The Highwayman Rhetorical Devices

First in the first paragraph the writer uses simile. A simile is a comparison using like or as. The writer compares a taco to a poem using like or as. You can't order a poem like you order a taco. The simile in the poem made it kind of funny.

The three poems show exile and keening, but the poems also show tactile imagery. The Wanderer show tactile imagery in line three, “wintery seas,” describes the setting is in this poem along with the tone. The Seafarer show’s tactile imagery as well, in line nine, “in icy bands, bound with frost,” the tactile imagery in this line describes the coldness of the thoughts in the lonely man’s head. In The Wife’s Lament the tactile imagery is shown in line forty seven, “That my beloved sits under a rocky cliff rimed with frost a lord dreary in spirit drenched with water in the ruined hall.” The wife in this tactile imagery is show how her husband is suffering just

describing the characters and objects throughout the poem and in creating the atmosphere of the

“Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.” By Shūsaku Endō, The Final Martyrs. In your lifetime you have probably seen writing techniques in a story. Writing techniques can include similes, metaphors, personification, and descriptive word choice. Those are just some of many other figurative language examples. In the novel, The Pigman by Paul Zindel, the author uses descriptive language and figurative language to create theme, and to establish character.

A few of the literary devices that i can see being used are assonance, consonance, and alliteration. I for one love the things that happen in poetry or writing when the writer knows how to make good use of these things, the words tend to flow like a gentle breeze through trees. This alone is a large part of what makes this poem appealing to me.

For example, symbolism is one of the literary devices in the poem because the orange symbolizes his love for her. In the poem, the narrator took his girl to a convenient store to pick out any candy she wanted. With one nickel in his pocket, he would be able to get what he wanted as well. “And when she lifted a chocolate that costed a dime, I didn’t say anything.”(Soto, line 33). The narrator managed to make a deal with the worker, paying the nickel he had and one of his two oranges he had save for him and his girl in his pocket, leaving him with nothing for himself to get and only one orange. Even though the narrator

In poetry, there is often the use of many words that may seem a bit strange to the average reader. These words are often more complex than what is actually meant, but are used to enhance the reading and make it more enjoyable to the reader. Other words would make the poem less smooth, and that is why such complexity arises. These words shape a type of metaphor, which is referred to as a kenning.

The first poem is ‘Book Ends’. This poem shows us how the death of the

In stanza one, Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers hindered him” and “thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind” coupled with metaphor “the sky turned into an unlucky opal” to emphasise nature’s hindrance of the blacksmith boy, if the poem is to be deemed as a metaphorical representation of

. . should burn and rave at the close of day”(2). This means that old men should fight when they are dying and their age should not prevent them from resisting death. Another example of personification in the poem is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”(8). This line personifies the men’s frail deeds by saying that they could have danced. This means that the potential actions of the men could have flourished and contributed greatly to their lives. The metaphor “. . . words had forked no lightning. . .”(5) is about how the men had done nothing significant with their lives. They had not achieved anything great or caused a major change. The simile “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay” is about how even grave and serious men will fight against death for as long as they can. Another notable example of figurative language within the poem is “. . . blinding sight”(13). This oxymoron details how the men can see very well and it is very obvious to them that they will die soon, but they know that they can control how they will leave this world. There is an abundance of imagery within this poem, a few examples of which are “. . . danced in a green bay”(8), and “. . . caught and sang the sun in flight”(10) . These examples of imagery are both appealing to the sense of sight by using descriptive words such as “Green” and “danced” in the first example and words such as “caught” and “flight” among others. The second example also appeals to the sense of sound by

Poem: “Dream Deferred”Quote: or fester like a soreThe author is comparing the pain of putting off your dreams to that of a festering sore. PersonificationPoem: “Uncoiling”Quote: She sighs clouds, headthrown back, eyes closed, roarsThe author is saying that a tornado is like an angry woman. Poem: “The Bells”Quote: What a tale their terror tellsThe author is saying that the bells are like a person telling a horror

I feel like the metaphors in the poem are about the struggles of old age. When the poem compared old age to small birds, I thought of how fragile birds can be and how older people can also be fragile. The poem also mentions that the birds of cheeping. When I think of cheeping birds, I imagine vibrant happiness; so despite the struggles that comes with old age there is still a sense of happiness. The next the poem talks about bare trees in the winter.

Next they talk about what the highwayman looks like. He has a cocked hat on his forehead with lace at his chin. He is also wearing boots up to his thigh, a doeskin coat, and he carries a sword that shines. He meets the landlord's daughter and tells her how he feels. Another thing about imagery is how the author describes how the girl looks in this poem.

Here is the interpretation and analysis of the poem based on the sections that respect the grammar and meaning of its sentences:

In ‘Vultures’, the first and third stanzas are both long descriptions of images. In the first, the poet uses alliteration to help create a dark mood. He repeats the letter ‘d’ which sounds very dreary. He uses metaphors such as ‘bone’ to describe a tree, which also adds to the dark atmosphere as well as helping to create a picture of a dead environment.