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temperature imagery

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Poetic imagery using contrasts of hot and cold to symbolize emotional states, moral dualities, or atmospheric tension.

Detailed Definition
Temperature imagery employs descriptions of heat, cold, warmth, or chill to convey emotional states, social dynamics, or moral climates; beyond literal weather, it symbolizes passion (“burning desire”), alienation (“icy stare”), or spiritual condition (“frozen heart”), as in Sylvia Plath’s use of Arctic cold to represent emotional numbness or Dante’s infernal heat as divine punishment.
Example
Example in poetry:
Temperature imagery evokes hot/cold to convey emotion: “Her words were ice” (emotional coldness); “The room burned with silence” (intensity); “A cold fire in his eyes” (paradoxical temperature); “Warm memories melted the winter” (emotional thaw).
Additional Notes
temperature imagery|Descriptive language related to heat, cold, warmth, or coolness, used not just literally, but to symbolize emotions, social climate, or psychological states (e.g., cold stare, warm embrace).
Also Known As
Heat imagery Climatic imagery Thermal poetry Caloric imagery
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