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General English New Syllabus – Part B

FIGURES OF SPEECH
 SIMILE
A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using words
‘like’ or ‘as’.
EXAMPLES
 as blind as a bat
 like peas in a pod
 as wise as an owl
 quiet like a mule
 as brave as a lion
 “Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead”.
- The Spider and the Fly
 Like a child at play

 Like impetuous youth
 Just like mortal prime”.
 Like eternity
- The River
 “And charging along like troops in a battle”.

 “Fly as thick as driving rain”.
- From a Railway Carriage

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 “Having a friend is like planting a flower”.
- Lessons in Life
 To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife
- Sea Fever
 METAPHOR
Metaphor is a word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts
or feelings to provide a clearer description.
A metaphor is an implied simile.
EXAMPLES
 “New friendship, high adventure, and a crown”.

 “And hope the road’s last turn will be the best”.
- Life
 “A woman is beauty innate”

 A symbol of power and strength
 The summer of life she’s ready to see in spring
 Persistence is the key to everything
 She’s a lioness; don’t mess with her.
- I am Every Woman
 Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
-No Men are Foreign
 But at the same time, it is bare to the bone.
- The House on Elm Street

 And I water’d it in fears
 Night and morning with my tears
 And I sunned it with smiles
- A Poison Tree
 And out of its leperous hide

 Out of the anchoring earth
- On Killing a Tree
 The way into my parlour is up a winding stair
 Faster than a cheetah

 Bigger than a mountain
- The Comet
 It’s the old home roof that shelters all the charm that life can give;
- The Stick-together Families
 That you’re my special hero
- Special Hero
 A flowery band to bind us to the earth

 An endless fountain of immortal drink
 A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
 A thing of beauty is a joy forever
- A Thing of Beauty
 The sands of life are nearly run

 Dropped in the heart’s deep well
 The sands of life are nearly run
- Your Space
 And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over
 And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-roverz
- Sea Fever
 Autumn is English
 Autumn is Indian
- Indian Seasons
 And it’s fine to be counted a star
-Team Work
 It seems to know mountains of information by heart

 Then my computer caught a virus and fell sick
-My Computer Needs a Break
 PERSONIFICATION
Personification means giving human qualities to non-human things or ideas for

better understanding of the writer’s message.
EXAMPLES
 We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive
 We can print and plough and weave and heat and light
 We can run and race and swim and fly and die
 We are not built to comprehend a lie
 We can neither love nor pity nor forgive
-The Secret of the Machines
 A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing

 Away he set off to a misery ant,
To see if, to keep him alive, he would grant
-The Ant and the Cricket
 It sat alone
 At night the house seems to be alive
 It plays with your mind
 Beside the house sits a tree
-The House on the Elm Street
 My little horse must think it queer

 He gives his harness bells a shake
-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
 And it grew both day and night
-A Poison Tree
 On Killing a Tree
 The most sensitive hidden
 The bleeding bark will heal
 It takes much time to kill a tree
 And out of its leperous hide
-On Killing a Tree
 O’er the yellow pebbles dancing

-The River
 It’s the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth
-The Stick-together Families
 My computer has always been so brainy and smart

 But of late, my computer has been behaving badly too
 It’s so absent- minded, that I don’t know what to do
 And instead makes it vanish in the most dreadful way
 And hides my files, so that they vanish from sight
 And one day, my naughty computer actually gobbled a worm
 Then my computer caught a virus, and fell very sick
 Speak gently! – Love doth whisper low

 And gently Friendship’s accents flow!
 Affection’s voice is kind.
-Your Space
 I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
 And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
 And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking
-Sea Fever
 ANTHROPOMORPHISM
Anthropomorphism means to endow, a non- human character with human traits

and behaviour.
EXAMPLE

 The Spider and The Fly
In this poem, the spider and the fly behave like human beings exhibiting human traits.
We can also observe the usage of words like bed, pantry, stairs etc.
 SYMBOLISM
Symbolism means use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities.
EXAMPLE
 In, A Poison Tree

