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    1. When I first saw her‚ my soul began to quiver. (I fell in love/in a panic) 2. Mary is as beautiful as a rising sun 3. Those flowers are as delicate as a spider web. 4. The sharp teeth of the cold wind bit through my overcoat 5. My love is like a red‚ red rose.’ Here a person is compared to a flower in a way that suggests they have certain features in common‚ such as beauty‚ fragility‚ and so on. 6. ‘The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.’ Here the image of the moon in a

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    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 words “like” or “as”. He compares himself stuck on the treadmill. It shows that the author doesn’t know where to go and what to do.

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    impact someone’s life. His use of figurative language helps a reader see what it’s like to be overwhelmed with fear and have it take control of you without warning. In the text‚ the narrator states how seeing the wave getting closer and closer to shore caused him to run away and also be terrified at the same time. The narrator was able to save himself‚ as all that adrenaline was coursing through him because of fear‚ although he saved himself he couldn’t save K because he was afraid that the wave would

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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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    Mikhail uses figurative language to create the sarcastic tone. She wrote about war and how cruel and destructive it is by trying to make it sound positive but it’s really negative. “summons rain from the eyes of mothers.” this quote from the poem is figurative language because rain can’t be summoned from mothers eyes. Mikhail also made the poem sound sarcastic by saying thing war could help positively but when you think about it all of the things that she uses to try and make war sound positive

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    One of the first examples of this is in the first chapter of the book‚ when he writes “They went by‚ fallen‚ dragging their packs‚ dragging their lives‚ deserting their homes‚ the years of their childhood‚ cringing like beaten dogs‚” (15). Here‚ the author is comparing the Jews to dogs using a smilie‚ and is referring to when

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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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    Figurative Language Terms

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    Glossary of Figurative Language Terms An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference or representation of or to a well-known person‚ place‚ event‚ literary work‚ or work of art. Example: He made a Herculean effort to move the stalled car to the side of the road but it would not budge. Figurative language is the creative words and phrases a writer uses to help a reader see things in new and unexpected ways. Imagery is a type of figurative language. When a writer uses imagery‚ he/she gives

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    Essay‚ pg 519 The Beauty of Figurative Language Nobody wants to read a boring story. Figurative language is used to make sentences more interesting. William Wordsworth uses figurative language to allow his words to be more imaginative and vivid. William Wordsworth was born on April 7‚ 1770 in the scenic area of Great Brittain. He was a major English Romantic Poet (wikipedia). In the poem "[I wandered lonely as a cloud]" by William Wordsworth‚ he takes readers on a journey

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