List of Figurative Language and Rhetorical devices Alliteration‚ assonance and consonance: Alliteration is the repetition of the first sound in nearby words‚ for example: Always avoid alliteration. Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds within‚ for example‚ words in the lines of a poem. Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the words. All three techniques can be combined: And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
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books of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels discusses one aspect of human nature. The discussions’ language is rather satirical than an earnest tone. The first book is about the physical aspect‚ the voyage to Brobdingnag focuses on the “Homo politicus”‚ the political man. The third book is about intellect‚ while in the land if the Houyhnhnms we can “meet” the moral man. Now I am going to discuss the appearance of the intellectual aspect in the figurative language of book three. The first and the
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A comparision of the “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” and Gullivers Travels Gulliver sails across the wide expanse of an ocean on a voyage‚ just as Icarus‚ son of Daedalus did on a pair of wax welded wings. Both met their disasters on the waters of their journeys. Gulliver was ignorant and naïve and Icarus proud and arrogant. Both expressed having weakness as only human nature can have. Bruegel’s painting‚ ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”‚ portrays this artist’s opinion of the Greek legend
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GULIVER TRAVELS charactersketches Lemuel Gulliver : Lemuel Gulliver is an unremarkable and unimaginative man from middle-class England whose voyages to foreign lands form the central plot. He is morally upright and honest but‚ as his name suggests‚ somewhat gullible. As he himself is honest‚ he naively assumes that everyone else is as honest‚ and hence believes what he is told. He is an everyman through whose eyes the reader sees and judges the people he encounters. The Lilliputians: The
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Gulliver’s Travels]- Jonathan Swift **************************************************************** By P. Baburaj‚ Senior Lecturer‚ Dept. of English‚ Sherubtse college‚ Bhutan Author of: Language and writing‚ DSB Publication Thimphu Communicative English‚ P. K. Books‚ Calicut A perception on Literary Criticism‚ P.K. Books‚ Calicut ****************************************************************** The eighteenth century was an age of satire. Dryden and pope immortalized themselves by their verse
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The Search of Utopia in Dystopia in Gulliver’s Travels Utopia‚ the word invented by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia‚ describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean‚ now is generally considered as a world which tends to be perfect‚ a world of equality‚ without conflicts. Utopia is a name for an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socio-politico-legal system (Smith‚ 2010). Although the word “utopia” was invented by Thomas More‚ people in western world had begun their
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1. When I first saw her‚ my soul began to quiver. (I fell in love/in a panic) 2. Mary is as beautiful as a rising sun 3. Those flowers are as delicate as a spider web. 4. The sharp teeth of the cold wind bit through my overcoat 5. My love is like a red‚ red rose.’ Here a person is compared to a flower in a way that suggests they have certain features in common‚ such as beauty‚ fragility‚ and so on. 6. ‘The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.’ Here the image of the moon in a
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First Last Name 20 March 2013 Eng 113 Poem Essay‚ pg 519 The Beauty of Figurative Language Nobody wants to read a boring story. Figurative language is used to make sentences more interesting. William Wordsworth uses figurative language to allow his words to be more imaginative and vivid. William Wordsworth was born on April 7‚ 1770 in the scenic area of Great Brittain. He was a major English Romantic Poet (wikipedia). In the poem "[I wandered lonely as a cloud]" by
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Holocaust through a captivating 120 page book‚ illustrating how he survived. In his book‚ Night‚ Elie Wiesel develops the plot by using very vivid figurative language to describe very sentimental experiences. Elie Wiesel’s use of metaphors throughout the text forcefully tells the truth. Elie’s experiences are worded perfectly along with the use of figurative language through his expression of personal agonizing reality and terrifying genocide. “There they went‚ defeated‚ their bundles‚ their lives in tow
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Mikhail uses figurative language to create the sarcastic tone. She wrote about war and how cruel and destructive it is by trying to make it sound positive but it’s really negative. “summons rain from the eyes of mothers.” this quote from the poem is figurative language because rain can’t be summoned from mothers eyes. Mikhail also made the poem sound sarcastic by saying thing war could help positively but when you think about it all of the things that she uses to try and make war sound positive
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