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    He uses alliteration with the words petal‚ past‚ and pear and uses personification so that readers know what the bird is “feeling” and “saying.” All of these examples of figurative language set the mood for the poem: a happy‚ serene tone that relaxes the reader. I think that the theme or message is that every bird has a song. By that‚ I mean that everyone has a voice. Repeatedly in “The Oven Bird” Frost talks from the bird’s point of view‚ signifying that even a tiny bird has a say. For example

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    texts portray and explore the main themes through different structures and language features. Othello by William Shakespeare‚ written in the 17th century when the main focus of plays were their rich language. Peet uses colloquial language which grabs the modern day readers attention and sets it apart from Othello "It sucks man". The narrative of Othello

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    is conveyed though the wording in the descriptions‚ the setting‚ and also the use of figurative language. The tone is calm and relaxed‚ and Steinbeck’s narration and description conveys a tranquil atmosphere. The song is ‘clear and soft’ and he hears a ‘the little splash’ of the ‘morning waves’‚ illustrations providing imagery which conjures ideas of quietness and the relaxed atmosphere that comes with the song that is being sung. Kino is experiencing a stress free‚ simple morning‚ which conjures

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    Eliot’s Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single character‚ a timid‚ middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself. The epigraph‚ a dramatic speech taken from Dante’s "Inferno‚" provides a key to Prufrock’s nature. Like Dante’s character Prufrock is in "hell‚" in this case a hell of his own feelings. He is both the "you and I" of line one‚ pacing the city’s grimy streets on his lonely

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    past ideas and concepts. T.S Eliot is considered as one of the twentieth century’s major poets; his poem ‘the love song of j. Alfred Prufrock’ has gone down as one of the major works of the Modernist movement. ‘Prufrock’ is a dramatic monologue that follows a man striving for meaning in a suddenly industrial modern road‚ typical themes of modernism. The isolation and displacement Prufrock exemplifies throughout the poem reflects author Eliot’s own struggles in the new modern society. Eliot through

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    similar topics and use similar themes.These poems use figurative and literal language‚ talk about hope and how it gets us by‚ and talk about the songs that birds sing. Both are beautiful works and the similarities and differences are very complementary to each other. Both poems talk about birds‚ however one uses figurative language and the other uses literal language. “Hope” is The Thing With Feathers uses a lot of complex‚ figurative language. For example‚ the stanza‚ “Hope” is the thing with

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    Technique‚ an activist and rapper. In his song “The 4th Branch “he states the media has corporate ties‚ which sets a fixed agenda and manipulated perspective. This is done with the use of a soft-melodic tune‚ bringing emotion upon his aggressive tone and message. With his emotional sound‚ Immortal Technique adds symbols‚ similes‚ and metaphors to create a connection with the listener. In the song you will hear unorthodox and sensitive methods of figurative language. “Flow like the blood of Abraham through

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    Tiffany Li Ms. Hall ENG 4U1 December 13th‚ 2010 A Life Without Love‚ is No Life at All As the flawed in protagonists of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and T.S Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚ both Hamlet and Prufrock live in a times of disharmony. Feelings of passion are controlled by realistic tendencies and neither allows sensitivity to rule their order. This underlying journey or quest for female contact causes both characters to live meaningless lives eventually leading to harsh

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    “Imagery intensifies the impact of the poet’s words as he shows us with his words rather than just telling us what he feels. Song lyrics are full of imagery.” (Eliot‚ 2015) You have heard of the term “figurative language?” this would also be an example of imagery. Metaphor is when you describe something with a figure of speech. An example of this would be saying “he is on his high horse.” People use this metaphor when someone thinks their better than others. This said person is not on a horse; the

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    much like a scorpion‚ the drug lord and king of the Opium empire. The story follows Matt as he grows up on the Alacrán estate and learns the repercussions of being a clone. Throughout The House of the Scorpion‚ Nancy Farmer uses symbolism and figurative language to reveal different aspects

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