Submitted by Ronald C. Rosbottom on Thursday, 2/25/2010, at 11:17 AM

Post here the phrase or sentence or passage that you will discuss on Monday, so that we can all glance at it before class.

 

Writers use figurative language (metaphor, metonmy, simile, synecdoche, apostrophe, personification, etc.) to emphasize a point or a description where they sense that purely denotative (as opposed to connotative) language will not suffice. We should always consider not only WHICH figures are used, but WHY the point was important enough to demand such a figure.