The word “Tree” symbolizes poet’s anger and
the word “Garden” symbolizes hatred
 ONOMATOPOEIA
A figure of speech wherein the word imitates the sound associated with the object
it refers to is called onomatopoeia.
EXAMPLES
 All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold
 Lights flicker on and off
-The House on Elm Street
 Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blossoms

- A thing of beauty

 ALLITERATION
Alliteration means the repetition of the same consonant letters or similar sounds at
the beginning words in a set or series of words.
EXAMPLES
 Let me but live my life from year to year

 With forward face and unreluctant soul
 From what the future veils; but with a whole
 And happy heart, that pays its toll
 So let the way wind up the hill or down
 O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy
 Still seeking what I sought when but a boy
 My heart will keep the courage of the quest
- Life
 She’s strong in her faith, firm in her belief!

 The summer of life she’s ready to see in spring
 Strong is she in her faith and beliefs.
 She’ll not spare you if you are a prankster
- I am Every Woman
 We can run and race and swim and fly and dive
 Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes
 A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing

 Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring

 His cupboard was empty, and winter was come
 Folks call this a fable. I’ll warrant it true
 Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes

 Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d
 Or sleep and strength that can be won
 Let us remember, whenever we are told
- No men are Foreign
 But at the same time it is bare to the bone

 I am often tempted to go to the house
 The house seems to be a bit brighter
 Not in the winter, spring, summer or fall
- The House on Elm Street
 Whose woods these are I think I know

 Whose woods these are I think I know
 His house in the village though
 He will not see me stopping here
 To watch his woods fill up with snow
 He gives his harness bells a shake
 The only other sound’s the sweep
 The woods are lovely, dark and deep
 And I sunned it with smiles
-A Poison Tree

 The bleeding bark will heal
 The source, white and wet
 It takes much time to kill a tree
-On Killing a Tree
 Will you walk into my parlour? Said the Spider to the Fly
 Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy
 The way into my parlour is up a winding stair
 “Sweet creature!”- said the Spider, “you’re witty and you’re wise
 I’ve a little looking- glass upon my parlour shelf
 With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew
 Up jumped the cunning spider and fiercely held her fast
 He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den
 And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly
 Through the flowers and foliage glancing

 Louder, faster, brawling, leaping
 Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping
 Seeming still, yet still in motion
 Trending onwards to the ocean
 Down you dash into the sea
-The River
 A comet in full flight

 Than a comet in full flight
 With a tail that’s miles long
 Causing vapour from the force
 If one should come too close to earth
 Causing the land to quake.
- The Comet
 Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done
 But the gladdest sort of people, when the busy day is done
 Each with strangers like to wander and with strangers likes to play
 But it’s bitterness they harvest and it’s empty joy they find
 They are some who seem to fancy that for gladness they must roam
 That the strange friend is the true friend, and they travel far astray
 That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth
 And, O weary, wandering brother, if contentment you would win
 Come you back unto the fireside and be comrade with your kin
 There is something special

 Seems it was sent to me
- Special Hero
 To make this life worth while

 And heaven a surer heritage
-Making Life Worth While
 Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing

 A flowery band to bind us to the earth
 Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
 Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon
 For simple sheep; and such daffodils
 That for themselves a cooling covert make

-A Thing of Beauty
 Having a friend is like planting a flower

 Let’s be aware as we walk on this planet
 Lessons in life aren’t always so simple
-Lessons in life

 If I type in a question, and give my mouse a click
 But of late, my computer has been behaving badly too
 It forgets to ‘save’ my work, and store it away
 And behaved so erratically that it made my squirm
 Then my computer caught a virus, and fell very sick
 So I had to call in a doctor, double quick
 Without an unkind word

 Dropped in the heart’s deep well
-Your Space
 I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
 And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking
 Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied
 And all I ask is a windy day with a white cloud flying
 To the gull’s way and the whale way where the wind’s like a whetted knife
-Sea Fever

