Figurative Language

Front 1

Hear the loud alarum bells--
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
--Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"

Back 1

Alliteration

Front 2

"All the world's a stage."

--Wm. Shakespeare

Back 2

Metaphor

Front 3

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,

--William Shakespeare

Back 3

Alliteration

Front 4

"Death lies upon her like an untimely frost."

--Wm. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Back 4

Similie

Front 5

"Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table
Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step. . . ."
(Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man")

Back 5

Alliteration

Front 6

"Juliet is the sun."

--Wm. Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

Back 6

Metaphor

Front 7

" Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,"

Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

Back 7

alliteration

Front 8

"Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.
He played a few chords then he sang some more--"
---Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

Back 8

ontomatopoeia