How can u analyse these literary text!what elements and devices u can find?

William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?



Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? a

Thou art more lovely and more temperate: b

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a

And summer's lease hath all too short a date: b



Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, c

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; d

And every fair from fair sometime declines, c

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; d



But thy eternal summer shall not fade e

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; f

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, e

When in eternal lines to time thou growest: f



So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, g

So long lives this and this gives life to thee. g





Oscar Wilde's novel the Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 1 – ‘the studio was filled with the rich odour of roses’.



The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.



From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.



In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.

How can u analyse these literary text!what elements and devices u can find?
As I said earlier, you seem to be getting worked up and probably this assignment is quite a nagging pimple in the posterior:



Try this method:



These are some choice definitions of literary techniques. Read the definitions closely and try to identify in Shakespeare and Wilde's pieces:

Figurative Language- A way of using words beyond their regular meanings in order to make a fresher description



Simile-A comparison between two unlike objects using like or as



Metaphor- A direct comparison between two unlike objects



Person%26lt;/span%26gt;%26lt;/u%26gt;%26lt;span style="font-family:Rockwell"%26gt;i... Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects



Inversion- Reversing the natural order of words in order to place emphasis or help with the rhyme scheme



Alliteration- Repetition of a consonant sound in a line of poetry



Assonance- Repetition of a vowel sound in a line of poetry



Onomatopoeia- Words that sound like what they mean



Connotation- The feelings, thoughts, and emotions associated with a word



Denotation- The literal or dictionary definition of a word



End Rhyme- Words that rhyme at the ends of the lines of poetry



Internal Rhyme- Words that rhyme within lines of a verse



Rhyme Scheme- The pattern of end rhymes in a stanza of poetry



Hyperbole- An exaggerated statement to heighten effect



Rhythm- The pattern of stressed (-) and unstressed ( ) syllables in poetry



Diction- A writer’s choice of words



Speaker- The speaker in a poem is not necessarily the author



Imagery- Language that appeals to the senses



Repetition- A sound device used to place emphasis, or help with rhyme scheme and rhythm



Allusion- A reference to a place, character, or event



Symbol- Any person, place, or thing which has meaning in itself but which is make to represent, or stand for something else



Limerick- A nonsense poem with the rhyme scheme: aabba





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