Simile Essays & Research Papers

Similes are sometimes made without using the words "like" or "as." This often occurs when making comparisons of differing values. "Norman was more anxious to leave the area than Herman Milquetoast after seeing ten abominable snowmen charging his way with hunger in their eyes." "But this truth is more obvious than the sun--here it is; look at it; its brightness blinds you." "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18...

Above poem is an extract of works of N. Daruwalla who was among Indian poets writing in English. In one of the pieces in “Ruminations”, the poet can smell violence in the air “like the lash of coming rain; and this feeling seems to the poet to be “poised like a cobra”. These are original similes; and these are followed by a series of metaphors based on serpent-behaviour. These are only a few of the examples. Actually Daruwalla’s poetry contains an abundance of similes and metaphors....

Firstly,how are the figurative language used in the poem? The different figurative languages used are: Simile: Example 1:"eyes as wide as a football-pool" Meaning: Timothy's eyes are very big. Why use this:exaggeration Example 2:"Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters" Explanation: Timothy's ears are very big and his teeth are very sharp Why use this:exaggeration again Metaphor: Example 1:"And his hair is an exclamation-mark" Explanation:Timothy's hair is very messy Why use...

 Poetry Analysis: "Conjoined" versus "Most Like an Arch This Marriage" People often dream of finding the perfect soul mate…a special someone with similar hopes and goals for their future. They dream of someone to share the good and bad times with them. They dream of a person that will love them unconditionally until death parts them. And although I seriously doubt anyone has ever said the sacred marriage vows to another while believing the union would not last forever, the high divorce...

“Figures of speech are sometimes used to effectively convey a sense of place.” Explain and evaluate how this is achieved in text 22 and one other text of your choice. Text 22 and text 23 both use figures of speech to effectively convey a sense of place. Text 22 is a private diary in second person singular, this is a positive view on travel, the writer’s attitudes and personality emerges with exuberance, energy and enthusiasm for the people she meets and the landscape she sees. The audience of...

M. Jones Professor K. Levinson English Comp. 201 22 October 2012 An Analysis of “Sonny’s Blues” According to the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, imagery is defined as the use of pictures or words to create images, especially to create an impression or a mood (dictionary.cambridge.org). In literary works of...

“A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning” is a poem about a couple on the eve of their separation. The speaker is trying to convince his lady to accept his departure by describing love as something that transcends the physical and therefore can endure or even grow through separation. John Donne makes three main points throughout the poem. He informs the reader that the love he and his partner share is beyond a normal love, that their love is strengthened in absence, and that he compares their love to...

Explore the ways the poets present a particular event in ‘An Unknown Girl and ‘Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom’ The two poems “An Unknown Girl” and “Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom have both similarities and differences. An Unknown Girl is about Moniza Alvi who is in India and is getting her hand decorated by henna by an unknown girl in a bazaar in India. Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom is about electricity coming to a Caribbean village, which does not have modern technology. The poem...

‘Of Mice and Men’ is well know for the usage of Animals within the books and without the animals, the book would no nearly be as descriptive as it is, but also it would not have the underlying meaning within the book which is so hard to put into books. Nothing within the book is just ‘ a filler’- everything in the book is there for a reason and links up with other points within the story, all leading up to the one main point at the end of the book. Which, one has to fully understand the book to...

Morning Song Questions 1. In your own words, outline what two aspects of motherhood are depicted in the poem. Stanzas 1-3 are purely the birth of the child and are not emotional and a sense of detachment between the mother and the child is evident, whereas the last three are the baby crying in the night and the other helping the baby, these stanzas show the more nurturing and happy aspects of motherhood. 2. The title of the poem is morning song. What figurative expression does Plath use...

“F***ing Perfect” by Pink “F***ing Perfect” by song artist Pink, expresses thoughts of her past and future. This song uses metaphors and also similes to get her points across. You are who you are and no one can take that away from you because “You are perfect”. An example of a metaphor in this song is “The whole world stares while i swallow the fear”. This line is stating that she was miss judged and bullied, what gives this away is the line“ they don’t like my genes they don’t get my hair”....

What features or characteristics of the human condition can you identify in Judith Wright’s Legend? How has the poet used specific language techniques to emphasise these attributes of life. Judith Wright’s ‘Legend’ responds to various aspects of the human condition present in our society today. The poem is focused primarily on the actions of a Blacksmith’s boy, a vassal for humanity’s growth in response to age and change. In stanza one, Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers...

Milissa Tift Wednesday Night September 10, 2012 Professor Calabrese Assignment #2 Critical Thinking Critical Thinking – Assignment #2 In any story there are two types of language, figurative and literal. Language is, of course a necessary factor of any story. Without Language, an author could not tell the story. The author usually uses a combination of these two languages. Together, these languages characterize the author’s style. Literal language means exactly...

