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Infinite Riches in a Little Room
Dr. Pamela TroyerAssistant Professor of English, MSU Denver
Cheryl Upshaw English Major / Tech Comm Minor, MSU Denver
Social Media Assistant / Intern, Teaching with Primary Sources
Literary Figures: The Riches
• Asyndeton - “not bound”
• Anadiplosis -“to double back”
• Paronomasia - “two meanings”
• Prosopopoeia -“making a mask”
• Hyperbole - “excess”
Astrophil and Stella – Sonnet 1
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That she (dear She) might take some pleasure of my pain:
Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,
Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain;
I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe,
Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain:
Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow
Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain.
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite --
"Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
Alexandrine Line (iambic hexameter)
Asyndeton (not bound)
Anadiplosis (to double back)
Hyperbole (exaggeration for effect)
Consonance (repetition of consonants)
Prosopopoeia (personification)
Paronomasia (double meaning)
Conceit (elaborate and unusual
comparison)
Southern HistoryBefore the war, they were happy, he said
quoting our textbook (this was senior-year
history class) The slaves were clothed, fed,
and better off under a master's care.
I watched the words blur on the page. No one
raised a hand, disagreed. Not even me.
It was late; we still had Reconstruction
to cover before the test, and, - luckily -
three hours of watching Gone with the Wind.
History, the teacher said, of the old South -
a true account of how things were back then.
On screen a slave stood big as life: big mouth,
bucked eyes, our textbook's grinning proof - a lie
my teacher guarded. Silent, so did I.
Meiosis (understatement)
Paronomasia (double meaning)
Juxtaposition (next to)Irony (unexpected meaning)
Hyperbole (exaggeration)Prosopopoeia (personification)
Robert Pinsky
Low Pay PieceworkThe fifth-grade teacher and her followers—Five classes, twenty-eight in each, all hers:One-hundred-and-forty different characters.
Billy CollinsThe poem creates a space. It hides in a tent
in a forest. Making its own bed, it falls asleep in the dark, wakes up under a lamp or the sun.
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