Friday, October 2, 2009

Poetry Analysis

Figures of Speech:

-Simile: His hair is dark as the hyacinth blossom.

-Metaphor: Flamed-coloured wings.

-Personification: The Oak shook its head.

-Alliteration (repetition of initial consonants): She sat silently./ Tistrue; tistrue

-Assonance (repetition of vowel sounds): As the shadow of a rose.

-Consonance (repetition of consonants within words):

-Apostrophe: Talking directly to a an author/person, alive or dead.

-Hyperbole: Exaggeration

-Oxymoron: ''Sounds of Silence''

-Symbolism

-Imagery (senses): Hearing, seeing, smelling, touching, tasting

-Level of language: Slang, informal, formal

-Irony

-Pun: I wondered why the ball was getting bigger, then it hit me./ We almost got creamed by a milk truck.

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