Book 4 Unit 3 Section B

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Book 4 Unit 3 Section B

• A Blind Man Helped Me See the Beautiful World
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Reading Skills

• Understanding Figurative Language
• Figurative language uses "figures of speech" - a
  way of saying something other than the literal
  meaning of the words. For example, "All the
  world's a stage" Frost often referred to them
  simply as "figures." Frost said, "Every poem I
  write is figurative in two senses. It will have
  figures in it, of course but it's also a figure
  in itself - a figure for something, and it's made
  so that you can get more than one figure out of
  it."

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• Metaphor A figure of speech in which a comparison
  is made between two things essentially unalike.
  To Frost, metaphor is really what poetry is all
  about. He is notably a poet of metaphors more
  than anything else. This is so important, we
  should hear directly from the poet. Frost said,"
  Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty
  metaphors, 'grace metaphors,' and goes on to the
  profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry
  provides the one permissible way of saying one
  thing and meaning another. People say, 'Why don't
  you say what you mean?' We never do that, do we,
  being all of us too much poets. We like to talk
  in parables and in hints and in indirections -
  whether from diffidence or from some other
  instinct". ... Excerpt from an essay entitled
  "Education by Poetry" by Robert Frost.

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• Examples
• The Silken Tent. A woman is admired for her
  strength and beauty, like a silken tent. Note the
  strength of the silk and cedar.
• Putting in the Seed. The planting of seed in the
  garden, in springtime is like making love.
• Devotion. The passive but ever-changing shore and
  the persistent energetic ocean are like a devoted
  couple.
• To Earthward. The stages of love are like
  stepping stones to death.
• All Revelation. A view of a geode crystal is like
  the mind probing the universe.

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• Simile A figure of speech in which a comparison
  is expressed by the specific use of a word or
  phrase such as like, as, than, seems or Frost's
  favorite "as if,"

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• Examples
• Mending Wall like an old-stone savage armed
• Stars like some snow-white/ Minerva's snow-white
  marble eyes
• Going for Water We ran as if to meet the moon
  ---- we paused / like gnomes
• Birches Like girls on hands and knees that throw
  their hair
• Hyla Brook Like ghost of sleigh bells

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• Metonymy A figure of speech that uses a concept
  closely related to the thing actually meant. The
  substitution makes the analogy more vivid and
  meaningful.

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• Examples
• Out, Out the injured boy holds up his hand "as
  if to keep / the life from spilling." The literal
  meaning is to keep the blood from spilling.
  Frost's line tells us that the hand is bleeding
  and the boy's life is in danger.

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• Personification A type of metaphor in which
  distinct human qualities, e.g., honesty, emotion,
  volition, etc., are attributed to an animal,
  object or idea

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• Examples
• My November Guest the guest is Sorrow,
  personified as a woman dearly loved who walks
  with him.
• Mowing the scythe whispers
• Range-Finding the spider sullenly withdraws
• Tree at my Window the tree watches him sleep it
  has tongues talking aloud
• Storm Fear the wind works and whispers, the cold
  creeps, the whole storm is personified

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New Words and Expressions

• annoy
• vt.
• 1.??, ?? These flies are annoying me.
• ??????????
• 2.???, ??? He was annoyed to learn that the train
  would be delayed.
• ????????, ???????
• He was annoyed that we had one of his cushions.
• ??????????, ?????

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• dense
• adj.
• 1.???, ???, ??? We entered a dense forest.
• ????????????
• 2.???? Some dense substances allow electricity to
  flow through them freely.
• ????????????????
• 3.??? He is so dense, he'll never understand your
  message.
• ???, ??????????
• 4.?????????
• 5.(?????)????,???

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• charter
• n.
• 1.??? This new law amounts to a tax evader's
  charter.
• ???????????????????
• 2.??, ??, ??
• 3.?? They have yachts available for charter.
• ??????????
• ???? vt.
• 1.????? The government chartered the new
  airline.
• ?????????????????
• 2.??

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• steer
• vi.
• 1.??, ?? This car steers easily.
• ?????????
• She steered the car skilfully through the narrow
  streets.
• ?????????????????
• 2.??????
• 3.(?????) ??

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• lad
• n.
• 1.?????????? The little lad was playing on the
  swing.
• ?????????
• He's just a lad.
• ????????
• 2.??, ??,???
• 3.???????????,(???????????)????????
• 4.????

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• curve
• n.
• 1.??, ??,??,?? The population curve has slowed
  down.
• ?????????
• 2.????, ??? The automobile slowed down to go
  around the curves in the road.
• ??????????????
• 3.?????(??????)???
• ???? vt. ????? vi.
• 1.(?)???? The missile curved gracefully towards
  its target.
• ??????????????
• 2.(?)?????????

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• skim
• vt.
• 1.?? She skimmed the milk of its cream.
• ??????????
• ???? vt. ????? vi.
• 1.??, ???? The swallows skimmed the water.
• ???????
• The little bird skimmed over the waves looking
  for food.
• ?????????????
• 2.??, ?? It's important for you to skim through
  the text.
• ????????????

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• realm
• n.
• 1.?? ?? Their failures in the realm have damaged
  their self-confidence and creditability.
• ???????????????????????
• 2.??, ?? The king was concerned about the safety
  of the realm.
• ????????????

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• veil
• n.
• 1.?? She dropped her veil.
• ??????
• 2.???
• 3.????????
• 4.(???)??
• 5.??????
• ???? vt.
• 1.????? Please veil your face.
• ????????
• Moslem women used to veil their faces before
  going into public.
• ????????????????????????
• 2.??,??

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• magic
• n.
• 1.??, ?? ?? They claimed that he had inflicted
  bad fortune on them through evil magic.
• ?????????????????????
• They believe that it was all done by magic.
• ??????????????
• 2.??, ?? The conjuror's magic delighted the
  children.
• ?????????????
• 3.??, ?? You could feel the magic of
  Shakespeare's poetry.
• ????????????????
• 4.??????????
• ??? adj.
• 1.???, ??? Can you do magic tricks?
• ???????
• It is really a magic palace!
• ???????????!
• 2.???, ??? Their latest record is really magic.
• ?????????????
• 3.??????

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• Thank you!