[TCA-Asyn-Sep] ENG3U ...

I am giving this lecture the title – Words that illustrate. Why? Remember that earlier in the course I said that writers have only one building block they can use – WORDS. They must put those blocks of words together to paint pictures, suggest sounds and smells and textures to you so that you can see in your mind’s eye what the writer sees. Writing and Reading are shared experiences between the writer and the reader.

Introduce the idea of “SHIFTS” in poetry , changes in setting, mood and attitude.

Teacher reads Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney 

Set Up: The poem is told from the Irish poet’s young Seamus Heaney’s point of view, about the death of his 4 year old brother, Christopher, and how people (including himself) reacted to the situation. The poem successfully conveys Heaney’s sense of grief through various poetic techniques such as metaphor, simile and alliteration.

Literary devices 

Euphemism: a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.