelf.
-Starry Night -
• The stars seemed to float across the page.
• The tree is like a guardian, watching over the town. The sky is so vibrant that it lights up the world, the setting moon is a sybol to the stars, saying its time to go in for the night.
• THOMAS MOORE-
• 1779-1852
• Doublin, Ireland
• Catholic family - laws restricted rights
• Trinity College
• Government appointment
1. Registrar of the admiralty in Bermuda
2. Visit to Virginia - 1803
3. Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems - 1806
ROMANTIC POET:
• Gained more popularity that Byron and Shelly
• Earned 3,000 pounds for one poem!
• Charmed audiences
• Collected and published Irish Melodies
• Wrote popular songs - "The last rose of summer" and "Believe me if all those endearing young charms.
THE BALLAD:
• Narrative poem
• Simple story
• skeletal plot
• little description of setting or character
• Dialog
• Tragic or sensual subjects
• Iambic meter
• Rhyme scheme
• Varied stanza forms
• Repetition - refrain
• Folk Ballads
• Orally transmitted
• Written by multiple or unknown authors
• Reused melodies
• Literary Ballads
• Similar to folk style
• More elaborate and complex
• known author
IAMBIC METER AND RHYME:
• 2 syllables = 1 "foot"
• - Unstressed, stressed
• - multiple feet make one line
• - tetrameter (4 feet)
• - Trimester (3 feet)
• Rhyme Pattern
• - ABCD
IMAGERY AND SOUND DEVICES:
• Vivid sensory details
• - taste
• - touch
• - sight
• - sound
• - smell
• Sound Devices
• - Alliteration - repeated consents
• - Assonance - repeated vowels
• - Consonance - consent at the end
• - Rhyme

• • alliteration: n. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
• assonance: n. The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonant sounds.
• ballad: n. A narrative poem or song that follows a pattern of rhyme and meter.
• consonance: n. The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words; also called slant rhyme or half rhyme. dismal: n. Causing gloom or depression.
• iambic meter: n. A pattern of meter of two syllables, the first of which is unstressed and the second of which is stressed.
• imagery: n. The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader.
• quintet: n. A stanza consisting of five lines.
• slant rhyme: n. Approximate or near rhyme in which either the consonant sounds or the vowel sounds are the same, but not both, as in perfect rhyme.
• CHART:
Image, Alliteration, Assonencce, Consonance, Effects and setting.

SYLVIA PLATH
• 1932 - Born in bosten
• Parents both edeucaters
• Earned early suscess and publication
• Attended Smith College
• Married peot Ted Hughes
• Wrote confessional poetry
• Wrote the novel The Bell Jar
• Committed suicide in 1963 after a long peroid of depression.
• Won Pulitzer Prize for Collected Works. ADELAIDE CRAPSEY
• 1878 - Born in Brooklyn
• Father was a minister
• Active student at Vassar
• Studied metrics - A study in English Metrics
• Inventor of the cinquail
• Ill with tuberculosis
• Verses was published after her death. • apostrophe: n. A direct address to a person or thing that cannot respond.
• enjambment: n. In verse, when one line runs over into the next without pause or punctuation.
• figurative: adj. The use of words to suggest meanings beyond the literal; used to express ideas in vivid and imaginative ways.
• free verse: n. Poetry without rhyme or meter.
• meek: adj. Lacking courage or strength.
• mood: n. The emotional response a reader has to a text.
• personification: n. Giving human qualities to things, ideas, or animals.
• petulant: adj. Unusually irritable; rude; ill-tempered.
• recumbent: adj. Reclining or leaning back.
BLANK VERSE
• unrhymed
• Regular meter
• Iambic pentameter - 10 syllables - Unaccented/ accented
FREE VERSE
• Unrhymed
• Nor regular pattern of meter - Cadence of common speech - "Natural" rhythem.

ANTON P CHECKOV:
• Born in 1860 in Taganrog, Russia
• Born to a grocer and grandson fo a serf
• Terrorized by father
• Supported himself at 16 by tutoring
• became a physician before becoming a full time writer
• Wrote short stories, plays, and novels; also worked as an editor
• died in 1904 in Berlin, Germany.
CHEKHOV'S SIGIFIGANCE
• Considered the father of the modern short story and play.
• Used several themes frequently
• - Irony of miscommunication
• - Disillusionment of life
• - Life's meaninglessness
• Focused on irony and humor in early stories.
• Focused less on plot and more on the emotional tension between characters in mature stories.
CONFLICT GIVES YOU CHARACTER:
• What is conflict?
• - The struggle between characters or forces in the plot.
• What are these characters called?
• - Protagonist - a character, usually the main one
• - Antagonist - The character or force that brings the conflict to the protagonist.
• What are the two main types of conflict?
• - Internal Conflict.
• - External Conflict.
• What is Character Motivation?
• - The reason characters do what they do; their ultimate desires or goals.
• Why does character motivation matter?
• - It affects how characters react to conflict
• - It affects how the reader interprets a resolution
• - it affects the theme of a story.
• What is diction?
• - Careful and deliberate word choice in speaking or writing.
• Why is diction important?
• - Develops precise images in the mind.
• - Creates specific and accurate details
• - Affects the narrator's tone in a piece of writing.
• - Affects the reader's mood through word connotations.
• - Reveals character's personality. • envious: adj. Desiring the things or qualities of another person.
• incessantly: adv. Without end; not stopping.
• speculation: n. Gambling.
• zealously: adv. With extreme support for a group, person, idea, or cause.