Introduction to Literature II: Maya Angelou II

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Introduction to Literature II: 

Maya Angelou

Happy New Year!

Road map

Your poems!

Metaphor - Simile in 

'Still I Rise'

Compare and contrast:

'Still I Rise' - 'The Hill We Climb'

Your poems 

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you

• can define a metaphor and a simile
• recognise them in a literary work
• understand 'The Hill We Climb'
• know what is expected from you re. the assignments on Maya Angelou and Amanda Gorman

Still I Rise

Summary?

Metaphor - Simile

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Metaphor - Simile

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared implicitly, without the use of as or like.

'She has got a heart of gold'.

'I'm drowning in my sorrows'.

Simile

A figure of speech that involves a direct explicit comparison of one thing to another.

'My love is like a red, red rose'

Robert Burns

Amanda Gorman

1998 - now 25 years

studied sociology 

now: author,  poet

2021 - Biden Inauguration

1993 - Maya Angelou Clinton inauguration

1993 - Inauguration President Clinton

2021 - Inauguration President Biden

Do

Assignments 2 and 3

Do

Assignments 2 and 3

Finish them this Friday!