Figurative Language and Musical Devices
A comparison of two unlike things without "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
This is the speaker of this poem.
What is a teacher or professor?
This season best reflects the setting of Marlowe's "Passionate Shepherd to his Love?"
What is Spring or Summer?
This is the speaker of the poem.
What is the mirror?
This is what the speaker in Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," is trying to master.
What is losing things?
A type of figurative language in which non-human subjects are given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
This is the aspect of reading poetry Collins is trying to convey in the lines "or walk inside the poem's room / and feel the walls for a light switch"
What is exploratory?
This is the tone of Marlowe's "Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
What is idealistic and romantic?
This is the quality the speaker has by being a mirror instead of a human.
What is it tells the truth or is unbiased?
This is the refrain from "One Art"
What is "The art of losing isn't hard to master"?
A statement that seems to be contradictory, but actually presents a truth.
What is a Paradox?
This is the device included in the lines "I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light / like a color slide"
What is a simile?
This is the main reason the Nymph rejects the shepherd's plea.
What is it is unrealistic and temporary?
This is the extended device surrounding the mirror's speech in this poem.
What is personification?
The loss of this item marks the shift in "One Art"
What is "my mother's watch?"
A figure of speech in which part of something is used to stand for the whole
What is Synecdoche?
The students in turn “… tie the poem to a chair with a rope / and torture a confession out of it.” This is the implied vehicle of this metaphor is that the poem
What is a prisoner?
This is what the nymph uses the line “Time drives the flocks from field to fold / When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,” to symbolize
What is his passion fading, thereby, diminishing his attitude toward this relationship? (or similar)
This is the device present in the lines "She rewards me with tears and agitation of hands"
What is irony or paradox?
These additions to the final stanza suggest a break in form.
What are the parenthesis?
Expressions that conform to regularized arrangement of words and thought
What is Figurative Language?
This is the theme of "Introduction to Poetry"
What is Poetry should be explored and experienced rather than forced into a singular meaning?
In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the speaker uses phrases “Melodious birds sing madrigals” and “The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing / For thy delight each May morning” to create this kind of setting
What is ideal, a place where their desires can flourish? (or similar)
This is a symbol of the woman's perceived loss of beauty.
What is a fish?
The final line "though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster" suggests that this is who the audience is for the poem.