Read the following lines from Edgar Allan Poe‘s poem the raven suddenly there came a tapping as of someone gently rapping rapping at my chamber door which poetic device does Poe use in these lines.
Consonance
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Its Onomatopoeia because he is writing the sound of the rapping at his door
It would be onomatopoeia
I believe it would be consonance I’ll check back later to tell you if it’s correct
To determine which poetic device Edgar Allan Poe uses in the given lines from his poem "The Raven," we can break down the options and analyze the lines in question.
1. Consonance: Consonance refers to the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together. However, there is no particular consonant sound that is repeated in these lines.
2. Hyperbole: Hyperbole involves exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken literally. The lines in question do not contain any exaggerations; they describe a sound that occurs at a person's chamber door.
3. Metaphor: A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things by stating one thing is another. There is no comparison or metaphor present in these lines.
4. Onomatopoeia: Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate or suggest the sound they describe. In these lines, the word "tapping" imitates the sound of someone gently rapping at the chamber door. This makes "onomatopoeia" the correct poetic device.
So, the poetic device used by Edgar Allan Poe in these lines is onomatopoeia.
Including the word "as" makes this a simile, not a metaphor.
https://literary-devices.com/content/consonance
Metaphor
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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
You will decorate the cutout raven by finding (from the poem “The Raven”) and writing down examples of the following literary terms. Also, please make sure you mark what literary term it is and highlight or underline the word, letter, phrase (whatever applies to the literary term) etc. Please find AT LEAST one of each.
Alliteration: The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
Example: “weak and weary” the w sound is repeated OR “silked” and “sad” the s sound is repeated
Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words
Example: “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping-rapping at my chamber door-“
OR repetition of the s sound: “uncertain” and “rustling”
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds, usually within words
Example: “purple curtain”
Onomatopoeia: words with sounds that suggest their meaning
Example: buzz, pop, screech
Internal Rhyme: rhyme occurring within a poem’s line
Example: “Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter”
End Rhyme: Rhyming words at the ends of lines.
Example: “Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! –
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are now what they seem.” By Longfellow
Refrain: repetition of a word or phrase for effect
Example: “He shrieked and cried, “No! Oh, no!”
The wind blew stronger still and breathed,
“No! Oh, no!”
Simile: a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects, using either like or as.
Example: Her smile was like a sunbeam. She is as sweet as sugar.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
Example: “love is madness.”
Personification: a figure of speech in which nonhuman subjects are given human characteristics.
Example: The creek ran down the hill. The leaves fought with one another in the wind. A smiling moon.
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
You will decorate the cutout raven by finding (from the poem “The Raven”) and writing down examples of the following literary terms. Also, please make sure you mark what literary term it is and highlight or underline the word, letter, phrase (whatever applies to the literary term) etc. Please find AT LEAST one of each.
Alliteration: The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
Example: “weak and weary” the w sound is repeated OR “silked” and “sad” the s sound is repeated
Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words
Example: “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping-rapping at my chamber door-“
OR repetition of the s sound: “uncertain” and “rustling”
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds, usually within words
Example: “purple curtain”
Onomatopoeia: words with sounds that suggest their meaning
Example: buzz, pop, screech
Internal Rhyme: rhyme occurring within a poem’s line
Example: “Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter”
End Rhyme: Rhyming words at the ends of lines.
Example: “Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! –
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are now what they seem.” By Longfellow
Refrain: repetition of a word or phrase for effect
Example: “He shrieked and cried, “No! Oh, no!”
The wind blew stronger still and breathed,
“No! Oh, no!”
Simile: a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects, using either like or as.
Example: Her smile was like a sunbeam. She is as sweet as sugar.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
Example: “love is madness.”
Personification: a figure of speech in which nonhuman subjects are given human characteristics.
Example: The creek ran down the hill. The leaves fought with one another in the wind. A smiling moon.