For example, Charles Tennyson Turner's poem "Missing the Meteor" compares a lover to a shooting star. Sonnets thus rely heavily on the literary devices of metaphor and simile. Another common trope is personification, the ascription of human qualities to objects or ideas....
according to Dallas Baptist University. Whether the poem centers on love or blame, it typically makes an elaborate and lengthy comparison between a person and an thing or idea. For example, Charles Tennyson Turner's poem "Missing the Meteor" compares a lover to ...
The Wilmington & Western Railroad (2201 Newport Gap Pike, Wilmington, Delaware,www.wwrr.com) is back up and running with the Mount Cuba Meteor excursion. You can take a leisurely 1.5-hour round-trip ride up the Red Clay Valley to the Mt. Cuba Picnic Grove, where you’ll enjoy a 30-mi...
Each September, “Pumpkinland” returns to Linvilla Orchards (137 West Knowlton Road, Media, 610-876-7116,www.linvilla.com). “Pumpkinland,” which runs through November 7, features fairy tale characters from nursery rhymes along with a huge scarecrow and a really tall storybook. Other activit...