ENL2005 Introduction to Literary Studies
Assist. Prof. Selen Aktari Sevgi
Name/Surname:…………………………………
MIDTERM EXAM
1. Choose THREE of the poems below. Analyse them in detail by explaining the figures of speech that you detect in the poems you choose and discuss their contribution to the meaning of the poems.
“You Fit into Me” Margaret Atwood
“l(a)” e.e. cummings
“Elegy” William Stanley Merwin,
“The Man He Killed” Thomas Hardy,
“Richard Cory” Edwin Arlington Robinson
“There Is No Frigate Like a Book” Emily Dickinson
“Mirror” Sylvia Plath,
“On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” John Keats
“The Sick Rose” William Blake
“A Red Red Rose” Robert Burns,
“The Rose Family” Robert Frost
“Metaphors” Sylvia Plath
“The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost
“Out, Out-” Robert Frost,
“The Eagle” Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The World Is Too Much With Us” William Wordsworth
“To Helen” Edgar Allan Poe
“Much Madness Is Divinest Sense” Emily Dickinson
“Earth” John Hall Wheelock
“Ozymandias” Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Not Waving But Drowning” Stevie Smith
“When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer” Walt Whitman
List of the figures of speech: simile, metaphor, symbol, image, personification, allusion, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, paradox, hyperbole, understatement, oxymoron
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