Introduction to Literature II: Maya Angelou II

Introduction to Literature II: 
Maya Angelou
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Introduction to Literature II: 
Maya Angelou

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Happy New Year!

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Road map
Your poems!

Metaphor - Simile in 
'Still I Rise'

Compare and contrast:
'Still I Rise' - 'The Hill We Climb'


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Your poems 

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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

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Still I Rise
Summary?

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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.

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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.

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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'.


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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

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Amanda Gorman
1998 - now 25 years

studied sociology 
now: author,  poet

2021 - Biden Inauguration







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1993 - Maya Angelou Clinton inauguration

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1993 - Inauguration President Clinton
2021 - Inauguration President Biden

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Do
Assignments 2 and 3


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Do
Assignments 2 and 3

Finish them this Friday!

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