Common Examples of Onomatopoeia Machine noises—honk, beep, vroom, clang, zap, boing. Animal names—cuckoo, whip-poor-will, whooping crane, chickadee. Impact sounds—boom, crash, whack, thump, bang. Sounds of the voice—shush, giggle, growl, whine, murmur, blurt, whisper, hiss. Is fart an onomatopoeia? Well, not only have many comics simply used “FART!” as a soundRead More →
Personification is the poetic device used. The first ‘Silence’ starts with a capital letter making it a person, who silences others. The ultimate Silence of death and the sense of loss of her mother leaves the poet wordless and silent. Which figure of speech is used in its silence silences?Read More →
What is a summary poem? In order to write a summary of a poem, one must establish the meaning of the poem. To do this, the reader needs to find the controlling metaphor. That is, the tension between the literal and the figurative=the main unstated comparison. This controlling metaphor containsRead More →
In this poem, ‘Silver,’ the poet Walter de la Mare describes the visible effects of moon light on countryside at night. As the moon walks silently over the human settlements below everything turns silver. It moves over the trees, making them appear silver. The silver beams of moon is reflectingRead More →
What rhymes with yes for a poem? syllable: bets, gets, jets, lets, metz, nets, sets, sweats. syllables: regrets, rillettes. syllables: What word rhymes with cross? syllable: bos, boss, bras, clos, cos, coss, crosse, dos, doss, dross, floss, foss, fosse, gloss, goss, joss, klaas, kos, las, loss, mos, moss, os, oss,Read More →
A line is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided. … A distinct numbered group of lines in verse is normally called a stanza. A title, in some poems, is considered a line. What is a stanzas in a poem? Stanza, a division of aRead More →
Ans. The title of the poem is ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ because the poet must be of thirty-nine years at the time of writing this poem and reminiscing on the times that she spent with her father. How I miss my father I wish he had not been so tired? PoemRead More →
He’s left us in dejection now; Our hearts with him are roving. It’s dull on this selection now, Since Andy went a-droving. Who wrote Ballad of the Drover? From POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY LAWSON, published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney, Australia, reprinted 1967, pp. 62-64. When Was The Ballad ofRead More →
Listen for muffled or soft consonant sounds. … Listen for consonant sounds that vibrate or whisper, such as S, Sh, Th, V, and Z. Look for sound repetition. … Look for rhymes and slant rhymes, another type of sound repetition. Listen for a steady rhythm. What euphony means? 1 :Read More →
“A poem is that species of composition which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole as is compatibleRead More →