1. If this be error and upon me proved, \nI never writ, nor no man ever loved.\nThese lines are an example of a/an\n \nA. quatrain. \nB. octet. \nC. couplet. \nD. sestet. \n\n2. The line "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of \n \nA. a metaphor. \nB. a simile. \nC. a couplet. \nD. alliteration. \n\n3. In "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" Shakespeare claims that the object of his sonnet will be immortal because \n \nA. he'll always love her. \nB. she's for all seasons. \nC. she'll live on in his poem. \nD. she's like the summer's day. \n\n\n4. Which one of the following sentences is an example of a metaphor? \n \nA. I am a rock. \nB. She eats like a bird. \nC. I'm as hungry as a wolf. \nD. The breeze blew the branches back and forth.\n\n 5. The way Cowley uses the phrase "my own country" is an example of \n \nA. simile. \nB. consonance. \nC. repetition. \nD. personification.\n\n6. The phrase "mid-May" is an example of \n \n   A. assonance. \n    B. consonance. \n    C. alliteration. \n    D. metaphor.
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1. It has ten beats in each line, so it's a sestet.\n2. Metaphor\n3. (unknown)\n4. C\n5. (unknown)\n6. (unknown)\n\nSorry that I didn't know all of the answers =(
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a. simile\nb. pun\nc. allusion
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Definitely try to include a little humor.  \n\nThe poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost might be useful to you - it can give all kinds of ideas for your speech.  You could talk about following dreams and stars, even when it is not the most usual or popular road to follow.\n\nTHE ROAD NOT TAKEN\nTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,\nAnd sorry I could not travel both\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood\nAnd looked down one as far as I could\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;\nThen took the other, as just as fair,\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;\nThough as for that the passing there\nHad worn them really about the same,\nAnd both that morning equally lay\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.\nOh, I kept the first for another day!\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,\nI doubted if I should ever come back.\nI shall be telling this with a sigh\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I-\nI took the one less traveled by,\nAnd that has made all the difference.
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I went on a visit to the roses \nAnd looked towards the sky\nAnd around the northern islands \nLike a deer being followed by a dog\nEveryone at the bay would say \nOn seeing me down by the quay\n"I can see clearly by your sadness\nThat you are a man being chased" \n\nI met a beautiful young woman \nBut she spoke sharply \n"If you are a man who is engaged to a young woman \nI do not praise your trade \nI saw a man on the mainland\nWalking without shoes yesterday\nI think you are the young man\n" That you are being chased" \n\nWe became tired and sad \nAnd I asked the gentle woman\n"Where will we get a drink \nThat would lift the sadness from our hearts?" \n"There is a little house by the road\nAnd they always keep a drop \nGo and knock on the table\nAnd you will not pay a penny\n\nI wasn't long making music \nBefore many came to the house\nEveryman with a glass in his hand\nTo congratulate the couple \nSpirits were widely available \nThere was much drinking\nAnd if I pulled O'Donnell's gallon \nMy score would easily be settled \n\nI happened to go into the pub \nAnd I was nervous to sit down \nIn case the chase would come \nAnd the young woman would be taken from me\nWhen we found everything was as it should be \nAnd I thought I should sit down \nShe said, "Make music\nAnd you will not pay a penny" \n\nWhen we relieved our tiredness with sadness\nThe young woman asked me \n"Where do you live during the day \nWhen you do not have a house of your own?"\n"I spend some time in the pub \nI do not place importance on money \nThe amount I earn during the day \nI spend on enjoyment at night
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/shakespeare/section10.html\n\n\nThis link gives a detailed analysis of the sonnet, which is known as Sonnet 73.
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Actually the first one is a metaphor... They are saying the flourescent  light WAS something.  The second one is a simile because it uses like or as...Something to help; when you think of simile think of similar which means like or as.\n\nThe first one has a florescent light being compared to a sun\nThe second one has the person being compared to a limp dishhrag.\n\nHope this helps!
