Shakespeare uses metonymy and personification to explain what love is and is not. A metonymy “substitutes one item‚ entry‚ or concept to represent another associated one” (Moen)‚ and‚ in Sonnet 116‚ a metonymy is used to explain what love is by saying it is a star‚ and an ever-fixed mark. (Shakespeare lines 5‚ 8). He also personifies love in the line “Love’s not
Premium Poetry Genre Linguistics
associated with love are often seen. Through this idea‚ many authors were able to express how lonely they felt in society because of the absence of love in their life. In “La Belle Dam Sans Merci”‚ Keats uses metonymy‚ imagery‚ and symbolism to convey how loneliness associates with love. Metonymy is used to express in vivid detail the loneliness of the knight and the emptiness in his life. As the knight walks through the swamp he observes “The squirrel’s granary is full‚ and the harvest is done
Premium La Belle Dame sans Merci Poetry Romanticism
International Research Journal of Social Sciences____________________________________ ISSN 2319–3565 Vol. 1(3)‚ 1-7‚ November (2012) I Res. J. Social Sci. Headlines in Newspaper Editorials: A Contrastive Study Bonyadi Alireza and Moses Samuel English department‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Urmia Branch‚ Urmia‚ IRAN Department of Language and Literacy Education‚ University of Malaya‚ MALAYSIA Available online at: www.isca.in Received 21th May 2012‚ revised 16th July 2012‚ accepted 01st November
Premium Newspaper Rhetoric Rhetorical techniques
and highly literary‚ archaic‚ barbarisms and foreign‚ colloquial‚ slang‚ jargonisms‚ professionalisms‚ dialectal‚ vulgar); set expressions (clichés‚ proverbs and sayings‚ epigrams‚ quotations‚ allusions‚ catch-words: well-known and rare);metaphor‚ metonymy‚ irony; polysemy‚ zeugma and pun‚ interjections and exclamatory words‚ oxymoron; simile‚ periphrasis‚ euphemism‚ hyperbole. Syntactical EM: logical and emotional emphasis such as compositional (stylistic inversion‚ detached constructions‚ parallel
Premium Word Figure of speech Meaning of life
in expressing the lessened degree of quantity of a thing by means of negation of the antonym. The negation of the antonym expresses the positive idea but in a somewhat lessened degree: not bad- good‚ little harm will be done by that. Metonymy- is applying the name of an object to another in some way connected with the first. Метонимия- сближение‚ сопоставление понятий‚ основанное на замене прямого названия предмета другим по принципу смежности( содержащее- содержимое‚ вещь- материал
Premium Sentence
Tema N3 : John Bunyan – (Religious background): John Bunyan (28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher‚ who is well known for his book The Pilgrim’s Progress. John Bunyan was born in 1628 to Thomas and Margaret Bunyan‚ in Bunyan’s End in the parish of Elstow‚ Bedfordshire‚ England. John is recorded in the Elstow parish register as having been baptised‚ with his surname spelled ’Bunyan’‚ on 30 November 1628. Though he became a non-conformist and member
Premium Social contract Political philosophy Thomas Hobbes
much noise. Grandma loves to hear the pitter-patter of little feet around the house. 14. Metonymy In Julius Caesar‚ when Mark Antony‚ after the death of Caesar‚ addresses the people ’Friends‚ Romans‚ countrymen‚ lend me your ears’‚ he means that he wants the people to listen to what he has to say. Romeo and Juliet‚ one of William Shakespeare’s famous plays has a famous example of metonymy when Esculutus tells about the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet as ’For never was a story
Premium Romeo and Juliet Figure of speech William Shakespeare
ant giving up her freedom. She sent praise to General Washington encouraging him to go to war and her use of literary devices may have been what persuaded him to lead the fight for his nation’s freedom. Her use of personification‚ symbolism‚ metonymy‚ metaphor‚ and charged words amplify her purpose to write the poem‚ which is to praise General George Washington and set forth America as a strong‚ resilient nation. Wheatley uses the personification of nature and biblical sources to create an aura
Premium French and Indian War Poetry George Washington
employs a lot of expressive means and stylistic devices to make the story vivid and bright. The text is emotionally moving‚ and some details produce an emotional reaction. I would like to comment on the effect of the use of metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ metonymy. For example by a simile “the final examinations are something like death” the author shows condition of a student before an examination‚ “like a prize-fighter” also shows a contest‚ then the author compares‚ using the simile‚ the students that
Premium Rhetorical techniques Metaphor
1 2 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DA NANG *** DANANG - 2011 This thesis has been completed at The University of Danang Supervisor: NGŨ THI N HÙNG‚ Ph.D H VI N M LINH Examiner 1: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luu Quy Khuong Examiner 2: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Van Phuoc A STUDY OF METAPHOR IN NEWSPAPERS (ENGLISH VERSUS VIETNAMESE) This thesis will be orally defended to the Examining Committee at the Field Study: The English Language Code: 60.22.15 University of Danang
Free Metaphor