The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

identify examples from the poem of different figures of speech used by Coleridge

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Asked by Bookragstutor 4 on 14 Mar 18:17

Last updated by Cat on 14 Mar 18:35

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Answered by Cat on 14 Mar 18:35

Really, they are everywhere in this poem. 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!..."