For Tuesday: Find one example of each of these terms in our poetry book: Irony, Alliteration, Assonance.
**And print out the Essay 2 assignment sheet.
Hi Class,
Allusion: is a passing reference to a literary or historical person, place, or event.
Example:
Concord Hymn
Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, July 4, 1837
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
Denotation: A words primary signification or reference
Connotation: A word’s secondary of associated significations and feelings.
Example: “Home” denotes a house where one lives, but connotes privacy, intimacy, and coziness; and this is why real estate agents often use the word home instead of house.
Alliteration: repetition of beginning speech sounds:
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste…
Assonance: repetition of identical or similar vowels. Example:
Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster child of silence and slow time…
