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X. J. Kennedy. 6 Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY ? " I will speak daggers to her , but use none , " says Hamlet , preparing to confront his mother . His statement makes ... FIGURES OF SPEECH Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY?
X. J. Kennedy. 6 Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY ? " I will speak daggers to her , but use none , " says Hamlet , preparing to confront his mother . His statement makes ... 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 of speech are not to be taken only literally , they refer us to a tangible world . By personifying an eagle ... figures of speech have power . They are more than just ways of playing with words . Edmund Waller ( 1606-1687 ) ON A ...
... figures of speech are not to be taken only literally , they refer us to a tangible world . By personifying an eagle ... figures of speech have power . They are more than just ways of playing with words . Edmund Waller ( 1606-1687 ) ON A ...
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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