metonym- the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing
Meiosis can be used as a simile for litotes....same thing, different name. What's litotes? See yesterday's journal :)
*using vocabulary from the "Fall of the house of Usher," write a reaction to the story. No more than one paragraph...use at least two words. This must make sense.
*using vocabulary from the "Fall of the house of Usher," write a reaction to the story. No more than one paragraph...use at least two words. This must make sense.
As I was reading "Fall of the houe of usher", I was confused by the large amount of detail and the structure of the scentences. After re-reading it and analying it, the story makes much more sense now. Several metonyms were used throughout the story, which made some of the passage more difficult to interpret. Meiosis is used throughout the story to re-enforce the authors main point. This actually helped me to understand the story better even though it seems counter-intuitive.
ReplyDeleteThe metonymy used in the political cartoon helped to generalize the whole government without going into painful detail.
ReplyDeleteThe severe meiosis of the pain which was commonly known helped the reader understand the shock that the author was in at the moment.
I rather enjoyed the story "The Fall of the House of Usher", largely due to its beautiful imagery and the overall downcast attitude that most of the characters had. Unfortunately, the dint behind writing the story never really occurred to me, and the overall purpose seems to be somewhat lacking. Did Poe write the story to entertain, or was there a deeper personal conflict that he felt while writing it? It seems to me that the ending is largely equivocal, as it could be interpreted in any number of ways. In sooth, the story was well written, with beautiful imagery, and a strong Gothic background.
ReplyDeleteBy the end of "The Fall of the House of Usher" I felt very ennuye because the fine detail of the house and everything else made me have to re-read everything numerous times. The equivocal nature of Poes wording made it hard to comprehend what I was reading at all times. After reading this frightful tale of horror it left me with plenty of incubus that caused me insomnia for a week!
ReplyDeleteOverall, I enjoyed "The Fall of the House of Usher." It was a phantasmagoric journey displaying fear, insanity, and death. The story drags one into the deep, complex mind of Roderick Usher and follows him to his ultimate downfall. Although it could leads to an equivocal ending, it felt complete and well written.
ReplyDeletePoe’s story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” gave me a sense of trepidation the whole time I read. In sooth, I enjoyed the story as it incorporated Gothic elements to tell an equivocal story of a family in peril. Poe never fails to impress with each story I read and “The Fall of the House of Usher” was no exception.
ReplyDeleteI found that "The Fall of the House of Usher" was quite confusing. All the metonyms used throughout the story, made it difficult for me to understand what Poe was trying to get across. I had to look a lot of information and words up from the story just to get the actually interpretation of the story itself. Poe described litotes which was hard to get what he was trying to say. In all honesty i did not like the story.
ReplyDeleteThe Fall of the House of Usher was a phantasm rooted in Gothic literature. The story was a difficult read due to the usage of meiosis, leading to multiple interpretations. Metonyms created confusion to as the emotions of the characters. The purpose of the story is also hard to identify. Was Poe writing for fun or did her use this writing to convey a deeper message.
ReplyDeleteI thought the story, "The Fall of the House of Usher," was entertaining, yet I had a hard time understand Poe's purpose. His syntax was often disjointed and extremely detailed, and I sometimes forgot the point he was trying to make amidst all of the epithets. He successfully utilized a sense of foreboding throughout the piece and I liked how he left his ending up for the interpretation of the reader.
ReplyDeleteEdgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" fills the audience with trepidation. The descriptive imagery about the house provides the reader with prodigious fascination. The audience envisions their sojourn in the mansion.
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ReplyDeleteLitotes is an ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (i.e. "you won't be sorry" used to mean "you'll be glad"). In other words, litotes is a figure of speech in which the affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite. Another example would be "he's no dummy." Meiosis is defined as a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasional warrants. Therefore, because the true meaning is not expressed with the full force necessary (as with litotes, when the exact meaning is applied by disproving a statement opposite to the one that the writer is trying to get across), meiosis can be considered similar (a simile) to litotes.
ReplyDelete"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe provided a SOJOURN to a fantastical, dark, and unusual world. I did not feel much TREPIDATION while reading the story, but instead became irritated at times by Poe's ABEYANCE from the plot in favor of detailed descriptions. Although the reading was far from PALLID in terms of imagery, it seemed too PHANTASMAGORIC, as are all PHANTASMS (in my opinion), to be believable. Regardless, I enjoyed the PERTINACITY with which Poe combined Gothic elements to create a story that caused an EQUIVOCAL audience to read to the end to determine the outcome. Unfortunately, I wish that Poe would have written a piece PARADOXICAL to his other handcrafted tales of mystery and gloom, as this passage proved to simply be another ACUTE revelation of his twisted and unstable imagination.
At first, I had a difficult time understanding "The Fall of the House of Usher." Once I was able to understand his elaborate use of imagery, it was much easier to read and enjoy the story. I think the heavy use of metonyms made the story much more difficult to understand. The use of meiosis, however, was used to reinforce the authors purpose.
ReplyDelete"The Fall of the House of usher" is a quite equivocal story leaving its interpretation up to the reader. Without a true ending and a large amount of trepidation throughout the story every reader is effected differently. The story is drawn out by Poe's constant reduplication of descriptor remarks.In sooth the story was well written and provoked a large amount of thought on the subject leading to an overall interesting story.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading "The Fall of the House of Usher", even though some points where the reading was slightly hard to interpret. Edgar Allan Poe used reduplication when describing the house. However, it was a nice change to read a story where an author implemented so much detail into a smaller text. I was aghast towards the end of the story when he died of fear, I wasn't really expecting that part.
ReplyDeleteThe Fall of the House of Usher was an interesting story with unpredictable twists. The equivocal story could be interpreted as the narrator having a phantasmic hallucination. It was mostly grueling with the pedantic details due to the Gothic elements. The gloomy and dark emotions expressed was depressing to read as the story progressed, but overall it was an interesting and immersive read.
ReplyDeleteThe first time I read through the "The Fall of the House of Usher" I was confused and was ennuye by the end of it. When I completed the questions and looked closely to what Poe was saying, the story turned out to be quite interesting. I realized that the narrator could have been having a phantasm instead of Roderick. Overall, the story was sometimes difficult to interpret, but was able to keep my attention.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read the "The Fall of the House of Usher" I was confused by some words such as wan and dint, but thanks to the handy sheet of vocab words they became clear to me. I found the story to be dark like all of Poe's other stories. However the whole psychological feel was very interesting, especially the ending where the house falls on Usher.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Fall of the House of Usher" I found it incredulous how the author remained unruffled despite the multitude of strange occurrences. Between the phantasms and trepidation he faced throughout his sojourn, it is no wonder he grew increasingly pallid.
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