 A daring deed in a moment’s flash
 Born of despair with a sudden spring
 But it’s something deep in the soul of man
 That is working always to serve some plan
 It isn’t a thing that a man can call
 At some future time when he’s apt to fall
 If he hasn’t it now, he will have it not
 For who would strive for a distant goal
 With the patience to work and the strength to wait
 It’s a part of him when he has work to do
 He has it when there is no need of it
 It isn’t a thing that can come and go
 And every trial a man may meet
 It’s a part of his hours, his days and his years
 Courage is more than a daring deed
-Courage
 But the single deed with its touch of thrill

 And the thing that counts in the world to-day
 Is, How do you pull with the team?
 By the spirit of the team
 And fighting for the team
-Team Work
 Faster than fairies, faster than witches

 Each a glimpse and gone forever
 Bridges and houses and hedges and ditches
-From a Railway Carriage

 In a blaze of heat with sunny smiles
 To muddy roads monsoons and mangoes
 Spring is pretty but short and sweet
-Indian Seasons
 And he a handsome pigtail wore

 But wondered much and sorrowed more
 Because it hung behind him
 He mused upon the curious case
 And swore he’s change the pigtail’s place
 And have it hanging at his face
 All day the puzzled sage did spin
 He turned; but still the pigtail stout
 And though he twist and twirl and tack
-A Tragic Story
 ASSONANCE
Repetition of similar vowel sounds in the neighbouring words is called assonance.
EXAMPLES
 Despite the sighs and groans and moans

 She knows how to thaw you, saw you- so beware!
-I am Every Woman
 Some water coal and oils is all we ask
 It will vanish and the stars will shine again
 Because for all our power and weight and size

 The only other sound’s the sweep
 I’m sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high

 Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye
 T’ is the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy
-The Spider and the Fly
 The stick-together families are happier by far

 That for smiles that are the brightest they must wander far from home
 It’s the old home roof that shelters all the charm that life can give
 You were the dad chosen for me
-Special Hero
 Every soul that touches yours

 One aspiration yet unfelt
 ‘Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake
-A Thing of Beauty
 Show love and kindness it one day will bloom

 Nothing you’re given will ever come free
 Remember everyone here is important
-Lessons in Life
 It may not long remain

 They have enough they must endure
 Speak gently! Love doth whisper low
 Speak gently to the little child!
-Your Space

 For there’s no lone hand in the game we play
 They may sound your praise and call you great
 It’s helping your fellowman to score
-Team Work
 Leapfrogs and toads
-Indian Seasons
 But wondered much and sorrowed more

 And right and left and round about
-A Tragic Story
 CONSONANCE
Repetition of similar consonant sounds within a group of words.
EXAMPLES
 Hearing his wily, flattering words, came slowly flitting by

 To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne’er give heed
 Be it the slightest contact

 For the darkening sky
 With the green world they live in; and clear rills
-A Thing of Beauty
 When elements were in fierce strife
-Your Space
 Or the final tug at a slipping rope
-Courage
 Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches

 Here is a child who clambers and scrambles
All by himself and gathering brambles
 Spring is pretty
 To muddy roads
-Indian Seasons
 REPETITION
Repetition is a literary device in which a word or phrase is repeated two or more

times.
EXAMPLES
 Let me but live my life from year to year

 Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal
In the dim past, nor holding back in fear
-Life
 She’s real, she’s not fake!

