Figurative Language & Poetic Devices

When the wind is low, and the sea is soft, / And the far heat-lightning plays

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Your beauty was a web of frail delight.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Now that I am without you, all is desolate; / All that was once so beautiful is dead.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

I could grow very still / Like an old stone on a hill

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

This falling spray of snow-flakes is / a handful of dead Februaries

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• idiom

A final word: before you start / The convulsions of your art

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• idiom

The pans clattered and banged / the tapping of the wooden spoon / tap, tap, tap

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• idiom

That will be the day when pigs fly.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• idiom