0513-Week12
基礎文法字彙作文概念 -莎莎課輔不落閣
- Synecdoche
A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something, or vice versa. - personification
The act of attributing human or personal characteristics to non-human creatures or inanimate objects. - Heroic couplet
A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter.
Defining poetry
- Archibald Macleish’s “Ars Poetica”
theme: A poem should not mean, but be.
--"Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver important than history." - Marianne Moore’s “Poetry”
theme: imagination; "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"
Poetic subgenres
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Examples:
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Syllables
- hypo-→under
- thesis→place, put
hypothesis (n.)
Meaning: a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. - prim-→first
prime (adj.)
Meaning: of first importance; main. - hyper-→over, above
hyperbole (n.)
Meaning: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. - para-→beside
paraphrase
Meaning1: (n.) a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.
Meaning2: (v.) express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.