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Page xvi
... close reading , this book is offered as a basic guide , anthology , and handbook of terms for first or second year college courses . 2. PLAN OF THE BOOK There is one , but it obliges no one to follow it . The instructor who wishes to do ...
... close reading , this book is offered as a basic guide , anthology , and handbook of terms for first or second year college courses . 2. PLAN OF THE BOOK There is one , but it obliges no one to follow it . The instructor who wishes to do ...
Page 87
... Close to the sun in lonely lands , Ringed with the azure world , he stands . The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . This brief poem is rich in figurative language ...
... Close to the sun in lonely lands , Ringed with the azure world , he stands . The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls , And like a thunderbolt he falls . This brief poem is rich in figurative language ...
Page 97
... close to the sun . " The opposite is understatement , implying more than one says . In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain recalls how , as an apprentice steamboat - pilot asleep when supposed to be on watch , he was roused by the pilot ...
... close to the sun . " The opposite is understatement , implying more than one says . In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain recalls how , as an apprentice steamboat - pilot asleep when supposed to be on watch , he was roused by the pilot ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats