Collection 2 Study Project

1. Collection 2 Study Project By Spencer Wolfe

2. Figure of Speech • Figure of Speech is using stylistic devices such as similes, metaphors, or personification. • Washington Irving was great writer that used a lot of figures of speech like in his story the legend of sleepy hallow. In a lot of new music people use figure of speech to identify other things.

3. Metaphor • A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as. • Edgar Allen Poe used metaphors in a lot of his poems and in the book of poems, “Al Araaf”

4. Symbolism • A literary movement that originated in late-nineteenth-century France, in which writers rearranged the word of appearances in order to reveal a more truthful version of the reality. • Nathaniel Hawthorne used Symbolism in his story The Scarlet letter in the story there is a woman that is trying to make it on her own when she is pregnant.

5. Alliteration • The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. • In Hennery Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” it says,” But the sea, the sea in darkness calls.”

6. Onomatopoeia • The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. • In Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Raven there is alliteration that is put together to make an onomatopoeia. • “This grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore.”

7. Works Cited • *http://www.wikipedia.org/ • *Elements of Literature Fifth Course