Today in class I analyzed two poems Emily Dickinson. Next we read the poem twice. Once just to get a feel. The second to try and break the poem down. While reading we identified rhetorical devices, we saw personification, and similes. We also defined any words we weren’t familiar with.We found deeper meanings to key phrases. We summarized the poems and found the theme of the poems. Lastly, we made claims based on the poems and supported it with evidence from the poems.
Today in class we learned about rhetorical devices. The first one we discussed was hyperbole, which is an exaggeration. The second was understatement. An understatement is the force of a descriptive statement that is less than what one would normally expect. Third we went over litotes, which are an emphasis on a point by using a word opposite to the condition. Fourth we learned antithesis, this makes use of a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideals. Lastly we were introduced to hypophora which is asking a question then proceeding to answer it.
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