Poem Essay‚ pg 519 The Beauty of Figurative Language Nobody wants to read a boring story. Figurative language is used to make sentences more interesting. William Wordsworth uses figurative language to allow his words to be more imaginative and vivid. William Wordsworth was born on April 7‚ 1770 in the scenic area of Great Brittain. He was a major English Romantic Poet (wikipedia). In the poem "[I wandered lonely as a cloud]" by William Wordsworth‚ he takes readers on a journey
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up to the present day. Strong emphasis is made on the growth and development of the English language‚ and how changing understanding of the nature of language has affected the growth of writing. The British Isles have always been a multilingual landscape‚ and the language or rather languages have always been in constant change. The Celtic /ˈkɛltɪk/ heritage‚ the Viking invasion‚ the Norman invasion‚ the deep penetration of Latin as the lingua franca /ˌlɪŋgwə ˈfraŋkə/ a language that is adopted as
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sentences said throughout the poem. It makes the reader grasp for a deeper understanding. The author is understood through his writing style by using diction‚ imagery‚ and personification to get across his tone to the reader. “Wide through the landscape of his dreams the lordly Niger flowed.” (Lines 7-8) This line is an example of the diction that he uses. The way the sentence is worded brings many questions to mind. Why is the Niger lordly? Why is the “N” in Niger capitalized? Just to ask a few
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images. Dali uses abstract images to represent a balance of altered views‚ conveying what is reality and what is from the mind’s eye. Note the mysterious rugged rocks in the background to the right. Dali shows a genuine‚ dim sort of sun set like landscape‚ with the rocks illuminated and projecting up in the background. In the foreground‚ an illusory sort of human form appears to dissolve to the ground. Separate Melting Watch images balance the focal point of the work. His use of these two elevated
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Wuthering Heights: A Critical Guide to the Novel Landscape • Emily Bronte: landscape near her home in Yorkshire • Strange‚ isolated world where passions of all kinds run deep • Isolated farmhouse • Not only the setting of the novel‚ but the nature of the people and their occupations and obsessions • Earth‚ air‚ water. Wrestling trees‚ changing skies‚ rocks‚ wild flowers • Doorstep of the parsonage: the graveyard‚ wraps around the house on two sides • Death was a familiar visitor: Emily lost
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“Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem about the creative powers of the poetic mind. Through the use of vivid imagery Coleridge reproduces a paradise-like vision of the landscape and kingdom created by Kubla Khan. The poem changes to the 1st person narrative and the speaker then attempts to recreate a vision he saw. Through the description of the visions of Kubla Khan’s palace and the speaker’s visions the poem tells of the creation of an enchanting beautiful
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pages. DC (CW) 28956 © UCLES 2010 [Turn over www.XtremePapers.com 2 Answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B. You should write between 600 and 900 words for each composition. Section A: Narrative/Descriptive/Imaginative Writing 1 Write two contrasting pieces (between 300–450 words each)‚ the first about a place before a flood and the second about the same place after a flood. In your writing create a sense of mood and place. 2 Write the opening chapter of
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Bridget Jones’s Diary is a highly imaginative interpretation of the novel Pride and Prejudice‚ so different to be hardly recognizable. Discuss. Directed by Sharon Maguire in 2001‚ one hundred and eighty-eight years after Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813‚ with that‚ Bridget Jones’s Diary would seem be quite diverse to Pride and Prejudice. But it is actually a highly imaginative interpretation of the novel. This modern interpretation is seen through the plot‚ characters‚ context‚ values
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his dense‚ textured and sculptural use of paint has become a consistent feature of his work (Mitchell Fine Art‚ 2011). Macleod is not limited when it comes to the landscapes he paints‚ feeling equally at home in the picturesque New Zealand countryside and the harsh and flat Australian outback and often painting a hybrid of both landscapes. His expressive style lends itself to simple yet potent compositions‚ his muted palette imbuing the works with rich symbolism and atmosphere. His use of colour has
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The poem could be seen as a lyric description of the poet’s feelings. The poet is writing about 2 things – his country of origin and his feelings of desolation and possibly anger towards his birth country. Secondly‚ he is painting a picture of a landscape in his new
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