Unit 1 Imaginitive Comparison Notes Flashcards
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Mother to Son:
What is the theme?
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Although life is difficult, a person should not quit. The speaker compares life to a stairway that one muse journey up. Hers is not a crystal stair like others, but rather one that is old, in bad shape, and even dark at times. In other words, rather than easy, her life has been full of hardships both material and emotional yet she has not given up and neither should her hearer.
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What Stumped The Bluejays:
What is the most obvious imaginative comparison?
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Personification
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The Soul’s Dark Cottage:
What metaphors does Waller use?
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Comparing the body to a dilapidated cottage and comparing death to the crossing of a river
