I cannot provide you with literary terms and their
definitions, but I can identify six literary terms with examples, and give you locations
to find definitions.
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ANNABELLE
LEE
by Edgar Allan
Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a
kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By
the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other
thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a
child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we
loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel
Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and
me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the
sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel
Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from
me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the
sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and
me
Yes! that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by
the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling
and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love was stronger by
far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far
wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the
demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the
soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams
without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the
stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel
Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my
darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the
sea,
In her tomb by the sounding
sea.
Repetition
is found with the repeated use of "Of the beautiful Annabel
Lee."
Internal rhyme is shown
in the line: "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the
side"
Personification
is seen in "That the wind came out of the cloud by night, / Chilling and killing my
Annabel Lee." The wind cannot kill. A disease, illness, gun, or accident, etc., can kill
someone, but not the wind.
A
metaphor is found in "I was a
child and she was a child..." Though these people may be childlike in
their knowledge of love and the world, we can assume they are not children who fall in
love and move away from
family.
Imagery is found
throughout the poem; here are two examples: "For the moon never beams..." or "I feel the
bright eyes..."
The following are websites which
have the definitions of literary terms which may be helpful to
you:
href="http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/literary_elements.htm">http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/literary_elements.htm
title="Literary Terms"
href="http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html">http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html
title="All American: Glossary of Literary Terms"
href="http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm">http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm
title="Literary Terms and Definitions"
href="http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_a.html">http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_a.html
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