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Authors! Serena Faith Foor
Vocabulary! • Figure of speech-> any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare • Metaphor-> a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
Cont… • Symbolism-> The practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character • Rhythm-> movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like. • Rhyme-> identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse. • Meter-> a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Cont… • Alliteration-> the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. • onomatopoeia-> the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. • Assonance-> the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words close together • consonance-> the repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables or in important words
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Oliver Wendell Holmes uses metaphors in his poem entitled “Daily trials by a Sensitive Man” • “Women ,with tongues, like polar needles” • “The world is in a simmer, like a sea” • He also uses Onomatopoeias in this poem • “Ding Dong! Ding Dong!” • His writing’s still are an influence today because he was the one to say that “truth is the majority vote of that nation that could lick all others….”, in other words law is only what most of the people think at that moment of history, in there is no higher law, it follows of course, that the law can be changed at any moment to reflect what the majority currently thinks
William Cullen Bryant • In his Poem “An Indian At The Burial Place Of His Fathers” He uses an example of consonance • It is the spot I came to seek, my father’s ancient burial-place, Ere from these vales, ashamed and weak, Withdrew our wasted race, It is the-I know it well-, of which our old traditions tell. • He also uses an example of assonance in this poem • They waste us-ay-like April snow, In the warm noon, we shrink away: and fast they follow, as we go toward the setting day- Till they shall fill the land, and we are driven into the Western sea.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • In his essay “Paul Revere’s Ride”, there is a part in the poem that can be used as an example for Rhythm, and rhyme • Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five, Hardly a man is now alive… • Longfellow’s stories to this day are still so influential because they are read to children, and adults. Like his poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” is used to educate kids on Revolutionary War/American History.
Ralph Waldo Emerson • He uses an example of Symbolism in his essay “Nature Walking” • The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible, but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. • He also uses an example of alliteration in “Self-reliance” • Who can thus avoid all pledges and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribalble, unaffrighted, innocence, - must always be formidable • I feel that Emerson really believes that if people just go along in life and have a since of nature, commodity, and beauty they will get along in life.
Herman Melville • He uses an example of figure of speech in his book “Moby Dick” • And though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original- the Tyre of his Carthage:-the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.
Edgar Allan Poe • He uses an example of Meter in his poem “To Helen” • Helen, thy beauty is to me, like those Nicaean bards of yore, That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore, to his own native shore. • I believe that Poe’s writings are still influential to this day because they are used in many literature books to teach kids the different ways of writing and I think his writings opened up a new way of thinking…maybe a darker more morbid way of writing/thinking
Works Cited • http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1027.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cullen_Bryant • http://books.google.com/books?id=NJe9SZPM_s4C&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Henry+inauthor:Wadsworth+inauthor:Longfellow&sig=hA0F_E1xhOHYe2ssNQieD7Y51J0#PPA29,M1 • http://books.google.com/books?id=C0Gt0onNtT0C&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Ralph+inauthor:Waldo+inauthor:Emerson&sig=vxcZizlASCLFLycaYS8bPyJWquA
Works cited cont… • http://books.google.com/books?id=Uy9PbkDwisYC&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Herman+inauthor:Melville&sig=0L4V8ymZ-io6T10EJzyKKWdcVTE
