miXing AnD mATcHinG By: William Meyer SECTION A • Poetic Devices Glossary Poetic Devices Glossary Irony: a difficult term to define can refer to a manner of expression or a quality in the thing perceived. In both cases‚ irony involves the perception of discrepancy‚ usually between apparent and real significance. It is an indirect way of communicating an attitude. Irony can vary in tone‚ from humorous to bitter. Example- Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
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ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL (INDEPENDENT) English Language and Literature Department Poetic Devices and their Likely Effects Alliteration Gains reader’s attention through repetition of a consonant sound‚ appeals to the sense of hearing‚ emphasizes words‚ links lines‚ unifies stanzas (or the poem as a whole)‚ and enhances flow of poem. Draws attention to particular words or lines through repetition of a vowel sound‚ appeals to the sense of hearing‚ enhances the development of the image created by the words
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Poetic Sound Devices Practice “Poetry is old‚ ancient‚ goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.” Confound the cats! All cats--away— Cats of all colors‚ black‚ white‚ gray; By night a nuisance and by day— Confound the cats! All cats‚ always. I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week‚ Beneath the apple-trees; I thought my eyes were big pork-pies‚ And my nose was Stilton cheese. Big Balloons Bounce into the
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John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice John Marshall was born in Fauquier County‚ Virginia on September 4‚ 1755. He was the first son of Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. His role in American history is undoubtedly a very important one. As a boy‚ Marshall was educated by his father. He learned to read and write‚ along with some lessons in history and poetry. At the age of fourteen‚ he was sent away to school‚ and a year later he returned home to be tutored by a Scottish pastor who
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the Lyrical Ballads. It has been generally supposed that Wordsworth’s theory of poetic language is merely a reaction against‚ and a criticism of‚ ‘the Pseudo Classical’ theory of poetic diction. Such a view is partially true. His first impulse was less a revolt against Pseudo-classical diction‚ “than a desire to find a suitable language for the new territory of human life which he was conquering for poetic treatment”. His aim was to deal in his poetry with rustic and humble life
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POEM : On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute! Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away! Leave melodizing on this wintry day‚ Shut up thine olden pages‚ and be mute: Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute‚ Betwixt damnation and impassion’d clay Must I burn through; once more humbly assay The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit. Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion‚ Begetters of our deep eternal theme‚ When through the old oak forest I am
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What mood and atmosphere is established in Act 1‚ Scene 1 of King Lear? In the first Act of ‘King Lear’ by William Shakespeare‚ atmosphere and mood is created chiefly through the techniques of tension‚ greed and honesty. The predominant mood of the first scene is fear of the king and a heavy atmosphere of foreboding events‚ as he seems to demonstrate the beginning of falling into the depravity of dementia. Firstly‚ tension is created due to the king’s instability. He is very set in his ways
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Luna Hwang Poetic Device Imagery Irony De*inition Example Describe with details to make the O snow‚ which sinks so light‚ brown earth is hid from sight readers to imagine the picture Form of humor by reversing the meaning We are not busy! We only have 10 test in this week! Isn’t it relaxing? Symbol Using
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How do the settings and sound portray the characters thoughts and feelings in ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ ‘King Lear’ and ‘Death of a Salesman’? Fitzgerald‚ Shakespeare and Miller explore both setting and sound within their writing to mirror the current thoughts and feelings of the character which then allows the audience to understand and sympathise the characters. It could be argued that through the use of setting and sound‚ the authors dramatically present the extent to which the protagonists have
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Poetic Drama /Verse Drama of Modern age Poetic Drama Eliot’s plays attempt to revitalize verse drama and usually treat the same themes as in his poetry. They include Murder in the Cathedral (1935)‚ dealing with the final hours of Thomas à Becket; The Family Reunion (1939); The Cocktail Party (1950); The Confidential Clerk (1954); and The Elder Statesman (1959)..(1) Indeed‚ Eliot hoped that the study and critical reception of early modern verse drama would shape the production of modernist
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