“The Metaphor” Questions 1. The metaphors Charlotte makes for her mother and Miss Hancock are very accurate. Charlotte compares her mother to a “white picket fence” with “thorny bushes and barbed wire” on the other side (72). Charlotte’s mother is a very beautiful person on the outside. She has great hair and a great figure‚ but deep down she is not that good of a person. She is a very emotionless and stern woman. In the last few paragraphs of the novel she tells Charlotte that Miss Hancock’s
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demonstrate a strong and vivid feeling of the air in Darwin; it’s steamy with sweet but also sour smell. The tropical weather of Darwin is created by the use of adjectives. Metaphors and similes are also used to show Paul’s vision of Darwin. “To walk the streets at night was to walk among rows of lined‚ illuminated screens.” The metaphor conveys a vivid image of the wet streets in Darwin after rain. Similes like “As if the leaves were a kind of plastic” and “Like some lush‚ green five o’clock shadow” give
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Metaphors are another literary term used in the poem “Schizophrenia”. Stevens used metaphors in “Schizophrenia”‚ by comparing the house in the story to a mind that is completely destroyed by the mental illness. Towards the end of the poem the poet showed how the house had fallen apart and was completely abandoned. The poet used the quote‚ “Seeing cracking paint‚ broken windows‚ /the front door banging in the wind‚ /the roof tiles flying off‚ one by one‚ /the neighbors said it was a madhouse. / It
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Real World Fears Typically‚ fictional monsters that are known worldwide are scary because of the metaphors and allegories used behind them. How can a fictional monster be used as an allegory or metaphor? Simple‚ a person’s basic fears are derived from a fictional character from a horror film. For example‚ Leather face‚ from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film‚ is a character that wears a mask of human skin and kills people who have sinned with his chainsaw (Liebesman). He serves as a real world fear
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Metaphor Analysis Performance The novel opens at the opera‚ aptly introducing the recurring metaphor of performance‚ or keeping up an appearance of correct and moral behavior‚ whatever the reality might be. Julius Beaufort is an example of someone who manages to do this until the end of the novel‚ when he is unmasked and ostracized. Correct dress and customs become the props that hold the performance together. When Beaufort is trying to fool people into thinking that he is being financially
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In the book “Under the Rice Moon” by Rhiannon Puck‚ the little swallow is sad. It was sad because all of the people that had bought it said that they would take care of it. None of the people understood the little swallow. The swallow just wanted to fly and be free “Under the Rice Moon”. That was the only way you could take care of it. The last person to receive the swallow was a little girl. The girl was sick‚ she knew what it was like not being able to get out of a small space
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Explain how Robert Frost uses inverted word order in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." What effect does Frost’s word order have on the poem? Does it contribute to your understanding and/or enjoyment of the poem? Robert Frost’s inverted word order in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”‚ gives me‚ as a reader‚ a childlike dream like feeling. He uses his repetition and imagery to make you feel as if you are in the woods with him in his head. The way he describes the bells on the horse jingling
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The Wonderful Wizard of OZ Metaphor Frank Baum‚ the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ claimed that his book was majorly a children story. Over time‚ his book would mark a major part of the American pop culture and was adapted into films to the delight of many people irrespective of their ages. Baum’s fairy tale would‚ however‚ be analyzed by to reveal that the book was actually a metaphor of the populist movement in the 1890s. As Taylor points out‚ the characters in the Wonderful Wizard of OZ
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Moon Landing 1969 “Ignition sequence starts‚ three‚ two‚ one‚ all engine running‚ zero‚ lift off.” On July 16th 9:32 a.m.‚ Apollo 11 was successfully launched as millions watched. Indeed‚ the lunar mission of the Apollo 11 was a new break through in the field of space exploration. Soon after‚ however‚ many controversies were raised on the authenticity of this event. Many critics of the lunar landing believe that this event was a hoax perpetuated to deceive the society. The debate‚ whether the moon
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The moon landing‚ was it real or was it fake? The first moon landing was back in July of 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon. For many people it was a fantastic achievement for others a terrible fraud. From the first day to now there has always been conspiracy theories about the moon landing. Some believe that it never happened‚ that it was a big hoax. Some believe that we have never went to the moon. And others believe that the first moon landing was fake but the many after
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