Question

1. Identify two examples of personification: explain what is being personified how.

2. Identify an example of simile : explain which two things are being compared.
3. Identify an example of metaphor: explain which two things are being compared.
4. Find an example of alliteration. List the alliterative words.
5. Why is every other line contained in quotation marks ? what is the effect of his technique?
6.In the third stanza of the poem, The speaker referring and how do you know? Use evidence from the text.
7. What is the mood of this poem? How does it make you feel and why does it make you feel this way?
8.What is the thematic message of this poem? In other words,what lesson is the author attempting to Express with this poem? Explain your answer.

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Answer:

1. Personification gives human traits and qualities, such as emotions, desires, sensations, gestures and speech, often by way of a metaphor. Personification is much used in visual arts. Examples in writing are "the leaves waved in the wind", "the ocean heaved a sigh" or "the Sun smiled at us".
2. Similes and metaphors are often confused with one another. The main difference between a simile and metaphor is that a simile usesAlliteration Examples and Worksheets
3. Peter Piped Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
4. Three grey geese in a field grazing. Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.
5. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said this butter's bitter; ...
6. I need not your needs, They're needl the words "like" or "as" to draw a comparison and a metaphor simply states the comparison without using "like" or "as". An example of a simile is: She is as innocent as an angel.
7. . Identify two examples of metaphor: explain which two things are being compared in each metaphor. Answer: In your eyes/ Smoulder the fallen roses of outlived minutes: in this example, time passed is compared to fallen roses.My vigor is a new-minted penny: compares the speaker's vigor to a penny.
8. Alliteration Examples and Worksheets
9. Peter Piped Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
10. Three grey geese in a field grazing. Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.
11. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said this butter's bitter; ...
12. I need not your needs, They're needl
13. The second, “Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt,” is giving the sand the quality of having an arm. 2. One hyperbole in Poem 1 is “the lucid and endless wrinkles.” It is an exaggeration because the waves would not be endless, for they have to end at some point.
14. . What action is described in the third stanza of the poem?, The tide coming in & out.
15. The mood of this poem is peaceful.
16. This poem gives readers a wry interpretation of life and death. It uses simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and the tone of the poem is an intriguing centerpiece of discussion.