Introduction to Literature II: Maya Angelou

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• Middelbare school
• vmbo lwoo, vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Introduction to Literature II: 

Maya Angelou

Road map

• Maya Angelou background
• Still I Rise  (1978)
• Work on assignments 

Lesson goal

At the end of this class you

• can define a metaphor and a simile
• recognise them in a literary work
• outline Maya Angelou's life
• describe her poem 'Still I Rise' 
• discuss its meaning. 

The poem

Read assignment 1, p. 13

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

The poem

Rhyme scheme

Form

Falling and rising meter 

The poem

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.

The poem

Do assignment 1 and 2, p. 13

Ready? Read 'The Hill We Climb' by Amanda Gorman (2021)

The poem

Check!

Do

Work on your own poem. 

Finish: 20-12!

or 

Read 'The Hill We Climb'

start on assignment 3.