funeral in my brain‚ And mourners‚ to and fro‚ Kept treading‚ treading‚ till it seemed That sense was breaking through. 4 Alliteration : The words "felt" & "funeral" ( line 1) and "treading" ‚ "treading" & "till" (line 3) suggest that there’s alliteration of /f/ & /s/ in this stanza. Imagery: The word "treading" can be considered as a kinesthetic-imagery and also at the same time it can be mentioned as a auditory imagery . Rhyming
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Similarities and Differences Between “Jabberwocky” and “Eating Alone” Are “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll and “Eating Alone” by Li-Young Lee similar or very different? Both poems have a constant meter. Also‚ both poems have multiple examples of alliteration. As a difference‚ “Jabberwocky” has rhyme but “Eating Alone” does not. Despite “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll and “Eating Alone” by Li-Young Lee both being popular poems they are very different. Both “Jabberwocky” and “Eating Alone” have a constant
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vile‚ distorted and inhumane war really was‚ uncovering the brutal truth. The poems chosen to illustrate the use and effect of stylistic tools such as alliteration and pararhyme are "Exposure" and "Strange Meeting". Owen predominantly used alliteration throughout his poem "Exposure"‚ while in the poem "Strange Meeting" pararhymes prevail. Alliteration is defined as the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds‚ while pararhyme is defined by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman as the subtle and effective
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“hand‚” because it is a synecdoche to marriage. His lover responds with the statement “taking a mortal thing [marriage] so to immortalize [her name]” is senseless‚ because “[her] name [will] be wiped out likewise” (Spenser 6-8). Spenser’s use of alliteration‚ metaphor‚ and hyperbole illustrates the speaker’s failed attempts at love‚ while revealing his vanity. The speaker shows how his lover controls his emotions in the first four lines of “Sonnet 75” by stating “agayne I wrote it with a second
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1. I was so hungry that I even ate the plate. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) hyperbole B) metaphor C) personification D) simile 2. My father was the sun and the moon to me. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) hyperbole B) simile C) metaphor D) personification 3. The rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) onomatopoeia B) metaphor C) personification
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tension. In the poem ‘The Highwayman’ he uses many sound devices to create this tension. Another thing that creates the tension in the poem is the punctuation‚ how he is making you read the poem. Some examples of sound devices that he uses are alliteration‚ onimonipea‚ consonance‚ rhythm‚ and assonance. He creates many examples of these four sound devices in his work to create a very clear mood of tension. Alfred Noyes uses many sound devices
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In the stanza from the story of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth wants to lose her feminine qualities in order to be capable of murder. She conveys this through the use of figurative language and alliteration. Through the usage of figurative language‚ it is understood that she wants to lose her nurturing female qualities. Her statement of “unsex me here” figuratively means that she does not want to be the sex that she was given so that she could commit the murder. Literally she means that in order to pull
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his poem with a simile Alliteration: lonely as a cloud (line 1). Simile: Comparison (using as) of the speaker’s solitariness to that of a cloud (line 1). Personification: Comparison of the cloud to a lonely human. (line 1) Alliteration: high o’er vales and Hills (line 2). Alliteration: When all at once (line 3). (Note that the w and o have the same consonant sound.) Personification/Metaphor: Comparison of daffodils to a crowd of people (lines 3-4). Alliteration: golden Daffodils (line
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Poe demonstrates allusion‚ alliteration‚ and personification. “...Raven of the saintly days of yore;...” is an allusion to a verse in the Bible. 1 Kings 17:1-6 stating that God told ravens to bring Elijah food every day if he went where God told him to go. Poe uses 1 Kings to show that the Raven is here to help not harm
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Alliteration is used in this context to create an emphasis on the words used. The words “handle” and “hand” are used to create an image of the handle of the dagger being in Macbeth’s hand. This tells us that the time when the dagger will be in Macbeth’s hand (that is to kill King Duncan)‚ is very close. The line “Come‚ let me clutch thee”‚ along with having alliteration in it is also an apostrophe. Here‚ Macbeth addresses the dagger
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