Vocabulary
Gloomy. The light from the cliffs cast a dismal glow on the crew.
What is dismal
final two-line unit
couplet
is a story in which an heroic character dies or comes to another unhappy end.
Tragedy
"piggy"
Lord of the flies
boys stuck on an island
lord of the flies
Refuse; reject by showing contempt.
Scorn
Rhythmic pattern
iambic pentameter
a song or poem that tells a story
Ballad
by thy long gray beard and glittering eye, now wherefore stopp'st thou me?"
Rime of ancient mariner
men on a ship and bad things happen to them as a result of one of the men killing a bird
Rime of the ancient mariner
Bad-tempered; unfriendly
surly
a person, place or thing or event that stands both for itself and something beyond itself.
symbol
a discrepancy between expectation and reality or between appearance and reality
irony
"hail to thee, blithe spirit"
To a skylark
Bird
To a skylark
obstacles; obstructions.
impediments
saying one thing and meaning something else
Verbal irony
poems in which a speaker who is not the poet addresses a listener who does not speak
Dramatic Monologues
" It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one.."
Shooting an Elephant.
essay on animal
Shooting an Elephant
call
summon
situational irony
to create musical effects in their poems
sound devices
"In one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around, and strangled her. No pain felt she...."
Porphyria's lover
A man that once accused his wife
Porphyria's Lover