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... METAPHOR AND SIMILE - In poetry , among the most common figures of speech are meta- phor and simile . Both may be ... metaphor , a statement that one thing is something else , which , in a literal sense , it is not . In the second of ...
... METAPHOR AND SIMILE - In poetry , among the most common figures of speech are meta- phor and simile . Both may be ... metaphor , a statement that one thing is something else , which , in a literal sense , it is not . In the second of ...
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... metaphor that might also involve comparisons of appearance and morality . One might — if he prefers to classify figures of speech according to what they mean in- stead of which words they use throw over the traditional and usage , call ...
... metaphor that might also involve comparisons of appearance and morality . One might — if he prefers to classify figures of speech according to what they mean in- stead of which words they use throw over the traditional and usage , call ...
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... metaphor ? 8 2. Why would not the metaphor have been available to a poet in Shakespeare's time ? 3. What is the tone of the poem ? How does the speaker feel about the " radiance of that star " — simply joyous and glad , as we might ...
... metaphor ? 8 2. Why would not the metaphor have been available to a poet in Shakespeare's time ? 3. What is the tone of the poem ? How does the speaker feel about the " radiance of that star " — simply joyous and glad , as we might ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats