...sharp eye out for the enemy. War is never sweet, clean, cheerful, or fine, it’s mostly horrific for the ones who have endured it, which is the capturing theme in the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen stresses this theme by use of a few literary terms such as imagery, many similes, and personification. Scattered throughout the poem, always was imagery; Wilfred frightened and terrified readers with the constant sicking sounds and violent flashes of words imposing graphic images in the reader’s head. While reading, the reader would endure the haunting reflections of World War I from a soldier. Wilfred paints an image in this line; “He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” (16). When he shows the movement of plunging and the noises...
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...In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury uses symbolism, metaphors and similes to show the children's connection to the sun. The kids can only explain the sun by comparing it to things they know. They always compare the sun to positive things in their life. While some may say All Summer in a Day is about personification and imagery, there are more examples of symbolism, metaphors, and similes in the story. In the kid’s mind the sun can do no wrong, this shows the sun importance to them. In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury uses symbolism, metaphors, and similes to show the children's connection to the sun. Since the children have never fully experienced the sun, they compare the sun to things they have experienced.“It's like a penny, she said”,...
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... the blowing of the conch in the first place is what resulted in Ralph becoming leader. The author has Piggy say that ““You can take spears if you want but I shan’t… What’s the good… I’ll have to be led like a dog [anyway]”. Through the use of this quote, the author is developing Piggy’s character/nature, because he doesn’t want to resort to violent actions to get what they want. The author’s use of the simile, shows to the reader that Piggy...
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...In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards uses simile,repetition, and allusion to create a persuasive speech. Edward uses simile's in the prompt to compare two things. He says, "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present". He is comparing the wrath of God to dammed waters to explain what he is trying to say about God which is that the wrath is changing quickly just how dammed waters do. Edwards also says,"His wrath towards you burns like fire". This explains how painful the wrath is because Edward compares it to fire. He shows how the wrath is and what the pain would be like since he decided to compare it to pain of fire. And to explain how much wickedness they are, he compares it to the heaviness of lead. He states, " Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell". This shows that he tries to compare the wickedness to heavy lead to explain how it would pressure down to hell....
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...In the play Romeo and Juliet, there are several themes shown as well as forms of figurative language used to show them. When writing, Shakespeare uses figurative language in the form of metaphors, similes, personification, and imagery in order to advance the overall theme, the brutality of love. The brutality of love in this play is that a boy who may seem to be fully committed to one girl, can so easily turn to be in love with another when he is not given his way, as well as the fact that love may not always last forever when the fate of love is put in the hands of other people, and there are always outside forces urging the two of them to stay away from each other. All of this is seen occurring very early in Romeo and Juliet, and continues...
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...selected poems are Dark August, A city’s death by fire and Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott. Dark August portrays the dark period in human life and talks about learning to appreciate and love the dark days. Human cannot avoid to experience the sadness and pain in life. There are many things which cannot be fixed in our life like the rain, even it stopped raining for sure it will comes again. Besides, he expresses his feelings by saying that no matter how unpleasant the life is, we must not lose hope and always face it positively. Another intented meaning of this poem can be said that even the island are being colonized by the British and the natives are suffered in the dark days but they should not lose hope and live they life as birght as possible. Derek Walcott uses this poem to describe human condition at the same time examines the postcolonial issues. A City’s Death by Fire is a lyrical poem which full with feelings of loss, sadness and disenchantment that come with the destruction of the city. The intensity of the loss is captured in the personification in the title of the poem “A City’s death by Fire”. In this poem, the city was said to be death but not the living organisms said to be death. The metaphor captures the existence of the town just like an organisms which having a life. Its heritage which cannot be brought back to original form such as buildings and daily activities of the city is completely destroyed when the fire consumes the city. Moreover, the poem is also...
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...heard the terms in which they are referenced, recognizing the difference is impossible; sometimes even for one brought up speaking the English language. Not only do individual words offer different meanings, the method, or “tone” in which one speaks also offer a level of confusion. While there are different methods in which to ‘stress’ key words within a sentence or ‘emphasize’ the importance of what is being said, two common types of language, which are complete opposites, often result in frequent misinterpretations that no other language is able to easily comprehend. These two are literal and figurative language. In deciphering what the true meaning behind one’s words, English speaking natives recognize that the primary method in doing just this is by using common sense; but unless one is fully aware of the uses and meanings behind...
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...Mirrors stand for more than just their conceived definition. Granger wants to build mirrors so people would see their flaws and accept it or change it and by flaws, I mean their ignorance and try to change it. Mirrors are symbolized as a self-portrait revealing the good and bad in a person not what's only good like their society does. It may take years for people to adjust and understand life isn't all about the white keys on a piano or about never-ending happiness because life has to have some downs where someone might feel angry, sad, or even depressed but only the strongest people keep going and strive for happiness. Same thing as for a piano, you can't play a song, a note, or even a symphony without using the black keys on it too. This flashes back to Clarisse because she was a mirror that showed Montag the good and the bad in their society and hoped to reflect good influences in him so that he can change...
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...narrative viewpoint, which creates an impression of irritation and anger that the poet has towards the tractor. This helps us to understand the emotions of the persona towards the tractor. Firstly, he uses “I stare at it in hatred”. The emotion ‘hatred’ is a passionate feeling of anger, and the ‘stare’ tells us that it is extremely irritated by the reluctance of the tractor start as it ‘defied’ the narrator. This phrase tells us that the persona is facing a lot of difficulty, causing him to feel hatred towards the tractor. Additionally, the poet uses “I squirt commercial sure-fire down the black throat”. This phrase has the fuel chute, which connects fuel to the oil tank, personified to be a throat, which creates an impression that the tractor is similar to a human in the sense that it has a throat for ‘food’, that is in comparison to fuel, to have energy to start. Moreover, this is ironic because the fuel is ‘sure-fire’ which means that the fuel will definitely cause the engine to start. However, the fuel...
