streaks shiny in the sunlight” (150). This sentence‚ as long and detailed as it is‚ gave me an idea of who Ginika had transformed into: an immigrant like Ifemelu‚ but one that had adapted to an American lifestyle quickly. And this was done by the hyperbole: the metallic‚ unfamiliar glamour‚ which is followed by specific detail. Adichie could have easily described Ginika’s behavior in a different way‚ perhaps using the short similes she did in the past with Obinze. However‚ the style is different here—giving
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‘The Roaring Twenties’: a decade of unprecedented affluence that shaped America’s consumerist society as it is today. The epoch entailed a plethora of quick money‚ sparkling appliances and loose morals that reincarnated the ‘American Dream’ to comprise much more than its original pledge for ‘life‚ liberty and the pursuit of land’. Fitzgerald’s infamous stance on the American Dream thematically appears throughout ‘The Great Gatsby’ where a tactful succession of language and characterisation critiques
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Lucy’s house of memories was burnt to the ground each night Personification Comparing an inanimate object to a person In The Language of Flowers‚ the flowers were vocal about who they were arranged with Hyperbole A statement that is exaggerated Johannes was so hungry he could’ve ate a horse (hyperbole when not starving but literally in this case) Imagery Visually descriptive language The haunting‚ dark clouds were eradicated from Vada’s life when a friend beamed with light rays after Thomas J’s death
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his poem so the reader is able to apprehend the state of the soldiers’ pains and sufferings through the use of hyperboles and similes. Within the first stanza‚ Owen describes the soldiers to be ‘coughing like hags’ using the simile of ‘like’ and imagery to make the audience picture the soldiers walking on and coughing horrendously trying to relieve their lungs during the war. The hyperbole ‘Men marched asleep’ heightens the struggle of the men as they trudge their way through war. They’re robots struggling
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The authors Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson uses allegory to show greater meaning. The greater meaning of each text the reader has to decipher to formulate the theme. There are multiple literary devices being used such as hyperbole‚ metaphor‚ imagery and etc. But there are multiple themes such as the realization of life‚ what the author regretted‚ the roads that were not taken instead of the road taken and enjoy the beauty in life. The poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson
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innocent individual being victimized to war. Denise Levertov and Wilfred Owen’s poems highlight these points through their highly acclaimed war poetry ‘Weeping Woman’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est.’ Utilizing poetic devices and techniques such as imagery‚ hyperbole‚ simile‚ symbolism‚ anaphora and personification to convey their message across to the audience. Denise Levertov‚ the composer of ‘Weeping Woman’ has conveyed the ‘horror of war’ through highlighting the mutilation of an innocent bystander. Levertov
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Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare is a tragic story about two lovers from rivaling families meet and are forced to commit suicide A hallmark of comedy is exaggeration‚ Romeo and Juliet is filled with exaggerations as well as hyperboles. For example‚ a form of exaggeration is when Romeo says in line 120‚ “So I fear; the more is my unrest.” How this is a form of exaggeration is that he is saying that the more he fears he feels like he is going to die. In reality living in fear can’t really
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these words over and over again show how the speaker feels that it is near impossible to find another love such as the one she has at the moment. These two techniques give the poem an atmosphere of true love and compassion. The speaker also uses hyperbole in order in exaggerate the amount of love felt toward her husband. The use of the lines‚ "I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold‚ or all the riches that the East doth hold‚" and‚ "My love is such that rivers cannot quench‚" shows that the
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Russian Revolution where Lenin persuades the Russian people that the country should be a communist country. ‘I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom’ This implies that the message he’s going to say is very important. ‘such wisdom’ is a hyperbole as he exaggerates his message. George Orwell presents Old Major as a persuasive character by making every mistake that Mr Jones make into a big deal‚ this is shown by ‘Our lives are miserable‚
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Night and the Tinfoil Noose” American humorist‚ radio and TV personality‚ Jean Shepherd is probably best known for his feature film; The Christmas Story. In Shepherd’s “The Endless Streetcar Ride into the Night and the Tinfoil Noose‚” he uses hyperbole and contrast to build a memorable experience with the reader‚ one that many of us have experienced; a blind date. Shepherd’s essay highlights the false promises of the media and its influence over our lives. He portrays himself as a sophisticated
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