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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Although an idea to hurt others may seem like a logical and good idea at first‚ it may turn out to do harm to the attacker alongside the victim. For example‚ Macbeth cannot think straight‚ “full of scorpions is [his] mind” (Shakespeare‚ 3.2.38). He uses the metaphor of scorpions of King Duncan’s murder‚ constantly stinging his thoughts and poisoning his mind with thoughts of more killing. After the king’s death‚ Macbeth feels guilt for what he has done‚ first being unable to keep his crime out of
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“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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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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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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idea of ghosts is far too exaggerated to be real. According to psychologydictionary.org the paranormal is “designating any phenomenon comprising the transfer of data or energy which can ’t be described by present scientific insights” (“What”). For example‚ a couple of years ago I was in my house alone. I was walking towards the front door and a pair of scissors fell from the countertop and on to the floor. It scared me to death and it was like the scissors had been thrown. I do not know if it was
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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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of the week when Pete receives big shipments of inventory for the store. When that occurs the retail part of the Garden Center can be really busy for a few days after stocking the new inventory. Inventory can range from a variety of things‚ for example; garden rocks in assorted rock pallets‚ mulch bags sorted out by type‚ hay bales stacked‚ and even bird baths. So as one of the three managers‚ Pete has to make sure things go well and items are placed correctly and neatly throughout the store‚ in
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Hawthorne manages to create many metaphors within his novel The Scarlet Letter. The rose bush outside the prison door‚ the black man‚ and the scaffold are three metaphors. Perhaps the most important metaphor would be the scaffold‚ which plays a great role throughout the entire story. The three scaffold scenes which Hawthorne incorporated into The Scarlet Letter contain a great deal of significance and importance the plot. Each scene brings a different aspect of the main characters‚ the crowd or
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we unknowingly adapt ourselves to suit and interact with those around us‚ we gain self understanding and self image. It is our impressions of other humans that help mark out our understanding of ourselves in the context of the rest of the world. Examples of these ideas can be found in various texts such as Peter Goldsworthy’s novel‚ Maestro‚ the Australian movie Muriel’s Wedding and Melina Marchetta’s no.... Maestro: Analysis of Major Themes Grade Level: High School‚ Section: Book Reviews‚ Rating:
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