.....................................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION Sarcasm‚ verbal irony‚ paradox‚ and pun are devices sometimes used to show humor. Heck‚ a simile or metaphor can also establish humor. One of my favorite funny lines from a book is a simile. Somewhere in the "Hitchhiker’s Guide" series‚ Douglas Adams described a woman failing to fly by saying "She
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Belonging The desire to belong is universal. Acceptance‚ understanding‚ establishing identity‚ relationships‚ choice‚ circumstance‚ culture context‚ nationalism‚ psychology motivations‚ jealousy‚ greed‚ racism‚ xenophobia (irrational fear of what is perceived to be foreign or strange)‚ desire‚ family group. Belonging: Identification‚ expectation‚ conformity‚ unity‚ familiarity‚ socialisation‚ connection‚ assimilation‚ inclusion‚ duty‚ religion‚ intrinsicality (genuineness)‚ relations‚ agreement‚
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Matches” “Those Winter Sundays” and “Paper Matches” are poems that came together to form the same qualities. However the two individual poems expresses it‚ in its own contrasting ways. Both “Those Winter Sundays” and “Paper Matches” intertwine metaphors into its work and the aspect of the under-appreciation of one party toward another. The poem “Those Winter Sundays” is of a grown adult looking back into his childhood. He remembers an event that led him to realize that he had not treated his
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type of figurative language is 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
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……has gone through her heartbreak/virginity/sexual assault... Throughout the poem Voznesenski tells us that there will be many more events during our lifetime. He uses language and figurative devices to evoke imagery‚ such as personification and metaphors. The poet carefully chose adjectives and nouns to give the poem many different meanings. In the first line of the first stanza he uses the noun ‘girl’‚ instead of ‘woman’‚ that could indicate that she is young and maybe has not had many ‘grown up
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making 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
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written by Steven Herrick successfully conveys the significant ideas about human nature within his verse novel. Herricks is able to show this by exploring three key themes Grief‚ Relationships and Coming of age throughout his novel by using symbolism‚ metaphors and similes. Herrick looks at grief as a key element highlighting how humans face it in their everyday lives by using two main protagonist Harry and his father. "Nothing that lives‚ nothing that shines."by using repetition Herrick emphasises that
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derived from the poem is rather dark‚ empty and mysterious. The theme of this poem is that nature provides experiences that can beautify or discriminate the life of humans. Dickenson uses many literary devices that enhance the reader such as: Rhythm‚ Metaphors‚ Personification‚ Metonymy‚ and Rhyme which are used to emphasize nature’s beauty. The rhythm in this poem creates shifts which attract the reader’s attention to what’s happening. There is a rhythmic pattern in stanzas one and two: 7‚6‚8‚6. This
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bewilder . “ This passage is written by Professor Lancelot Hogben(located on pg. ___ ‚ the second example) This is shown as a prime example of bad writing habits which are identified in George Orwell’s essay. This passage shows examples of dead metaphors‚ the problems with putting implicit words that confuse the reader‚ and the sheer unwillingness to look up proper meanings of certain words such as egregious. As you can see our presentation is about the essay “Politics and the English Language”
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choices and consequences‚ and standing up for what one believes is right. The way the author uses the point of view of the young adolescent sales clerk to describe the characters and setting in the story is simply genius. The author’s use of similes‚ metaphors‚ and imagery describes the setting and characters in a way that reflects the narrator’s stage in life. In doing this‚ the story flows perfectly with the three themes presented above. In the story‚ the author describes the scene from the point of
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