humour is necessary to maintain sanity in the isolated‚ dry environment. These qualities are greatly significant to the people living within it. Henry Lawson communicates this idea in this humorous bush tale “The Loaded Dog” through humour and personification of the lanky protagonist dog. For bushmen‚ having a good sense of humour helps with the monotony of bush life and is essentially a way of survival. Without a sense of humour‚ the shortcomings of the unstable bush life and economy would easily
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should fight to defend their country in war. An idea that is important in Wilfred Owen’s “dulce et decorum est.” is that the reality of war is brutal and scary. The language techniques that were used to show these ideas are metaphor‚ similes and personification. An idea that is important in “Who’s for the game” by Jessie Pope is that men should fight to defend their country in war. This is shown with the language technique of a metaphor. An example being “And who wants a seat in the stand?” The
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will one day lose its greatness if it continues in its evil ways. Personification and diction is used to convey this message. Personification is used to give human-like qualities to America. Diction is used to explain how the hostility he/she experiences in America leads to the narrator’s ominous prediction of America’s future. Throughout the poem the speaker refers to America as ‘her’. By doing this Claude McKay uses personification to give America the human-like qualities of a female. This is shown
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nature is indifferent‚ even hostile to man in Into the Wild and “To Build a Fire”. This personification allows the reader to better understand the author’s views on nature and it helps the reader visualize how the main characters felt while completely immersed in nature. Jack London personifies nature in “To Build a Fire” and shows that nature is apathetic and even opposed towards man’s actions. This personification really emphasizes the point that London is trying to make‚ that nature really does not
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Body Paragraphs (rough draft) One way Jewett dramatizes the character of the young girls adventure is by using personification. Jewett uses personification. Personification gives human qualities to objects as a way of describing them to strengthen the description. In the story A White Heron Jewett uses personification when she says “There was the huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight.” Jewett here is showing the tree as a peaceful tree sleeping under the moonlight. “It must truly have been
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make the “Player Piano” come to life. Piercy uses images of the speaker‚ connected with various office equipment to give a vision to the reader of a woman living her life through the office equipment that is part of her very being. Piercy uses personification in reverse and other metaphors‚ such as metonymy‚ and paradox‚ to give an actual picture of the office machines actually performing their functions. And also through the operation of the office equipment attached to the speaker showing her only
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it is the youth that must fight and die.” This disapproving view of war parallels with Vonnegut’s view of war‚ evident in Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut uses a number of rhetorical devices in this novel in order to denounce war such as imagery‚ personification‚ and allusions. Slaughterhouse Five is a novel with a plethora of rhetorical devices‚ one being imagery. Whereas Slaughterhouse Five is a rather somber novel; the imagery found in it helps the reader visualize and interpret the horrible‚ unexplainable
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Macbeth Commentary: Macbeth’s Conflict In Macbeth’s soliloquy of act II scene 1‚ William Shakespeare affectively utilizes symbolism‚ allusions‚ and personification to depict the conflicting elements of fate versus freewill on Macbeth’s decision. Shakespeare uses the hallucination of the dagger to symbolize the beginning of Macbeth’s descent into madness‚ a point where he is unable to make rational decisions. Macbeth describes the dagger as a “fatal vision” (2.1.36) which is significant as it shows
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writing by using rhetorical devices. One of the strategies he used is personification. Edwards beings the sermon by using personification comparing God’s wrath to hell when he threatens‚ " There is a dreadful pit of glowing flames of the wrath of God; there’s a hell’s wide gaping mouth open"(21-22).This quote explains that everyone is going to hell where there are flames and hell is ready for them to go into it. Personification compares human qualities to objects. Another rhetoric device he used is
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of his most powerful messages of inspiration. In the beginning of the second stanza in “If”‚ Kipling uses personification “If you can dream- and not make dreams your master.” The beginning of the stanza focuses on reality; dreaming is good‚ but do not let it take control of yourself. Meaning‚ there are other important goals in life that are needed to be achieved. The second personification used by Kipling is on line 10 and 11 “If you can meet with triumph and disaster/ and treat those two imposters
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