Which technique is being used? Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole 1. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed

2. There’s a faucet in the basement / that had dripped one drop all year
since he fixed it, we can’t find it / without wearing scuba gear.

3. When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,

4. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

5. The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,

6. The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:

7. The leaves are little yellow fish / swimming in the river.

8. The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,

9. By the lakes that thus outspread / Their lone waters, lone and dead / Their sad waters, sad and chilly

10. Fame is a bee. / It has a song -- / It has a sting --

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?