The literary techniques used in the short poem "First Lesson" and the short story.
Some of the literary techniques that were used were irony,.
characterization. Although the literary techniques are different the themes are strikingly similar.
The theme of the story and the poem is, parents worrying about their children. The theme also.
expresses that parents tend to have trouble letting go of their child's childhood.
In "First Lesson", metaphors and similes are used to express the theme of the poem.
"They are dragon-seekers, bent on impossible rescues", this quote is a metaphor because it is.
comparing two dissimilar things, fathers and dragon-seekers. The quote says that fathers are bent.
on looking out for problems that might cross the path of their daughters, therefore, they are.
worried for them. "Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle, it took such months.
to get.", this quote is a simile because it is comparing two dissimilar things, fathers getting used.
to their changing daughters and heels and bicycles, using the word "like". It is also expressing.
the theme because the quote is saying that it is going to take fathers a while to adapt to the.
change and it is going to take months for it to happen. "Scratch any father, you find someone.
chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors", this quote is using personification. It is stating that.
fathers embody the things that it lists and it says that for all of them. All in all, the literary.
techniques employed in First Lesson do not parallel to those used in "Charles".
In "Charles" imagery, irony, and similes are used to express the theme. "I watched him.
go off the first morning with the older girl next door seeing clearly that an era of my life was.
ended, my sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long-trousered, swaggering character.
who forgot to stop at the corner and wave good-bye to me.", this quote is using imagery, which is.
different a literary technique from those used in "First Lesson", to describe the mother's feelings.
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