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"Hold fast to dreams,
for if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly"
-Langston Hughes
What example of figurative language is being used in the following stanza?
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare.
What is the Rhyme Scheme for the following stanza?
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
Both are figurative language. Both are poetic devices. Both are used to compare unlike objects. Simile uses "like" or "as" in the comparison
hard rhyme
metaphor
Metaphor
Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words in a verse of poetry
Free Verse is when the verses do not rhyme
ABAB
Assonance or Rhyme Scheme
internal rhyme
poetry
stanza
hyperbole
figurative language
sound devices
simile
metaphor
Imagery (sensory language)
Hyperbole
Personification
Alliteration
Rhyme or assonance
Onomatopoeia or rhyme or rhythm
Assonance
Consonance and rhyme