1. Melissa Greene English 9 “Marigolds” Eugenia W. Collier
Literary Terms: Part 2
Melissa Greene
English 9
“Marigolds” Eugenia W. Collier

2. Figurative Language Simile Metaphor
Comparison using the words “like,” “as,” “than, or “resembles”
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.”
“Oh, my love is like a red, red rose.”
Metaphor
Comparison between two UNLIKE things w/o using the words above
“Oh, my love is a red, red rose.”
“Oh, my love bursts into bloom.” (implied metaphor)

3. Figurative Language (cont’)
Personification
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
This poetry gets bored of being alone,
it wants to go outdoors to chew on the winds,
to fill its commas with the keels of rowboats…
Hugo Margenat, from “Living Poetry”

4. Figurative Language (cont’)
Hyperbole
Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect.
Ex: “That limousine is as long as an ocean liner.”

5. Review
Name and provide an example of four different kinds of figurative language.
What are five techniques a writer uses to reveal information about a character?
Speech (narration and dialogue)
Appearance
Private Thoughts
Feelings of Other Characters
Actions

6. Conflict
Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.
External Conflict
A character struggles against an outside force.
Another character (man vs. man)
Society as a whole (man vs. society)
Something in nature (man vs. nature)
Internal Conflict (man vs. self)
Takes place entirely within a character’s own mind
Struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single person
Lizabeth and Miss Lottie
Lizabeth/Great Depression
Lizabeth’s inner child and her womanhood

7. Setting Time and place of a story or play
Setting often contributes to a story’s emotional effect (a park vs. a cemetery)
Setting can also contribute to the conflict in a story
How does the setting of “Marigolds” contribute to Lizabeth’s internal conflict?

8. Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience
Writer’s choice of words and details can reveal his/her tone
Ex: Gary Soto’s “The Grandfather” (poem) is affectionate and nostalgic in tone.
Ex: James Thurber’s “The Princess and the Tin Box” is humorous and lightly mocking in tone.
What tone is revealed by Eugenia Collier have toward mischievous children?

9. Symbolism
Person, place, thing, or event stands for itself AND for something beyond itself as well.
A scale has a real purpose as an instrument for measuring weights, but it is also used as a symbol of justice.
What do the following symbolize?
Doves
Red Rose
Rain
Sunshine
The marigolds in Eugenia Collier’s story