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    the character’s judgement. The character‚ Lysander‚ discusses metaphorical intentions in his dialogue on intimacy. In order to do this‚ Shakespeare wields a figurative aim by implicating personification‚ symbolism‚ and other literary compounds that portray a clear image to indicate that love is short lived and finite. Shakespeare‚ with figurative usage such as similes‚ and vivid imagery‚ suggests the theme that love is not everlasting. He demonstrates this by saying “Making it momentany as a sound‚”

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    In addition‚ Chinua Achebe employs symbolism and figurative language to convey the theme that one faces near insurmountable odds when attempting to overcome one’s own destiny. Okonkwo‚ besides meeting Miller’s definition of a tragic hero‚ to such a degree connects with his tragic flaws. This is clearly evident when Achebe states “You drove him to kill himself‚ and now he will be buried like a dog.” (Achebe 208) Achebe’s comparison of Okonkwo‚ one of the most respected members of the tribe‚ to an

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    the speaker conveys throughout the poem‚ the mindset about desire is clearly contained by the use of repetition‚ metaphors‚ and shifts. The poetic devices allow the speaker’s experience with desire to be expressed as a powerful force. In the first four lines‚ the speaker opens up by blaming desire for the outcome of his life. The speaker holds an accusatory tone through a series of metaphors‚ which channel his anger with desire itself. Using figurative language‚ the speaker describes this need as

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    Though no one was a native to the down the teacher was suddenly different because of what side of the state she was raised in Pg. 21 Figurative Language: Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. The author is describing the small town of Maycomb (in Scout’s perspective) as a tired old town‚ which justifies that back in the previous years the town had more life/excitement

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    though Desdemona has been nothing but faithful Othello still believes she has cheated and must pay the price with her life. In these lines he compares Desdemona to many different things such as a light‚ a rose‚ and a statue through the use of figurative language. At first Othello is comparing her to a statue referring to her skin as “monumental alabaster” however‚ he keeps reflecting on the fact that her skin is so white. He says “whiter skin” which literally means white skin. I am not sure that Othello

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    In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding utilizes figurative language to compare the depiction the Jack’s jungle to that of Simon’s jungle to represent different approaches of humans to the natural world. Jack’s jungle is depicted as dry and rough‚ where there is only undergrowth and a cracked twig‚ which displays how dehydrated and lifeless the bushes and soil seem to him. The sharpened stick in his hand demonstrates his focus on violence‚ and the animal desire to kill. He even acts much like the

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    Like many of her poems‚ "The Last Night that She Lived" contains poet Emily Dickinson’s exploration of dying and human emotion. Rather than romanticizing death‚ however‚ Dickinson utilizes death as a simple process in human life. She achieves this by creating a tone progression in the speaker‚ beginning with excited hope in disappointed realization‚ through the use of exchange active and passive figurative language and structure patterns. Dickinson basically marks the shift of the speaker’s

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    | Symbolism | Imagery | Figurative Language | Theme | Tone | Significant Passages (Pgs. 20‚ 25‚ 62‚ 63‚ 64‚ 67‚ 75) | “Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay‚ whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe. Those beautiful vessels‚ robed in purest white‚ so delightful to the eye of freemen‚ were to me so many shrouded ghosts…” (Douglass 63).“I at first rejected the idea‚ that the simple carrying of a root in my pocket would have any such

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    ucture/flow/style -figurative language use -how Fitzgerald constructed each novel similarly/differently -theme/setting differences -motifs being similar - HEADINGS FOR EACH OF THESE TOPICS -thesis statement (RQ comparing and contrasting the two different novels )after the background info. Then these topics Background Information on the Author Fitzgerald can usually be associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the 1930s. He proved to be very “versatile”

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    ANTHEM ESSAY In many real and fictionalized totalitarian societies‚ children live apart from their families. In Ayn Rand’s novella‚ ‘Anthem’‚ dictatorial leaders enforce this living arrangement in order to control all the people‚ since they are born. Ayn Rand conceived this novel when she was a teenager living in the Soviet-Russia. At the time‚ the Soviet-Russia was‚ as the Anthem society‚ an equal collectivism society‚ in which the leaders and governments have the upmost control‚ and people are

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