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    kingdom with thy dearest friend” (Marlowe 1.1.2). Gaveston is incredibly pleased to be returning to Edward. Metaphor: Gaveston compares himself to the Greek mythological hero‚ “Leander.” Leander supposedly swam across the Hellespont every night to be with the woman he loved. Gaveston is using the story of Leander to compare to his reunion with the king. Gaveston also uses another metaphor to describe his feelings upon seeing London. He compares it the experience of seeing “Elysium to a new-come soul”

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    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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    where we go or who we interact with‚ there is always someone more powerful than ourselves watching our every move‚ just waiting for us to slip up. Whether it’s your boss‚ law enforcement‚ or a strict teacher‚ these figures never fail to make their omnipresent looming known. These themes are constantly prevalent in our media‚ including books such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Throughout Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”‚ there is an abundance of symbolic patterns and hidden metaphors. Whether

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    Metaphor Analysis Performance The novel opens at the opera‚ aptly introducing the recurring metaphor of performance‚ or keeping up an appearance of correct and moral behavior‚ whatever the reality might be. Julius Beaufort is an example of someone who manages to do this until the end of the novel‚ when he is unmasked and ostracized. Correct dress and customs become the props that hold the performance together. When Beaufort is trying to fool people into thinking that he is being financially

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    and corruption and cruelty of politicians‚ reality shows a cruel society like the story. Figures Literary comparison or simile: In the story we realize using this figure as compared with an imaginary object. Using the words: Like‚ like‚ etc. Allegory: Allegory Another figure is symbolic because it shows a device that is a concept further.  Metaphormetaphors also identify elements that

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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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    Erving Goffman developed a metaphor of theater to explain the social interaction with different forms of behavior on front and back stages. Front stage is the area of social interaction visible to the audience‚ and back stage is the social interaction not visible to the audience. Front stage is a behavior that we do when other people are watching or are aware of us. Being in this front stage behavior‚ we focus on how others view us and what they expect from us‚ which can drive the behavior all together

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    Real World Fears Typically‚ fictional monsters that are known worldwide are scary because of the metaphors and allegories used behind them. How can a fictional monster be used as an allegory or metaphor? Simple‚ a person’s basic fears are derived from a fictional character from a horror film. For example‚ Leather face‚ from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film‚ is a character that wears a mask of human skin and kills people who have sinned with his chainsaw (Liebesman). He serves as a real world fear

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    Live to die Death is a part of life experience‚ and life experience is the reality one can bravely face. For death‚ to be precise‚ facing death is what a person experience. Oganda from “The Rain Came” by Grace Ogot has to face death in order to save her people. In “ A Woman Like Me” by Xi Xi‚ the narrator has faced her parents’ death when she was young and make up the face of the dead people at work. No one can actually experience death because dead is dead and there is no feelings. As for life

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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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