The line that illustrates a simile is “She’s gone from sounding like the smoke detector through Old MacDonald and Jingle Bells.”

Blank verse is unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines. This means that the rhythm is biased towards a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one (iambic) and that each normal line has ten syllables, five of them stressed (pentameter). It reasserts itself in the two lines that follow.

It is a type of verse with neither a consistent rhyme nor a consistent meter. It is a type of verse with an abcb or abab rhyme scheme but no consistent meter.

Both blank verse and free verse are free from rhyme scheme. But, whereas blank verse does have a consistent meter, usually iambic pentameter, that creates a du-DUM rhythm effect, free verse is free from both meter and rhyme. It is free from the limitations of verse poetry.

The answer is enjambment lines.

The phrase ‘the use of largely figurative language’ best describes Sylvia Plath’s technique in her poem “Edge.”

A key reason to include hyperbole in a literary work is that it includes to add humor and to heighten the effect.

Metonymy is the use of a linked term to stand in for an object or concept. Sometimes metonymy is chosen because it’s a well-known characteristic of the concept. A famous example is, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” from Edward Bulwer Lytton’s play Richelieu.

Examples of Euphemisms

• Passed away instead of died.
• Dearly departed instead of died.
• Ethnic cleansing instead of genocide.
• Negative patient outcome instead of died.
• Collateral damage instead of accidental deaths.
• Put to sleep instead of euthanize.
• Pregnancy termination instead of abortion.
• Bite the big one instead of die.

More Examples of Common Euphemisms

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8. 2. pokey. (Slang) A jail.

A prison or jail is a building where people are forced to live if their freedom has been taken away. Other words for a prison include a gaol (pronounced like “jail”), penitentiary or correctional facility. In the US, the words “prison” and “jail” mean separate things.

The origin of the word pokey as a slang term for jail isn’t certain, but it might be based on the word pogey, referring to a type of institution for housing poor people. Similar synonyms are slammer, clink, can, joint—all of which are also usually used with the.

Bird is cockney rhyming slang for birdlime (time) as in “my mate is doing six months bird”.

Going to prison is called “doing a bid”.

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Cell (1800s). Originated from the old slang ‘peter’, for portmanteau (a trunk or a box), the term was applied to the box-like qualities of a cell) A black peter was a punishment cell, usually a very dark one. A peter thief is a prisoner who steals from others’ cells. ‘Peter’ was recorded at Boggo Road in 1907.

verse form – a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines. poem. line of poetry, line of verse – a single line of words in a poem. literary composition, literary work – imaginative or creative writing.

What Is a Rhymed Poem? A rhymed poem is a work of poetry that contains rhyming vowel sounds at particular moments. (Common vowel sounds are also known as “assonance”—not to be confused with “consonance” which refers to common consonant sounds.) Free verse makes no requirements for meter or rhyme.

The sonnet is a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries. Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization.

Answer: The last two lines of the poem reflect the courage to accept the challenge and take the right decisions in life. The poet decided to take the path that was less travelled by the others because he wanted to do something different in his life.

The conflict that the poet faces is to choose one of the two, roads and whether his decision would be the right one. One road is less trodden, adventurous and full of challenges, while the other road is more trodden upon. It is a beaten track which is easy and without any difficulties.

The poem ‘A legend of the Northland’ is about an old lady who angered Saint Peter because of her greed. This story is of the Northland area, the area which is near the North Pole. The story begins like this. One day, Saint Peter was preaching around the world and reached the door of a cottage where this woman lived.

Saint peter asked for a small piece of cake because he was felling very hungry . The old lady was so greedy and selfish that she didn’t give a single piece of cake also that was as small as a wafer.

1 Answer. A legend is a semi true story which has been passed on from person-to-person through ages. This legend has an important meaning or symbolism for the culture in which it originates. This poem can also be regarded as a folktale which again is a story told from one generation to another.

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Saint Peter

The three witches greet Macbeth as “Thane of Glamis” (as he is), “Thane of Cawdor,” and “king hereafter.” They then promise Banquo that he will father kings, and they disappear.

Toe of frog = Buttercup (Ranunculus acris L.) Wool of bat = Holly Leaves (Ilex aquifolium) Tongue of dog = Gypsyflower from the Genus Hound’s Tounge (Cynoglossum officinale L.)

Most often a cauldron is made of cast iron and is used to burn loose incense on a charcoal disc, to make black salt (used in banishing rituals), for mixing herbs, or to burn petitions (paper with words of power or wishes written on them).

Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

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