Sound Devices
What sound device is being used here?
The woods are lovely dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
What is repetition?
Simile or metaphor?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
What is a simile?
What is the allusion in the following poem?
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
What lines of the poem contain imagery?
1. The winter evening settles down
2. With smell of steaks in passageways.
3. Six o’clock.
4. The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
5. And now a gusty shower wraps
6. The grimy scraps
2, 4, 5, 6
What example of figurative language is being used?
History has its eyes on us.
Personification
What sound device is being used here?
The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
Thou are my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine:
The lot was cast and then I drew,
And Fortune said it shou'd be you.
What is rhyme?
Simile or metaphor?
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
What is a simile?
What does the following allusion allow us to infer about the woman's workout routine?
She has a Spartan workout routine.
It is very intense.
What type of imagery is being used here?
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Visual
What example of figurative language is being used?
I died of embarrassment.
Hyperbole
What sound device is being used here?
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
What is alliteration?
Simile or metaphor?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
What is a metaphor?
What does the allusion allow us to infer?
You don't have to be William Shakespeare to write poetry.
That anyone can write poetry.
What type of imagery is being used here?
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where we heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
Auditory imagery
What type of figurative language is being used?
Money is the only friend I can count on.
Personification
What sound device is being used here?
water plops into pond
splish-splash downhill
warbling magpies in tree
trilling, melodic thrill
What is onomatopoeia?
What does the simile allow you to infer about the mistress' eyes?
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
Her eyes are dull, not bright.
What does the following allusion allow us to infer about the woman?
Chocolate was her Achilles heel.
That chocolate is her weakness; she cannot resist it.
What type of imagery is being used here?
They silently inhale
the clover-scented gale
Olfactory
What does the figurative language allow us to infer?\
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street.
He will love her forever.
What sound device is being used here?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
What is meter?
What is the metaphor suggesting about the world and people in it?
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
- That the world is full of entertainment
- That people, like actors and actresses, make their entrance (birth) and exit (death) as they do on a stage; they are only here for a short time.
What does the following allusion allow us to infer?
Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye
and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
and even now as you memorize the order of the planets
That she is forgetting history/losing her memory.
What type of imagery is being used?
The salty-sweet caramel melted on her tongue.
Gustatory
What does the following use of figurative language allow us to infer about winter?
If winter were a person, she would be a girl with frosty hair.
Winter would wear snow pants, snow boots, gloves, a hat, and scarf.
Winter would smell like hot chocolate and peanut butter and Hershey Kiss cookies baking in the oven.
Winter would spend the day eating cookies and drinking hot cocoa by a lake.
Winter would spend the night by sitting in the snow waiting for morning so children could come out to play.
Winter is happy/good thing.