they are in a bureaucratic society‚ they still do not have a voice in many issues‚ such as the workplace. Theodore Roethke uses personification‚ long sentence structure‚ and formal diction in "Dolor" to show the anguish and loneliness of the everyday office routine in a bureaucratic society because it is as if the workers are the same‚ and have no voice. Personification of the offices and its supplies metaphorically emphasizes the feelings of the work people. The "lonely reception room‚ lavatory
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Karait to protect Teddy even though it was dangerous (para 33). This proves that Kipling uses personification to prove the reason above because he gives human characteristics to Rikki Tikki by saying that Rikki Tikki had fought Karait to protect Teddy‚ but it is not possible in real life for a mongoose to kill a snake only to protect someone which proves that this is personification. This piece of personification demonstrates the theme because it proves that if someone cares about someone‚ they will face
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two patriotic poems and two poems that reveal the reality of war. Write about the four poems in as much detail as possible‚ comparing the different attitudes of the poets.” In English‚ we have read four World War One poems: ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’‚ ‘Disabled’‚ ‘The Call’ and ‘Who’s For The Game?’ Two different authors have wrote these four poems‚ Wilfred Owen‚ who had served his country in the Great War and Jessie Pope‚ who had never experienced the frontline. This becomes obvious when one reads a poem
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rainy days. I use a lot of personification in this poem. Using personification is dominant in the poem because I like to make objects come alive. Most of the personification is directed toward clouds in general. One example is in line three of the first stanza‚ which says‚ “They cry like they are teenage girls having a bad day.” Personification is also used in line one of the third stanza which states‚ “I hate rainy days‚ clouds why do you weep?” Personification was the main
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deserted‚ unpopulated area and the storm’s destructive effect on the land. His use of personification‚ similes‚ metaphors‚ alliteration‚ and creative imagery creates an atmosphere of danger of nature’s rage that certainly changes into an atmosphere of defeat and helplessness. In contrast the poet for ‘Spellbound’ makes you think the poem is about witchcraft and is very magical. This poem uses a lot of personification to make things sound unreal and mysterious. In ‘Wind’ the image of a ‘black back
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Imagine how much could change if a different choice was made at one point in life. In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ he compares life choices to a meeting of two roads. Frost describes the comparison in many ways. By looking at metaphor‚ personification‚ and imagery‚ it is clear that these literary devices contribute to the overall meaning of the poem. The entire poem is an extended metaphor. A metaphor compares two things by saying one object is another. It is implied that Frost is saying
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In the poem‚ “Break of Day in the Trenches”‚ the author‚ Isaac Rosenberg shows the theme that endless conflict leads emotionally numb soldiers to snap‚ through the literary devices‚ tone and personification. Tone is used by Rosenberg to furthermore reveal the theme in this poem. The two that he uses are musing and contemplative tones. The author uses the air of musing in this poem throughout the beginning few lines of the poem. When a soldier is immersed into war they are exposed to the death
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also seen on the language of the poem as W. Wordsworth uses personifications when he starts by comparing himself to a lonely cloud. Another personification and metaphor is when W. W compares the daffodils to a crowd of people and further more dancing humans. He starts his poem with a simile Alliteration: lonely as a cloud (line 1). Simile: Comparison (using as) of the speaker’s solitariness to that of a cloud (line 1). Personification: Comparison of the cloud to a lonely human. (line 1) Alliteration:
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Such as‚ * Alliteration – When you repeat the first letter or group of sounds in a specific part of the sentence so basically‚ so basically tongue twisters. * Onomatopoeia – Using a word that has the same action as the word * Personification – Giving an inanimate object the traits of a human. * Hyperbole – A statement that is true but an exaggeration. * Idioms – Words that are not understood when joined together. Edgar A. Poe has supplied a varietal selection of figurative
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"Balloons" by Sylvia Plath‚ she uses life-like features to describe the balloons as souls in a quiet home. To make a better understanding of the theme‚ important elements are used‚ such as imagery‚ personification‚ and metaphor. Imagery is used throughout the poem to display the setting. Personification compares the balloons to human life and gives them human characteristics. Metaphors create comparisons of the balloon to symbols throughout the poem. All figurative language examples justify the theme
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