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Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I’ll make you little jackets;
I’ll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There’ll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;…
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Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;…
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Implied Metaphor: when the comparison is harder to detect because it is not explicit. The comparison is hinted.
Ex.- The pregnant woman waddled into the delivery room. (Compares a pregnant woman to a duck or goose)
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Puns: make a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word.
Ex.- Why do fishes live in salt water? Because pepper makes them sneeze.
Wasn’t that punny!
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Syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Ex.- The boy jumped happily. Happily, the boy jumped.
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End Rhymes: When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
Ex.- Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night.
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