Porphyria’s Lover is a story that has many literary elements, in my opinion it’s a sick and twisted story that uses a lot of imagery, metaphors and personification. This story is about a girl named Porphyria and her lover and Porphyria is on her way home from a rainy day and when she gets home she makes the house nice and warm. She hugs her lover and he feels her yellow hair, she lies next to him and he suddenly strangles her, after he kills her he opens her eyes and he puts his arm around her...

Quickdraw is a poem about the end and break down of a relationship. Specifically an argument between the speaker and their other half and the feelings felt by the speaker in the poem. It has many similarities and differences with In Paris with You a poem about a very negative relationship with the speaker who is desperately in love with someone who is just using them. The poem uses a play on words and anytime the words Paris and love are mentioned you have to switch them, so Paris means love and...

Journeys are about many different aspects to how people carry out life, physical and emotional journeys, but also journeys of self-reflection. For this assignment the chosen related text, composed by Rascal Flatts, is ‘Bless The Broken Road’. The purpose of this document is to compare my related text to the statement, “More than anything else, journeys are about the challenge of self reflection”. The use of symbolism, similes and Metaphors will be discussed, when analysing ‘Bless the Broken...

American poet Anne Bradstreet manipulates a vast, dizzying array of metaphoric techniques in her most widely known poem. “The Author to Her Book” is an extended metaphor comparing the relationship of an author and her writings to the relationship between a parent and a child. Throughout the text, Bradstreet employs similes and metaphors to capture the attitude emotions felt by Bradstreet and how it conflicts with the puritan society that frowns upon her appreciation of her talents and role as a...

Chippendale has personified to become a family of ‘Aunts’, ‘eccentric, unmarried first cousins’ and ‘respected gentlemen’, when Ivy, Vine, Rose, Myrtle, Abercrombie, Hugo, Louis and Caroline are streets in the ‘Mount Druitt’ of Sydney’s CBD in the late fifties and sixties that were filled with factories, drunks, thieves, rapists and vandal’s. Pauses have been used throughout the poem to generate a sense of unrest and dread, making ‘Chippendale’ sound more unruly and fearful than it actually...

Jenna Locascio Dr. Jonathan Dewberry English 102-(02) November 2014 “Dulce et Decorum Est” Metaphors and Similies The first of two similes is “bent double, like old beggars under sacks”. Here Owen is compairing the men in service to old beggars by the way they are walking. When Owen says “bent double”, it is telling you that the men are not standing up straight, but are bent over, as if they were beggers who are tired from begging all day. The next simile is “coughing like hags”, Owen...

Wilfred Owen's Anthem for a Doomed Youth is exactly that, an anthem ( a solemn song) to commemorate the innocent youth, whose lives were taken to soon by war. By using the word anthem, he calls to mind the glory and honor of a national anthem, however; he goes on to explain that there is no honor or glory in death, pairing the words doomed and youth together creates so much sorrow as well, it provides a woeful impression as it foretells of young people having no hope. Written in sonnet form, it...

Passage one and Passage two are both about Florida's Okefenokee Swamp, however they both have contrasting points of view. The author of Passage one is writing about the swamp as it is overall- in a disconnected sort of way- which is drastically different from Passage two which takes the reader right inside the swamp and shows the struggle of life that exists there. Thus, the authors of Passage one and Passage two, accomplish this task by an informative tone and formal diction in Passage one,...

Belonging is usually defined as being accepted into and by members of a family, group, class, race, community or school. The term belonging means something different to everyone but most people will come up with the words acceptance, security and identity. In this speech I have chosen to talk about the aspects of belonging and not belonging in two of Peter Skrzynecki’s Poems, Migrant Hostel and 10 Mary Street and also in the 1997 film ‘Titanic’. In Peter Skrzynecki’s Migrant Hostel, he talks...

Top of the morning to you. My name is Frank McCourt and I’ve actually been forced to stand up here and talk to you about ‘belonging’. Now, the dictionary describes belonging as being a member, being related or being owned. Sounds easy right? Ha! Wrong. Belonging is complex. It is a process that requires constant reinforcement. To belong entails a quirky fusion of kinship, locality, experience and even spirituality. There is no rule book on how to belong so it must be frequently improvised. Peter...

Kendra Branch Branch 1 English 101.95980 21 September 2012 Expository Essay Can Having A Dream Make A Difference In Society? “I have a dream.” A phrase and or quote that many citizens of today’s society use in reference of what they would like their future to hold. Our society is not the best, but it is not the worst either. Change is the light that brings us out of the...

