the first line in a story might start with “Mother?” “There was no reply.” This would be more attention grabbing than just writing‚ “I called my mother‚ and she didn’t answer.” This makes me want to know why Mother didn’t answer. Using figurative language‚ such as similes and metaphors‚ keeps a story interesting and
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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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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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Lucy’s house of memories was burnt to the ground each night Personification Comparing an inanimate object to a person In The Language of Flowers‚ the flowers were vocal about who they were arranged with Hyperbole A statement that is exaggerated Johannes was so hungry he could’ve ate a horse (hyperbole when not starving but literally in this case) Imagery Visually descriptive language The haunting‚ dark clouds were eradicated from Vada’s life when a friend beamed with light rays after Thomas J’s death
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: CONCIET • A conceit is a special kind of metaphor that is extended throughout most of the poem or over several lines. • Authors use it to create striking‚ elaborate comparisons between two seemingly dissimilar objects. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: PERSONIFICATION • A figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to objects or animals. • Authors use it to give an inanimate object or animal a deeper meaning. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: HYPERBOLE • A figure of speech that
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around the subject‚ two works in particular offer transitional tales that depict vastly different narratives. Judith Ortiz Cofer in her poem‚ Quinceanera‚ presents a dark and literal use of language to portray a raw and reluctant journey to womanhood‚ while in “My Back Pages” Bob Dylan more frequently utilizes figurative language to relay a sense that the anger and resentment of his youth was
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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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Figurative language Figurative language is a departure from what speakers of a particular language would take to be the standard - or "literal" - meaning of words‚ in order to achieve some special meaning or effect. "Figurative language" is a general term for a group of linguistic devices usually called "figures of speech." We know that a word or phrase or statement is figurative when it cannot be taken literally. In this course‚ we will concentrate on the following figures of speech: metaphor
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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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classic book when analyzing the symbolism and figurative language used throughout the book. Symbolism is used throughout the whole book‚ 1984. Symbolism is when the writer of a story makes an object/character/place/etc. be one thing and mean another. Most of the characters all symbolize something because of the way that they have been created and they are
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