 Don’t ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect
 Love her, respect her, keep her near
 She’s today’s woman. Today’s woman, dear.
-I am Every Woman
 We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine

We were melted in the furnace and the pit
 We can neither love nor pity nor forgive
 But we ants never borrow;

We ants never lend
 For all nature looked gay
For all nature looked gay
 Some crickets have four legs, some have two
 Remember no men are foreign, and no countries strange
-No Men are Foreign
 And miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep
 I told my wrath, my wrath did end

 I was angry with my foe
And my foe beheld it shine
My foe outstretched beneath the tree
-A Poison Tree
 But this alone won’t do it

Not so much pain will do it
 The root is to be pulled out
And pulled out- snapped out
 Or pulled out entirely
-On Killing a Tree
 They never, never wake again, who sleep upon your bed!
 “Oh no, no, said the Little Fly”

 Seeming still, yet still in motion
 Sea that line hath never sounded
Sea that sail hath never rounded
-The River
 Each with strangers likes to wander, and with strangers likes to play
 That the strange friend is the true friend, and they travel far astray
 There are rich folk, there are poor folk, who imagine they are wise
 Get there from some good

Some little grace
 One aspiration yet unfelt
One bit of courage
 Know that you matter and you make a difference

 Let no one shame you or make you feel bad
 I respect you and you respect
I think of you and you think of me
-Lessons in Life
 Speak gently! Its better far

 Speak gently! Love doth whisper low
-Your Space
 And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking
 Is a wild call and a clear call that may be denied
 To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife
-Sea Fever
 It’s a part of his hours, his days and his years

 Back of his smiles and behind his tears
-Courage
 Is to set your mind and set your will
-Team Work
 Faster than fairies, faster than witches
 REFRAIN
Refrain is a poetic device that repeats, at regular intervals, in different stanzas.
EXAMPLES
 A comet in full flight
-The Comet
 Lessons in life aren’t always so simple

Nothing you are given will ever come free
Even the smallest of gifts deserves “thank you”
I respect you and you respect
I think of you and you think of me
-Lessons in Life
 I must go down to the seas again
-Sea Fever

 ANAPHORA
Repetition of word or phrase at the beginning of a sequence of sentences,

paragraphs and lines is termed as anaphora.
EXAMPLES
 Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal

Not mourning for the things that disappear
-Life
 She’s a lioness don’t mess with her

She’ll not spare you if you’re a prankster
 She puts her life at stake
She’s real, she’s not fake
-I am Every Woman
 We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine

We were melted in the furnace and the pit
We were cast and wrought and hammered to design
We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit
 And a thousandth of an inch to give us play
And now, if you will set us to our task
 We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive
We can print and plough and weave and heat and light
We can run and race and swim and fly and dive
We can see and hear and count and read and write
 Not a flower could he see

Not a leaf on a tree
 He wished only to borrow
He’d repay it tomorrow
 I was angry with my friend

I told my wrath, my wrath did end
I was angry with my foe
I told it not, my wrath did grow
-A Poison Tree
 Thinking only of her brilliant eyes, and green and purple hue
Thinking only of her crested head- poor foolish thing!
 How handsome are your gauzy wings, how brilliant are your eyes!
 River, river, little river!

River, river! Swelling river!
River, river! Brimming river!
River, river! Headlong river!
 Sea that line hath never sounded
Sea that sail hath never rounded
-The River
 Each goes searching after pleasure in his own selected way

Each with strangers likes to wander, and with strangers like
 That for smiles that are the brightest they must wander far from home
That the strange friend is the true friend and they travel far astray

-The Stick-Together Families

My computer always gives me the answer really quick
My computer doesn’t check that my spellings are right
And one day, my naughty computer actually gobbled a worm
And behaved so erratically that it made me squirm
-My Computer Needs A Break
 Speak gently! It is better far

Speak gently! Let not harsh words mar
Speak gently! Love doth whisper low
Speak gently to the little child!
Speak gently! ‘tis a little thing
-Your Space

And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking
-Sea Fever
 It isn’t an instantaneous thing

It isn’t a creature of flickered hope
It isn’t a thing that a man can call
It isn’t a thing that can come and go
-Courage
 They may sound your praise and call you great

