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- american dream
- the idea that any one can rise from nothing in america
- Common imagery in Robert Frost
- seasons, nature,
- Symbolism in Robert Frost's imagery
- choices, life, directions
- "i hide myself within my flower"
- This was about outing someone putting her self out there and being put down in her mind
- Biblical allusion
- something the the author thinks you from the bibal
- "i heard a fly buzz when i died"
- main idea is death, she has a idea of what she could have done before she dies
- Diction
- the writers choice of words
- Mood
- Mood is the emotional quality of a work's imagery. The emotion you feel in reaction to the descriptions in a piece is the mood
- 5 characteristics of a good thesis statements
- Solid, grounded in text, arguable, not to brad, doesn't say you, doesn't summarize
- The suffix "sect"
- sections, pieces
- Robert Frost bio basics
- owned many farms, moved to england and back to the US, and was very vocal of his poems
- metaphor
- Comparing something not using like or as
- Theme
- a broad idea or message conveyed by a work of literature
- hyperbole
- an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally
- common symbolism
- phallic symbols, female symbols, evil, innocence, death,birth
- Common Themes in Robert Frost
- death, nature, and literature
- "success is counted sweetest"
- main idea is death, even though you win you dont win
- Vernacular
- normal speech, everyday language
- archetype
- A group of stories that revolves around the same plot line
- "The Road Not Taken"
- a poem is about picking a path in life. it shows that you can only think so far ahead and then you must make a choice, hopefully a good choice
- personification
- the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person
- "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
- This is a poem about Santa Clause. It is talking about how his raindeer see the world, and how he goes about on Christmas night
- emily dickinson common themes
- love, death, Isolation
- symbolism
- Grieving a concert object a non-concert meaning
- Emily dickinson bio basics
- Went into isolation, never loved, didn't wont to be famous, religiously she didn't wont to belong
- "Fire and Ice"
- this is about the demise of something precious. fire is chaotic, but rebirth will come. ice is slow and painless, but it is the final death
- Connotation
- the personal view of a word and what it represents
- historical allusion
- references to character or events from history
- "After Apple-Picking"
- about memories, and death. the apples symbolize memories. the expeierence is death
- The suffix "graph/gram"
- picture
- classical allusion
- references to characters or events from greek mythology
- tone
- the wayy in which words might be said, the emotion conveyed by words
- simile
- Comparing something using like or as
- "death sets a thing significant"
- The speaker has lost a friend and has given up hope
- Alliteration
- the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words
- Denotation
- the dictionary deffinition of a word