Comparing Poems I am going to be talking about their methods that the poets use to explore the connection between people and the places in which they live in. The poems that I am comparing are Hurricane hits England and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan. In Hurricane Hits England the techniques used are personification, she says “Talk to me oya” here referring to the hurricane as a person, she is doing this to try and feel like she is at home, trying to connect back to where she came from,...

 The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop Bishop uses literary devices, especially similes, metaphors, tone, and imagery to convey her theme of admiration for survivors of life’s difficult battles, in this case the fish, although at first she failed to admire and appreciate the fish. Bishop also doesn’t realize how beautiful the fish is at first, but she eventually finds beauty in the fish. Bishop’s tone of aloofness in lines 5-10 shows that first she is disappointed in what she thought was a big...

Visual Imagery is important in poetry to help the poet express the theme of the poem. There are three types of imagery Bishop uses to express her theme. First, she uses Metaphor. Second she uses Simile, Third, and she uses Personification. The Fish poem is very full of different types of imagery and very vivid in it narrations. This poem depends on its imagery more than any other single element. The speaker alternately convinces us of the fish’s ugliness and its beauty, and in order to achieve...

THE DOMESTICITY OF GIRAFFES AND FOX IN A TREE STUMP SPEECH. Good morning/Afternoon class, in my speech I will be discussing my understanding of the poems Domesticity of Giraffes and Fox in A Tree Stump by Judith Beveridge. Moral values and meanings are portrayed through these two poems by expressing and clarifying the value of life and exploring humanity's relationship with animals. The two poems clarify the value of life through both active and passive roles. In "Fox in a tree stump" an...

Where are three metaphors in this poem? Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain What the first responder gave you are known as similes which are basically the same as metaphors (in the way that they compare two things) except they use like or as. Metaphors can be vague and open to interpretation. The river itself is clearly a metaphor, as to what it is a metaphor for is unclear to me. I believe that each reader will choose as to what this metaphor means for themselves (and I think...

et A silhouette is defined as a "dark image outlined against a lighter background." this title is perfect for the lifeless world described in Pauline Johnson's poem, Silhouette. The silhouette is used as a metaphor for the decay of the chief. As the Chiefs surroundings decay and fall apart around him. The chief is slowly consumed by the loss of the land and his people. As the land begins to evaporate around him he becomes the "dark shadow-like shape" that once the leader of his tribe. In...

“The Sacrifice”: An Analysis of Language in Alice Walker’s Roselily PAPER # 6 LANGUAGE Kati Martinez 03/03/2013 In Alice Walker’s Roselily, our main character (Roselily) is a mother of three residing in Mississippi. She questions her actions to marry a man of a different religion, but knows that the marriage will give her a (limited) sense of freedom, and will give her children an opportunity to lead better lives. The story’s central idea reveals that sometimes the love and concern for...

In the poem, Poppies, the poet is comparing the beauty of nature with the carnage of war. The poem shows how the soldiers sacrificed their life in order to "ransom" the hills of France therefore showing that France's freedom was paid by the blood of these young men. Poppies are used to symbolise war and sacrifice. The effect of this is to make the reader remember the people who put their life on the line so that we could have our freedom and the use of the word 'poppies' gives the poems...

 FRAGMENT FROM “THE ROVER” BY APHRA BEHN In this assignment it is going to be analyzed a fragment from the play “The Rover” by Aphra Behn. To set it properly in the general context: this piece of story takes place almost at the end (act V). It refers to the moment in which Florinda and Belvile are getting married, and Willmore is told to stand guard in case that Don Pedro might appear. Referring now only to the fragment, it is set in the corridor of Blunt’s house, although this is...

Have you ever been so fascinated by nature so much you wanted to write a poem about it? In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, he uses Similes, metaphors, and personification to catch the reader’s eye in this wonderful adventure of nature. In this poem William Wordsworth is referring to nature as a beautiful thing in life. William Wordsworth’s uses similes to perfect his view of nature.A simile is describing two unlike things using “like or as”. For example William...

First Love John Clare and Sex Without Love , two poems written at different times, with "connected" themes but at the same time very different. First Love is a Lyrical poem written in the 18th century by John Clare and Sex Without Love is a more contemporary poem which was written in 1985 by Sharon Olds. The theme in First Love is about a person that fell in love for the first time, who is talking about his emotions and what happened to him when it happened, while Sex Without Love the persona is...

Adrian Guardado 5/9/12 Alma Alvarez Formal paper She’s a Woman Cathy Song’s poem, “The white Porch” is about the a lady sitting on her white porch after washing her hair. As she’s sitting on her porch complaining about how long it takes her hair to dry, she realizes that she is no longer a child but a strong mature women. She spends most of her time cleaning and keeping her husband happy around the house. The length of her hair and how beautiful it looked gave her the illusion of...