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...narrative viewpoint, which creates an impression of irritation and anger that the poet has towards the tractor. This helps us to understand the emotions of the persona towards the tractor. Firstly, he uses “I stare at it in hatred”. The emotion ‘hatred’ is a passionate feeling of anger, and the ‘stare’ tells us that it is extremely irritated by the reluctance of the tractor start as it ‘defied’ the narrator. This phrase tells us that the persona is facing a lot of difficulty, causing him to feel hatred towards the tractor. Additionally, the poet uses “I squirt commercial sure-fire down the black throat”. This phrase has the fuel chute, which connects fuel to the oil tank, personified to be a throat, which creates an impression that the tractor is similar to a human in the sense that it has a throat for ‘food’, that is in comparison to fuel, to have energy to start. Moreover, this is ironic because the fuel is ‘sure-fire’ which means that the fuel will definitely cause the engine to start....
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...for the job anyway and gets it. This hurts Donna and makes her quit after a year of watching Tina Fey have her dream job. Tina Fey also talks about her most favorite fun job ever working at a theater in Chicago called “The Second City” (page 81) Tina Fey took improv classes which she realized it was like a cult. “People ate, slept, and definitely drank improv. (page 81) Tina Fey also states “The Rules of Improvisation” (page 84-85) which include: #1. Always AGREE and Say YES. #2. Not only say yes, but YES, AND. Always add something more to your scene. #3. Make Statements: don't ask questions. #4 The last rule: THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities. The next chapter she jumps to her honeymoon with her husband. She states that he doesn’t like to fly. (page 89) Tina writes about the experiences that the cruise ship entailed. There was rows upon rows of desserts, music, and fun. (page 93) During the dinners there was a passenger talent show and with Tina Fey’s humor talks adds “And sure enough,...
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...could write a literary analysis about the Figurative Language in this story: The children pressed together LIKE so many roses, so many weeds intermixed. Simile They were remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to build the world with. Metaphor They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless snaking of clear bead necklaces upon the roof. Metaphor They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all fumbling spokes. Simile She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghosts. Metaphor It’s like a penny. Simile The great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it. It was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike week, wavering, flowering in this brief spring. Metaphor You could write an essay about what Ray Bradbury is saying about mob mentality in "All Summer and a Day". "All Summer in a Day" shows Margot, the quiet, invisible outcast of the class, being singled out by the rest of her classmates, after telling everyone the sun would come out. The sun never comes out on Venus, making this an extraordinary deal. The deal was too much for the class, and the students display a term called "mob mentality." Mob mentality is, unfortunately, very common within society. Human beings don't like dramatic changes in their environment, especially when it is out of the ordinary. When someone comes along and...
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...talks about how beautiful the “blue waves’ are crashing on the cliff and the ‘soaring fire’ on how it moves in the night. All these things are beautiful in their own way. We just overlook the simple things in life. Teasdale poem is one that yields layers of meaning in each time one reads it. It depicts different parts each time you emphasize certain parts, and get different meanings each time. Teasdale is saying in “Barter,” you should give all your worthless possessions for the beauty or loveliness for nature. “For one white singing hour of peace / Count many a year of strife well lost.’ Means spending one hour in the beauty of nature can take away one year of anger and pain. Teasdale uses poetic devices to give deeper meaning to her words. Her rhyme scheme is ABCBDD AEFEGG HIJIKK. It is considered to be an end rhyme. “Life has liveliness to sell” has three poetic devices in one single line. The line is repeated at the beginning of the second stanza which is called a repetition, and it also contains a euphony and alliteration. A simile is used in the line, “Music like a curve of gold.” She uses personification of the fire in the line ‘…Soaring fire that sways and sings.’ These poetic devices give the poem a feeling of life. One can imagine the fire swaying and crackling as it burns. The feeling of peace and serenity is meant to persuade the reader to enjoy those little details in the fire. Teasdale also states the “…children's faces looking up.” In this line, Teasdale is talking...
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...sending their youth to war, the ______ did not realize that, if the soldiers returned, they would most likely come back both physically and mentally crippled. Wilfred Owen, a soldier and poet, understood the detrimental effects combat had on the soldiers, and tried to change the population’s misleading ideas on war. This was done through the wartime poetry he wrote, including the poem Dulce et Decorum est. Through the use of imagery and diction, Wilfred Owen alters society’s previous beliefs on war and displays the cruel and gruesome reality of living and fighting as a soldier. Owen utilizes imagery in order to describe the horrors of war by explaining the pitiful state of the soldiers. He writes, “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,/ Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge…” (Owen 1-2). This sentence allows the audience to visualize the...
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...it is the symbol of life and constant struggle to the top. The mountain and the avalanches (stones and rocks that fall from the mountain) are symbols of the hardship and consequences of the journey to make it to the top to reach our goals. The fact that Hawthorn does not give the characters names is symbol of futures cut short and ambitions never met. The cozy cottage is the symbol of shelter, warmth and felicity (great happiness). And the smoke on the chimney symbolizes happiness. Simile In lines 97-98 there is a simile. “The Notch is just like the pipe of a great pair of bellows” The Notch is like the instruments to increase the draft of a fire. Metaphor A metaphor is described as "a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar." In other words, it describes one thing in terms of another. An artery is one of the tubes in your body that carries blood from your heart to the rest of your body. And the place where the cottage is located is just like an artery. It makes the commerce between Maine and the Green Mountains continue. So here the writer uses metaphor to describe how important the location...
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