Imagery - In 'Bright Star' the narrator paints several pictures in the mind of the reader, by describing snow on the moors and the breathing of his lover., Alliteration - 'feel forever' and 'soft... swell' are examples of _______. All of these examples make the poem read more fluently and musically. , Assonance - 'pure', 'ablution' and 'human' are examples of _______ with the long 'u' sound. , Consonance - In the line 'watching with eternal lids apart' the 't' sound is repeated throughout the words in the middle or ends of the words. , Syllables - Keats opens the poem with the words 'Bright star', two strong _______ that seem to echo throughout the remainder of the poem as the narrator contemplates which characteristics of the star he wants to emulate., Metric foot - The rest of the poem mostly includes iambs, unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables, which make the poem bounce along in a dream-like way. 'No - yet' is the only interruption in this dream., Verse / Metre - Generally speaking, 'Bright Star' has five iambic feet in each _______, meaning it uses iambic pentameter. This format, traditionally used by poets in the 19th century, was characteristic of Romanticism., Rhyming scheme / Couplet - Notice how the first line of 'Bright Star' rhymes with the third, the second line rhymes with the fourth, and so forth, until the final two lines, which are known as a _______., English Sonnet - Bright Star is formed by three quatrains (4-line stanzas) followed by a rhyming couplet, the pattern of an _______., Volta - The narrator is contemplating the kinds of traits of the star that he wants to emulate. Rather than shining like a lonesome hermit, he would rather shine on his lover's breast., Caesura - Keats uses hyphens in lines 1, 8, 9 and 14. The narrator opens the poem by commenting on the steadfast quality of the star. After the _______ in lines 8 and 9, he returns to the reasons why he wants to shine like a star. And if he cannot shine on his lover and hear her breath, then he would rather die, another sharp contrast indicated by the _______ in the last verse.,

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