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Example #3: She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms (By Emily Dickinson) Personificationĭickinson uses personification of a housewife to describe the sunset in the very first line of this poem. The cage represents physical barriers, fear, addiction, or society while the song of the bird represents true self yearning for something greater in life. The entire poem is rich with metaphor as a bird in a cage represents a group of people who are oppressed and cannot get freedom. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill …Īnd his tune is heard on the distant hill for His wings are clipped and his feet are tied The poet use similes between the lines to depict his scattered thoughts before taking action, and makes comparison as, “ like a tight-rope,” “ like a dropped ball,” and “ hovers like an ecstatic bird.” Example #2: I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings (By Maya Angelou) Metaphorīut a BIRD that stalks down his narrow cage The similes and word choice of this poem makes it a masterpiece. He’s only flirting, crowd him, crowd him, Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird, Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on! … Examples of Figurative Language from LiteratureĮxample #1: The Base Stealer (By Robert Francis) Simile

The new generation is addicted to the use of plastic money.

At this time, he owns nine head of cattle.

He is looking at his own grey hair and his agility.

#WHY POETS USE DIFFERENT TYPES OF IMAGERY HOW TO#

He does not know how to behave with the special people.

Buckingham Palace is world’s oldest symbol of democracy.

10 Downing Street is located in London.

The Hollywood is a home of English movies.

The Pentagon is located in Washington in the United States.

Creatively dull person cannot do anything in his life.

Please, watch with closed eyes and you will see the heaven.

Kindly cruel treatment made him flabbergasted.

Sharply blunt razor cannot do anything to you.

He is dying with his untrustworthy belief.He saw the pink kite floating past the tall trees.Calling the cow an ox is like putting the cart before the horse.Get a seat with a treat in our local hall.They have not learned how to catch the cat.He lets the pink ball fall with a tall man.Might of the fright seems greater than the actual fear.This artificial stream is going to flow to the downtown of the town.He heard the sound of the fire, like wire striking the air.The light on the site did not let him see the sight.

Zigzag fissures in the land made him look for snakes.His friend was looking at spooky glissando twangs.He did not like the odorless and colorless shape of water.He left with his haunted and spell-bound face.

The house stood half-demolished and abandoned.