IAH 231C Final Exam Guide Unit 1:Pinker Chapter 1 How language is related to other components of Human Experience: Thoughts‚ reality‚ community‚ emotions‚ social relations Words and Community: Naming‚ certain words that become accepted Words and Emotions: Denotation( What they refer to is the same)/Connotation (different emotions associated with them)‚ Swear words Words and Social Relations: direct request vs indirect request Words and Thoughts: Conceptual semantics: discipline that studies the
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figurative language. The poem has a few examples of most figurative language types‚ but it doesn’t
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As she expresses her view on the subject‚ it is made clear that people do not need to be a “superhero” to be courageous. Anne Sexton varies the types of figurative language used in her poem Courage to show the numerous examples of how it is shown‚ however she used metaphors for the more important things. In the first stanza‚ courage is being shown in little ways. Sexton’s poem is divided into four stanzas‚ each representing a different stage in life. The first stanza is childhood. The simile “the
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“Dreams” a direct approach is used. Hughes uses statements and metaphors to make his point. The authors statements tell us to hold on to our dreams. This is the focus of the poem. He uses metaphors to reiterate this thought‚ and expand the readers understanding of the serious nature of this statement. The first metaphor from this poem is‚ “life is a broken winged bird‚ that cannot fly.” Hughes’ statement coupled with this metaphor explains that life has no purpose without dreams‚ just as a bird
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Anne Bradstreet’s The Author to Her Book describes the complex attitude of the author - specifically the attitude of an author towards her work. Through use of a controlling metaphor‚ that of a child‚ Bradstreet manages to convey all of her feelings towards one of her works. In order to introduce the controlling metaphor of The Author to Her Book‚ Bradstreet begins by using words that allude to the idea of birth. Within line one‚ Bradstreet uses the phrase "offspring of my feeble brain" to show
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communicates his specific and unique idea of love in many clever ways. Throughout this sonnet‚ Shakespeare skillfully defines “love‚” with the use of connotative language and metaphors. The lines that begin with: “O no! it is an ever-fixed mark‚” “Love’s not Time’s fool‚” and “I never writ‚ nor no man ever loved‚” all consist of metaphors and connotative language that reinforce Shakespeare’s idea of the everlasting and unchanging nature of true love. Metaphorical language is seen
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as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she ages and grows less attractive‚ she is hesitant about looking into the mirror but realizes that she needs the truth‚ even if it is hurtful. This shows that the mirror is a metaphor for the
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Woolf illustrates the universal struggle between life and death by comparing the two in one metaphor. She portrays the struggle of life in the face of death‚ and acknowledges it as both valiance and fruitlessness. The diction Woolf uses also helps convey her perspective on this topic. The varied sentence structures as well as other literary elements add to the piece‚ to make it more powerful. The metaphor itself is represented through the life‚ and end of‚ a moth. To begin her essay‚ Woolf presents
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howling around him.” This sentences is very filled with visual and auditory imagery. The opening sentence creates a feeling of a fast-paced rhythm in its brief expression. The pace reflects the craziness of flooding rain and surging sea. The metaphor of the ship’s “music… howling” brings an auditory imagery which symbolizes the storm‚ which overwhelms the singular pronoun “him” just as the storm overwhelms the Star of the Sea. As well Nature overwhelms the Man. “The low whistling; the tortured
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Kaitlin So English 28A Instructor Godden October 27‚ 2014 “Next to of course god America I” E.E. Cummings was very interested in modernist poetry. This is a satirical poem – which consisted of sarcasm and mockery against people encouraging the act of patriotism in others. The poem is unique because has two main speakers. “Next to of course god America I” by E.E. Cummings is a traditional sonnet because it consists of fourteen lines. The poem also contains enjambment because of the run-on sentences
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