paint a picture in the Lord of the Flies using foreshadowing‚ mood‚ tone‚ and many types of figurative language. Golding uses many examples of figurative language such as similes‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ and hyperboles. A simile and metaphor compares two unlike objects. To differentiate the two‚ similes uses like or as and metaphors directly compares the two objects. An example of simile that Golding used is‚ “ Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane
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have a perfect body‚ perfect hair‚ perfect face‚ and so on. Most of the times girls based their life on achieving a perfect look‚ they spend a great amount of money on plastic surgeries‚ and trying to change themselves. Through the use of figurative language Piercy is able
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Steinbeck’s passage on page 1 of The Pearl expresses a relaxed mood of tranquility‚ completeness and satisfaction through the spirit of family. This 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
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loving and caring‚ and is giving her son a life lesson he will never forget. My Paraphrase of the poem is: The mother starts a conversation with her son‚ and tells him life hasn’t been an easy “climb of stairs.” The mother’s life has had bumps in the road‚ and things don’t always sail smoothly. She is telling her son that things aren’t always complete‚and that there are times when she didn’t feel comfortable or protected. No matter what‚ the mother refuses to relent and
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In Kate Chopin’s 1894 work‚ “The Story of an Hour”‚ symbolism and figurative language are utilized to express the central theme of freedom. Mrs. Mallard believes the she has been granted freedom in the form of the death of Brently Mallard‚ and‚ ultimately‚ finds freedom from her unhappy marriage in death. The author immediately starts off by mentioning Mrs. Mallard’s heart trouble‚ which could symbolize her unhappy marriage. Chopin also tells of how Mrs. Mallard doesn’t take the bad news of her
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In The Odyssey‚ Homer uses figurative language the best to build characterization while using epic similes and metaphors to go into more detail about traits and evets. One of the main uses of figurative language homer uses to build characteristics is an epic smile This is proven when homer writes "The attackers struck like eagles…swooping down from a mountain ridge to harry smaller birds that skim across the flatland cringing under the clouds but the eagles plunge in fury‚ rip their lives out…never
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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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We cry "scapegoat" to stigmatize all the phenomena of discrimination – political‚ ethnic‚ religious‚ social‚ racial‚ etc. – that we observe about us. We are right. We easily see now that scapegoats multiply wherever human groups seek to lock themselves into a given identity – communal‚ local‚ national‚ ideological‚ racial‚ religious‚ and so on’ (160). Fear and frustrations As seen with Fisher’s notion that there is a lack of central exchange‚ Girard notes that: ‘the real source of victim
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Figurative Language in Shakespeare’s Macbeth Macbeth‚ the play of a greedy man who achieves his goals through treachery and murder‚ is filled with figurative language. Its author William Shakespeare‚ used imagery such as light and clothing to interpret the characters or themes. He also repeated several words as motifs throughout the play. A motif is a recurring theme in a story. One of the main motifs that Shakespeare uses is the word: blood. Blood is used forty-five times in Macbeth. It is used
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In the soliloquy from Shakespeare’s play‚ Henry VIII‚ Shakespeare’s use of elements represents complex Wolsey’s reaction from dismissal of the court that grows from a conceited tone that developes into one of self pity. Every piece of writing contains the author’s tone‚ this tone could be approving‚ formal‚ solemn or playful. It conveys what the author wants the characters to portray in a piece of dialogue such as Wolsey’s soliloquy. In the beginning of the soliloquy Wolsey portrayed conceded
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