• Now consider similes and metaphors; what semantic areas do they belong? What is the poet’s aim in using them? Simile compares soldiers to beggars because of appearance (ragged, dirty) but also has connotations of being uncared-for, homeless, impoverished. Simile compares soldiers to hags because coughing, slow, infirm as if they were old; also has negative connotations (ugly, witch). Simile describes sensations the reader may be more familiar with to show the pain the soldier is going...

 “Still I Rise”- Maya Angelou Hurt, anger, and pain are all expressed in Maya Angelou “Still I Rise.” In the poem the author exhibits her rage and pain towards how society treated her because she was a black woman. Reading this piece at the end of each of stanza, you will notice that the author uses repetition and end each stanza saying “Still I’ll Rise, “stating that no matter how badly society has treated her, she will not let it stop her because she will “rise” up from it exhibiting her...

Introduction: The poem ‘Dad’ explores the author, Elaine Feinstein’s life and the feelings surrounding the passing of her father. The poem was written a year and a half after her father’s death as she tried to come to terms with her feelings of grief and sadness towards losing a loved one. Elaine Feinstein reflects on the images she has of her father. The themes that evolve throughout the poem ‘Dad’ are those of grief for the father she has lost, love and great sorrow. “Every day I grieve”,...

Kendall Smith Honors/Pre-IB English 2 Kober, Period 7 Tuesday, December 13, 2011 The Unveiling of Roger Chillingworth In Chapter Ten, when Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrates the transformation of Roger Chillingworth from an unoffending man to a leech-like character seeking revenge on his host, Dimmesdale, the author implements comparisons along with specific word choice to characterize Chillingworth. His personality in the reader’s eyes metamorphoses into one of a fiendish parasite due to...

THE LONER – Julie Holder Figurative Language He leans against the playground wall, Smacks his hands against the bricks And other boredom-beating tricks, Traces patterns with his feet, Scuffs to make the tarmac squeak, Back against the wall he stays - And never plays. The playground's quick with life, The beat is strong. Though sharp as a knife Strife doesn't last long. There is shouting, laughter, song, And a place at the wall For who won't belong. We pass him running,...

A Separate Peace In the opening passage of A Separate Peace, John Knowles utilizes personifications, similes, and metaphors in order to create a gloomy and contemplative mood. At the beginning of the book, Gene Forrester is visiting his old high school, The Devon School, and the school ironically looks newer and more improved. As he explores this new school, a mood of gloom and contemplation is created. A personification such as, “Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand...

We live to be perfect, however we contradict ourselves every step of the way. Inner conflict has nestled its way into all of us. It has the power to change us as people either for the better or the worse. Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club, exhibits the growth and development of the eight characters through a series of narrated stories. Tan uses the art of storytelling to apprise the reader about the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers who came from China to San Francisco to raise their...

The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping us to understand why these nighttime fires left such a lasting impact on this grown woman from when she was only five years old. All of these things are...

 Elizabeth Bishop is a highly admired writer. In her poem, “The Fish,” a reader can enjoy the very specific analysis of a fish. While it may seem confusing, there are certainly multiple ways of possibly interpreting this poem. The poem is a continuous, with no stanzas, description of a fish and also the relationship between her and the fish. While it may be gruesome and overly-descriptive, it leaves many questions for the reader. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “The Fish” she uses similes,...

Judith wright The first Australian poet I am going to talk about is Judith wright. The first poem I am going to talk about from wright is called the surfer. The second poet that I am going to write about is Bruce Dawe. The poem from Dawe that I am going to do is called weapons training. Judith wright successful Australian poet she started writing poetry at the age of six but on started publishing poetry in the late 1930’s. Most of wright’s poetry was written in war time. The main theme of...

The Iron Coast is a travel writing written by Jane Gardam. Jane Gardam is a British author. She was born in Coatham, North Yorkshire. The writing describes the North Yorkshire coast and its landmarks including Roseberry Topping and Cleveland hills. Roseberry Topping is the name of a distinctive hill which was mentioned in the writing. The travel writing is descriptive as it creates effects and atmospheres for the reader. To achieve these effects the author uses a variety of literary techniques...

Analysis of November Night, Edinburgh November Night, Edinburgh is a wonderful poem by Norman MacCaig. This poem is describing the horrible winter in Edinburgh, Scotland. The winter described is a cold, terrible winter with frost and pollution. This poem follows a 4-line 4-stanza structure. This poem does not have any rhyming in it, but one could argue that MacCaig has structured the poem so that it resembles the tenements that he has described in the picture. This poem uses strong figurative...

