![]() ![]() Assonance (repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together): The effect is giving emphasis on the word “beauty.”Ģ. ![]() Alliteration (repetition of the same sound at the beginning of several words in a sequence): “(E)very fair from fair declines” (l.7) means every beauty of everything beautiful fades away. They could be sound-related (phonological figures), word-related (lexical figures), word order-related (syntactic), meaning-related (semantic figures) or speaker-addressee-related (pragmatic figures)ġ. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.įigures of speech are syntactic devices (syntactic meaning pertaining to the arrangement of words and phrases). So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st 10 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 5Īnd every fair from fair sometime declines,īy chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d ![]() Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,Īnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date: SONNET 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Provide the definition of each term and explain their use in the text.įor this activity, why don’t we use Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare? It is probably the famous sonnet of all, we should read it at least once. Task: Give examples of figures of speech from the poem. ![]()
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