They may single you out for frame

-Team Work
 Here is a child who clambers and scrambles

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes
Here is a cart run away in the road
 Autumn is English
Autumn is Indian
-Indian Seasons
 EUPHONY
Euphony means sound that is pleasing to the ears.
EXAMPLES
Robert Frost creates euphony in “Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening” by rhyming each
of the last words in the last stanza. He also repeats a line twice. The euphonic lines are
 The woods are lovely, dark and deep

But I have promises to keep
 RHYMING WORDS
Rhyming words are repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllables and
many following syllables of two or more words.
EXAMPLES
 Dancing, glancing
 Leaping, sweeping
 Motion, ocean
 Sounded, rounded
-The River
 Forever, never
 Keep, sleep
 Breathing, wreathing
 Daffodils, rills
-A Thing of Beauty
 Bloom, room
 Free, me
 Sad, bad
-Lessons in Life
 RHYME SCHEME
Rhyme scheme is a pattern of sounds that repeat at the end of a line or stanza.
EXAMPLES
 Let me but live from year to year (a)

With forward face and unreluctant soul (b)
Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal (b)
Not mourning for the things that disappear (a)
-Life
 Rampaging through the heavens (a)

Never stopping day or night (b)
A spectacle of a lifetime I
A comet in full flight (b)
-The Comet
 I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky (a)
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by (a)
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking (b)
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking (b)
-Sea Fever
 HYPERBOLE
Hyperbole means a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or

effect in a statement.
EXAMPLES
 We are greater than the Peoples and the Kings

 We are nothing more than children of your brain
 And inside you can tell it has a ton of space
 To watch his woods fill up with snow
 From someplace up above
-Special Hero
 He mused upon this curious case
-A Tragic Story
 CONNOTATION
Connotation means suggests beyond what it expresses.
EXAMPLE
 IMAGERY
Imagery means the speaker or writer’s use of words or figure of speech to create a
vivid mental picture or physical sensation.
EXAMPLES
 We can see and hear and count and read and write!
 And inside you can tell it has a ton of space
 The darkest evening of the year

 Of easy wind and downy flake
 Till it bore an apple bright
-A Poison Tree
 O’er the yellow pebbles dancing
 Louder, faster, brawling, leaping
 Down you dash into the sea
-The River
 The atmosphere will shake

 With shockwave reaching to the ground
 Causing the land to quake
-The Comet
 That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth
 A flowery band to bind us

 Sprouting a shady boon
 With the green world they live in; and clear rills
-A Thing of Beauty
 But a single deed with it’s touch of thrill
-Team Work
 Summer comes in a blaze of heat with sunny smiles and dusty feet
-Indian Seasons
 RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
A figure of speech in the form of a question asked in order to create a dramatic

effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

EXAMPLES
 You sang, Sir, you say?

 “Oh! What will become” says cricket of me”?
 When the weather was warm?
 How could this be?

 What happened inside the house?
 Doctor, do you think my tired computer want a holiday?
 SYNECDOCHE
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
EXAMPLES
 Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
-No Men are Foreign
 “The Western wave was all a-flame.”

The “Western wave” is a synecdoche as it refers to the sea by the name of
one of its parts i.e. wave.
 IRONY
Use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning is called irony.
EXAMPLES

 Of air that is everywhere our own
-No Men are Foreign
 There lived a sage in days of yore
-A Tragic Story
 CONTRACTION
Contraction means the shortened form of a word or group of words with omitted
letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe (‘).
EXAMPLES
It’s It is
Doesn’t Does not
There’s There is
You’ll You will
That’s That is
I’ve I have
He’d He had
Aren’t Are not
He’s He has
Won’t Will not
Can’t Can not
 EPITHET
Epithet is an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as

characteristic of the person or the thing mentioned.
EXAMPLES
 River, river swelling river