Rita Dove: Literary Analysis Rita Dove has written many different kinds of poetry. She also wrote books, short stories plays and all types of literature. This essay will focus on specifics of her writing by analyzing three pieces of poetry that Rita Dove has written. The works we will be looking at are In the Old Neighborhood, My Mother Enters the Work Force, and The Bistro Styx. Through these three works you will see examples of Rita Dove’s use of home in her poetry, her use of...

Abstract: On the base of the definition of stylistics, this thesis gives a detailed analysis of some the of stylistic devices used in the famous speech by the well-known American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and then probes into the stylistic characteristics of speech as a style. Key words: Stylistics, Stylistic devices, analysis, speech As an interdisciplinary field of study, stylistics promises to offer useful insights into literary criticism and the teaching of...

Name Teacher Honors English 11 14 October 2013 Time Can't Change Everything Although culture may change over the years, the writing of those cultures do not. Puritan Anne Bradstreet 's writing is not different than contemporary music artist Jason Mraz's music. In "To My Dear and Loving Husband," Bradstreet describes the gratitude she has for her husband's love, and in Jason Mraz's song "I Won't Give Up," there is an ample amount of love still in the crumbling relationship. Even though...

Michael Yuri Sevilleno Reaction Paper The whole movie is full of similes and metaphors - mostly directly injected in dialogue - that pertain to the country's government and its people. For around two hours, we are given a peek, a good peek, at one of Asia's well-known nations. At the same time, neighboring countries may recognize a thing or two about Singapore that resembles a thing or two about themselves. Strictly speaking, the story is about and narrated by Terry (Huang Po-Ju), a little...

The poetic techniques employed by Plath succeed in making the world of her poetry a strange and terrifying one. I agree with the above statement as I feel that the world of Plath’s poetry is made strange and often terrifying by her use of poetic techniques. In my opinion the poetic techniques that aid most in making the world of her poetry strange and terrifying would be the use of allegory, imagery, similes and metaphors and also the use of words with ominous connotations. The poems that I...

Metaphorical language is used in poetry to highlight and allow the reader to examine the many themes and ideas it contains. In the the Romantic poems “Tintern Abbey” and “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” by William Wordsworth, the idea that memory acts as a source of escapism to the serenity of nature is explored and emphasised by the use of the metaphorical language of similes and metaphors in these poems. Both poems describe a picturesque landscape that the speaker feels joy and happiness in....

Mitchelltumtum Mrs. think of name ADV.COMM.ARTS per.4 18 January 2012 Have you ever lost someone so great or a hero you looked up to? I believe that this is what Ronald Koertge was seeing or experiencing when he wrote his poem, “Side Kicks.” Ronald has...

In his speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses, Patrick Henry tries to persuade the members that it is time to take up arms against the British. Targeting both the hearts and minds of his listeners through emotional and logical appeals, Henry uses rhetorical questions, figurative language, and repetition to convince them that it is time to take decisive action. Henry uses rhetorical questions to make them think of the decision they should make. Some of the rhetorical questions are “Why stand...

PHI210—Critical Thinking October 28, 2012 Figurate Language versus Literal Language In today’s society, the English language is the most widely spoken language, but can also be one of the most difficult to learn and speak. The many different ways that people speak figuratively with the English language may be why it is difficult for many to understand there many different meanings. The different cultures and backgrounds can also affect the understanding of the...

cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats are meaningful because they meow symbol simile metaphor WOW this is a poem about cats how awesome is this meow meow meow apparently i must keep typing if i'm to enter the site why is this essay too short? what if I had a really good point and I'm just geniusly able to get it across in such a small piece of writing?! Look at Shakespeare's sonnets... they're short, but that doesn't mean they're bad! on the contrary, they're quite...

Author’s techniques adapted from http://members.tripod.com/~GennyLee/index9.html Identify other author techniques within the novel. These may be use of motif, extended metaphor, allusion, imagery, contrasts, colour, and allegory. Personification A. The grey sand had been swept aside leaving only skeleton strands of the seaweed jungle clinging to the outcrops of bleached coral. P66 B. As the cable straightened and began to shiver in the water the footprint of the hull drift sideways until...

Elizabeth Bishop What I admire about the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop is her combination of precise, imaginative description and thought provoking insight. The poet closely observes and vividly describes the world around her. Her famous eye for detail and original imagery gives her poetry a strong visual quality, drawing the reader into the world she describes. However, what makes her poetry particulary appealing to me is her desire to probe beneath the surface of things. We see how her close...

Into the world The Story of Tom Brennan Quote |Technique |Effect | |“...We’re all hurting. It’s not helping anyone being like this” (p11) |Dialogue (Gran) Collective ‘we’ |Gran sums up the far-reaching effects of the accident through the collective nature of “we’re all” and the negative connotations of the word “hurting”. | |“That was the thing about my sisters, she’d become tough. It was like I hardly knew her anymore” (p29) |Characterisation of Kylie; simile; metaphor |Tom sums up Kylie’s...

