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Presented By: Maheen Amjad Ayesha Farid Bibi Kainat Ghania Imtiaz Tooba Samavia
Presented By: Maheen Amjad Ayesha Farid Bibi Kainat Ghania Imtiaz Tooba Samavia
Sylvia Plath
Presented by:
Maheen Amjad
Ayesha Farid
Bibi Kainat
Ghania Imtiaz
Tooba Samavia
● Born in Boston in 1932
● Studies at Cambridge
University where she met her
future husband Ted Hughes
1. First poetry collection: Colossus
2. Had two children with Hughes: Frieda (1960) and
Nicholas (1962)
3. Hughes left Plath in 1962 for Assia Wevill who was also
a poetess
2. Metaphor
The comparison of two unlike things without
the use of ‘like’ or ‘as’
“The eye of a little god, four-cornered.”
1. Hyperbole
These are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken
literally.
“Now I am a lake”
2. Simile
Comparison of two unlike things by the use of ‘like’ or ‘as’
“Like a terrible fish”
3. Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of
adjacent words.
“I see, I swallow”
● Imagery
It is the visually descriptive or
figurative language, especially
in a literary work.
“It is pink with speckles”
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