Imagery: The use of vivid description, usually rich in sensory words, tocreate pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind.
An Excerpt from “Preludes” T.S. Elliot
“The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.”
Theme: Argument/ What it is arguing for.
All the World’s a Stage.
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
-William Shakespeare
Free Verse: A form of poetry that doesn’t follow any pattern, or rhyme.
Tone:the manner in which written words might be said (for example, sarcastic, mild, witty, playful, sad, serious, angry). The attitude of a person toward the subject and toward the audience implied.
SOME are examples in the video, the “mom” shows many different tones in talking to her children…
“The sky was an inverted cup of blue metal.” = No. The sky REALLY wasn’t an inverted cup of blue metal. It is a metaphor because it’s saying how it always seem’s like we isolate ourselves from the rest of the world, we don’t really tend to think or do stuff for people out of our bubble/ connection.
Metaphor: A figure of speech. A word or phrase that means one thing and is used for referring to another thing in order to emphasize their similar qualities.
Metonymy: Term being used to link to the person or thing.
For instance, “Hollywood” is used as a metonymy for US cinema, because of the fame and cultural identity of Hollywood. The district of Los Angeles, California as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars.
“He is a man of the cloth.”
“The hospital is going to release her.”
This stanza is a quatrain and the rhyme sequence is A A B B.
Stanza: a division of a poem with a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme.
“Get your head out of the clouds.”
Synecdoche: Referring to a person or thing by one characteristic
“…Happiness throws a shower of sparks.”
Anthropomorphism: Giving an idea human-like characteristics
