Literary Devices in Poetry 1.) A.) simile - “This bundle of clothes I wash and hang and wash again like flags we share” “Daily” by Naomi Shihab‚ pg. 410. B.) metaphor - “And I recall his hands‚ two measures of tenderness” “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee‚ pg. 469. C.) imagery - “Poised between going on and back‚ pulled both ways taut like a tightrope walker” “The Base Stealer” by Robert Francis‚ pg. 476. D.) diction - “Moving slowly” “The Cyclopes in the Ocean” by Nikki Giovanni
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The speaker of the poem has recently lost a child to drowning. The pain of losing a child is uncomparable to anything in the world‚ and Margaret Atwood uses the title‚ tone‚ language and structure to describe the pain. The author uses different similes and metaphors to describe her son’s recent death. The title of the poem is essential as it sets the tone for the rest of the poem. Before the reader begins to read the poem they will read “Death of a Young Son by Drowning‚” after reading that title
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What becomes of deferred dreams: “Harlem” In “Harlem‚” by Langston Hughes‚ the speaker wants the reader to consider the dangers of postponing their dreams. Through similes of imagery‚ he emphasizes the importance to consider dreams to be as real as flesh and vital as food. “Harlem” is a free verse poem consisting of eleven lines‚ which are broken into four stanzas. In the first stanza‚ the speaker offers a question‚ “What happens to a dream deferred?” which has infinite many answers. In stanzas
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Name ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Dateــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Activity 1: Simile and Metaphor Decide whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor‚ and identify the two things being compared. Then change the simile into metaphor and vice versa: 1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The dancer moved around the
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appeals to your senses. It offers you a verbal snapshot. Ex: “She could smell the moist‚ fresh grass.” 6. Metaphor- A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike objects. Ex: “He is a dirty rat.” 7. Simile- Similar to a metaphor‚ a simile is a comparison of two unlike objects. The difference is a simile uses the words “like” or “as”. Ex: “He is as dirty as a rat”. 8. Onomatopoeia- Words that are used to imitate sounds. Ex: Buzz‚ knock sizzle‚ crack‚ hum‚ pop‚ etc. 9. Personification- Giving human
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In “The Soul Has Bandaged Moments”‚ a person who is observing the soul gives their analysis of the cycle of the soul‚ beginning with bandaged moments‚ moving to freedom moments‚ and finishing with retaken moments. Dickinson incorporates repetition‚ simile‚ and rhyme in her poem to develop an observant tone in reporting the speaker’s observations about the soul’s cycle of experiences. Throughout the poem‚ Dickinson employs repetition to show the cyclical experiences of the soul‚ hence to create an
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describes his journey of power and how he flourished‚ but on “the third day comes a killing frost….[which] nips his root”. Wolsey is describing the king in a metaphor as a killing frost who has led him to his downfall. Shakespeare included this simile in Wolsey’s soliloquy to ensure the audience is fully aware of how Wolsey is feeling after just having his world turned upside down. In the end of the soliloquy Shakespeare expresses his complete cycle of emotion by having Wolsey realize his “high-blown
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time‚ as a child… the power might not come on again too soon” pg. 7- describes Montag’s past as a child. 8. Alliteration- “Monday burn Millay‚ Wednesday Whitman‚ Friday Faulkner” pg. 8- describes all the cities that they burn in one week. 9. Simile- “like a mirror” pg. 11- describes Clarisse and how her face reflects back to him. 10. Flashback- “nights when things got dull…a new game began” pg. 24-25- describes how they used to have fun on boring nights and use the hound for personal pleasure
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Paret Rhetorical Analysis In his article‚ “The Death of Benny Paret”‚ Norman Mailer sorrowfully retells his first-hand account of the tragic death of the boxer‚ Benny Paret and the horror that he witnessed that day. Using figurative language such as similes‚ and diction to enhance the readers’ emotions‚ the author conveys to the reader a sense of shock‚ loss‚ and regret. Mailer retells his heartrending witness of the death of Paret in order to order to convey to his readers of the inhumanity and nobility
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is another way in which Thomas makes them appear extraordinary. In the second stanza Thomas suggests a sense of value to words by choosing similes to describe them‚ with language such as ‘precious as gold’‚ ‘tough as oak’‚ ‘as poppies and corn’ each simile has a reference to a natural value and suggests the need Thomas feels for words. For example the simile comparing words to poppies and corn suggests not only a vulnerability from the delicacy of a poppy but life’s fundamental need for foods such
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