Read the following poem and answer the questions below: A Dream Within A
Dream By Edgar Allan Poe Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from
you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my
days have been a dream: Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In
a vision or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is
but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand How few! yet how they
creep Through my fingers to the deep While I weep while I weep! O God! can
I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the
pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
QUESTION1: METAPHOR [10] 1 What is the most widely used figure of
speech in poetry and what is its specific characteristic? (2) 2. Which specific
metaphorical construction is “the pitiless wave” in line 23? Mention and briefly
describe the different constituent parts. (2) 3. Name the other three
metaphorical constructions found in poetry and give examples of each (the
examples do not have to be from the poem printed above). (3) 4. Identify
another example of a metaphorical construction in the second stanza. (1) 5.
Give an example of another figure of speech from the poem above that is not
a metaphor. (2
QUESTION 1: METAPHOR [10]
1. What is the most widely used figure of speech in poetry and what is its specific
characteristic? (2)
o Answer: The most widely used figure of speech in poetry is the metaphor. Its
specific characteristic is that it directly compares two unlike things by stating that
one thing is another, without using "like" or "as".
2. Which specific metaphorical construction is “the pitiless wave” in line 23? Mention
and briefly describe the different constituent parts. (2)
o Answer: The specific metaphorical construction in “the pitiless wave” is a
personification.
Constituent parts:
Tenor: The subject of the metaphor, in this case, the "wave".
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