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“Summer”. Walter Dean Myers - American Poet (born 1937) Page 927. Notes:. How does the speaker feel about the season of summer? Enjoys Sound devices: rhyme: internal: rhyme occurs WITHIN the same line beaming and dreaming (line 10) end: rhyme occurs at the END of the line(s )
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“Summer” Walter Dean Myers - American Poet (born 1937) Page 927
Notes: • How does the speaker feel about the season of summer? • Enjoys • Sound devices: • rhyme: • internal: rhyme occurs WITHIN the same line • beaming and dreaming (line 10) • end: rhyme occurs at the END of the line(s) • dripping (line ), ripping (line ) • repetition: • hot days (1 and 11) • onomatopoeia: • buzzin’ • peeping • Examples of personification: • “daisies lay/Beaming and dreaming” (line 10) • Purpose of dividing poem into two stanzas: • Two levels of activity (busy, energetic vs. lazy, relaxing)