Type of Poetry
Modern (the poem is not confined by anything, it is written freely)
Figures of Speech
Simile – Compares two unlike things using “like” or “as”
“She acts like summer and walks like rain”
“She listens like spring and she talks like June”
Personification – A figure of speech that gives human traits to something nonhuman.
“Did Venus blow your mind?”
Repetition
“fall for a shooting star”
Rhyme, Sound Devices
Exact Rhyme – When 2 words have identical sounds in their final accented syllables
“her, hair, hey”
“lonely looking”
Consonance – Repetition of final consonant sounds
“faded…overrated”
Theme
While a girl was looking for herself she found the love of her life. The speaker was asking her if she could imagine life without him.
Modern (the poem is not confined by anything, it is written freely)
Figures of Speech
Simile – Compares two unlike things using “like” or “as”
“She acts like summer and walks like rain”
“She listens like spring and she talks like June”
Personification – A figure of speech that gives human traits to something nonhuman.
“Did Venus blow your mind?”
Repetition
“fall for a shooting star”
Rhyme, Sound Devices
Exact Rhyme – When 2 words have identical sounds in their final accented syllables
- “moon…June”
- “faded…overrated”
- “star…scar”
- “vacation…constellation”
- “Tae-bo…grow”
- “day…way”
- “mind…find”
- “pride…fried”
“her, hair, hey”
“lonely looking”
Consonance – Repetition of final consonant sounds
“faded…overrated”
Theme
While a girl was looking for herself she found the love of her life. The speaker was asking her if she could imagine life without him.