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Collection 2 Study Project. Figure of Speech- Similes, metaphors, or personification. Metaphor- Something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else. (comparing) Symbolism- The practice of representing things with a symbolic meaning to character.
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Collection 2 Study Project Figure of Speech- Similes, metaphors, or personification. Metaphor- Something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else. (comparing) Symbolism- The practice of representing things with a symbolic meaning to character. Alliteration- The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or stressed in syllables. Onomatopoeia- The formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its reference. By Ashley Dapice
Figures of SpeechPersonification • In Oliver Wendell’s poem “The Broken Circle” • “The waste that careless Nature owns” • Nature cannot be careless. It has no feelings.
Figures of Speechmetaphors • Washington Irving’s “ A certain young lady” • “With a stately step -- such as You'd expect in a duchess –” • He is comparing her walk to that of royalty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes • “The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.” • Meaning that people who have no beliefs can be taught to have a more open mind once the information is brought to them. • Also since he is comparing the mind of a bigot and the pupil of an eye using the word “like” he is using a figure of speech.
Was interested in medicine and disease control. • His son fought in the civil war and became a well-known hero. • I like that he was interested in medicine, there was a big problem with infection control then and it definitely needed to be researched. • As there are still diseases now and things we would like to further understand such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease etc. • His son being a hero is something to definitely honor. • If we wouldn’t have had the civil war we would still be fighting over federalism and slavery. So his son being a war hero made a difference. • He was very into morals. • In the patriot Mel Gibson’s son dies defending his country in the Civil War. Wendell’s son may not have died at war but they were both war heroes.
Henry David Thoreau • “ I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” • I think he means that he really cared for people and society. Those were his main points.
Was very interested in nature. • He liked to observe things more than he liked to experiment with them. • I’m not sure that watching plants and animals all day is something that I would enjoy but if that’s what he liked then it must have been a good hobby for him to help him gain knowledge. • There are facilities now that observe animals. One thing we have used from observations of the people before us is that we can test make-up on animals and use them for it. There are a lot of things we use animals for. • If you have a MySpace then you must see all the bulletins that are saying save the animals.
Edgar Allan Poe • “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
He supported the Romantic movement in Europe. • He liked fiction, nonfiction, mysteries, and science fiction. • He’s very interesting no matter how depressing or dramatic or insane he is. I have liked all of his work so far. • He very much connects and would fit well in our society nowadays with all the drama and hatred. People are very depressed these days. • Someone that reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe is Cal in the movie Titanic. • He knows how to handle himself but he went nuts when his girlfriend didn’t want him the way I think Edgar Allan Poe would have blown up. In a lot of Edgar Allan Poe’s work (all of them I have seen) someone gets jealous or very mad and kills someone else. Cal gets jealous of Jack and tries to kill him and Rose.
www.topic sites.com (Edgar Allan Poe picture) • http://thoreau.eserver.org/ (Henry David Thoreau picture) • http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=494 (Oliver Wendell Holmes picture) • www.wikipedia.com • http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/bryant_william_cullen.html (poems)