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    he‚ through very few words in his poems‚ dealt emotionally with these alterations. In the poems “Crossing the Red Sea”‚ “Immigrants at Central Station” and “Leaving Home” Skrzynecki explores the use of poetic techniques through his poems such as metaphors‚ repetition‚ and similes giving the reader a sense of the challenges he encountered or was about to encounter. In my related text‚ “Castaway” by Robert Zemeckis it discovers the difficulty of sticking to your physical journey while balancing the

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    giraffes is a metaphor for life without life‚ the enclosure where the giraffe lives is a metaphor for "no life" as her life is very lonely and restricted. On the other hand‚ her natural habitat is a metaphor for "life"‚ as is identified in "she could be a big slim bird just before flight"‚ essentially meaning freedom. The poem also portrays the agony and grief of the giraffe confined in captivity suffers‚ the poet dramatises the loneliness the giraffe experiences by using metaphors such as "She languorously

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    his trip‚ aware that his mother plans for him to repeat year 12 and begin a brighter future. The narrator discovers his incredible guilt for leaving his mother without considering her plans for him “there is an ache that is still there inside me” a metaphor implicates the emotion of guilt Winton conveys. Similar to Big World‚ Aquifer’s main character discovers personal guilt. His guilt is implicated through the death of neighbor‚ Allen Mannering. Allen drowns by accident in the local swamp after tormenting

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    Belonging is the idea of being part of something where you are accepted. Individuals are accepted through the relationships and connections made with other individuals‚ groups and family. These ideas of belonging can be explored through the poetry of Emily Dickinson. In her poem‚ “This is my letter to the world‚” Dickinson demonstrates the element of her desire to belong through a metaphorical letter. This desire can similarly be seen through her poem “I had been hungry all the years‚” in which Dickinson

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    attempts to overcome the experience of losing a pet. This poem uses multiple literary devices such as metaphors and similes to explain how the family tries to overcome the loss of their pet. The simile‚ “Like primitives we bury the cat with its bowl.” Their cat is buried with its bowl without being put in any sort of box or coffin. Kenyon compares this action to that of the primitives. Another example of a simile is exhibited in these lines‚ “And a robin burbles from a dripping bush like the neighbor

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    straightforward dictionary meaning (the denotation of a word)     ellipsis – omission of part of a passage or parallel construction (sometimes indicated by:  … imagery - descriptive passages! figurative language‚ especially metaphors and similes (appeals to at least 1 of the 5 senses)     metaphor - an implied comparison‚ stating that one object is another object     metonymy - naming an attribute‚ quality‚ or associated idea instead of the thing itself     onomatopoeia - use of words whose pronunciation

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    1101 23 Oct. 2012 Possibility of Metaphor There have been many accusations in today’s society in which gender is more superior in relationships‚ men or women. No one describes the truth of this question better then Robert Frost in the poem’s “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be The Same” published in 1946‚ “Meeting And Passing” published in 1930 and “Bereft” published in 1929. These poems bring out strong metaphors of the connections between men and women. Metaphors are defined as a figure of speech

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    progression. It has its turning point when Ellie begins her adventure of finding ink‚ by walking out of her door. There is also a use of similes‚ metaphors and symbols. Especially the similes are visible - for example in line 49 “(...) and it feels like sludge‚ like thick dark sludge”‚ and line 83 “(...) and her skull feels as though it might split open”. The metaphors aren’t particularly prominent in the text‚ but these‚ plus the similes‚ make you get a more figurative interpretation‚ than if there weren’t

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    Analysis Of The Text «Doctor In The House» By Richard Gordon This text is an extract from the book “Doctor in the house” by Richard Gordon‚ a famous English writer‚ who was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital‚ a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his "Doctor" series. "Doctor in the House" is one of Gordon’s twelve "Doctor" books and is noted for witty description of a medical

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    irreverent to us and that Mr Bleaney is not of much importance. The lacking of strong syllables in the title makes it sound monotonous giving the impression of boredom‚ of a life lacking excitement. I truly thought that taught the poem was a big metaphor of Mr Bleaney’s life. The way the room was described did not really make a good impression on me because it showed how rough and lonely it must have been for any human being to live there. E.g. Larkin used words like littered and upright. Larkin

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