past. The soldiers who fought in the vietnam war had to go through many incredibly horrifying experiences and it was those exact events that make “The Things They carried” by Tim O’Brien such a marvellous vivid book. Tim O’Brien uses imagery‚ figurative language and repetition to get a ridiculous emotional connection with the reader. He uses story-telling to clear his conscious about war furthermore the constant struggle of the soldiers forgotten by society. “But the thing about remembering is that
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Figurative Language in the Tortilla Curtain In T.C. Boyle’s the Tortilla Curtain‚ Delaney Mossebacher is at a property owners association meeting and notes how a wife “leaned into her husband like a sapling leaning into a rock ledge” (42). In this simile‚ Boyle compares the wife to a sapling and the husband to the rock that she is leaning on. During the meeting‚ Delaney describes the husband as a man “in his forties‚ with the hips and shoulders of a college athlete” (42). With the build of a college
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The Different Side of Family Barbara Kingsolver‚ in her novel The Bean Trees‚ utilizes figurative language to emphasize on daughters and families that exhibits the harsh truth behind being a person. Lou Ann ponders this when another character named Lee Sing states‚ “ ‘Feeding a girl is like feeding the neighbor’s New Year pig. All that work. In the end‚ it goes to some other family’ ” (43). This simile that compares girls to New Year pig stresses that the effort that parents put into their daughters
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The poem I have decided to do is Memorial Day for the War Dead By Yehuda Amichai‚ I choose this poem because I love reading about war and the struggles these people go through. War is not an easy thing to write about‚ because when you ask people about war‚ they don’t want to live through it again. “Behind all this some great happiness is hiding” In This poem‚ the speaker is someone who is witnessing Memorial day‚ they most likely‚ were in the war. The message in this poem is that although people
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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 of the brutal cold that the protagonist has to endure in her search for a home. The omnipotence and omnipresence of the "Cold November Wind"
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author sends a message that love can be just as strong as faith in a religious figure head. She compares him to her childlike faith‚ like how a child has a very forgiving soul and open heart. In this poem the author uses literary elements and figurative language to help us to understand the feeling and the poem’s reason‚ some examples of it are the metric pattern that is used. The poem use a metric pattern in iambic pentameter the author is using this technique around the whole poem to make the reader
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and his attitudes? As: INNOCENT‚ strong‚ willing‚ brotherly‚ friendly‚ correct‚ WELL BEHAVED‚ intelligent‚ understanding‚ MORAL‚ a father’s dream‚ better than Amir‚ tarnished‚ imperfect‚ literal‚ gentle‚ LOYAL‚ the opposite of Amir How: figurative language "like a chinese doll" page 3 motif of Kites "his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the winblown kites he used to chase" kite chasing days are over‚ loyal until the day he died - unlike Amir. Hosseini uses the status of
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The primary source is a poem advocating for imperialism. Poems use writing techniques to emphasize their message‚ such as figurative language. The way the author uses these techniques can portray the values and problems within a society‚ by emphasizing what the author thinks his audience will want. The poem describes the relationship between white men and their captives. According to the poem‚ this relationship is the “white man’s burden”. The white men have to capture the people to protect them
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The story is packed with imagery and figurative language. The language used by the author to describe the lake as "fetid and murky‚ the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and charred remains of bonfires" (129) creates an image of chaos and uncertainty. This also parallels the
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though I lack any self love. Sonnet 88 presents to us a warped view of love. A love that lacks maturity and self respect. Love that dwells in the dark recesses of a skewed mind. Shakespeare’s sonnet 88 uses rhyme‚ grammar‚ diction‚ meter‚ figurative language‚ and tone to suggest that to actually love someone you have to love yourself first. In the beginning of “Sonnet 88”‚ the poet opens with the statement saying whenever you feel disposed to put me down and make me the object of disrespect (1-2)
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