octets: the first octet uses imagery of nature‚ portraying the profusion and fecundity of her love‚ juxtaposed by the imagery of wealth and value in the latter‚ showing how much her love is worth. The first stanza has a lexical motif‚ using a series of similes containing natural images‚ such as “a singing bird”‚ “an apple tree” and “a rainbow shell” which give connotations of abundance and natural‚ wholesome love‚ and symbols of new life‚ resurgence‚ and hope. Also‚ she uses an anaphora of “heart”‚ which
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Gillian Bouras‚ conveys feelings of not belonging by use of simile‚ the use of first person‚ and the contrast between the feelings of belonging and not belonging within the passage. ‘Bear hug’ by Michael Ondaatje‚ conveys feelings of belonging by use of tone and the contrast between elements of the text. In ‘A Foreign Wife’‚ Bouras represents aspects of not belonging through the simile “Both boys stuck out like sore toes”. By using this simile‚ Bouras successfully conveys her son’s positions as outsiders
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Composition~Orwell Analysis In the excerpt from Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”‚ the author uses similes‚ syllepsis‚ and connotation to appeal to the readers sense of pathos in order to convey his attitude of remorse and fluster in regards to shooting the elephant so as to comment on imperialism. Orwell uses Similes to convey his remorse and fluster towards shooting the elephant. He compares the elephant to “…a huge rock toppling…” and paints the scene by saying “The thick blood welled out of
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Lord of the Flies‚ intends for the reader to view Jack as an animal because the longer the boys are on the island the more they are becoming like a savage. First‚ the author uses a simile. As Jack is hunting for pigs‚ the author writes‚ “Then dog-like‚ uncomfortable on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort‚” (48). The simile in this passage is Jack on all fours like a dog. Since Jack is a human‚ he walks on two feet‚ not four legs. This gives the reader the sense that Jack is an animal and is crawling
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feverish eyes”. Using the rhetorical device of anaphora‚ the narrators describes his brother’s appearance with using the words the and like. As the narrator examines his brother yet again‚ he points out seeing “his skeleton like fingers”. By using a simile in line 5 the narrator compares his brothers fingers to resemble that of a skeleton with using the word like. As Robert Neville and his brother and his brother approached
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used a number of techniques to help the responder understand these themes. The main themes in the poems are journey‚ sadness‚ and transitions. Techniques which the writer has included are oxymoron‚ personification‚ a mixture of 1st and 3rd person‚ simile‚ alliteration‚ hyperbole‚ onomatopoeia‚ surrealistic imagery and juxtaposition. These techniques help us to understand the key themes in the text and follow Skrzynecki on a journey through his life experiences. A New England Morning is a poem about
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for freedom to achieve a better life. Frederick Douglass portrayed an ambivalent tone as he didn’t have the power to speak what he felt. He expresses his states of mind such as excitement‚ loneliness and insecurity through syntax and similes. Through the use of simile we get a better understanding of what Douglass felt in New York. After escaping slavery and arriving in a free nation he felt a relief. Douglass “felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions” (2). The “den of hungry lions” represents
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success in articulating his points by employing various rhetorical strategies: similes‚ cause and effect‚ and comparison. The speech is punctuated with similes. He uses them to relate Bigger and society to other parts of life. "The complex forces of society have isolated here for us a symbol‚ a test symbol. The prejudices of men have stained this symbol‚ like a germ stained for examination under the microscope." This simile shows how the white public looks down upon the African American population
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formed our world today along with the people in it‚ he began his works long before all of us were made. While reading “From Preface to God’s Determination‚” Edward Taylor captures many elements throughout the poem that represents a theme‚ imagery‚ and similes. The theme is the central idea in a piece of writing. In “From Preface to God’s Determination‚” the message of the poem is God’s handiwork on everyday life. Reading the poem‚ he interpreted God’s handiwork by
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The “Veldt” written By Ray Bradbury has many craft moves. The craft moves that are most commonly used in the story and the ones that draw the reader in are dialogue‚ similes‚ and personification. These are all shown when the house that has a nursery in it makes the kids hopeless. The house does everything for the kids and they aren’t able to do any real world stuff after they got the house. Ray Bradbury uses dialogue to draw out a conversation between the characters in the story. For example “George
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