Question

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman

What types of figures of speech do you find in the poem? Selelct all that apply.

metaphor
assonance
metonymy
simile
alliteration
personification
onomatopoeia
consonance

Answer 1

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia.

Step-by-step explanation:

The poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman is loaded with figures of speech. Figures of speech are a resource widely used in poetry, and the poem in question uses figures of speech: metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification and Onomatopoeia.

The metaphor is capable of creating transposition of meaning. Through this figure of speech it is possible to make subjunctive comparisons associating two factors that are not normally related.

While the metaphor is a subjunctive comparison, the simile is an explicit and objective comparison, established between factors that are normally related. The simile is used to highlight this comparison.

Alliteration refers to an organized sequence of words that have a similarity in their phonemes, creating harmony in the pronunciation of words and a certain musicality in the poem.

Personification allows inanimate objects or animals to assume characteristics or perform tasks that can only be done by humans.

Onomatopoeia, in turn, refers to the use of letters to form a sound from the real world, however this sound is used as a real word within the text. For example, using the word "booom" to represent an explosion.

Answer 2

The figures of speech in the poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman are:

metaphor

alliteration

personification

onomatopoeia

Step-by-step explanation:

Metaphor: Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet (Line 144)

(poet is comparing Death to a mother 'Dark Mother')

Alliteration: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d (Line 1)

Personification: Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me,

And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me,

And I in the middle, as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions,

I fled forth to the hiding receiving night (Lines 121-124)

Onomatopoeia

: With the tolling, tolling bells’ perpetual clang (Line 43)