with Cleopatra and is blinded by his love for her‚ that he forgets about his Roman duties. This is shown in Act 1‚ Scene 1‚ line 34 when Antony says to Cleopatra “Let Rome in Tiber melt”‚ this hyperbole reinforces the idea of Antony is choosing lustful Egypt over the noble Rome. He uses another hyperbole along with an appropriate metaphor to perfectly capture how Cleopatra has him under her spell when it comes to decision making. Antony says “I must from this enchanting queen break off. Ten thousands
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fear itself...”-President Franklin D. Roosevelt (5) “…he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God‚ as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.”(4) "Dill had seen Dracula..." (9) "Let this cup pass from you‚ eh?" (117) Hyperbole “..but Mr. Radley and his wife had lived there with their two sons as long as anybody could remember.”(9) “..so colorless they did not reflect light.” (11) “Miles of construction paper.” (36) Imagery "An opressive odor met us when we corssed
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describe different types of time wasting: the man who has waited so long to propose to his girlfriend; the woman who has spent thirty-five loathed years in an estate agents‚ dreaming of opening a florists. The author refers to the stylistic device of hyperbole in order to laugh at the people who waste time: the time-sweeper will pass straight by the desk of the woman who is reading a holiday catalogue under the desk‚ poring over photos of tropical beaches. They will pass by the next desk‚ where a man is
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Figurative Language Figurative language was used by Margaret Atwood‚ through the persona of Offred‚ to illustrate The Handmaid’s Tale. Figurative Language consists of similes‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ onomatopoeia‚ hyperbole and idioms. First‚ figurative language can be used to describe different settings. 1. Offred’s experience at night in her bedroom “The heat at night is worse than the heat in daytime. Even with the fan on‚ nothing moves‚ and the walls store up warmth
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pearl‚ ( a pearl that has been scooped and acts as a tankard) ‚ a very unique type of alcohol which Is not brewed and no other brewing company‚ not even the most popular one can make this type of alcohol which makes it more valuable to the poet. Hyperbole Nature contains this special nectar and she experiences it. 2. ‘When landlords turn the drunken Bee Out of the Foxglove’s Door- Very cartoonish image‚ and a humorous one also‚ where she describes a type of flower is a metaphor to a pub and
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their eyes again today. . . each the most amazing thing you have never seen‚ each thunderous wild heart the size of an infant’s fingernail‚ each mad heart silent‚ a brilliant music stilled.” In this line‚ Brian Doyle uses metaphor‚ personification‚ hyperbole‚ and parallelism to contrast the beauty and fragility of life. The mention of hummingbirds‚ with their tiny yet powerful hearts‚ evokes a sense of wonder and admiration. The author’s skills help the symbolic meaning of the hummingbird life compared
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with a number stylistic devices: metonymy ( the divisional machine-guns)‚ epithets (artificial world‚ hopeless comment‚ nervous despair)‚ personification ( saxophones wailed‚ something within her was crying‚ rooms that throbbed‚ dying orchids)‚ hyperbole (a hundred pairs‚ half a dozen dates‚ half a dozen men). There was found a case of simile (fresh faces like rose petals) . The author used such figures of contrast as oxymoron (cheerful snobbery‚ sweet fever)‚ antithesis (there was a certain struggle
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Harper Lee uses ___figurative language_____________________ (imagery‚ figurative language‚ simile‚ metaphor‚ etc) to intensify the mood of terror and suspense as Jem trespassed on the Radley property. The first example of figurative language is hyperbole .For example ‚scout says ‚”I made perhaps one step per minute “ (69).by using this quote the reader can understand the suspense within the characters movement . this suspense helps create a creepy mood because their movements are super slow and cautious
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through his two poems “my heart leaps up” and “I wandered as lonely as a cloud”. ‘I wandered as lonely as a cloud’ reflects the inherit connections between man and nature. Wordsworth uses a variety of figurative language to communicate this idea. Hyperbole‚ visual imagery and personification are important techniques used as they indicate Wordsworth’s love for nature. In the first line of the poem he uses personification in representing himself figuratively "as a cloud". Wordsworth then proceeds to
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Alain De Bottom’s The Art of Travel causes disconnect allowing the audiences perspectives to change. “Who could not be satisfied with the horizons of home even as thy appropriate the limits of other lands‚" the double alliteration exhibited suggests that the composer is embracing both familiar and unfamiliar landscapes also reinforced by the high modality language that Alain De Bottom feels as though this should be both natural and universal. Similarly in Margaret Atwood The City Planners as she
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