“Harlem” * Of the six images, five are similes. Which is a metaphor? Comment on its position and its effectiveness. “Or crust and sugar over-“ The metaphor helps create the shift in the poen and also gives a deeper meaning of what the poet is trying to say with greater impact. * What specific denotation has the word “dream”? Since the poem does not reveal the contents of the dreams, the poem is general in its implication. What happens to your understanding of it on learning that...

Figurative Language Figurative language was used by Margaret Atwood, through the persona of Offred, to illustrate The Handmaid’s Tale. Figurative Language consists of similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole and idioms. First, figurative language can be used to describe different settings. 1. Offred’s experience at night in her bedroom “The heat at night is worse than the heat in daytime. Even with the fan on, nothing moves, and the walls store up...

Henry Lawson’s poem Second Class Wait Here (Second Class) shows that when an identity is forced upon an individual (an outcome of class labelling) they may struggle to feel a positive sense of belonging. Gordon Bennett’s three-panel canvas artwork Triptych: Requiem, Of Grandeur, Empire (Triptych) exemplifies how strongly accepting one’s identity under difficultcircumstances leads to a deep and enriching sense of belonging that may extend out to others. Through the shepherd Corin, Shakespeare...

“Carol Ann Duffy should be part of Canon” Evaluate this statement. Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright who was appointed the Poet Laureate in 2009, making her the first woman to hold the position. She has won numerous awards for her poetry, which addresses issues such as gender, violence and subjugation of women, from this many people define her as a feminist because she is passionate about the struggles of women; this is particularly portrayed in The Worlds Wife, which is a...

Figurative language is used in poems, songs, books, short stories, and in everyday language. The use of similes and hyperboles are able to affect the tone, meaning and theme that better explain the meaning in stories and songs. Figurative language is meant to appeal to the senses in order to provide interest and evoke emotion in what is being read or heard. Alicia Keys, “This Girl Is On Fire”, is a great example of figurative language. The figurative language in this song provides a respectful...

Analyzing the Angry Text Through the use of a negative connotation, an angry tone, and fearful figurative language Jonathan Edwards attempts to persuade the audience that without being born again you will be condemned to hell. This excerpt from "Sinners in the Hands of an angry God" written by Jonathan Edwards is very argumentative and attempts a high level of persuasion. The authors style of writing is very appropriate for the specific topic and also causes a great deal of reactions from...

In our society, words and what order those words fall in contribute to their meaning. That’s why it is very important to use words in the correct grammatical order, correct context and exact language. The power of words affects our senses, thinking, feelings creativity and the way we think. It is imperative that we must understand the phrases and meanings of words before they can properly be used. When language is shaped properly, it will assimilate into a culture. Since the English language is...

Madison Carroll Ms. Diana AP English Literature 24 September 2012 Despairing Companionship “Modern Love,” a poetic sequence by George Meredith, describes a skeptical opinion on the idea of modern love. Meredith’s devastating tone, complex similes and metaphors, and dark imagery convey a sad and regretful outlook on the love of this time. “Modern Love” is riddled with a tone full of regret and heartache, making this modern love seem more like the opposite of love. The speaker says “she...

James K Baxter expresses his thoughts and judgements using natural settings of his pasts. In Baxter’s poems, Rocket Show and Wild Bees, he comments about his boyhood, nature and how it taught him in life. In the poem wild bees, Baxter talks about a situation when he and his friends go out to smoke a beehive one evening to get the honey from it. The very simple language makes it easy for the reader to understand Baxter’s thoughts and judgements.The illusion of a ‘safe Ophelia ‘shows us...

Critical Essay-Poetry "Mid-Term Break" Darren Parker Séamus Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" is among the few poems that have emotionally moved me. The writer uses many techniques including similes, metaphors and beautiful lexical choice to convey the sombre and miserable situation of his brother's death. In this essay I am going to analyse the language of the poem and discuss, in more detail, the techniques used to convey the real sadness of the situation. "Mid-Term Break" is a very emotive...

Analogy Examples Understanding the meaning of an analogy is key to the success of the analogy in communication. Some analogies will be understood by most people that speak the same language. Within small social groups of people, there are often shared analogies that bind the group together. Other analogies are only understood by people living in a certain region or country. Ads by Google Class 1 to Class 12 Lessons, Animations, Videos & more… Math, EVS, Science, English, SST…...

For my second test I choose the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth because I like the imagery in it of the dancing daffodils. After reading the poem many times I had realized that most of this imagery is produced by the many metaphors and similes. In the first line, Wordsworth says "I wandered lonely as a cloud." This is a simile comparing the wondering of a man to a cloud drifting through the sky. I think that the wandering cloud is lonely because there is nothing else...

