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A comprehensive guide for literary analysis, focusing on figurative language and imagery. It covers three literary devices - similes, metaphors, and personification - and five types of imagery - touch, sight, sound, taste, and smell. Additionally, it discusses techniques such as alliteration, assonance, sibilance, onomatopoeia, sequence, subject, flow, mood, voice, tense, rhyme scheme, and rhythm/pace. The goal is to help readers understand how these elements contribute to the overall meaning of a poem.
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Figurative language is the collective term for three literary devices:
The rising sun has many connotations: renewal, optimism, a fresh start, heavenly beauty, and so on. The metaphor therefore enables Shakespeare to pack lots of meaning into a small number of words.
Personification is extremely useful to poets in creating atmosphere or mood.
Imagery is the name we give to elements in the poem which describe what can be sensed. Although the word ‘imagery’ suggests the idea of a picture, imagery itself is not necessarily visual:
Keats uses these images to evoke human weakness.
Here in ‘Dover Beach’ Matthew Arnold evokes, with simple language, a still sea at night time.
He is trying to convey the sour smell of rotting blackberries.
Pound is using sound to help him immerse the reader in the impression of being on a ship on a stormy sea.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine…
REMEMBER: LITERARY NINJAS ALWAYS: BACK UP their points with evidence from the text and say HOW imagery conveys the poet’s meaning.
order in which they convey it.