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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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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