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Personification &Imagery &Metaphor &eXtended Metaphor
American Literature A – Fall
2013
Slide2Personification: 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.
Slide3Imagery: 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.
Slide4Metaphor:
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."
Slide5Extended 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?"
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