ENGL 1F95 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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Millay, what lips my lips have kissed (norton 1071); Gilbert, sonnet: the ladies" home journal (norton 1074); Metaphors and similes depend on the comparison of two terms. the subject of the figure (i. e. , the thing the writer is trying to describe) is referred to as the tenor. The comparative term (i. e. the word or words actually used in the description), is referred to as the vehicle. It is important to remember that, although more description in the text may be devoted to the vehicle, one must figure out the tenor of the figure in order to determine what the section of the text is about. A complete analysis of any metaphor or simile will depend on determining the ground between the tenor and vehicle (i. e. what the two terms have in common. ) Lyric poem: any fairly short poem utter in the first-person, using i (the conventional. Petrarchan sonnet is a subgenre of the lyric. )