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According to SPARKNOTES, there's 3::\n\nParadoxes- \n\nIn the beginning of “The Hearth and the Salamander,” Montag’s bedroom is described first as “not empty” and then as “indeed empty,” because Mildred is physically there, but her thoughts and feelings are elsewhere. Bradbury’s repeated use of such paradoxical statements—especially that a character or thing is dead and alive or there and not there—is frequently applied to Mildred, suggesting her empty, half-alive condition. Bradbury also uses these paradoxical statements to describe the “Electric-Eyed Snake” stomach pump and, later, the Mechanical Hound. These paradoxes question the reality of beings that are apparently living but spiritually dead. Ultimately, Mildred and the rest of her society seem to be not much more than machines, thinking only what they are told to think. The culture of Fahrenheit 451 is a culture of insubstantiality and unreality, and Montag desperately seeks more substantial truths in the books he hoards.\n\nAnimal and Nature Imagery-\n\nAnimal and nature imagery pervades the novel. Nature is presented as a force of innocence and truth, beginning with Clarisse’s adolescent, reverent love for nature. She convinces Montag to taste the rain, and the experience changes him irrevocably. His escape from the city into the country is a revelation to him, showing him the enlightening power of unspoiled nature.\n\nMuch of the novel’s animal imagery is ironic. Although this society is obsessed with technology and ignores nature, many frightening mechanical devices are modeled after or named for animals, such as the Electric-Eyed Snake machine and the Mechanical Hound.\n\nReligion- \n\nFahrenheit 451 contains a number of religious references. Mildred’s friends remind Montag of icons he once saw in a church and did not understand. The language Bradbury uses to describe the enameled, painted features of the artifacts Montag saw is similar to the language he uses to describe the firemen’s permanent smiles. Faber invokes the Christian value of forgiveness: after Montag turns against society, Faber reminds him that since he was once one of the faithful, he should demonstrate pity rather than fury.\nThe narrative also contains references to the miracle at Canaa, where Christ transformed water into wine. Faber describes himself as water and Montag as fire, asserting that the merging of the two will produce wine. In the biblical story, Jesus Christ’s transformation of water into wine was one of the miracles that proved his identity and instilled faith in his role as the savior. Montag longs to confirm his own identity through a similar self-transformation.\n\nThe references to fire are more complex. In the Christian tradition, fire has several meanings: from the pagan blaze in which the golden calf was made to Moses’ burning bush, it symbolizes both blatant heresy and divine presence. Fire in Fahrenheit 451 also possesses contradictory meanings. At the beginning it is the vehicle of a restrictive society, but Montag turns it upon his oppressor, using it to burn Beatty and win his freedom.\n\nFinally, Bradbury uses language and imagery from the Bible to resolve the novel. In the last pages, as Montag and Granger’s group walk upriver to find survivors after the bombing of the city, Montag knows they will eventually talk, and he tries to remember appropriate passages from the Bible. He brings to mind Ecclesiastes 3:1, “To everything there is a season,” and also Revelations 22:2, “And on either side of the river was there a tree of life . . . and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations,” which he decides to save for when they reach the city. The verse from Revelations also speaks of the holy city of God, and the last line of the book, “When we reach the city,” implies a strong symbolic connection between the atomic holocaust of Montag’s world and the Apocalypse of the Bible.
