0
Rate this Study Guide:
☆☆☆☆☆Edwards uses a whole bunch of figures of speech.
Metaphors
Similes
personification
hyperbole
metonymy
synecdoche
list goes on....
The Old Monk's Tale was created on 1913-02-15.
Inferno (Hell)
Europeans took away the native populations' freedom like Prospero took Caliban's freedom.
Parables have human characters while fables have animal characters.
The economic situation the author lives in.
The use of slant rhyme
Answer this question…
da-da-DUM, da-da-DUM
A mother calls her children in to eat lunch, but one child disobeys and continues playing so that when he comes inside later, there is no food left.
An adolescent boy loses his apprentice job as a carpenter because he chooses to go swimming instead of working.
The poetry is performed rather than read.
Answer this question…
The mother gingerly tucked the blanket around her sleepy child and crept like a mouse out the door.
Poems are still often recited orally.
Alliteration
a small-town governor who speaks out against corrupt politicians faces exile and must build a new life without his family.
Moses
The story stresses the affects of a good and bad behavior.
