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Doe
Ms. Kates
English 2-X
3 March 2016
Poetry Annotation
Ugly, Warsan Shire (2013)
Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
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Comment [1]: 2nd Person POV: Narrative
perspective-audience is a character in the
poem
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Comment [2]: End-stopped line
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Comment [3]: Assonance: long e sound
rhymes in intimately, carries, cities,
belly
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Comment [4]: Metaphor: daughter=wood,
water
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Comment [5]: Allusion: Reference to a
particular warwhich one?
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Comment [6]: Simile: the hair is like
rope
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Comment [7]: Image: Sight is described
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Comment [8]: Enjambment: thought
continues over three lines, no stops until the
end
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Comment [9]: Gargle: Onomatopoeia
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Comment [10]: Symbol: Perhaps
represents the gender
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Comment [11]: Caesura: Slight pause in
the middle of the line at the comma
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Comment [12]: Synethesia: Smell is
described with emotion, physical state
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Comment [13]: Anaphora: Repetition of
if/if her/if her/if her
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Comment [14]: Stanza: Arrangement of
lines into a unit
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Comment [15]: Motif: There is a
repeating reference to war and its effects on
people and countries
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Comment [16]: Denotation: Littered
means "leave lying untidily in a place"
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Comment [17]: Connotation: Littered has
a negative connotation of trash and waste,
discarded and uncared for
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Comment [18]: Consonance: Repetition
of g sound
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Comment [19]: Alliteration: repetition of
w sound beginning wear, world, well
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Comment [20]: Paradox: How can she be
ugly but also wear the world well at the
same time?