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Literary Terms: Part 2

Literary Terms: Part 2. Melissa Greene English 9 “Marigolds” Eugenia W. Collier. Figurative Language. Simile Comparison using the words “like,” “as,” “than, or “resembles” “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.” “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.” Metaphor

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Literary Terms: Part 2

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  1. Literary Terms: Part 2 Melissa Greene English 9 “Marigolds” Eugenia W. Collier

  2. Figurative Language • Simile • Comparison using the words “like,” “as,” “than, or “resembles” • “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.” • “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.” • Metaphor • Comparison between two UNLIKE things w/o using the words above • “Oh, my love is a red, red rose.” • “Oh, my love bursts into bloom.” (implied metaphor)

  3. Figurative Language (cont’) • Personification • A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. This poetry gets bored of being alone, it wants to go outdoors to chew on the winds, to fill its commas with the keels of rowboats… Hugo Margenat, from “Living Poetry”

  4. Figurative Language (cont’) • Hyperbole • Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect. • Ex: “That limousine is as long as an ocean liner.”

  5. Review • Name and provide an example of four different kinds of figurative language. • What are five techniques a writer uses to reveal information about a character? • Speech (narration and dialogue) • Appearance • Private Thoughts • Feelings of Other Characters • Actions

  6. Conflict • Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces. • External Conflict • A character struggles against an outside force. • Another character (man vs. man) • Society as a whole (man vs. society) • Something in nature (man vs. nature) • Internal Conflict (man vs. self) • Takes place entirely within a character’s own mind • Struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single person Lizabeth and Miss Lottie Lizabeth/Great Depression Lizabeth’s inner child and her womanhood

  7. Setting • Time and place of a story or play • Setting often contributes to a story’s emotional effect (a park vs. a cemetery) • Setting can also contribute to the conflict in a story • How does the setting of “Marigolds” contribute to Lizabeth’s internal conflict?

  8. Tone • Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience • Writer’s choice of words and details can reveal his/her tone • Ex: Gary Soto’s “The Grandfather” (poem) is affectionate and nostalgic in tone. • Ex: James Thurber’s “The Princess and the Tin Box” is humorous and lightly mocking in tone. • What tone is revealed by Eugenia Collier have toward mischievous children?

  9. Symbolism • Person, place, thing, or event stands for itself AND for something beyond itself as well. • A scale has a real purpose as an instrument for measuring weights, but it is also used as a symbol of justice. • What do the following symbolize? • Doves • Red Rose • Rain • Sunshine • The marigolds in Eugenia Collier’s story

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