Rene Alvarez Period 2. Imagery The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or...
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Transcript of Rene Alvarez Period 2. Imagery The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or...
Imagery• The formation of
mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectivel.
• Examples• From the family tree
of old school hip hop Kick off your shoes and relax your socks The rhymes will spread just like a pox Cause the music is live like an electric shock.
Irony
• The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
• Examples.• Yet Brutus says he was
ambitious;And Brutus is an honourable man“
• Water, water, every where,And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink
Analogy
• A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
• Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
• Glove is to hand as monitor is to computer.
Hyperbole
• An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
• Examples• I am so tired I could
sleep for a year.• He is older than the
hills.
Paradox
• A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
• Examples• Dark knows daylight“.• "Hot understands
cold“.
simile
• An instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.
• Examples.• Bill ran along the
street and listened to the traffic. His skin was as hot as the concrete.
• I don't like what's going on. I feel like a noodle in boiling water.
Onomatopoeia
• Is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
• Examples• The clock goes tick
tock.• The birds like to tweet
outside my window.
Metaphor
• A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
• Examples• The streets were a
furnace, the sun an executioner."
• A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind."
Personification
• An outstanding example of a quality or idea: "He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative
• Examples• Fear knocked on the
door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
• Wind yells while blowing.
Rhyme
• is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.
• Examples• Little Miss Muffet,
sat on her tuffet.• Humpty Dumpty sat
on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.