Figurative Language |
Metaphor“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - In the very first stanza, the metaphor is made apparent. Dickinson describes "hope" as a bird. Throughout the rest of the poem, she uses a bird to exemplify hope and allows the readers to feel feelings of hope.
personificationTo tell them 'Supper.' At the word, the saw,
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant. Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap- He must have given the hand. However it was, The highlighted text in this excerpt from Out, Out- by Robert Frost is an example of personification. In these lines, Frost is personifying the saw because a saw can't know what supper means, not can it leap out at the boys hand. These are human actions and he placed them on a inhuman object, therefore personifying it.
Metonymy / synechdocheAs he swung toward them holding up the hand
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all-- The highlighted text in this excerpt from Out, Out- by Robert Frost provides an example of a metonymy. "The life from spilling" is a metonymy that refers to the spilling of blood, consequently linking blood and life. The loss of too much blood leads to the loss of life.
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SimileBurns uses a smilie to describe what the beauty of his love is like. He says that it is like a fresh red rose.
overstatement (Hyperbole)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, I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry The highlighted portions of this excerpt provides an example of a hyperbole because a river cannot jump over the mountain, the salmon cannot sing in the street, and the ocean cannot be folded and hung to dry. They are exaggerations and, therefore, hyperboles or overstatements.
understatementLawrence describes an elaborate image of the anxiety associated with waiting for class to end in Afternoon in School. However, she understates the anxiousness in the last line when she says "I will sit and wait for the bell."
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