irony‚ personification and metaphors. By using figurative language in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ Shakespeare indirectly expresses his ideas to the readers. Shakespeare incorporates verbal irony skillfully. In Act 3‚ Scene 2 Shakespeare states‚ "For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all‚ all honorable men." Shakespeare is using irony to state one thing and mean another. Shakespeare is comparing Brutus to all men that are perceived to be honorable. However‚ these
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Most Dangerous Game‚” Richard Connell uses literary devices such as personifications and allusions to help the reader better understand the plot and characters. Although Connell excelled in his numerous uses of personifications‚ his allusions he attempted were far from perfection.
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Figurative language is used to clarify the poet ’s response to nature. Wordsworth shares his experience in nature through an emotional response. "[I wandered lonely as a cloud]" has many poetic devices. Three examples are similes‚ personification and hyperboles. One of the most obvious poetic devices in figurative language are similes. Similes are one way Wordsworth describes how he wanders alone as part of the landscape. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (line 1) is the first
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Shakespeare writing 154 sonnets in his lifetime. Lines one through twelve are written in ABAB rhyme scheme and the rhyme scheme changes in lines thirteen and fourteen where it is GG. The whole thing is in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare uses a lot of personification and connotation to tell a hidden story within this poem. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138 can be put in much simpler terms. In Sonnet 138 lines one through twelve‚ or the problem‚ in simpler terms it says‚ “When my love promises she is honest‚ I believe
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Angelou depicts personification. Personification is an element of literature in which an object or an animal is given human characteristics. Angelou uses personification to give the rock‚ the river‚ and the tree the ability to speak to the reader. In "On the Pulse of Morning"‚ Angelou writes " But today‚ the rock cries out to us‚ clearly‚ forcefully‚ Come‚ you may stand upon my back and face your distant destiny‚ but seek no haven in my shadow." In this‚ personification is given to the
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In the excerpt from Ann Petry’s The Street‚ Lutie Johnson’s resistance to the city and the surrounding area of 110th street is shown through explicit imagery and personification of the wind. Petry is able to establish the obstacles of understanding a new place that may seem dark and harsh. . Petry again personifies the wind“fingering its way along the curb” and trying to discourage the people walking along the street” to further show the constant chaos that exists within the Urban
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1. simile-I remember the green coat that i wore in fifth or sixth grade when you either danced like a champ or pressed yourself against a greasy wall ‚ bitter like a penny toward happy couples. 2. Personification- with enough belts to hold down a small town 3. Personification-The next day when i got home from school‚ i discovered draped on my bedpost a jacket the color of day old guacamole . 4. Simile- I threw my books on the bed and approached the jacket slowly ‚as if it were a stranger whose
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Pardoner’s Tale was written by Geoffrey Chaucer. It’s a narrative poem that describes the character of the pardoner. He describes his character by using different literary themes. The Pardoner is described through a use of symbolism‚ irony and personification. This tale uses symbolism in many different ways. In one way that I saw symbolism in the story is was through the coffin. The coffin symbolized that there would be death later on in the tale. A sentence from the poem that supports my thought
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not be sitting at the dinner table; the Problem would be serving the dinner table. The speaker in Langston Hughes’s “Dinner Guest: Me” uses personification and imagery to allow the reader to experience his bemusement and conflict as a black man partaking in what he believes to be a white man’s world on Park Avenue. The speaker’s use of personification in this poem is not immediately evident. However‚ a valid argument can be made that a black man is not literally present for this dinner party
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knew why. In this poem Frost uses metaphor and personification to compare a soldier to a lance. First‚ Frost uses personification to compare a soldier to a lance. By doing this you do not know if the soldier is the lance or if he comes in to the story later. It also means that the soldier has fallen in battle‚ but we do not know why. In the poem it says “He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled” (“A Soldier” 1). Therefore‚ Frost uses personification to compare a soldier to a lance. Second‚
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