context. In the poem ‘son of mine’ has a lot of her personal context‚ when reading this it gives us an allusion to reconciliation and he personal life‚ this is also the case for the poem ‘then and now’. These poem uses the techniques of persona and similes. The subtitle to the poem ‘son of mine’ is “to Denis” this makes it very
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businesses‚ and also there was many fatalities. Jack London uses excellent literary devices when portraying the scene of the earthquake. He makes the reader able to envision the scene and events that were taking place. Hyperbole‚ parallelism‚ and simile are just a few of the literary devices that he uses. One type of literary device he uses is called a hyperbole. The earthquake occurred Wednesday at approximately 5:15 a.m. Many fires broke out in factories and in the working-class ghetto. In the
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a sense of power‚ which reflects the action of the power struggle between Jack and Ralph. Golding clearly uses symbolism effectively to establish his ideas‚ while often using similes to depict a deeper meaning with the symbols. William Golding is also able to convey his ideas using sentence structure‚ as well as similes. He chooses strong words‚ such as “exploded” and “cascaded” when describing the landscape and conflicts. Golding presents the weather as something ferocious and strong‚ which
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A Contemplation Upon Flowers: In the poem A Contemplation Upon Flowers by Henry King the comparison of the life of a simple flower is made to the life of a human‚ in the sense that we both are born‚ we both live‚ and we both must die. Majority of people fear death‚ but the flowers accept death with open arms and a smile. This poem by Henry King praises flowers for not only their humble lifestyles but also for their acceptance of death. Henry King uses the literary device of personification
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Comment on Milton’s grand style. John Milton was highly ambitious to be the rival poet of all the classical masters namely – Homer‚ Virgil‚ Tasso‚ Boccaccio‚ and Dante. With this end in view‚ he mastered all poetic arts to write his long desired epic poems‚ Paradise Lost‚ and Paradise Regain. Though he was completely blind at the time of writing these epic poems‚ his poetic faculty was quite aright. During his prose period‚ he already achieved necessary learning of poetic style for which
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sexiness upset or offends them. Angelou is speaking to her audience of oppressors about how she had overcome racism‚ criticism‚ sexism‚ and personal obstacles in her life with pride and grace. Angelou uses literary elements such as personification‚ simile‚ and imagery to covey the theme. Angelou uses the literary element personification to help the reader realize how you can rise above all negative words people can say to you. In the sixth stanza in Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” she says “You
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Great Greek Minds Quiz on Homer’s Odyssey and Greece (45 pts) 1. (10 pts) What would our lives be like if no one had the ability to read or write? Without the ability to read and write‚ our lives would be very boring. By having a written language‚ we are able to understand things better and communicate more effectively. We wouldn’t be able to send letters or write books. We would use mostly oral tradition for our history and entertainment. Oral tradition is important but it is only
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In this essay I am going to be analysing how Wilfred Owen uses language to convey the horror and pity of war in‚ “Dulce Et Decorum Est”. Owen wrote‚ “Dulce Et Decorum Est” in October 1917. The poem describes the soldiers returning from the front for a period of rest. They are all exhausted and look ragged. They hear the gas shells trying to find their range but are too lethargic to worry about them. Then suddenly the enemy find their range and the shells hit them. One man fails to fit his gas mask
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nature through imagery‚ personification and allusion. This poem explores the lack of appreciation humanity has for the natural world‚ It uses simile to create vivid imagery. An example of a quote would be ”And are gathered up like now sleeping flowers” is a simile which creates visual imagery by visualising people as sleeping flowers. Wordsworth uses this simile to show that humans do not appreciate nature as much as they used to‚ and that humans are blinded by their man-made world. However‚ the poet
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graduating from naiveté and moving onto maturity. With an expressive voice‚ Angelou includes imagery‚ through the use of similes and colors‚ as well as juxtaposition in her narrative essay to illustrate the racial inequality between the Negroes and the whites. Throughout her narrative‚ Angelou demonstrates her emotional transition between hopefulness and disappointment through the use of similes. To this end‚ she thinks of the graduation class “like travelers with exotic destinations‚”
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