Literary Term Dialogue Narrative Poetry Lyrical Poetry Symbolism Connotative Meanings Imagery Rhyme Scheme Metaphor Extended

Metaphor Simile Oxymoron Onomatopoeia Hyperbole

Example (include parenthetical citation) A Boundless Moment - "Oh, that's the Paradise-in-bloom," A Boundless Moment because it tells a story Nature because it expresses emotion A Boundless Moment the ghost symbolizes Spring A Boundless Moment luxuriance indicates overabundance, riches A Boundless Moment - Such white luxuriance of May for ours The Summer Rain - ababcdcdefefghghijijklklmnmnopopqrqrstst The Summer Rain - Nor Shakespeare's books, unless his books were men. The Road Not Taken compares choices in life and their consequences to roads The Summer Rain - But see that globe come rolling down its stem, Now like a lonely planet there it floats, - comparing a globe to a lonely planet The Silken Tent - She is as in a field a silken tent Song of Nature whirl Song of Nature - No numbers have counted my tallies

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Song of Nature fill and still Song of Nature - And ever by delicate powers Gathering along the centuries From race on race the rarest flowers, My wreath shall nothing miss. Song of Nature - And ever by delicate powers Gathering along the centuries From race on race the rarest flowers, My wreath shall nothing miss. Mowing - There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. Song of Nature A Boundless Moment - We stood a moment so in a strange world The Pasture I shant be gone long, You come, too. A Boundless Moment 3 stanzas The Road Not Taken shows verbal irony in that it is not only the roads that we do take that make a difference in our lives, but also the road that we do not take. The Mending Wall building a wall between neighbors keeps them being good neighbors by allowing them to not tend to each others business, so keeping them apart allows them to live next to each other The Mending Wall we understand that one neighbor is being rude and questioning, but the other neighbor does not.

Slant Rhyme

Internal Rhyme Free Verse Alliteration Repetition Stanza Verbal Irony Situational Irony Dramatic Irony