The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Question

Read the poem and identify the different figures of speech used by Coleridge

Asked by s a #996062 on 4/26/2020 1:45 PM

Last updated by Aslan on 4/26/2020 4:55 PM

Answered by Aslan on 4/26/2020 4:55 PM

There are so many, I woudn't know where to begin. Here are a few:

Alliteration: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free:..."

Metaphor: "I never saw aught like to them, Unless perchance it were "Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along;..."

Personification: "Out of the sea came he!..."