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FCSDEng-Lit Terms Ex

Literary / Poetry Examples

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She sells sea shells by the sea shore alliteration
ooey, gooey, rubbery, blubbery macaroni assonance
Dan lived in a clean, modern, heavily-windowed house perched above the waves that crashed on moss-covered boulders. imagery
Her hair was silk metaphor
Tiger, Tiger burning bright; in the forest of the night meter
buzz, sizzle, boom, bang, woosh onomatopoeia
The oil danced in the pan personification
Chris complained he needed a cigarette repetition
muffett, tuffett rhyme
I think that I shall never SEE; A poem as lovely as a TREE; In fact unless the billboards FALL; I'll never see a tree at ALL (AABB rhyme scheme) rhyme scheme
Her hair is LIKE silk; Her hair is smooth AS silk; Life is LIKE an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep. (Carl Sandburg) simile
As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw above me an endless skyway I saw below me a golden valley This land was made for you and me stanza
So till the judgement that yourself arise, you live in this and dwell in lover's eyes couplet
Memories of a summer day; Slapout memories; Freedom; "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, written for President Abraham Lincoln elegy
Please sit down in that chair; Put away the book; Put the cap on the bottle literal language
You are driving me up a wall figurative language
Walt Whitman free verse poetry
I could sleep for a YEAR; This book weighs a TON hyperbole
Paul Revere's Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Piano Man by Billy Joel; The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot narrative poem / lyrics
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