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Snowbound: A Winter Idyll. John Greenleaf Whittier. Narrative Poetry. Tells a story Written in rigid iambic tetrameter (4 feet/line). Idyll (like idol). A literary work describing a simple, pastoral/farming/country scene. Hyperbole. Intended exaggeration or over-statement for effect
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Snowbound: A Winter Idyll John Greenleaf Whittier
Narrative Poetry Tells a story Written in rigid iambic tetrameter (4 feet/line)
Idyll (like idol) • A literary work describing a simple, pastoral/farming/country scene.
Hyperbole • Intended exaggeration or over-statement for effect • “I had like a million gray hairs.”
Imagery • Words used to evoke certain pictures in the reader’s mind. Words appeal to the senses. • In this poem, particularly to sound.