FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN POETRY
Personification
"I'll tell you how the sun rose, A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself 'That must have been the sun!'"
Metaphor
"Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places"
Personification
"My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake."
Metaphor
"My vigor is a new-minted penny, Which I cast at your feet. Gather it up from the dust, That its sparkle may amuse you."
Metaphor
"Nature's first green is gold"
Personification
"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leafs a flower;"
Alliteration
"Once upon a midnight dreary While I pondered weak and weary"
Personification
"Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there was A time when it was not. It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive"
Simile
"Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew."
Personification
"Slowly, silently, now the moon walks the night in her silver shoon;"
Simile
"So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground"
Alliteration
"Soft silence of the summer night!"
Alliteration
"Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need"
Simile
"Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,"
Personification
"There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. What was it it whispered? I know not well myself;"
Personification
"A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In the dress his century wore."
Metaphor
"All the world's a stage All the men and women merely players"
Personification
"And every time I speak for Him - The Mountains straight reply -"
Personification
"But as I said it, swift there passed me by On noiseless wing a bewildered butterfly,"
Personification
"But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour."
Alliteration
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"
Personification
"For with a wound I must be cured. Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn"
Personification
"Freedom's clear reveille, swept from heedless hovel to complacent throne."
Simile
"He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on;"
Simile
"How dreary to be somebody How public- like a frog"
Simile
"I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm"
Alliteration
"I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up,"
Metaphor
"I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see."
Alliteration
"Till seraphs swing their snowy hats, And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun!"
Personification
"To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!"
Metaphor
"Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor Bare."
Simile
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
Personifcation
"When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age"
Personification/Alliteration
"With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody."
Simile
"You are beautiful and faded Like an old opera tune Played upon a harpsichord; Or like the sun-flooded silks Of an eighteenth-century [dresser]"
Simile
"You may see their trunks arching in the woods Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair Before them over their heads to dry in the sun."
Metaphor
What is the type of figurative language that compares two unlike things without using like or as?
Simile
What is the type of figurative language that uses like or as to compare two unlike things?
Personification
What is the type of figurative language that where a non-human entity is given human like qualities?
Alliteration
What is the type of figurative language where the beginning consonant sound is repeated?
