204 search results for "hyperbole"

Mary Had a Little Lamb

…line, couplet or stanza such as; “And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.” Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which the writer purposefully and…

In the Bleak Midwinter

…Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such as the sound of /o/ in “Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain”. Hyperbole: Hyperbole

Love’s Philosophy

…such as the use of /n/ sound in “In one spirit meet and mingle” and the sound of /w/ in “What is all this sweet work worth.” Hyperbole: Hyperbole is…

Birches

…it, and one eye is weeping From a twig’s having lashed across it open.” Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a device used to exaggerate a statement for the sake of emphasis. For…

The Solitary Reaper

…the sound of /p/ in “Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow” and the sound of /n/ in “No Nightingale did ever chaunt”. Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a device used to exaggerate any…

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

…majesty.” Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a device used to exaggerate a statement for the sake of emphasis. Wordsworth has used this device in the opening lines poem as he exaggerates about…

Concord Hymn

…end at a line break; rather, it rolls over to the next line. For example, “Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.” Hyperbole:…

John Henry

Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a device used to exaggerate a statement for the sake of emphasis. For example, “It’s nothing but my hammer catching wind.” Here hammer is both exaggerated and…

The Cloud

…next line. For example; “I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.” Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a device used to exaggerate a statement for the sake…

To My Mother

…rather, it rolls over to the next line. For example, “By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.” Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a device…

  Examples Of Figurative Language In Poetry

…Symbolism, Alliteration, Hyperbole, and many more. For a detailed list refer to this article: https://literarydevices.net/figurative-language/. Here are a few examples of figurative languages in a poetry Ode To A Nightingale…

Sonnet 130

…breath that from my mistress reeks.” Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a device used to exaggerate a statement for the sake of emphasis. For example, Shakespeare exaggerates the mistress’ beauty by insulting…

Polysyndeton

…does not have an exact synonym. However, some other related terms such as hyperbole, irony, oxymoron, epiphany, asyndeton, and anaphora could be used as synonyms but they are not interchangeable….

The Laughing Heart

…light but.” Hyperbole: It means to exaggerate things for impact. The use of the phrase “The gods wait to delight/ In you” is a hyperbolic statement that emphasizes the value…

John 11:25

…promises His disciples to come back on the 3rd day. Hyperbole – Here, Jesus says even if the person is dead, he or she is alive which is scientifically not…

Sonnet XXXVIII

…endurance. Hyperbole: It is an exaggeration for emphasis or effect. An example is “Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth / Than those old nine which rhymers…