and there / his brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper‚ / and its pattern of darker brown / was like wallpaper;" she uses two similes with common objects to create sympathy for the captive. Bishop then goes on to clearly illustrate what she means by "wallpaper": "shapes like full-blown roses / stained and lost through age." She uses another simile here paired with descriptive phrases‚ and these effectively depict a personal image of the fish. She uses the familiar "wallpaper" comparison
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kind‚ the better the project is and the more satisfying it is to see completed. It also teaches that humans feel useless without work‚ and feeling complete rewards the human soul. “To Be Of Use” by Marge Piercy conveys the theme through metaphors‚ similes‚ and imagery. Throughout the poem‚ Marge Piercy uses metaphors to help teach her message. “They seem to become natives of that element‚ black sleek heads of seals” (5-6) states than anyone can become used to working vigorously and doing their
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Tolcher How are gender stereotypes explored? SUPPORTING TECHNIQUE QUOTE EFFECT & LINK TO GENDER STEREOTYPES Imagery/simile “The senior gathered in clumps‚ pale faces turning inwards each mirroring the other’s shock‚ small whirlpools of silence in the noisy ocean of the great quadrangle.” Shows how the seniors (assuming they are boys) are grieving the loss of M’Gill. The simile evokes a sound imagery of how the quadrangle is “noisy” however; the grieving students are silently in the corner. Imagery/active
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uses aspects of imagery‚ simile and metaphor to unveil a picture in the readers mind. Hughes uses imagery in a carefully arranged series of images that also function as figures of speech. By doing this he suggests that people should not delay their dreams because the more they postpone them‚ the more their dreams will change and become less of reality and more of just a dream. Imagery is in twined with similes that bring this poem to life in the readers mind. Similes are most apparent throughout
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support his imagery‚ through the whole poem he uses words like “Garment”‚ “Ships”‚ ”Towers”‚ and “Domes”‚ he also uses the setting as an imagery as well as natural things such as sky‚ rivers‚ valley‚ hill‚ and rocks. The poet uses metaphors and similes to have this effect on the reader to imagine how gorgeous the view is. For example “This
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the landscape became more violent. The chief’s inability to change is slowly destroying him. The use of the word "Etched as if the chief is permanently place within the land and he dies as the land dies. Many rhetorical devices like metaphors similes and personification are used extensively throughout the essay to portray the death of the land. "and cloudland touch and die" is perfect examples of this. Rather than just simply describing the horizon she breaths life into the land by giving it the
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heightened with imaginative language. As May drifts into drugs and homelessness with other aimless teenagers‚ her sentences become fragmented: “One-step forward‚ two-steps back‚ no home again.” Vivid imagery shows the tension of living on the streets with similes such as: “Some of us leapt out of
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war. This‚ poem in particular‚ highlights the horrors of such a situation through the life of a soldier. In the poem‚ we are presented with the setting of a battlefield where the author uses metaphors and similes to describe the trepidations of war. It is this utilization of metaphors and similes - and its link to the theme of the poem – that makes this poem significant‚ and helps the reader to imagine what is being described. * Written in four stanzas‚ the poet conveys his feelings about the
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Guilt is a common feeling that humans feel when they have done something wrong. The poets Gabriel Okara and Dennis brutus both express this feeling of guilt in their personas backgrounds. Therefore‚ okara’s “Once Upon a Time” and brutus’s “It is the Constant Image of Your Face” are poems portrayed with guilt‚ but they show it in different situations. The body of both poems have a specific situation happening. in the poem “Once Upon a Time” the persona wishes to be young again an forget all the lessons
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Hemingway is a very interesting story that can difficult for a reader to understand at first glance. The title plays a major role in this style of writing by Hemmingway. When a reader comes across this title‚ one most likely can notice that it is a simile as hills are being compared to white elephants. The young woman in the story‚ called Jig‚ is having drinks with an American man while waiting for a train at a station. The two discuss what the American man calls an “operation.” This operation being
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