Collection 2 study Project

1. Collection 2 study Project

2. Definitions • Copied out of the book… • Meter: A pattern of stressed and unstressedsyllables in poetry. • FIGURE OF SPEECH: A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and that is not meant to be taken literally. • METAPHOR   A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles. • SYMBOLISM   A literary movement that originated in late-nineteenth-century France, in which writers rearranged the world of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of reality.

3. definitions • RHYTHM   The alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. • RHYME   The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. • SOUND EFFECTS   The use of sounds to create specific literary effects. Writers use devices such as rhythm, rhyme, meter, alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, and repetition to make the sounds of a work convey and enhance its meaning. • 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.

4. 5 authors • "The Man Who Was Touched With Fire" Oliver Wendell Holmes • "He steered unquestioning nor turning back, Into the darkness and the unknown sea;He vanished into the starless night, and weSaw but the shining of his luminous wake Thou safest light, but ah, our sky seemed black,And all too hard the inscrutable degree, Yet noble heart, full soon we follow thee, Lit by the deeds that flamed along thy track..."

5. 5 authors • Washington Irving • "I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene."

6. 5 authors • William Cullen Bryant • "If the public authorities, who expend so much of our money in laying out the city, would do what is in their power, they might give our vast population an extensive pleasure ground of shade and recreation in these sultry afternoons, which we might reach without going out of town."

7. Henry WadsworthLongfellow THE SLAVE'S DREAM BY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Beside the ungathered rice he lay,  His sickle in his hand;His breast was bare, his matted hair  Was buried in the sand.Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,  He saw his Native Land.Wide through the landscape of his dreams  The lordly Niger flowed;Beneath the palm-trees on the plain  Once more a king he strode;And heard the tinkling caravans  Descend the mountain-road.He saw once more his dark-eyed queen  Among her children stand;They clasped his neck, they kissed his cheeks,  They held him by the hand!--A tear burst from the sleeper's lids  And fell into the sand.

8. Henry wads worth Longfellow And then at furious speed he rode  Along the Niger's bank;His bridle-reins were golden chains,  And, with a martial clank,At each leap he could feel his scabbard of steel  Smiting his stallion's flank.Before him, like a blood-red flag,  The bright flamingoes flew;From morn till night he followed their flight,  O'er plains where the tamarind grew,Till he saw the roofs of Caffre huts,  And the ocean rose to view.At night he heard the lion roar,  And the hyena scream,And the river-horse, as he crushed the reeds  Beside some hidden stream;And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums,  Through the triumph of his dream.The forests, with their myriad tongues,  Shouted of liberty;And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud,  With a voice so wild and free,That he started in his sleep and smiled  At their tempestuous glee.

9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • He did not feel the driver's whip,  Nor the burning heat of day;For Death had illumined the Land of Sleep,  And his lifeless body layA worn-out fetter, that the soul  Had broken and thrown away!

10. My Generalization • My generalization about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about his beliefs is that he mostly writes about a hard working person and eventually get his “moneys worth” for working so hard. I think he is a true dreamer. He wished for getting something back for making his poems but didn’t really get what he wanted.

11. Feel the effects • We (most people) still feel the love for our country and we are proud to be working hard on the technologies we are discovering today. 3 Changes: • 1. Working hard and getting something out of it- Longfellow • 2. We are still patriotic, for we have much love of our nation. -William Cullen Bryant • 3. We all still dream of “That one Person” that would just make you feel like nothings wrong with life.- ME!

12. Generic works cited • Resources • Wendell homes- Internet, harvardregiment.org • Washington- www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wirving.htm • William- www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/bryant.htm • Henry-eclecticesoterica.com/longfellow.html