feelings‚ that you may hurt her and give Maya Angelou dirty looks‚ yet she will be the bigger person. Maya Angelou uses figurative language to hook her readers with the points she tries to express. Maya Angelou grew up in the 1930’s‚living in a country plagued with bigotry‚ particularly towards women and people of color. Thesis: In “Still I Rise”‚ Maya Angelou uses strong figurative language such as personification‚ metaphors‚ and similes to convey her ideas. BP1: In “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou’s
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Night Portfolio By: Scott Kahler Mrs.Grandel 2nd Hour November 19‚ 2010 Figurative Language 1. Simile- “Physically he was as awkward as a clown. (pg.1).” Moshe was compared as a clown because he was a funny guy. 2. Metaphor- “Thousand gates and one gates leading in to the orchard of mystical truth.” This is a metaphor because each
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Anne Poindexter 11/18/12 English IV Mr. Tiller Analysis of Sonnet 81 William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 81 was meant to serve as an epitaph to immortalize its subject‚ a beloved youth. One of the themes of this sonnet is immortality through writing. Shakespeare claims that‚ “When all the breathers of this world are dead/ You shall live--such virtue hath my pen.” Shakespeare never mentions the name of his immortal subject‚ so in reality‚ no one remembers him. Although Shakespeare claims that
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restored and sorrows end." But as soon as I think of you‚ my dear friend‚ all those wounds are healed‚ and my sorrows come to an end. Why is he saying it? Sonnet 30 is at the center of a sequence of sonnets dealing with the narrator’s growing attachment to the fair lord and the narrator’s paralyzing inability to function without him. The sonnet begins with the image of the poet drifting off into the "remembrance of things past" - painful memories‚ we soon learn‚ that the poet has already lamented
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Sonnet 130: Imperfectly Perfect The secular world is increasingly fixated on the concept of beauty and the pursuit of perfection‚ however this preoccupation is not unique to the 20th century. While traditional love poems in the 18th century generally focused on glorifying a woman’s beauty‚ Sonnet 130 written by William Shakespeare goes against the conventional culture of love poems and instead describes the realistic nature of his object of affection. In Sonnet 130‚ the idea of love and is intensely
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witty” (Keshmiri 78). It begs to question how he managed to organize words that would instigate such distinct feelings in the reader. Despite his novels being in prose‚ they share many qualities with poetry that utilizes precise word choice‚ figurative language‚ and phonetics to enhance the reading‚ and thus his mere prose leaves an impact on the audience that is similar to poetry and at times invokes the surreal and therefore mirrors the complexity of the human mind. His use of this “lyricism pointedly
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Sonnet 18 Tracy Brito 4/1/2014 A sonnet is a fourteen line poem‚ formed by a single complete thought‚ sentiment‚ or an idea that originated in Europe. The sonnet consists of rhymes that are arranged according to a certain definite scheme‚ which is in a strict or Italian form‚ divided into a major group of eight lines‚ which is called the octave. The octave is followed by a minor group of six lines which is called the sestet. In common English form it is in three quatrains followed
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tone throughout the entire sonnet. The author uses imagery to help the reader picture a good image of what is going on in the poem at a particular time‚ or to describe past or future events. I will also discuss the choice of words the author chose (diction) and how a lot of words and phrases have a double meaning. This particular sonnet does not have a form of alliteration‚ therefore I cannot discuss it (oh darn!). This essay will include all the structures of the sonnet "When my love swears that
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Although sonnets were originally meant to glorify women‚ William Shakespeare satirizes the tradition of comparing one’s beloved to all things beautiful under the sun‚ and to things divine and immortal as well. The Shakespearean sonnet‚ according to Paul Fussel‚ “consists of three quatrains and a couplet” (Fussell‚ p. 123).1 Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is a clear parody of the conventional love sonnet. In fact‚ it is often said that the praise of his mistress is so negative that the reader is left with
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Romantic Sonnet The Romantic sonnet holds in its topics the ideals of the time period‚ concentrating on emotion‚ nature‚ and the expression of "nothing." The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and‚ while using emotion and nature‚ the poets and their works shed light on people’s universal natures. In Charlotte Smith’s "Sonnet XII - Written on the Sea Shore‚" the speaker of the poem embodies two important aspects of Romantic work in relating his or her personal feelings
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