the stanzas contain similes to elaborate on the author’s purpose. The first stanza relates sorrow to an arrow that pierces all parts of the body to the deepest core‚ “through the fat and past the bone.” The second stanza compares blacks and whites to rivers and the sea (fresh and salty water). The last stanza relates grief again to a weapon‚ calling it a “blade shining and unsheathed [that] must strike me down‚” and sorrow to a crown of “bitter aloes wreathed.” The similes in the last stanza mean
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Stiff It may sound odd‚ but Stiff by Mary Roach is by far the most lively and enthusiastic approach on discussing death that I have ever read. The author did something in this work that I never thought was possible. She made death enjoyable to read about. She even stated‚ “Death. It doesn’t have to be boring.” (Roach 11). She successfully took on one of the most serious‚ dismal topics and made it enjoyable to read. The way she is able to do this is by using a style all her own which
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of view towards a white person in the 1900’s. Angelou used various language techniques‚ rhetorical questions‚ metaphor‚ and similes to show us her thoughts at the time when she was being ruled over. Self-esteem was the reason that the poet wrote this poem in the first place and it was self-esteem that she overcome the obstacles she faced in life. Firstly‚ Angelou uses similes to compare herself to nature that unremittingly “rises”. Although she was being treated poorly‚ “you may trod me in the very
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poem by the opening lines ’I caught a tremendous fish’ The poets respect for the fish is immediately conveyed‚ he is ’battered and venerable and homely’. A domestic simile helps us to visualise this huge‚ ancient fish‚ while evoking a sense of comfortable familiarity ’his brown skin hung in strips‚ like ancient wallpaper’ Imaginative similes conjure up an image of the inside of the fish‚ his flesh is ’packed in like feathers’‚ while his swim bladder is ’like a big poeny’. An interesting shift in the
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J. R. R. Tolkien’s use of similes in "The Fellowship of the Ring‚" like most of his figurative language and imagery in the Ring trilogy‚ attach characters and events to the neighboring dwarf and elven lands‚ to nature. He‚ made what novel experts of Concordia University have called a Christian epic‚ locates spirituality not in a Christ-like figure‚ such as C.S. Lewis’ Aslan‚ but in recurrent relation to innate vigor. His nature similes ground Middle Earth folk in spiritual life. The way he chooses
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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‚ this
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his point straight and clear. As a little boy that sees his surroundings as a prison he uses many poetic devices to prove or enhance his point. One of the variations used in this poem is a "simile" A simile is a figure of speech that‚ like metaphor‚ compares unlike things in order to describe something. Similes do not state that something is another thing‚ however. Instead‚ they compare using the word "like" or "as."On the very first line it says "Here are all the captivities; the cells are AS real
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can refer to the increasing difficulties of the obstacles that we must be overcome‚ proportionate with age. In the third stanza‚ there is a sudden shift in the mood of the poem through the visual imagery of the setting sun‚ an allusion to death. Simile is used in the following lines‚ “Up came the night ready to swallow him‚ like the barrel of a gun‚ like an old black hat‚ like a black dog hungry to follow him” in the form of the blacksmith boy’s possessions to emphasise solitude‚ the blacksmith’s
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very helpful in this speech because it makes his audience think twice about what he is saying. In the speech Henry uses figurative language‚ like similes and metaphors‚ to compare things. An example of figurative language is “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience” (83). Figurative language‚ such as similes and metaphors‚ is helpful because it could compare something complex to something you understand better. In the example above he is comparing a lamp
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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 of
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