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    Songs Figurative Language

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    more people start learning about some arts‚ one of the famous art activity is to sing a song. For me‚ it’s not like a hobby‚ it’s more like a part of my life. So I choose one of my favorite song to express myself.in the song‚ there are many figurative languages‚ for example‚ there have repetition‚ simile and rhyme. first of all‚ there are many repetitions in this song‚ repetition means the act of repeating‚ or doing‚ saying‚ or writing something again; repeated action‚ performance‚ production

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    written in the form of a sonnet. This specific sonnet starts out with a couplet‚ where as most sonnets don’t unless the rest of the poem is in couplets. The rhyme scheme (AABCBDCBEEFGFG) is also a little wacky since Frost starts out with a couplet and sticks another one in the middle of the poem. Another unusual thing is that the first line says that “There is a singer everyone has heard…” That’s a weird thing to put in there because that specific bird is only

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    During poetry cafe‚ our group sang a song called “Life is Worth Living”‚ it’s originally song by Justin Bieber. This song can inspire me‚ because I can sing the song to let others remember me and have a good impression. I will discuss three figurative languages in this essay‚ which is Smile‚ Hyperbole and Rhyme‚ and they all can show the essence of this song. When the song sings that "It’s like you’re stuck on a treadmill.”‚ the author uses a simile. Simile means to compare two things with using

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    hair-raising‚ scary story “ The Hound” has the reader on their toes wondering what might happen next. The author exemplifies how two men go into a life of grave robbing‚ which turns out to be the worst mistake of their lives. Lovecraft uses imageryfigurative language and setting to make the story more supernatural. When Lovecraft says “I alone know why‚ and such is my knowledge that I am about to blow out my brains for fear I shall be mangled in the say way.” He is able to give us an image in our

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    one would think. Taking a closer look one can see that both deal with the theme of change and acceptance‚ with The Seven Ages of Man’s author‚ William Shakespeare‚ representing this using figurative language specifically on one person. In the myth of Demeter the author‚ Edith Hamilton‚ uses figurative language as well for one to fully understand the world and how it changed in the story. While both are different in content the message these two pieces of text offer are the same. Both works are explaining

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    Sounds and Imagery of Human Emotion In Marge Piercy’s “The Secretary Chant”‚ the author uses images and sound to both dehumanize and mechanize the female speaker‚ while John Updike uses imagery and sounds to make the “Player Piano” come to life. Piercy uses images of the speaker‚ connected with various office equipment to give a vision to the reader of a woman living her life through the office equipment that is part of her very being. Piercy uses personification in reverse and other metaphors

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    In “The Rider‚” author Naomi Shihab Nye uses figurative language to allow readers to easily and concretely envision the both feelings of loneliness and of contentment. In the poem‚ a boy has told the narrator that the reason he roller-skates so fast is because he is trying to escape from his sense of loneliness. This is what the speaker is thinking about as they bicycle down the street‚ and it is also what they are wishing for: A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street

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    Figurative Language in Night The Holocaust made an impact on everybody’s lives but Eli Wiesel has a one of a kind story. In the novel Night written by Eli Wiesel he shares to everybody about the hardships in concentration camps as a young boy. He describes some of the horrible events using figurative language to clearly show his experiences in the Holocaust. Eli uses ‘night’ to convey the horrors he witnessed around him when the prisoners are on the freezing cattle cars and also his first day

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    Figurative language in Shakespeare Ever notice in movies how the villain or villainess always seems to have a black cloud looming over them or lighting striking the ground beside them? The same strange happenings where used in the story Macbeth to reveal character. Shakespeare uses figurative language to tie Macbeth’s bad choices and others around him to nature and to illustrate nature’s efforts to expose Macbeth and bring Scotland back to balance. The figurative language that he uses is to explore

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    In the short story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury‚ the author employs imagery to characterize the t-rex as immense and nauseating to put a fearful sensation in the readers. One instance where Bradbury illustrates imagery about the t-rex is when it is “tower(ing) thirty feet above half of the tree‚ a great evil god”. The use of “tower(ing)‚ “great”‚ and “evil” shed light on the physical makeup of the animal and shows the usual behavior of the creature as well. As his height is proven by how

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