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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• by T.S. Eliot

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Literary Device

• Identify each of the following literary tropes
• found within the poem, and analyze how Eliots
• use of them helps to create the overall theme of
• the piece
• metaphor
• extended (or controlling) metaphor
• simile
• personification

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Figures of Repetition

• alliteration the commencement of two or more
• stressed syllables of a word group either with
  the same
• consonant sound or sound group (consonantal
• alliteration), as in from stem to stern,  or with
  a vowel
• sound that may differ from syllable to syllable
  (vocalic
• alliteration), as in each to all.
• anaphora repetition of the same word or group of
  
• words at the beginning of successive clauses,
• sentences, or lines.
• coenotes repetition of two different phrases
  one at
• the beginning and the other at the end of
  successive
• paragraphs.

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Repetition and Theme

• Analyze how these figures of repetition help to
• create the overall theme of The Love Song of J.
• Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot . Pay close
• attention to the mood of the piece (as well as
• the feelings of Mr. Prufrock) when these figures
• are employed.

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Allusion and Theme

• Analyze how Eliots allusion to the play Hamlet
• helps to create the overall theme of his poem
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.