perfect scene Dickenson has planned. As always‚ Death is unpredictable and unable to be scheduled or planned by a mortal. Dickinson’s description of the setting is limited. She only stresses “In the room‚” but her excessive use of similes and metaphors helps the readers to conjure up the picture of the deathbed scene: “The stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air— Between the Heaves of Storm—” The room quiets as the narrator and the mourners are waiting for the last breath of
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Hughes uses a variety of poetic and literary techniques to communicate his tone. Namely‚ he utilized figurative language‚ personification‚ similes‚ and metaphors to effectively get his message across. He uses the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds; "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?". Up and sun do not rhyme‚ but they have the same "uh" sound. Rhyme: Poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. "Does it stink like rotten meat?...like a syrup sweet?" Meat
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Langston Hughes In question one‚ speaking of “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”‚ it asks about why the river is “apt metaphor for the human soul.” The answer to that question is because rivers map out areas‚ like the Euphrates is mentioned‚ well in the beginning of time the Euphrates was a pretty important river. Then Hughes talks about the Congo‚ Nile‚ Mississippi‚ and New Orleans River‚ thus detailing or mapping out man’s movement across the globe. Also notice that the author chooses rivers that have
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For my second test I choose the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth because I like the imagery in it of the dancing daffodils. After reading the poem many times I had realized that most of this imagery is produced by the many metaphors and similes. In the first line‚ Wordsworth says "I wandered lonely as a cloud." This is a simile comparing the wondering of a man to a cloud drifting through the sky. I think that the wandering cloud is lonely because there is nothing else that high
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the poem “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth uses many techniques through out his poem. He uses imagery‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ similes‚ and hyperbole to help the reader feel like he feels. Alliteration‚ rhyme‚ and rhythm make the poem flow smoothly and easy to read. In the poem “Patterns” by Amy Lowell the focus tends to be more on imagery than other items. Amy Lowell uses some metaphors in her poem. “Patterns” is very descriptive through out the poem. The speaker goes to the daffodils
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The dramatic text ‘ Boy Overboard’‚ adapted by Patricia Cornelius from the novel by Morris Gleitzman‚ and the novel ‘Tomorrow When the War began ‚ written by John Marden‚ explore the physical and emotional journey that can that be seen as very unfamiliar to the audience when they are taken out of their comfort zone. This journey is represented through Characters and the use setting. In the text‚ ‘Boy Overboard’ the journey starts in Afghanistan‚ where the reader sees a family of refugees‚ preparing
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line 8. The author uses repeated words like chartered‚ mark and in every in these eight lines in order to make his language more powerful and accentuate the relentless oppression. In the rest of the poem‚ the author adopts a lot of imagery. For example‚ the cry of the
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down" (1.4.28). Assonance: "For men so old as we to keep the peace." - (Act I/Scene 2/Line 3) Alliteration: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” (From the prologue to Act 1. This is an example of alliteration with the “f” and “l.”) Hyperbole: "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine‚ the gentle sin is this: My lips‚ two blushing pilgrims‚ ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." Act 2: Personification:
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’Fox in a tree stump’ are to provoke thought on people. She has successfully accomplished this by conveying themes of life value‚ role of authority and human relations with animals through her rich use of language techniques including symbolism‚ metaphors and much more. Firstly‚ Beveridge has provoked much thought on people in this poem by raising the issue of inequality between men and women through the theme role of authority. She definitely accentuates this aspect by explaining in the poem that
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Mena Soliman Prof. Stefan Karlsson WR 39B 24 June 2015 The Writing and I Writing is always difficult and takes a long time‚ this is my first impression about any writing class. Not only because of its techniques‚ but also the language was a big obstacle. I don’t see myself as a good writer and writing for me is just a required task I have to get it done. I moved to the United States three years ago. I have taken English as a first foreign language in my Egyptian school beside Arabic --my native language--
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