Light of My Winds of You’re as Cold Love is lli i g y Life Winds of Change Cold as Ice Love is Blind
What I s A Metaphor?
Rolling in Dough I Smell
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Heart of
Apple of my eye Let the Cat Out of the Bag stone
The Sweet Smell of Success Fight Like a Tiger a Tiger
The World
True Definition of Metaphors
Makes Comparisons Between
Two Unrelated Subjects
Two Unrelated Subjects
Why are Metaphors
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Symbolism Symbolism Concise Language Concise Language Symbolism Symbolism Concise Language Concise Language Concise Language Concise Language
Makes Language Livelier Makes Language Livelier
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Writers Use Them Writers Use Them
Without Stating Obvious Without Stating Obvious Writers Use Them
Writers Use Them
Figurative Language
Metaphor
Direct Metaphor I mplied Metaphor I mplied Metaphor Simile
Simile
Metaphor
Direct Metaphor Direct Metaphor
Comparing two unlike objects or ideas Comparing two unlike objects or ideas
Metaphor, Continued
I ndirect metaphor
- An indirect comparison between two unlike things
unlike things.
Simile
Personification
Giving human qualities to an inanimate objectj
Sound Techniques
Rhyme Scheme Alliteration
Alliteration
Rhyme Scheme
Heavy is my heart, A Dark are thine eyesy B Thou and I must part A
Rhyme Scheme- The pattern in which end rhyme occurs
• Example:
Continuous as the stars that shine (A) And twinkle on the milky way, (B)
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They stretched in never-ending line (A) Along the margin of a bay: (B)
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, (C) g , ( )
Alliteration
ALLI TERATI ON
Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of wordsg g
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More onomatopoeia
“The bee buzzed by my ear “
“The clock ticked down the final hour” “The engine purred while awaiting the
Stanza
• A unit of lines grouped together • • Similar to a paragraph in prose
Couplet- • A stanza consisting of two lines that rhyme y
Mood- the feeling a poem creates for
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the reader
I magery
• Representation of the five senses: sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell g , , , ,
• Creates mental images about a poem’s subject
subject
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Example: “Continuous as the
Symbol
• A word or object that has its own
meaning and represents another word, g p , object or idea •
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Example: The daffodils
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Example: The daffodils
represent happiness and pleasure
to the author.
Assonance
• The repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words in the line of a poem • p
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ASSONANCE
Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.p y
(Often creates near rhyme ) (Often creates near rhyme.)
Lake Fate Base Fade
(All share the long “a” sound.)
ASSONANCE cont.
Examples of ASSONANCE:
“Slow the low gradual moan came in the g snowing.”
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“Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet “Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet
sleep.”
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CONSONANCE
Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .
The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
anywhere in the words
Refrain
Repetition
• A word or phrase repeated within a line or stanza •