<p>AP POETRY: “Figurative Language 1” Assignment: Read “Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy” </p><p>1. When you speak figuratively you are doing one of four things: a. </p><p> b. </p><p> c. </p><p> d. </p><p>2. Why do people use figurative language?</p><p>3. Figure of speech: </p><p>4. Figurative Language:</p><p>5. Simile:</p><p>6. Metaphor:</p><p>7. Describe each of the four forms of metaphors: a.</p><p> b.</p><p> c.</p><p> d. 8. Personification:</p><p>9. Read and copy the last sentence in the footnote on page 719.</p><p>10. Apostrophe:</p><p>11.Define each of the following and give examples of each from poems and what they mean (from the text) a. Synecdoche</p><p> b. Metonymy</p><p>12.What is a dead metaphor? Define and give two examples.</p><p>13.List the reasons for the effectiveness of figurative language? a. </p><p> b. </p><p> c. </p><p> d. </p><p>14.It is more important to decide what the figures accomplish than it is to identify them. Instead, the figures should lead to ______. “Figurative Language 2” Assignment: Read “Figurative Language 2: Symbol, Allegory” </p><p>1. Read “The Road Not Taken” so that you can understand the discussion that follows.</p><p>2. Symbol:</p><p>3. How does one distinguish between image, metaphor and symbol? Give the example given for each.</p><p>4. “The symbol is the richest and at the same time the most difficult of the poetic figures”- why?</p><p>5. Read “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” “The Sick Rose, and “Digging” so that you can understand the discussion that follows. After each discussion, write down important details. 6. Read the bottom of 741 and the top of 742 and explain the warning that the author states about interpreting symbols.</p><p>7. Allegory: AP POETRY: “Figurative Language 3” Assignment: Read “Figurative Language 3: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony </p><p>Define each term and record important details discussed in Perrine. 1. Paradox:</p><p>2. What happens when we understand all the conditions and circumstances involved in a paradox?</p><p>3. What is the value of a paradox and why?</p><p>4. Overstatement or hyperbole:</p><p>5. Understatement: 6. Verbal irony: Include points about sarcasm and satire</p><p>7. Dramatic irony:</p><p>8. irony of situation:</p>