Figures of Speech

Simile (Comparison using like or as) Examples:

• “And the branches… bow like grief-stricken mourners.”
• “bent-backed elms bowing and swaying to the winter wind like white-robed Moslems salaaming at evening prayer.”

Metaphor (Indirect comparison) Examples:

• “white funeral cloth is slowly unrolled over deathless earth.”
• “oil palms bearing suns for fruits.”

Personification Examples:

• “The snow flakes sail gently down from the misty eye of the sky and fall lightly lightly on the winter-weary elms.”
• “and the earth lying inscrutable like the face of a god in a shrine.”

Alliteration Examples:

• “Snow flakes sail gently down.”
• “Winter-weary elms.”

Imagery Examples:

• “The snow flakes sail gently down from the misty eye of the sky and fall lightly lightly on the winter-weary elms.
• “White funeral cloth is slowly unrolled over deathless earth.”
• “Bent-backed elms bowing and swaying to the winter”

Symbolism Examples:

• “White funeral cloth” – symbolizes death, silence, and peace.
• “Oil palms bearing suns for fruits” – symbolizes fertility, hope, and new life.
• “Snow flakes” – symbolizes purity and spiritual calm.

Repetition 

 Examples:

• “Lightly lightly on the winter-weary elms.”
• “Then I awoke. I awoke.”

Contrast Example:

• “The weight of the weightless snow.”

Hyperbole Example:

• “The weight of the weightless snow.”

Metonymy Example:

• “From the misty eye of the sky.”