“Man’s need to belong can trigger challenges that lead to both positive and negative outcomes” Belonging is the feeling of security and support when there is a sense of acceptance, inclusion and identity to a specific part of society. A man’s need to belong can trigger challenges that lead to both positive and negative outcomes. These outcomes often depend on the challenges we face as well as how we chose to overcome them. Peter Skrzynecki’s poems ‘10 Mary Street’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’...

What happens when a book known by heart is torn up and thrown in the air? What happened when a tribal story is lost in an alien tale? Craig Silvey and Judith Wright examine, explore and display such changes in their respective texts Jasper Jones and Bora Ring. The idea of change as a maturing yet calamitous and estranging force is conveyed onto the audience through demonstration of its dynamic effects. The skilful use of literary techniques—metaphors, similes and symbolism—allows the reader to...

Comparing Dulce et Decorum est and Disabled Dulce et Decorum est starts very slowly but picks up tempo in the middle, then it slows down again at the end of stanza four when it starts to return to its original speed. Disabled is very similar in many aspects because it starts and finishes slowly but unlike Dulce it keeps a steady tempo all the way through. Both of these styles were used by Owen to conjure up feelings of sympathy and regret. Dulce et Decorum est opens with the strong...

Eavan Boland The War Horse • Tends to use simile. • Boland once said she found simile as an obvious form of comparison, metaphor more sophisticated and subtle. • Horse represents spirit of war, unpredictability of history • Criticism of our apathy • Images tends to be quite heavy handed • Tinkers horse – language of war, loss of war, • End of poem more cryptic • Shifts from Suburbia to Contemplation of History. Violence: Her poems often record moments of conflict and violence and...

Compare and Contrast Essay Langston Hughes What happens when you don’t hold on to a dream? Langston Hughes’ “Dreams” and “Dreams Deferred” discuss this issue. They are written with similar themes, but differ in writing styles. In the poem “Dreams” a direct approach is used. Hughes uses statements and metaphors to make his point. The authors statements tell us to hold on to our dreams. This is the focus of the poem. He uses metaphors to reiterate this thought, and expand the...

In his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” from the 1740’s, The American minister Jonathan Edwards, uses similes and metaphors to intimidate and manipulate the hearts of his puritan listeners. He uses a metaphor to dramatize human weakness. He states the human has as much chance of keeping out of hell " as a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock." Meaning that the sinners will be presumably going to hell if they don’t do something about it. Another metaphor reads, “ The wrath...

“Dover Beach” ENG125 Debora Zeringue July 15, 2013 “Dover Beach”, written by Matthew Arnold, is about a beach that is really beautiful, but holds much deeper significance than what meets the eye. “Matthew Arnold presents a very real theme of love and magnificence in his poem. He creates a scene of beauty among the sea and shores, mixed with night and moonlight” (Harrison). He also presents us with underlying misery, which is easily over looked and disregarded. Arnold writes of love and...

Compare how poets present World War 1 in ‘Mametz Wood’ and one other poem you studied Sheers wrote ‘Mametz Wood’, reflecting on the death and remains of solders in World War One contrasted to Hughes who wrote’ Bayonet Charge’ after war but set it during war, presenting the uncertainty of the soldiers. Having the two poems set in different times, contrasts how World War 1 is presented both during and after. Bayonet Charge has many examples of similes to give vivid detail to the reader,...

Raneysally Apr 18, 2012 6:38 pm Mutterings over the Crib of a Deaf Child James Wright This poem is about a deaf child and the things that he will be unable to do because of his hearing problem. James Wright writes this poem in first person and the narrator seems to be an observant or friend of the deaf child or his family or possibly a close family member. The setting seems to be maybe the nursing room that the child is in or possibly the narrator is just alone and thinking about the life...

The Poem titled "A Kite is a victim" written by Leonard Cohen contains multiple metaphors. Through my own analysis I feel that the author's central focus of the poem concerns life. Cohen discusses the relationships and accomplishes that we make throughout our lifetimes. The kite seems to be the main metaphor of the poem, symbolizing life and living. Each of the four stanzas in the poem begins with a metaphor. In every case the premise is the kite. These metaphors will be analyzed with regard...

Like Water for Chocolate Guided Reading Worksheet January In responding to the questions, use complete sentences and support your answers with text (quotes) from the reading. 1. Who is narrating the story? 2. What happened to bring on Mama Elena’s early delivery of Tita? 3. Where was Tita born? 4. How come it was not necessary to slap Tita on the bottom at birth? 5. Why did Tita feel a deep love for the kitchen? 6. Explain what happened to Tita when she was two days old. 7....

