Structural Devices

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Structural devices :

1-contrast :A- between water // thirst

B- between moving // lack of motion

2- illustration : in the rime of the ancient mariner there are picture of sky , sun

3- repetition : day after day // the word nor // water water everywhere

Sense devics :

1-simile : sad as sad could be // as idle as a painted ship // day after day , day

after day // as small as the moon

2-Metaphor : the furrow followed free // a hot and copper sky // the bloody has

been called // the sun is blazing red and scorching

3- personification : the silence of the sea

Sound devices:

1-Alliteration : the fair breeze blew

foam flew // furrow followed free // down dropt

sad as sad // silence of the sea // water water

2-rhyme : abcb,defe,ghkh,lmnm,opqp

free rhyme with sea // be rhyme with sea // noon rhyme with moon // motion
rhyme with ocean // shrink rhyme with drink

3-assonance : breeze blew // furrow followed // down dropt // twas sad as sad

a hot and copper // bloody sun at noon // right up above the mast did

no bigger than the moon // day after day // we stuck nor breath nor motion

as idle as a painted ship // upon a painted ocean

4- rhythm : pentameter

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