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Enhance your understanding of poetic devices with this comprehensive study project on Figures of Speech. Explore metaphors, symbolism, rhyme, and more through classic poems by Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, and others.
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Collection 2 Study Project. Chase Szima Mrs. Ventresco 7th period CP Eng. 11 October 16, 2007.
Figures of Speech • A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and that is not meant to be taken literally. • Spirits of the dead • By: Edgar Allan Poe
Metaphor • Compares two unlike things without using specific words of comparison such as like, as, than, or resembles. • GONE is the long, long winter night; • Poem: The Arctic Lover • By: William Cullen Bryant
Symbolyism • A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than just itself. • Her eggs the screaming sea-fowl piles Beside the pebbly shore. • Poem: The Arctic Lover. • By : William Cullen Bryant
Rhythm • The alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. • Poem: Lenore • By: Edgar Allan Poe
Rhyme • The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. • A Certain Young Lady • Poem by: Washington Irving.
Meter • A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. • Poem: Lenore • By: Edgar Allan Poe
Alliteration • The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. • Poem: America • By: Herman Melville
Onomatopoeia • The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests it meaning. • Poem: The Raven • By: Edgar Allan Poe • A rapping, tapping at my chamber door.
Assonance • The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words close together. • Poem: The Raven • By: Edgar Allan Poe
Consonance • The repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables or in important words. • Wild Apples • By: Henry David Thoreau