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Personification &Imagery &Metaphor &eXtended Metaphor

American Literature A – Fall

2013

Personification: Make it Human

Assigning human-like qualities to non-human things.Examples:A hook shot kisses the rim, hangs there, helplessly, but doesn’t drop.The run down house appeared depressed.My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.While making my way to my car, it appeared to smile at me mischievously.The evil tree was lurking in the shadows.The avalanche devoured everything in its path.I could hear Hawaii calling my name.

Imagery: Show, Don’t TelL

The use of visually descriptive words that allow the reader to picture or sense the ideas of a poem. Images can also follow a pattern in a work. Also recall that imagery is not only visual, but can appeal to all senses.from “Preludes“ by T. S. Eliot:The winter evening settles downWith smell of steaks in passageways.Six o'clock.The burnt-out ends of smoky days.And now a gusty shower wrapsThe grimy scrapsOf withered leaves about your feetAnd newspapers from vacant lots;The showers beatOn broken blinds and chimney-pots,And at the corner of the streetA lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.And then the lighting of the lamps.

Metaphor:

This is that

Comparison between two unlike objects; sometimes uses

is/are.

Sometimes sounds

like

a false statement, until you realize the similarities

between the

two things being

compared

. These would be phrases like:

“Time is

money.”

“Time is a

thief.”

“You are my

sunshine.”

“He has a heart of

stone.”

“America is a melting

pot.”

"But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill

.“

"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food

.“

"Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes."

Extended Metaphor: It’s Longer

C

omparison

between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of

sentences

in a paragraph or lines in a poem

.

f

rom Will Ferrell’s Commencement Address to Harvard University (2003):

"I graduated from the University of Life. All right? I received a degree from the

School

of

Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue, baby. I had office hours with the

Dean

of Bloody Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from Professor Knuckle

Sandwich

and his Teaching Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon

Nyun

. That’s the kind of

school

I went to for real, okay?"