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Help in English Figures of Speech?
Dull Grave! thou spoil’st the dance of youthful blood,
Strik’st out the dimple from the cheek of mirth,
And every smirking feature from the face;
Branding our laughter with the name of madness.
Where are the jesters now? the men of health
Complexionally pleasant? Where the droll,
Whose very look and gesture was a joke
To clapping theatres and shouting crowds,
And made e’en thick-lipp’d musing Melancholy
To gather up her face into a smile
Before she was aware? Ah! sullen now
And dumb as the green turf that covers them!
-Is the stanza given to us from a novel and we are tasked to find the following:
1. Two examples of personification; explain
2. Two examples of hyperbole; explain
3. Two examples of metaphor; explain comparison
4. Identify and example of a simile; explain comparison
I tried but even with the help of a vocabulary I still was not able to know most of the poem. Thank you to whoever tries to help. :D
1 Answer
- Lady ChattergeeLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Grave, melancholy, turf, mirth all are given attributes of animate objects.
'Dumb as the green turf' is the simile.
Strike out the dimple is a metaphor for ageing, theatre is a metaphor for audience.