Onomatopoeia: words whose sounds imitate the sounds they describe.

came tapping, tapping at my chamber door.

Imagery: Language that portrays sensory experiences. (Vivid descriptions)

A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin.

Simile: a comparison of two unlike things.

I'll come by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."

Metaphor: Comparison of two unlike things to create an image in the reader mind.

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor.

Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard.

Both alliteration and onomatopoeia.

Personification: Giving human characteristics to non human things or animals.

Death reached out his hand and pulled him down to hell.

Hyperbole is an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets.

Alliteration: Repetition of a consonant sound.

Wondering what the warriors would do.

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Onomatopoeia: words whose sounds imitate the sounds they describe.
Is DEATH that woman's mate?
Her cheeks like the dawn of day.
came tapping, tapping at my chamber door.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven...
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Imagery: Language that portrays sensory experiences. (Vivid descriptions)
And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds.
His eyes were hollows of madness,
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors.
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin.
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His eyes were hollows of madness.
simile
alliteration
metaphor
personification
4
Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax.
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
5
The thorns fastened on and drew her blood.
Personification
Imagery
Alliteration
Metaphor
6
Simile: a comparison of two unlike things.
With the white road smoking behind him ...
They shot him down like a dog on the highway.
I'll come by moonlight, though hell should bar the way."
Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence!
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Metaphor: Comparison of two unlike things to create an image in the reader mind.
It was raining cats and dogs.
The reader is aware of something the character is not.
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor.
His hair was like moldy hay,
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Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard.
Both alliteration and onomatopoeia.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyperbole
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Personification: Giving human characteristics to non human things or animals.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak & weary,
The hours crawled by like years.
Death reached out his hand and pulled him down to hell.
Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax.
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Hyperbole is an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
the purple clouds of sunset. Fiercely the red sun descending
His face burnt like a brand
I was a child and she was a child In this kingdom by the sea
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Alliteration: Repetition of a consonant sound.
Wondering what the warriors would do.
And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked
Sea Road
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,

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