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... figures of speech . In its broadest definition , a figure of speech may be said to occur whenever a speaker or writer , for the sake of freshness or empha- sis , departs from ... FIGURES OF SPEECH Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY?
... figures of speech . In its broadest definition , a figure of speech may be said to occur whenever a speaker or writer , for the sake of freshness or empha- sis , departs from ... FIGURES OF SPEECH Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY?
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... figures of speech does the poem contain ? EXERCISE : What Is Similar ? 5 Each of these quotations contains a simile or a metaphor . In each of these figures of speech , what two things is the poet comparing ? Try to state exactly what ...
... figures of speech does the poem contain ? EXERCISE : What Is Similar ? 5 Each of these quotations contains a simile or a metaphor . In each of these figures of speech , what two things is the poet comparing ? Try to state exactly what ...
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... FIGURES When Shakespeare asks , in a sonnet , O ! how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days , it might seem at first that he mixes metaphors ... FIGURES 97 OTHER FIGURES James Stephens, THE WIND.
... FIGURES When Shakespeare asks , in a sonnet , O ! how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days , it might seem at first that he mixes metaphors ... FIGURES 97 OTHER FIGURES James Stephens, THE WIND.
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
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A. E. Housman alliteration aloud ballad beauty bird born called COMPARE connotations Copyright critic dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings Elegy Emily Dickinson English essay eyes Ezra Pound feel figures of speech flower Gerard Manley Hopkins haiku hand hear heart John Keats language light listen live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton mind move myth never night open form paper pauses phrase play poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS Randall Jarrell reader Reprinted by permission rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Frost sense Shakespeare sing song sonnet soul sound spider stanza story suggestions sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought translation tree University verse W. H. Auden Whitman William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind words wrote York