hell’s wide gaping mouth open"(21-22).This quote explains that everyone is going to hell where there are flames and hell is ready for them to go into it. Personification compares human qualities to objects. Another rhetoric device he used is a simile. A simile paints a picture which makes Edward’s writing more intense. Edwards warns his audience that something horrendous would happen to them :" The wrath of God is like the great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more‚
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sang in the song. The song “Firework” by Katy Perry is a suitable example of this. Katy Perry compares the audience to a firework and a plastic bag using a simile and metaphor to symbolize the tension between being afraid to show the world who they really are‚ and revealing themselves for the world to see the their true colors. Perry uses a simile to juxtapose the audience to a plastic bag while transmitting the idea of wanting to dispose of the past‚ and start fresh. “Do you ever feel like a plastic
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reader and make them want to continue reading the book. Tobias Wolff‚ the author of Old School‚ easily manages to do that in his story that is centered around an unnamed boy who is struggling to discover true self. Wolff uses Metaphors‚ Imagery and similes to completely engage readers in this captivating and awe-inspiring novel. Metaphors: I will explain how Tobias Wolff uses Metaphors throughout Old School. I will analyze why and when Tobias Wolff uses Metaphors throughout the book Old School. During
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Metaphors‚ similes‚ and repetition are really important in this poem. From describing Bess and to comparing Tim (another boy falling for Bess) to a dog. If you don’t exactly remember what a poetic device is‚ it are devices that can be used to create rhythm‚ including
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Emily Dickenson’s poem “I heard a fly buzz- when I died- “is a great example of don’t judge a book by its cover. In “I heard a fly buzz-as I died”‚ Emily Dickinson uses symbols‚ imagery‚ similes and themes to show what it can be like when someone is dying. When you first read the title u probably think that the poem will be about the fly and her dying but as a matter of fact the poem’s title is an oxymoron. The oxymoronic “I heard a fly buzz when I died” is in the sense a death poem about life.
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Many devices are used in this poem to show the raw harsh night of November. The first line is a simile ‘tinkles like ice’ the word ‘ice’ represents the harshness and how painful ice is. When we look at the form of the poem‚ we can see how the poet uses enjambment to continue in what’s being said. The line ‘tries the door‚ and sidles past’ gives of a feeling of terror as the poet has personified it and gives of an impression that a human is trying to enter the house. On the second stanza the
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children to a field where only the fittest survive. Owen use techniques to generate a graphical journey in our minds to draws us into his poem physically. He uses simile to describe the youth ‘like old beggars under sacks’‚ ‘coughing like hags’ as they are ‘cursed through sludge’. Owen conveys his concern of pity about the youth through simile as these ‘old beggars’ are the young generations of Australia that had been sent to war. He then metaphorically describes them as ‘drunk with fatigue’‚ ‘men marched
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English 1 1 April 2012 Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” Langston Hughes was born February 1st‚ 1902 in Joplin‚ Missouri. Lynching was a growing problem where he lived growing up. His parents divorced when he was young and racism made Hughes’s father leave the country for Mexico while his mom traveled from city to city looking for work as a journalist and stenographer. Langston Hughes went to high school in Cleveland‚ Ohio where he started writing poetry‚ short stories‚ and plays
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fact that the two men have different views on what the land is. Seattle defines the land as his past‚present and furture‚but to Pirece it is mearly just land to use for the present. He construct his letter by using ethical appeals in the form of similes and rhetorical questions. Seattle begins his letter to President Pierce by asking a series of rhetorical questions emphasizing the point that if no one own the “Sky or the freshness of the air and sparkle of the water" how could anyone buy them
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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 D) simile 4. "Smash"‚ when the cup fell off the table. What type of figurative language
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