Identifying Literary Devices

The night is a black cat/ The moon is her topaz eye, The stars are the mice she hunts at night"

"While I nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping"

"The night, the night repeats itself, and repeats itself. And the morning repeats itself, and the dreams, the footsteps"

"There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white"

Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village, though"

Miss McLaughlin is the best student teacher ever and we're going to miss her SO MUCH

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free;We were the first that ever burst Into that silent"

"December. Frost cracking beneath my steps" is an example of onomatopoeia.

 “And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me."

I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high hills o'er vales and hills"

"This place is like The Garden of Eden."

"Who knows why the cold wind blows/ Or where it goes, or what it knows" is an example of assonance.

"The girl ran her hands on the soft, satin fabric" is an example of personification.

“We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes” is an example of consonance.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from the concrete? It learn to walk...funny, it learned to breath fresh air"

“Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad’s socks/ I knew one thing was real. I fell in love with you."

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds"

" ‘T was later when the summer went/ Than when the cricket came, And yet we knew that gentle clock…” 

Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore

"Son, I'll tell you, life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters," is a symbol for life