... Personification heightens a reader's emotional response to what is being described by giving it human qualities and therefore human significance. A pun is a play of words. It exploits the multiple meanings of a word, or else replaces one word with another that is similar in sound but has a very different ... as in "afar" and "bizarre," "biology" and "ideology," or "computer" and "commuter"). End-rhymes are words at the end of successive lines that rhyme with each other: Internal rhymes are rhyming words within a line. A perfect rhyme is one in which the two sounds correspond exactly ("by...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... all well-known during the years Lowell wrote, and began to write in an Imagist style following in Lowell's path. They continued to write Romantic Poetry, in rhyming lines, while Lowell continued to become more versatile, writing in free verse, but in an imagiste style. Many of Lowell's poems written in the later part ... fault in Lowell's poetry, but I find it to a magnificent quality in a poet. After reading poetry by the same author, in the same style, only with different words tends to make me bored. As a young adult, I need to hear different things each day and hear the things from t...

• Word Count: 2108
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... poem, but the poem is full of slant and internal rhymes. For example, she writes, "It rests on the head like birds nest" (Line 4). Here by using the rhyming words of rest and nest, she makes up for the lack of meter pattern and gives the sentence a lyrical tone making it easy to read. Similarly later in the poem she ... unique exploration of the human mind that is different from the usual scientific descriptions. The content of the poem together with Mackowski's love for the cadence, textures, and blending of words bring a joyful freshness to "Consciousness" that makes it attractive to ...

• Word Count: 1356
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... are treasured for their markings-", insinuating their opposing wealth and riches. The first line ends with a one-syllable (masculine) 'wings', and concludes on the second line with a two-syllable (feminine), rhyming 'markings'. Raines tenderness for the written word is apparent in his descriptive illustration of books, implying the pages are 'wings', connotes them as delicate, and though 'they cannot' fly, they ... its opposing theme in the second stanza "they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain." The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... are treasured for their markings-", insinuating their opposing wealth and riches. The first line ends with a one-syllable (masculine) 'wings', and concludes on the second line with a two-syllable (feminine), rhyming 'markings'. Raines tenderness for the written word is apparent in his descriptive illustration of books, implying the pages are 'wings', connotes them as delicate, and though 'they cannot' fly, they ... its opposing theme in the second stanza "they cause the eyes to melt or the body to shriek without pain." The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School