The document summarizes the key literary devices used in the poem "The Laburnum Top". It identifies alliteration, similes, metaphors, personification, and transferred epithets as techniques employed. Specifically, it provides examples of repetitive consonant sounds, comparisons of the tree movement to a machine and lizard, attribution of human traits to the tree, and an adjectival phrase applied to a different noun than expected. The summary captures the high-level purpose and key details in a concise 3 sentences.
The document summarizes the key literary devices used in the poem "The Laburnum Top". It identifies alliteration, similes, metaphors, personification, and transferred epithets as techniques employed. Specifically, it provides examples of repetitive consonant sounds, comparisons of the tree movement to a machine and lizard, attribution of human traits to the tree, and an adjectival phrase applied to a different noun than expected. The summary captures the high-level purpose and key details in a concise 3 sentences.
The document summarizes the key literary devices used in the poem "The Laburnum Top". It identifies alliteration, similes, metaphors, personification, and transferred epithets as techniques employed. Specifically, it provides examples of repetitive consonant sounds, comparisons of the tree movement to a machine and lizard, attribution of human traits to the tree, and an adjectival phrase applied to a different noun than expected. The summary captures the high-level purpose and key details in a concise 3 sentences.
1. Alliteration - repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or
more consecutive words. The instances of alliteration in the poem are as follows- September sunlight tree trembles
2. Simile – comparison between two things using like or as. Sleek as a lizard
3. Metaphor – an indirect comparison between two things. Generally, a quality is compared. “She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up” - the noise created by the movement of the birds is compared to the machine’s noise “It is the engine of her family.” “Showing her barred face identity mask”
4. Personification – the attribution of personal nature characteristics to something non-human The whole tree trembles and thrills.
5. Transferred Epithet – the figure of speech where the adverb is transferred to another noun her barred face identity mask