POETRY

Literary Devices Of

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Shall I Compare Thee to a summers day ?

Sorayah (1005085059)
C. Regular Morning

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal Summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

ALLITERATION
alliteration is the repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts (or stressed syllables) of a series of words or phrases.

And every fair from fair sometime declines

Example : Lunas loves like lollipop.

ASSONANCE
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentenc es, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as

one of the building blocks of verse.

Example : Do you want to get the blue shoe ?

ANTITHESIS
Antithesis (Greek for "setting opposite", from "against" + "position") is a

counter-proposition and denotes a

direct contrast to the original proposition. In setting the opposite, an individual brings out a

contrast in the meaning (e.g.,

the definition, interpretation, or semantics) by an obvious contrast in the expression.

Example : Many are called, but few are chosen.

ENJAMBMENT
enjambment or enjambement is the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. It is to be contrasted with end-stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with a single line, and caesura, in which the linguistic unit ends mid-line.

But thy eternal Summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest.

Example : The four engIneers Wore orange brassieres

METONYMY
Metonymy ( /mtnmi/ mi-TONN-mee) is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
Summer represents the beauty

eternal lines represents the sonnet

the eye of heaven shines refers to the sun

Example : Ara writes a fine hand. = the person writes neatly or has a good handwriting.

SYNECDOCHE
Synecdoche is closely related to metonymy (the figure of speech in which a term denoting one thing is used to refer to a related thing); indeed, synecdoche is sometimes considered a subclass of metonymy.

Men can be represented human, not just boy.

Example : He lost his wheels for the weekend. Wheels = car

OXYMORON
An oxymoron (plural oxymora or oxymorons) (from Greek , "sharp dull") is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.

Example : Guest host

PERSONOFICATION
personification means giving an inanimate (non-living) object human traits and qualities, such as emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures and speech.

Nor shall death brag thou wonderest in his shade

Example : The moon stares at me.