methods of figurative language. “Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs‚ Broken apart like a woman’s heart‚ abused in a marriage‚ the brink of holy war‚ bottled up‚ like a miscarriage” This line is layered with symbolism and similes. He cleverly uses biblical stories with emotional tragedy to describe the splitting of a nation with foreshadows of war. As a listener it’s hard not to feel emotion with this imagery. Throughout most of the song you hear eccentric figurative language
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In Chapter 25 of the novel‚ The Grapes of Wrath‚ John Steinbeck introduces the state of California during its spring season. A great deal of sensory details‚ along with figurative language are provided in this passage. Steinbeck introduces the valleys of California with “fruit blossoms that are fragrant pink and white waters in a shallow sea”(346). These visual images allows the readers to imagine with greater detail and color. The reader’s ability to imagine the scene Steinbeck describes is once
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet provides a lengthy plot which contains many powerful soliloquies and weighty lines that hold significant meaning. As Hamlet himself grows obsessed with avenging his father’s death and murdering Claudius‚ he consequently questions himself due to his uncle’s cunning nature and smooth transition into kingship. Claudius’ ultimate betrayal of Hamlet’s family sets the action of the play into motion and focuses on the thematic importance of how one man can cheat his way to the
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petals falling‚ meaning that the trees are getting their leaves again. 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
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In both “Lights Out” by Edward Thomas and “To Sleep” by John Keats‚ techniques such as selection of detail‚ diction‚ and figurative language are utilized to convey each speaker’s state of mind. The poems have similar ideas‚ but the techniques they use show the many differences in the speakers. Both poems use sleep as a metaphor for death. Thomas describes sleep as an “unfathomable deep” where all “lose their way.” Keats describes it as an “embalmer of the still midnight.” Despite their similar themes
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In the short “ Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.‚ his choice of figurative language and negative themes left the reader frighten for the future. Vonnegut also uses alliteration to describe Harrison’s handicaps in great detail. On page 24 Vonnegut writes‚ “The rest of Harrison’s appearance was Halloween and hardware.Nobody had ever born heavier handicaps.” This part of the story creates a scary and intimidating image along with a scary and intimidating mood. The mood is scary because Harrison
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1. The first example is on line 17. It reads: “Reason burns a brighter fire‚ which the bones”. The next example is on line 21. It reads: “It is the light at the center of every cell.” The last example is on line 22. It reads: “It is what sent the snake coiling and flowing forward” 2. A) The first example is on line 20. It reads: “But this morning the shoe-box house on the back porch is empty.”
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appealing to the fears ‚ pity and vanity.Edward had a Tremendous impact on his puritan audience because of his angry tone‚ vivid imagery and use of expressive figurative language. In" Sinners in the hands of an an angry God" Edward (the author) uses a large sum of figurative language. Metaphor is one type of figurative language he uses to compare too or more things. In paragraph 1 line 1-3 he uses extended metaphor to compare the ease of God’s
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5.6 Using figurative language Figurative language is word or phrase that is being used to describe something by comparing to something else. Using figurative language makes the writing more interesting or more dramatic than using everyday or common language uses. It also creates powerful feelings since the readers can figure out images or pictures that have more meaning than simple words. In narrative writing‚ a few different figurative languages are used in narrative writing
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"Shiloh" Symbol and figurative language There are many examples of symbolism and figurative language in Bobbie Ann Mason ’s short story "Shiloh." The importance of names: the main character is Leroy Moffitt‚ his wife is Norma Jean‚ her mother is Mabel‚ and their deceased son‚ who died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of 4 months‚ is Randy. In the story‚ Norma Jean says to Leroy‚ while doing her studies for school‚ "Your name means the king." Leroy questions his place in their relationship
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