1. Aim: To review for tomorrow’s exam.

2. figurative vs. literal language
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: LANGUAGE THAT HAS MORE THAN ONE MEANING – IT’S MORE THAN JUST LITERAL
LITERAL LANGUAGE: LANGUAGE THAT HAS ONLY ONE GIVEN MEANING
Do you know what type of figurative language is being used in this cartoon?

3. Vocabulary Central idea Metaphor Simile Theme Irony Utilize Literal
Figurative
Rhyme scheme
Stanza

4. Who are the speakers of the poem?
Richard cory
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
 And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
'Good-morning,' and he glittered when he walked. 
And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
 So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
4 Line Stanza
Parts of a Poem:
Speaker
Stanzas
Lines
Line #
Who are the speakers of the poem?

5. irony
Irony is a literature technique. Irony is the opposite of what is intended or expected.
In order to explain irony, you must first make clear what was intended or expected.
What do you expect about Richard Cory’s life
Next, you must explain how the opposite of what was intended occurred.
How did Richard Cory’s life turn out to be the opposite of what was expected?
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6. TOM MERRITT
AT first I suspected something—  
She acted so calm and absent-minded.  
And one day I heard the back door shut,  
As I entered the front, and I saw him slink  
Back of the smokehouse into the lot,          5
And run across the field.  
And I meant to kill him on sight.  
But that day, walking near Fourth Bridge,  
Without a stick or a stone at hand,  
All of a sudden I saw him standing,   10
Scared to death, holding his rabbits,  
And all I could say was, “Don’t, Don’t, Don’t,”  
As he aimed and fired at my heart.
MRS. MERRITT
SILENT before the jury,  
Returning no word to the judge when he asked mE
If I had aught to say against the sentence,  
Only shaking my head.  
What could I say to people who thought          5
That a woman of thirty-five was at fault  
When her lover of nineteen killed her husband?  
Even though she had said to him over and over,  
“Go away, Elmer, go far away,  
I have maddened your brain with the gift of my body:   10
You will do some terrible thing.”  
And just as I feared, he killed my husband;  
With which I had nothing to do, before God!  
Silent for thirty years in prison!  
And the iron gates of Joliet   15
Swung as the gray and silent trusties  
Carried me out in a coffin.
ELMER KARR
WHAT but the love of God could have softened  
And made forgiving the people of Spoon River  
Toward me who wronged the bed of Thomas Merritt  
And murdered him beside?  
Oh, loving hearts that took me in again          5
When I returned from fourteen years in prison!  
Oh, helping hands that in the church received me,  
And heard with tears my penitent confession,  
Who took the sacrament of bread and wine!  
Repent, ye living ones, and rest with Jesus.