the famous epic poem written by an Anglo-Saxon poet around 700 C.E.‚ was orally passed down through generations of generations reciting the poem for theater and entertainment. By using the literary devices such as‚ a kenning‚ alliteration‚ and personification the poet is able to create vivid detailed imagery and also enhance the experience of the reader/listener. First‚ a kenning‚ two or three descriptive words sometimes separated by a dash‚ is used by the author to refer to different objects‚ places
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not like something else. Example: The Ocean was like a flat‚ blue plate (simile) The Ocean was a flat‚ blue plate (metaphor) Personification Personification gives human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. Personification and metaphors are similar in that they bother indirect comparisons. We use personification when we want to give something not human a human quality. (We give objects human qualities/emotions) Example: The moon gazed sadly on the cemetery
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vocabulary. I would have liked the book more if I could understand the dialogue‚ and if there was more humorous wards like “jim-dandy”. Crane uses many different literary elements but the one that interest me more was his use of personification. His usage of personification on page 46 helped me picture and understand what was going on in the book‚ “Pine needles were a gentle brown carpet.” I was able to picture what Henry was seeing almost as if I was with Henry in the forest.
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“Chicago” Analysis “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg is a poem written to describe the everyday lives of Chicagoans. Sandburg uses poetic devices such as similes‚ personification‚ and imagery to emphasize parts of the poem‚ which helps him show his love and pride for the city of Chicago. Imagery played a very important part in the poem because it gave the reader an image in there head of the city and the environment with the people who lived there. The main purpose of this poem is to defend the
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utilizes a third-person omniscient narrator to relay to the reader the bitterness of the cold‚ along with the adamant determination of Lutie Johnson. Through the use of chillingly descriptive imagery‚ and figurative language including resplendent personification‚ the narrator successfully conveys the perilous nature of the cold to enhance Lutie Johnson’s temporal and sensory experiences. Imagery is certainly the most central literary device in this excerpt‚ as it gives the reader an accurate sense
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Unlike Shakespeare whose sonnets were usually written in a strict poetic form that was exceptionally popular during his lifetime and whose concepts are too layered to explain through linear communication‚ Jose Garcia Villa as a writer‚ however‚ presented his composition‚ “Sonnet I‚” in a direct manner (tone) wherein it effectively expressed its principal point on the primary line and let the readers clearly understand that a poem must be magical if they are planning to do one. Comprising of 14 lines
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he wrote 154 of them. In sonnet 18‚ Shakespeare used numerous literary elements in order to prove his thesis. This sonnet is a comparison to nature and a woman who will never lose her beauty. In sonnet 18‚ different literary elements such as personification‚ metaphors‚ and an anaphora are used in order to prove that nature is never constant‚ but her beauty is constant and will last forever. In this first quatrain Shakespeare attempts to compare her to a summer’s day but comes to the conclusion
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like branches after a storm” it means that the child left his toys in the yard without taking them with him or her‚ but before‚ he or she use to play with them all the time in the sandbox. 2. They both have personification in the poems. -NGCS- lines 2-3 This shows personification because it says “Her hardest hue to hold” it means that “her” is actually a person‚ but it is just referring to nature.
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his parents. In the second part of the first paragraph‚ the composer uses adjective to describe the image on the post card. “Red buses” and “Sky’s the brightest shades” radiates a busy ‘happy’ town. However‚ in the beginning‚ the composer uses personification‚ “A post card sent by a friend – haunts me”. The postcard‚ cannot haunt as it is an inanimate object. The use of the word ‘haunts’ contradicts with the words that are used to describe the postcard later on. The first stanza of the second part
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The Red Room is a ’spine chiller’ written by H.G Wells. The story is set at Lorraine Castle where a specific room is preoccupied by ghastly spirits. This story The Red Room is about a man (narrator) who seeks spirits inside Lorraine Castle‚ with his only protection as his revolver. The spirit welcomes the man in an uncomfortable manner‚ moving furniture‚ candles going out without smoke and other procedures which the spirit posses. His excuse for the cause of this terror is that ghosts are not inquisitive
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