 River, river brimming river
 River, river Swelling river
 River, river Headlong river
-The River
 TRANSFERRED EPITHET
It is a figure of speech that refers to the shifting or transfer of an epithet from its
proper subject to another associated with it.
EXAMPLE
 Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’d
-No Men are Foreign
 ENJAMBMENT
Enjambment means lines that end without punctuation and without completing a
sentence or clause.
 ALLUSION
Allusion means implied or indirect reference to a poem, event or thing or to a part

of another text.
EXAMPLES
 And into my garden stole

Words like Garden, apple, tree illusions of Adam and Eve are taken from the Bible.
-A Poison Tree
 Speak Gently! He who gave his life

He who gave is life- JESUS CHRIST
- Your space
 And a star to steer her by
Star- North or Pole Star that informs where North direction lies
-Sea Fever
 EUPHEMISM
Euphemism means replacing a word or phrase that may make others

uncomfortable.
EXAMPLES
 Let such in peace depart

Peace Depart- let them die peacefully
-Your Space
 It’s forgetting self till the game is o’re

Forgetting Self- stop being selfish
- Team work
 ANTITHESIS
Juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas is antithesis.
EXAMPLES
 O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy
-Life

 But we ants never borrow; we ants never lend
 That I sang day and night
 Night and morning with my tears

 And it grew both day and night
 The first line of this poem talks about a friend’s anger. The next two lines
speaks how the poet hides his anger from his enemies. Hence, this is a
juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas.
-A Poison Tree
 On you rush through rough and smooth
-The River
 Never stopping day and night
-The Comet
 There are rich folk, there are poor folk who imagine they are wise
 Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon
-A Thing of Beauty
 In the work of life or game of sport

 It’s written in victory and defeat
 Back of his smiles and behind his tears
-Courage
 For the battle is lost or the battle is won
-Team Work
 Here is a child who chambers and scrambles

And there is the green for stringing the daises!
And here is a mill and there is a river

 Then round and round, and out and in
And right and left and round about
And up and down and in and out
-A Tragic Story
 OXYMORON
A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposite meanings.
EXAMPLES
 Parting is such sweet sorrow.

(From William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet)
 Act naturally
 Bitter sweet
 Original copy
 Open secret
 Old news
 Living dead
 Only choice
 Pretty ugly
 PARADOX
Paradox is a figure of speech where a statement combines contradictory ideas.
EXAMPLES
 It just sits there, never getting small or even growing tall



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General English New Syllabus – Part B

- The Spider and the Fly

 Like a child at play

 “And charging along like troops in a battle”.

- From a Railway Carriage

A metaphor is an implied simile.

 “New friendship, high adventure, and a crown”.

 “A woman is beauty innate”

 Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence

-No Men are Foreign

 But at the same time, it is bare to the bone.

- The House on Elm Street

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 And out of its leperous hide

 The way into my parlour is up a winding stair

- The Spider and the Fly

 Faster than a cheetah

- The Stick-together Families

 That you’re my special hero

 A flowery band to bind us to the earth

 The sands of life are nearly run

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 And it’s fine to be counted a star

 It seems to know mountains of information by heart

-My Computer Needs a Break

Personification means giving human qualities to non-human things or ideas for

-The Secret of the Machines

 A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing

-The Ant and the Cricket

-The House on the Elm Street

 My little horse must think it queer

-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

 And it grew both day and night

-On Killing a Tree

 O’er the yellow pebbles dancing

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 It’s the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth

-The Stick-together Families

 My computer has always been so brainy and smart

-My Computer Needs a Break

 Speak gently! – Love doth whisper low

Anthropomorphism means to endow, a non- human character with human traits

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Symbolism means use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities.

 In, A Poison Tree

 All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold

-The Ant and the Cricket

 Lights flicker on and off

-The House on Elm Street

 Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blossoms

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 Let me but live my life from year to year

 She’s strong in her faith, firm in her belief!

-The Secret of the Machines

 A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing

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-The Ant and the Cricket

 Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes

- No men are Foreign

 But at the same time it is bare to the bone

- The House on Elm Street

 Whose woods these are I think I know