ELEMENTS OF SOUND
Read the following lines of poetry. Identify any elements of sound that they contain along with any figures of speech or other rhetorical devices. If you spot devices covered in earlier modules or that you’ve learned in other grades (for example, parallelism), by all means mention these as well as devices explicitly covered in this module.
- Was Cleopatra gorgeous in a gown of gold?[unique_solution]
—Langston Hughes
- O Blues!
Sweet Blues!
—Langston Hughes
- Mule-bray, pig grunt and bawdy cackles.
—Sylvia Plath
- he was hung in the river like a heart
—Margaret Atwood
- moles dream of darkness and delicate
mole smells
—Margaret Atwood
- Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
—Shakespeare
- Humanity must perforce prey on itself,
Like monsters of the deep.
—Shakespeare
- There she shook
The holy water from her heavenly eyes
—Shakespeare
- As I stood here below, me thought his eyes
Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses
—Shakespeare
- the sun has smashed his jar of red oil
—Emile Ologoudou