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Try the brook by Tennyson\nshakespeare's sonnets are full of all sorts of figures of speech.you may try those also
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I liked poems and those were very good and show quite a talent. I have one to share of one of my favorite poets , Robert Frost ,\n\nTHE ROAD NOT TAKEN\nTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,\nAnd sorry I could not travel both\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood\nAnd looked down one as far as I could\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;\nThen took the other, as just as fair,\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;\nThough as for that the passing there\nHad worn them really about the same,\nAnd both that morning equally lay\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.\nOh, I kept the first for another day!\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,\nI doubted if I should ever come back.\nI shall be telling this with a sigh\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I-\nI took the one less traveled by,\nAnd that has made all the difference. \n\n                               Robert Frost
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shakespearean allusion is common in the text (look at the title: “Oh brave new world that has such people in it...” from The Tempest), also utopian irony ... try that for starters
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sample:\nOh how to be in love is to feel pain\nAs so the hidden thorns of roses prick\nBut oft sometimes the happy things we gain\nAre so worthy of love's sad blinded trick\nBut to be true and not hide behind lies\nWhen it's so hard to find someone to trust\nWhile noone sees my tearless sorrowed cries\nMy heart so cold and black it's stuck in rust\nYet every now and then love shocks even me\nIt tends to get me in its painful grasp\nI fall so hard, so deep, so easily\nWhy it does this to me I have to ask\nLove sometimes is what can save a person's life\nAnd sometimes cause one to end it by knife
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Consistent use of tense, in a summary of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, quoted from Strunk & White's Elements of Style:\n\n"An unforeseen chance prevents Friar John from delivering Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo. Juliet, meanwhile, owing to her father's arbitrary change of the day set for her wedding, has been compelled to drink the potion on Tuesday night, with the result that Balthasar informs Romeo of her supposed death before Friar Lawrence learns of the nondelivery of the letter."\n\nNotice that the summary keeps all its verbs in the present tense. It's easy to accidentally slip into past tense, especially when you're summarizing the events of a novel or play, but keeping  the verbs all in the present tense (or, if you're writing about an event from history, all in the past tense), makes the writing smoother, more consistent, and easier to understand. \n\nThe same goes for keeping pronouns in the same person. A very  common way writers are inconsistent with person is by switching between "one" and "you" (3rd and 2nd person). For example:\n\nError: One must always wash the dishes or your roommates will get angry.  (changes from "one" to "you")\n\nBetter: One must always wash the dishes or one's roommates will get angry. (or, You must always wash the dishes or your roommates will get angry.)
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Basically it is a poem of 5 lines and must have a set number of syllables\nThe normaly set is a 5 7 5 7 7 ( each number being the number of sylables in each line)\n\nThese sorces will help
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figurative language is anything like similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, etc.\n\nAn example from shakespeare? Well, "'Tis the East, and Juliet is the Sun"
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There are many quotes I really love, but here are some which hold a lot of meaning:\n"Life's but a walking shadow,a poor player, \n That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,\n And then is heard no more;it is a tale\n Told by an idiot,full of sound and fury,\n Signifying"  (Macbeth,Shakespeare)-this shows that in this world,we are all only actors with a part to play\n\n"'Beauty is Truth,truth beauty'-that is all\n Ye know on earth and all ye need to know" \n(Ode on a Grecian Urn,John Keats)\n"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"\n(Endymion-A Poetic Romance,John Keats)-the only thing we really appreciate on earth is beauty and its power to move us.The above 2 quotes give the real essence of eternal beauty\n  \n"Youth owns,with pleasure owns,the Passions' sway,\n But sage Experience only comes with years"\n(Quae Nocent Docent,Coleridge)-this only portrays the impulsiveness of youth vs the wisdom of elders.\n\n"To me,the meanest flower that blows can give\n Thought that do often lie too deep for tears"(Wordsworth)-\none can read the message of eternity in the simplest flower-Nature is the greatest teacher.\n\n"The quality of mercy is not strained,\nIt droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven\nUpon the place beneath"(The Merchant of Venice,Shakespeare)\n\n"Where youth grows pale,and spectrethin,and dies; \n    Where but to think is to be full of sorrow\n       And leadeneyed despairs,\n    Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,\n Or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow"(Ode to a Nightingale,Keats)-the harsh reality of life
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Sonnet 116\n\nLet me not to the marriage of true minds\n\nAdmit impediments. Love is not love\n\nWhich alters when it alteration finds,\n\nOr bends with the remover to remove:\n\nO no! it is an ever-fixed mark\n\nThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;\n\nIt is the star to every wandering bark,\n\nWhose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.\n\nLove's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks\n\nWithin his bending sickle's compass come:\n\nLove alters not with his brief hours and weeks,\n\nBut bears it out even to the edge of doom.\n\nIf this be error and upon me proved,\n\nI never writ, nor no man ever loved.\n\n\n\n William Shakespeare   \n\n(1564 - 1616)
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Great way to earn 2 points...^\n\nAnyway...go 2 the sit listed in sources!!\n\nPREVIEW:\n\nEnglish Lesson\nAn English professor wrote the words, "woman without her man is nothing" on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly. \n\nThe men wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing." \n\nThe women wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is nothing."