A Beka World Literature Unit 4 terms and authors to know
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pemmie8 Plus on October 26, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 connotations | suggested meanings or associations |
| denotations | literal meanings |
| imagery | use of words which appeal to our senses |
| figurative language | includes various types of comparisons as well as language used on more than one level |
| simile | an expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words like, as, resembles, or similar are used |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | author of "The Oak" and "The Deserted House"; Victorian period, buried in Poet's Corner of Westminister Abbey |
| personification | a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal |
| Heinrich Heine | author of "A Lonely Pine Is Standing"; German romantic writer from Jewish family, intense emotion and irony |
| metaphor | a implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another |
| Emily Dickinson | author of "I Like to See It Lap the Miles" and It Sifts from Leaden Sieves"; not famous until after dead, Massachusetts, works published by sister |
| overstatement (Hyperbole) | exaggeration to emphasize a truth |
| symbol | has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself |
| Robert Frost | author of "The Road Not Taken"; outstanding American poet of the 20th century, born in San Francisco, moved to NH to farm, won 4 Pulitzer Prizes |
| apostraophe | addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive or addressing an absent person as if he were present |
| William Butler Yates | author of "The Folly of Being Comforted"; Irish poet dramatist, leader of Irish Renaissance, Nobel Prize, founder of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin |
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