Diction By Christina Rossetti Summary

Cliché.

An event or a phrase that has been used over and over to the point everyone is familiar with, and it is no longer attractive and interesting. Jargon
Terms that are being used by a specific profession or a group of people which others can hardly understand.

Idiom
Phrases or a particular group of words that do not only have the surface meaning, but has an implied meaning to it.

Diction
The choice of word that is being used in literature

Assonance
Two or more words that are closely together in a phrase that has the same vowel sound.

Alliteration
Two or more words that are closely together in a phrase that has the same first letter or sound.

Colloquial Language
Words that are being used in spoken language but not in
Website Recommendation www.dictionary.com *Please feel free to go on your own and find definitions in paper dictionaries or on other websites. 1) Christina Rossetti's poem is known to be a reflection of how women were perceived during the Victorian era. What kind of perception do you believe men had of women during that time? How does her poem convey the message of inequality between men and women?

During Victoria era, women were considered to be inferior to men and were generally being seen as housewives responsible for cleaning the house, cooking food, and taking care of children; they have very limited rights and freedoms. Once they get married, their ownership to their wealth, and all their rights were transported to their husband. The husbands have the rights to require the wives to raise children, do all the house work and serve their husband. Men's perception towards women is not
We can find the three symbols of canvas, the woman in the panting and the male artist in the poem "In an Artist's Studio".The reoccurring symbol of canvas contains a hidden meaning of entrapment and oppression. The first line of the poem, "one face looks out from all his canvases"(line 1) suggests that the canvas is acting like a jail that traps and restricts the female model. She is not able to express her true feeling and emotion and has to be what the male artists shapes her. The woman in the painting is a symbol which represents the women during Victoria era who are being confined by the ideal image of society and were suffering from oppression. The woman in the painting was being portrayed as imaginary perfect figures of "queen"(line 5), "angel"(line 7), and "saint"(line 7), but the images are not what she really is. The last symbol that is being employed in the poem is the male artist; he symbolizes the society's idealistic idea of women. He has been shaping the female model into a "saint"(line 5), an "angel"(line 7), a "queen"(line 7), which are all examples of the society's perfect ideal feminist images of women, this suggests us that in a sense, the artist is representing the society's appreciation of beauty. The three