Visualize Poetry Through the ages of poetry‚ many poets have been making images with the expressions that they use to become leaders in creating the art of language. Several authors of the poems that we study daily use personification to make animals and objects do things that people do everyday to give the poem a twist. Poets also use imagery to give their readers a good portrait of what they are trying to describe. “Southbound on the Freeway” by May Swenson and “Once by the Ocean” by
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makes the children upset. The final result ends in the consequence of death for the parents because they did not allow Peter and Wendy to continue playing in the nursery. Bradbury’s use of personification‚ symbolism‚ and imagery develops fear and emphasize his warning about technology. Bradbury uses personification in the short story to show how much the nursery means to the children‚ and to show how they treat the nursery as an actual person. Peter and Wendy cherish the nursery because the “room is
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of poetry by comparing his love and poetry with a summer’s day. Shakespeare then uses personification to emphasize these comparisons and make his theme clearer to his audience. Shakespeare also uses repetition of single words and ideas throughout the sonnet in order to stress the theme that his love and poetry are eternal‚ unlike other aspects of the natural world. Using the devices of metaphor‚ personification‚ repetition‚ and progression of tone‚ Shakespeare reveals his theme that the natural world
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cousin’s alluring beauty; her fair face contrasting with her dark hair and dress. Inspired by the opposing shades that created such an attractive woman‚ he wrote a poem about her in 1814 (Gamber). In Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty‚” motifs‚ personification and imagery express the theme that the combining of light and dark reflect a perfect inner and outer beauty. Lord Byron connects two pairs of motifs in “She Walks in Beauty” to establish the theme. One motif is dark and light while the other
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Figurative language Chapter 1 Personification: "May comb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it" (5). "...and the house was still" (15). Metaphor: "She was all angles and bones..." (6) "Mrs. Dubose was plain hell" (6). " Dill was a curiosity" (7). " Mr Radley’s posture was ramrod straight" (12). Hyperbole: "...the meanest man God ever blew breath into" (12). Simile: "Her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard" (6). Personification-"Maycomb was an old town‚
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words is not true or does not make sense. Figurative meaning is far more interesting when it is used in a sentence. It encourages us to use our imaginations. There are different ways to use figurative language in our daily life such as simile‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ paradox and etc. Niklaus runs like a duck. (it’s a simile‚ as Niklaus is explicitly compared to a duck with the use of the words “like” or “as”) Love is a ruthless game (it’s a metaphor‚ as one thing is compared to another without
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Literary Devices in “The Great Gatsby” Personification- where inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human self-awareness; where human thoughts‚ actions‚ perceptions and emotions are directly attributed to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. Fitzgerald uses personification to set a sense of allure and mister y in the book‚ giving it a more mysterious tone. He also uses personification to enhance the qualities of a character and give them more depth‚ and in this
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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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