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    isolation within captivity. She is powerless‚ stuck in a situation she has no control and no power; stuck in a place where she truly doesn’t belong. It also allows the responder to feel for the sick giraffe and empathise it in its yearning for life. Similes are also used to provide the reader with imagery‚ such as "like a black leather strap as she chews‚" this symbolically compares the tongue to a leather belt‚ often used in torture or punishment it could also

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    phrases used in the poem to create the explicit imagery it holds. In the poem the “Old House” Gray creates a lot of analogies using similes as the main comparison technique‚ by creating the analogy with inelaborate objects Gray allows you to create an image of your own. “All that grass is rippling‚ like the way hounds undulate” this creating a very effective simile referring to the way the grass moves to the way a dog moves. In both “The Old House” and “The Meatworks” Gray uses injament as a

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    images and mental images” (Quinn). Edwin Arlington Robinson usually doesn’t use imagery from the natural world‚ but if or when he does‚ the images are functional and are made from metaphors and symbolic Hall 2 context (Scott). Every metaphor or simile that Robinson uses while writing his poems constitutes an image of some sort. His imagery tends to engage the readers on their “sense experience” (Quinn) and this enables them to re-create the story. Robinson uses words like “grew lean”‚ “bright”

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    ‘as’ to make comparisons. Metaphors allow us to use fewer words and force the reader or listener to find the similarities. For example‚ “The assignment was a breeze.” 4. Simile A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things‚ usually by employing the words "like" or "as". We can use similes to make descriptions more emphatic or vivid. For example‚ “She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat.” 5. Oxymoron This is a part of speech that combines

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    Charles Chauncy “Enthusiasm Described and Caution’d Against” In the excerpt from his sermon “Enthusiasm Described and Caution’d Against” from 1742‚ Charles Chauncy makes use of metaphors and similes in order to describe the so called “enthusiasts”. On the other hand‚ he changes his register by incorporating words related to business and thus establishes a contrast between the “enthusiasts” and the “reasonable” (387) followers of God. Towards the beginning of the application of his sermon‚ Chauncy

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    The image of two gaunt trees combines visual and audial effects played by the onomatopoeia (‘rattled rather than rustled’) and colour adjectives ‘blackened’‚ ‘smoke-dried’. This image symbolizes death and the absence of emotions. The distinctive simile between the ‘chandelier’ and ‘vault’‚ expressed by comparison ‘a monstrous tear’‚ stresses the connotation of humidity which is connected with the bleak atmosphere of the passage. In the beginning of the text‚ the author’s vision pans with impersonal

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    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 wonderful

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    The Jaguar By Ted Hughes

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    nature commences. The opening line ‘the apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun’ presents an oxymoron that evokes a sense of both boredom and decay for the reader. The aural imagery and onomatopoeia of ‘the parrots shriek’ is complemented by two similes ‘as if they were on fire’ and ‘strut like cheap tarts’ to add visual imagery‚ parrots that are acting desperately and unnaturally for attention and food In stanza 2‚ the empty cage ‘stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw!’ though both sibilance

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    writer has used to convey the image of a child growing up. I shall start this essay by stating some of the imagery used to elucidate the comparisons to everyday life and growing up. We are told that ‘The classroom glowed like a sweet shop.’ This simile compares the classroom to a sweetshop. It makes you think that the classroom was a magical place. The author writes ‘The inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks. This metaphor shows the comparison between the commas growing into

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    Poem: Henry Longfellow

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    Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27‚ 1807‚ in Portland‚ Maine. He attended the Portland Academy and Bowdoin College‚ where he matured a passion of storytelling and an enthusiasm for reading. Longfellow had the aptitude of easy rhyme. He wrote poetry as a bird sings‚ with natural charm and lyricism. Longfellow wrote on obvious themes which entice to all varieties of people. His creations are effortlessly understood; they sing their means into the knowledge of the particular

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