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| + | Alliteration: "terms and tides"; "rustics rang'd" |
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− | * Similes – It is a figure of speech which directly compares two things. It can use words such as 'like', 'as', 'than' etc. to convey the comparison.
| + | Anaphora: "Full well they laugh'd"; "Full well the busy" |
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− | similes in the poem:
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− | # We bear her along like a pearl on a string - ''Movement of a pearl on a string.''
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− | # She falls like a tear - ''Dripping movement of the tear.''
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− | # She springs like a beam - ''Quick movement of the ray of light.''
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− | # She hangs like a star - ''Movement of a star that twinkles in the sky.''
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− | # She sways like a flower - ''Swaying of a lovely flower in the wind.''
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− | # She skims like a bird - '' Gliding movement of the bird flying over a stream.''
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− | # She floats like laugh - ''Floating like a sweet smile on the lips of a dreamer.''
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− | * Alliteration – Repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts of a series of words. It is mainly used in poems.
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| + | Analogy: it's a part to whole. The schoolmaster (part) is compared to the village (whole) |
− | alliteration in the poem:
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| + | Imagery: 3 types |
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− | # She – sways
| + | setting-based imagery: "straggling fence"; "noisy mansion"; "little school" |
− | # She – skims
| + | intellectual/educational imagery: "Lands"; "terms and tides"; "small head" |
− | # Like – laugh – lips
| + | rhetorical/linguistic imagery: "words"; "jokes"; "story" |
− | # Gaily – glide
| + | Rhyming couplets: pairs of rhyming lines ("spot" / "forgot") |
− | # Beam – brown
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− | * ''Musical effect:-''
| + | End-stopped lines (punctuation "." or "," or ";" at the end of a line) |
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− | ''Gaily O’ Gaily''
| + | Caesura: punctation in the middle of a line ("Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,") |
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| + | Speaker/Tone: loves the school master; poem is a dedication to him |
− | ''Light O’ light''
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− | ''Softly
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− | O’ softly''
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| == Additional resources == | | == Additional resources == |