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Poem Comprehension, By: Nindia - Coggle Diagram
Poem Comprehension
Structures
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Consonance: "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
Hyperbole: "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" It exaggerates how beautiful someone is and comparing how summers and that someone is equally beautiful.
Alliteration: "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
Simile: "And summer’s lease hath all too short a date" comparing on how summer lasted short as a date.
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Rhyme: Thee, See; Dimmed, Untrimmed; Shines, Declines; May, Day; Temperate, Date; Owest, Growest.
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Imagery: Sight, because there are many words that contains those that can only be seen.
Repetition: "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
Personification: "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" Meanings that the poet compares the human qualities with the feelings of summer days.
Metaphor: "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" Where the poet choose to say that the human is beautiful by comparing to a summer's day, so by stating that one thing is something else.
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The main theme (summarizing): How they are very madly in love with this someone, and they feel that they need to spend a lot of time together and how they love them and the summer equally. Not only summers, but also exaggerating other things that can represents they're love for them/
The poet uses first point of view where they insert many illustration about this special someone, but to them summer is to most beautiful thing and also this special someone. So they think, "should you be compared" since they are both completely equally beautiful.
Figurative language is the use of words that doesn’t go with the meaning order to create a realistic or colorful writing. The type of figurative language is; Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Personification, and Onomatopoeia.
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