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Figurative Language in Poetry - The Raven
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The Raven
By Edgar Allen Poe
Personification
Definition: when an idea, place or thing is given human characteristics
Example: But the silence was unbroken, the darkness gave no token.
The Raven
By Edgar Allen Poe
Figurative Language in Poetry
Symbolism
Definition: When a person,place or thing represents something besides itself.
Example: 'Prophet!' said I, 'Thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
FIN
By Tyrone Rackley
Imagery
Definition: The use of descriptive language to paint a picture in one's mind
Rhyme
Definition: When a word agrees with another in terminal sound.
Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Example: Fancy unto Fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore - What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking 'Nevermore'.
Simile
Definition: The comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
Example: , suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
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