1. I was so hungry that I even ate the plate. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) hyperbole B) metaphor C) personification D) simile 2. My father was the sun and the moon to me. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) hyperbole B) simile C) metaphor D) personification 3. The rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? A) onomatopoeia B) metaphor C) personification
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ending. I will show how the poet creates mood and atmosphere through imagery‚ alliteration‚ rhythm and rhyme. I felt this poem is very strange because it is ghostly and spooky. "The Listeners" is about a "traveller" who comes to an empty house in the forest floor and keeps on knocking on the door asking " I s there anybody there?" but no one answers and he is some how perplexed. This poem is very spooky because of the alliteration used: "his horse in the silence chomped the grasses". The mod of the poem
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Question #1 History of music from 1650 to 1800 can be described by three major periods‚ the middle Baroque‚ the late Baroque / early Classical‚ and Classical eras. The middle Baroque can be described as a time of developing and standardizing musical forms‚ styles‚ and conventions‚ and then obeying those conventions in the creation of new music. The second era found the undoing of these conventions in two important areas‚ prompting the end of the Baroque and beginning of the Classical era. The final
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In the stanza from the story of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth wants to lose her feminine qualities in order to be capable of murder. She conveys this through the use of figurative language and alliteration. Through the usage of figurative language‚ it is understood that she wants to lose her nurturing female qualities. Her statement of “unsex me here” figuratively means that she does not want to be the sex that she was given so that she could commit the murder. Literally she means that in order to pull
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If post-modernism seeks to express the new and multiple perspectives of the world‚ then it is inevitable that even the most commonplace of historical villains will be re-examined and re-evaluated alongside the most notable of traditional historical heroes. For both post-modern novels‚ Timothy Findley’s The Wars‚ set in World War 1‚ and its predecessor Kurt Vonnegut’s the Slaughterhouse 5‚ set in World War 2‚ this is more than evident. As in both novels‚ the protagonists witness those who would normally
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individuals. In the earliest times‚ we find a declamatory style; in the works of the Venetians‚ melody asserts itself; with Scarlatti‚ musical learning is pressed into service; in the epoch of Handel‚ a conventional form dominates the stage; the efforts of Gluck bring back something of an earlier dramatic style‚ with vastly increased resources in the orchestra; Mozart reverts again to a more melodic method‚ enforcing it with correct expression and consummate orchestral skill. There
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Poe demonstrates allusion‚ alliteration‚ and personification. “...Raven of the saintly days of yore;...” is an allusion to a verse in the Bible. 1 Kings 17:1-6 stating that God told ravens to bring Elijah food every day if he went where God told him to go. Poe uses 1 Kings to show that the Raven is here to help not harm
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Alliteration is used in this context to create an emphasis on the words used. The words “handle” and “hand” are used to create an image of the handle of the dagger being in Macbeth’s hand. This tells us that the time when the dagger will be in Macbeth’s hand (that is to kill King Duncan)‚ is very close. The line “Come‚ let me clutch thee”‚ along with having alliteration in it is also an apostrophe. Here‚ Macbeth addresses the dagger
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his poem with a simile Alliteration: lonely as a cloud (line 1). Simile: Comparison (using as) of the speaker’s solitariness to that of a cloud (line 1). Personification: Comparison of the cloud to a lonely human. (line 1) Alliteration: high o’er vales and Hills (line 2). Alliteration: When all at once (line 3). (Note that the w and o have the same consonant sound.) Personification/Metaphor: Comparison of daffodils to a crowd of people (lines 3-4). Alliteration: golden Daffodils (line
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work‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge uses an abundance of literary devices to contribute to the effect of the poem. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” contains many elements‚ each of which enhances the way the poem conveys meaning. The extensive use of alliteration‚ varying metrical patterns‚ internal and external rhyme‚ anaphora‚ caesura‚ enjambment‚ and inversion add to the complexity of the structure and the overall meaning of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚” which could be interpreted as love for all
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