An Unknown Girl In the poem ‘An Unknown Girl’, Moniza Alvi uses poetic techniques such as metaphors, personification, alliteration, repetition and similes in order to depict her struggles in rediscovering her cultural identity. Along with references to India and the scenery surrounding the narrator,...

Carl Angelo Rabino 5th hr Ms. Otto 6­10­14 10th Grade English Final Exam Review Writing Process Tone­​ is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience Ex:Angry: Cans. Beer cans. Glinting on the verges of a million miles of roadways, lying in scrub, grass, dirt, leaves, sand, mud, but never hidden. Piels, Rheingold, Ballantine, Schaefer, Schlitz, shining in the sun or picked by the moon or the beams of headlights at night; washed by ...

“In Mrs Tilchers classroom” By Carol Ann Duffy. A poem of a young girl in her primary years of school and her memorable experiences of her classroom experience. In the poem the writer Carol Ann Duffy describes her most memorable moments in her primary school experience. She uses different techniques to describe her classroom, things like Similes, Metaphors and Personification. In the poem the writer Carol Ann Duffy uses the metaphor “Chalky pyramids rubbed into dust” when in reality there...

How do we know which season the poet describes? A. The season is spring, seen in the springing grass, first bird, first bud. Note the simile here, which helps us picture the pastoral scene which the bird so desperately wishes to join. What figure of speech describes the flower? A. The poet refers to the fragrance of a flower as it opens. He uses a metaphor to compare the flower to a goblet. What type of figurative language is used here? A. The poet uses personification, “cruel bars,” attributing...

We can also deal with language in Much Ado About Nothing by looking at the techniques Shakespeare used. Some of these techniques (and names) might seem difficult at first. If that is the case, just think about what the play would sound like if the technique was not used. For instance, when Claudio is rejecting Hero at the church, imagine he says to Leonato: "Take this woman back" Well, yes, it is easy to understand, but it is not unusual or interesting. And it does not show how bitter Claudio...

As the world evolves over the years people get new ideas, new theories, and develops a new way of thinking. Taking something so simple and elaborating on it making it sophisticated. In the Poem "School Children", W.H Auden tries to emphasize to the readers that a simple playground where inhabits their fun filled activities is actually a prison. Here I will be explaining why the poem "School Children" is actually good. For a short poem Auden packs a lot of information that he sends out to the...

* Essay 1 due 2/17 * Attached Files * ESSAY 1 (Desc.) for 111FT1.doc (24 KB) Essay 1 (the descriptive essay) is due in class on February 17, 2012. Please refer to the syllabus regarding essay requirements and my policy for late papers. *Remember, I do not take emailed papers unless I have given you permission to do so based on prior arrangements. *Let me know if you have any problems opening up the attached essay assignment. * For the Week of 1/30 - 2/3 * Attached...

How does Ted Huges Present Nature in His Poetry? Ted Huges presents nature by using different descriptions, techniques, vocabulary and the way he structures his poems. In the three poems ‘The Thought Fox’, ‘The Jaguar’ and ‘Hawk Roosting’ Huges presents his view on nature using animals. However he does portray the animals quite differently one a self-cantered and vicious creature, another, elegant and innocent and the last a trapped creature with no boundaries. Huges give animals’ human like...

Bacon’s prose style includes a number of features common to the Elizabethans and the Jacobeans 1) The of Bacon remains for the main part aphoristic. These are a terseness of expression and epigrammatic brevity in the essays of Bacon. In fact, the essays of Bacon have to be read slowly because of the compact and condensed thought. There are a number of lines, which are read like proverbs. As for example we can quote the essay Of Truth. In this essay Bacon says“ A lie faces God and shrinks...

The Crossing In Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing, there is a dramatic sequence described by the narrator. The author uses many different techniques to convey the impact of the experience on the narrator. Some of these such techniques are: repetition, diction, and simile. Of the aforementioned techniques, the most obvious is repetition. The author uses the word “and” a total of thirty-three times. However, the simple...

Lord of the Flies Summer Assignment 7/23/08 William Golding describes a lot of different situations in the book by different moods along with other writing skills. In the excerpt from pg. 199-200, the general mood is fear. He uses similes and metaphor to describe the mood and helps us picture the time of the excerpt. In the following paragraph, I will describe how he shows the readers what the mood is. First of all, the first sentence of the quotation gives us the first hit of...

Compare the ways poets show peoples relationships with nature in ‘Below the Green Corrie’ and one other poem you have studied. In the poem ‘Below the Green Corrie’ written by Norman MacCaig, the poem explores the way nature impacts on man as the poem is powerful and emotional. The large mountains give McCaig a spiritual and physical love for the landscape, he describes his life as being ‘enriched’. This shows that instead of being threatened by the mountains he has bonded with nature as it...