ENGLISH 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Assonance, Simile, Hyperbole

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Lorraine York

Document Summary

Aunt jennifer"s tigers adrienne rich: metre iambic pentameter, type of poem free verse, poetic techniques, alliteration: aunt jennifer"s fingers fluttering through her wool , end rhyme: aunt jennifer"s tigers prance across a screen,/ bright topaz denizens of a world of green. Cummings: metre no consistent metre, type of poem , poetic techniques, persona: doctors, neologisms: manunkind , ultraomnipotence , allusions. Shakespeare sonnet 130: metre iambic pentameter, type of poem sonnet, poetic techniques, diction: earthy, form: flows flows thump flows (change in metre, shakespeare makes fun of the extravagant similes and metaphors that other poets have traditionally used to praise a woman"s beauty. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why? edna st. vincent millay: metre iambic pentameter, type of poem petrarchan sonnet, poetic techniques, metaphor: illustrates the loneliness of the speaker as she is comparing herself to [a] lonely tree (line 9) standing in the winter where birds have vanished one by one (line 10).