title; the fish (man) is mesmerised by the Garden’s (woman) setting‚ because it is metaphorically abnormal yet unusually attractive. This draws the fish in‚ as seen by the fish’s ‘behaviour’. Douglas makes a good example of imagery‚ using it to further expand the continuous metaphor in a peculiar way. By using the vastness of the sea‚ filled with fish of all backgrounds‚ Douglas makes the poem seem quite vast but also profoundly multicultural and universal. The typicality of it all is that the
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realisation that there is a lot more depth to those characters and to their emotions than we might have previously thought. Throughout the book‚ Paul’s attitude towards Keller changes many times usually as a direct result of the way Keller treats him. For example‚ when Keller throws away one of Paul’s manuscripts‚ Paul fiercely hates him but when Keller surprisingly says that Paul should have won the music competition‚ Paul once again feels genuine affection for him. These changes in feelings by Paul show
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not understand Shakespeare ’s thought. What I feel about his poem is that it seems to be very unusual while Moss ’s poem looks very natural. I mean that it is hard to read rather than hard to understand because there are some old English words. For example‚ Shakespeare states‚ Shall I compare thee to a summer ’s day? -1st line Thou art more lovely and more temperate -2nd line And summer ’s lease hath all too short a date -4th line He used ’thee ’ and ’thou ’ instead of ’you ’ and ’your ’. He
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war. The poet also has some anger and ambivalence about surviving the war. His emotions are seemingly hard for him to bottle up as we see from more visual imagery “Dammit: Not tears” (line 4). He then uses some metaphors to help describe his struggle to compose himself. The metaphors “I’m stone. I’m flesh”‚ show how the speaker is split on how he feels (line 5). The speaker says he is stone‚ almost as if the he is talking to himself and coaxing himself along not to cry. But‚ then admits he
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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. In the poem “Mother to Son”‚ the speaker admits that her life has been difficult‚ but despite the hardships‚ she does not give up. She uses an extended metaphor to describe to her son‚ how even though her life has been hard‚ she still moves on. The metaphor describes her difficult life to be a dilapidated staircase. The times are metaphorically described as the “splinters‚ boards torn up‚ no carpet‚ bare”. Despite these problems the mother encourages her
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Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. The film demonstrates through its main character‚ Harvie Krumpet‚ that companionship and connection can influence one’s outlook as well as ideologies. By utilising numerous techniques (such as editing‚ metaphors‚ pathetic fallacy‚ symbolism‚ speech and music)‚ the animation illustrates that Harvie Krumpet only ever fit in with other outcasts. The use of metaphoric images and editing proves that Harvie Krumpet was only accepted by misfits while he was
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Anyone who breathes has experienced moments that leave an undeniable stain on their being. Whether good or bad‚ such moments can stick to people like gum underneath a shoe. In Moments of Being‚ Woolf experiences one such moment. Having the time of her life on a fishing trip with her father and brother‚ the fun leads to tragedy as her father reveals he no longer wishes to indulge in fishing. Woolf too loses her passion for fishing. Woolf uses description‚ tone‚ and metaphoric language to show
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attention easily and had more improved examples of suspense. An equally important point to consider is its use of metaphors and the fact that this has a better chance of fitting peoples wants in a suspenseful genre. To begin I will provide an example of the metaphor. “His terror rose to desperation; he rained a shower of kicks and blows upon gunpowder‚ hoping by a sudden to give his companion the slip‚ but the spectre started full jump with him.”. This provides an excellent example of suspense. As you read
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who lived through slavery‚ racism and segregation. So this poem is considered to be an extended metaphor where through out the entire poem Dunbar is comparing himself and all African Americans at that time with a caged bird that does not have the freedom to enjoy the nature and does not have the freedom to fly like all other birds meaning white people at that time. The poet starts the poem with a sentence
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compared‚ usually by means of like or as Example- Her eyes are like the midnight sky just as they were sparkling. 2. Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that designates one thing is applied to another in another in an implicit comparison Example- Life is a journey; choose the right path. 3. Style: the way in which something is said‚ done‚ expressed or performed 4. Sentence variety: using different kinds of sentences Example- The boy ate eight slices of pepperoni pizza
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