Poetry Analysis

Figures of Speech

• Simile - His hair is dark as the hyacinth blosson.
• Metaphor - Flame - coloured are his wings.
• Personifiation - The oak shook its head.
• Alliteration - (Repetition of initial consonants) she sat silently/tis true, tis true.
• Assonance - (Repetition of the vowels sounds) as the shadow os a rose.
• Consonance - (Repetition of consonants within words)
• Apostrophe - Talking directly to any author, person, alive or dead
• Hyperbole - Exaggeration
• Oxymoron - ­(sounds of silence)
• Symbolism
• Imagery (senses) - hearing, seeing, smelling, touching, tasting
• Level of language - slang, informal, formal
• Irony
• Pun - Fun use of language