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
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…