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11/ 4   Continue Poe’s poetry and criticism: “The Philosophy of Composition,” “The Raven,” “To Helen

• Allegory: as a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.

•  Writers or speakers typically use allegories as literary devices or as rhetorical devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.

•  Fable: is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.

• Parable: is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. A parable is a type of analogy.

Ribbon (s)

Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthrone

P620.

May you find a s well, when you come back --> foreshadowing

gloomiest

Orpheus was a legendary Thracian musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. 

metaphorical speaking

crook

• You are so vain- Carly Simon 

You're So Vain - How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

• “Let the RiverRun”

      dirty dancing

• Under the Sea

• Hillary Clinton. Action is Eloquence 

• The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. 

Snake is evil in Bible.

Ribbon flew away --> lose faith (1) his wife (2) faith

• congregation

        segregation

•  He is my bosom friend.

• "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839.

• "To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe.

• Alliteration is a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.

• insufferable(adj.) If you say that someone or something is insufferable, you are emphasizing that they are very unpleasant or annoying.

      e.g. He was an insufferable bore.


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