Friday Sponge: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification? (From Edgar Allen Poe) The breeze – the breath of God – is still. 1. Type of figurative language _________________________ 2. How do you know? ________________________________ Death has reared himself a throne in a strange city lying alone 3. Type of figurative language __________________________ 4. How do you know? _________________________________ All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream 5. Type of figurative language __________________________ 6. How do you know? _________________________________
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Friday Sponge: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, or Personification?
(From Edgar Allen Poe)The breeze – the breath of God – is still.
1. Type of figurative language _________________________2. How do you know? ________________________________
Death has reared himself a thronein a strange city lying alone
3. Type of figurative language __________________________4. How do you know? _________________________________
All that we see or seemis but a dream within a dream
5. Type of figurative language __________________________6. How do you know? _________________________________
Gothic Romanticism
Tone =
List as many words as you can to describe the tone of picture:
Gothic Romantic Literature
• Obsessed with death, premature burial, mourning, ghosts, and madness.
-1809-1849-Parents died when he was 3-College dropout-Tried to make living writing-Some work was successful, others
failed-He married his 13 year old cousin,
Virginia, who died two years later of tuberculosis
-Died at age 40 under mysterious circumstances
“The Raven,” by Edgar Allen PoePlot: The speaker is sitting in the living room reading, when he hears a knock on the door. He remembers Lenore, a woman who has died. Then, a raven flies in.
Vocabulary: •raven•quoth•chamber
Monday Sponge: Sort the words below according to the feeling the show.
Drawing the attention of his classmates as well as his teacher, the student dared to experiment with his professor’s intelligence by interrogating him about the Bible.
Thursday Sponge: Use the tone words from Monday to answer the questions.
He furtively glanced behind him, for hear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot.
Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, left the room making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake.
Friday Sponge: Use the tone words from Monday to answer the questions.
The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing trees until they danced with anger and cajoling the grass into fighting itself, blade slapping blade, as the silly dog with golfball eyes and flopping, slobbery tongue bounded across the lawn. 1.Tone: _______________________________2.Context Clues: ________________________-----------------------------------------------------------------------Write two sentences that show a a tone used by the Gothic Romantics: