Personification and Diction in “Colors of the Wind” Forests are known as the planet’s most diverse ecosystems as well as the home to over 30 million species of plants and animals. Caused by land clearing for infrastructure building and timber logging‚ deforestation is extremely present but often overlooked. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz’s song “Colors of the Wind” challenges the listener to question whether as occupants of the earth‚ we look beyond our planet’s physical value. Featured in Disney’s
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Death” by Emily Dickinson‚ most people would assume that the poem would take on a gloomy mood because of the word death‚ but in this case the poem has a gentle and peaceful mood to it. Dickinson uses the personification of death to cast the peaceful and gentle mood for the poem. Personification and mood both play big parts in revealing the theme that death does not wait for anyone‚ and often comes unexpectedly. In the poem‚ Dickinson personifies death‚ and makes death a character in the poem. The
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The entirety of the story revolves around the traits of the main characters and their relationships with not only themselves but with nature as well. The author’s use of personification actively contributes to the theme through the traits of nature and being able to further explain the attributes of it. Personification allows the reader to compare nature’s destructiveness to the destructive nature of hate within the main characters‚ Ulrich and Georg. Somewhere this was used was when lightning
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Personification Paper Hero English 3 10-6-13 Many suns and moons have passed over my head. It gets cold here‚ but the people warm my life with their laughter and merriment that I bring to them. I truly enjoy making people happy‚ in fact‚ it is my job. I was created to please others and every chance I get to do that‚ I try. I bring shelter to warriors‚ noblemen‚ the king‚ the queen‚ and other folk of the town. I am a celebration centerpiece to reward the people for their efforts in making our
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The Personification of Family “I have found the paradox‚ that if you love until it hurts‚ there can be no more hurt‚ only more love”. As humans we learn to accept those we love despite their strengths and weaknesses. We create bonds that go beyond logic and reasoning. Bonds that overpower the mind and with the proper time allow us to omit our pain. Love stands superior to all faults in a relationship. Such is the imperfection of love that without experiencing pain‚ love is never really understood
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In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‚" Jonothan Edwards makes use of similes‚ hyperboles‚ and repetition to strike fear into his audience in order to persuade them. By utilizing the sense of fear along with the rhetorical devices he manages to prove his point. By utilizing similes‚ Edwards makes a comparison to illustrate his point. An example would be when he states‚ "his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else..." In the quote the comparison being
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slaughter. This simile has a very deep and emotional meaning to several people because the Jews did not have an easy life during this period of time. They were forced onto trains‚ not knowing where they are going‚ or where they are at. Sometimes they would even be told that they’re going to a certain place‚ but will end up arriving to a death camp. Comparing Jews to sheep has a great deal of relevance because they were both beat‚ killed‚ and tortured. The slaughter in that rooted simile was referring
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Similes are sometimes made without using the words "like" or "as." This often occurs when making comparisons of differing values. "Norman was more anxious to leave the area than Herman Milquetoast after seeing ten abominable snowmen charging his way with hunger in their eyes." "But this truth is more obvious than the sun--here it is; look at it; its brightness blinds you." "Shall I compare thee to a summer ’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" - William Shakespeare‚ Sonnet 18
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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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the poet can smell violence in the air “like the lash of coming rain; and this feeling seems to the poet to be “poised like a cobra”. These are original similes; and these are followed by a series of metaphors based on serpent-behaviour. These are only a few of the examples. Actually Daruwalla’s poetry contains an abundance of similes and metaphors. Daruwalla finds that there is violence in the very air‚ and that this violence is an indication of the mass hatreds drifting across the moon and hovering
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