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  1. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. For example, “This is the page whose letters shall be seen” Personification: A poetic device where animals, plants, or even inanimate objects, are given human qualities. For example, “These areRead more

    1. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. For example, “This is the page whose letters shall be seen”
    2. Personification: A poetic device where animals, plants, or even inanimate objects, are given human qualities. For example, “These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil”.

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  1. The poet described his writing ability and also compared it with a farmer’s work. He explained both works are of creativity. Just the tools for both are different but it functions and results in the same in the end. The Ploughman Summary

    The poet described his writing ability and also compared it with a farmer’s work. He explained both works are of creativity. Just the tools for both are different but it functions and results in the same in the end.

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  1. Enjambment: Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, “But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together,” Personification: A poetic device where animals, plants, or even inanimate objects, are given human qualities. For example, “A very preRead more

    1. Enjambment: Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example,

    “But all sorts of things and weather

    Must be taken in together,”

    1. Personification: A poetic device where animals, plants, or even inanimate objects, are given human qualities. For example, “A very pretty squirrel track;”
    2. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. For example, “Neither can you crack a nut.”

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  1. “The Mountain and the Squirrel” is a poem in which the Squirrel and the Mountain fight each other to assert their superiority. Both the mountain and the squirrel boast about their superiority and, finally, accept each other’s significant role in God’s creation.   The Mountain and the squirrel SRead more

    “The Mountain and the Squirrel” is a poem in which the Squirrel and the Mountain fight each other to assert their superiority. Both the mountain and the squirrel boast about their superiority and, finally, accept each other’s significant role in God’s creation.

     

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  1. The rhyme scheme is not constant. In the first stanza, the rhyme scheme is aabbccddeeffgg. In the next stanzas from stanzas 2 to five there isn't a rhyme scheme and the poem is blank verse.   Woman Work Summary

    The rhyme scheme is not constant. In the first stanza, the rhyme scheme is aabbccddeeffgg. In the next stanzas from stanzas 2 to five there isn’t a rhyme scheme and the poem is blank verse.

     

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  1. Repetition: The use of the same word or phrase multiple times. Repetition is used only in the first 14 lines. The word “The” has been used multiple times at the beginning of the lines. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. For examRead more

    1. Repetition: The use of the same word or phrase multiple times. Repetition is used only in the first 14 lines. The word “The” has been used multiple times at the beginning of the lines.
    2. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. For example, “Then see about the sick”.
    3. Personification: A poetic device where animals, plants, or even inanimate objects, are given human qualities. For example,

    “Fall gently, snowflakes

    Cover me with white

    Cold icy kisses and

    Let me rest tonight.”

     

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  1. “Woman Work” describes the pressure that women, and Black women, in particular, face to work and care for other people. The speaker must cook, clean, pick cotton, cut sugar cane, and take care of everyone around her, finding brief respite only in the freedom offered by the natural world. Woman WorkRead more

    “Woman Work” describes the pressure that women, and Black women, in particular, face to work and care for other people. The speaker must cook, clean, pick cotton, cut sugar cane, and take care of everyone around her, finding brief respite only in the freedom offered by the natural world.

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