sang in the song. The song “Firework” by Katy Perry is a suitable example of this. Katy Perry compares the audience to a firework and a plastic bag using a simile and metaphor to symbolize the tension between being afraid to show the world who they really are‚ and revealing themselves for the world to see the their true colors. Perry uses a simile to juxtapose the audience to a plastic bag while transmitting the idea of wanting to dispose of the past‚ and start fresh. “Do you ever feel like a plastic
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Higher sin taxes take effect today By Jess Diaz (The Philippine Star) | Updated January 1‚ 2013 - 12:00am MANILA‚ Philippines - The New Year ushers in higher taxes on cigarettes‚ beer‚ liquor‚ wine‚ and other tobacco and alcohol products. When he signed Republic Act No. 10351 on Dec. 20‚ President Aquino said‚ “Today‚ we are again making history: for the past 15 years‚ we have been trying to reform the tax structure of imposing excise tax on tobacco and alcohol products. After 15 long years‚ we
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Night-Final In the fascinating memoir Night by Elie Wiesel‚ he deals with the struggle of surviving‚ which was devastating since it was during the holocaust. In the memoir Night‚ Wiesel uses Symbolism‚ Simile‚ and Irony in order to illustrate the events during the holocaust. Wiesel’s use of Symbolism helped the reader understand the captivity of the Jews in the concentration camps.”Father‚ I said “If that is true then I don’t want to wait. I’ll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would
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unifying theme to show how black people’s dreams were delayed. Hughes uses similes and metaphors--figures of speech--to portray that often times their dreams never came true. He asks if they "dry up like a raisin in the sun‚" if they "fester like a sore‚" if they "stink like rotten meat‚" or if they "crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet." All of these statements are examples of similes. Even though he is using similes as comparisons‚ he is actually asking what happens to a "dream deferred."
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followed a man‚ who was turning‚ into an ocean of unlike humans. In an excerpt from‚ I Am Legend Richard Matheson uses a wide array of rhetorical devices in order to convey the strong action he uses. Matheson uses different types of imagery and similes to describe the man who was leading him in the beginning of the excerpt. Neville hears the man’s voice as "a grating rasp" that is labeled as sonic imagery that the reader can connect to someone/thing in their own life. Furthermore‚ Neville sees the
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In The Odyssey‚ Homer uses figurative language the best to build characterization while using epic similes and metaphors to go into more detail about traits and evets. One of the main uses of figurative language homer uses to build characteristics is an epic smile This is proven when homer writes "The attackers struck like eagles…swooping down from a mountain ridge to harry smaller birds that skim across the flatland cringing under the clouds but the eagles plunge in fury‚ rip their lives out…never
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Figurative language is a big part of the reader’s understanding of a poem. The poem‚ “The Highwayman” is by Alfred Noyes and he uses some figurative language in his poem to explain more detail. The poem is about a thief and a woman falling in love. The thief is a wanted man and the king heard about the couple. He sent soldiers to capture the woman and set a trap for the thief to catch him. During it all‚ the woman decided that the only way to warn the highwayman‚ or thief‚ about the soldiers trying
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MacCaig has structured the poem so that it resembles the tenements that he has described in the picture. This poem uses strong figurative and literal language to create wonderful imagery‚ and appeals to the senses. MacCaig has used metaphors‚ similes and personifications to enhance this poem. A personification in this poem that stands out is “The brown air fumes at the shop windows‚ tries the door and sidles past.” (stanza 1‚ line 3 & 4) The brown air is the heavily contaminated air‚ trying to
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of the speaker is aided with vivid imagery and similes. The speaker convinces the reader alternatively of both the fish’s beauty and its repulsiveness. She describes the fish as old and battered‚ "Brown skin hung in strips like ancient wall paper"‚ "was like wallpaper: shapes like full brown roses stained and lost through age." The fish’s skin is twice compared with wallpaper‚ something dull and artificial. She seems to be displeased with her own simile‚ repeating it twice to show her displeasure of
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Religion began more than 50‚000 years ago. It is the reason the world is remarkably diverse in culture. Each religion has their own view and beliefs‚ but they also have different lifestyles and diets. There are many religions in the world and believe it or not‚ they are all connected in some way or another. Hinduism and Buddhism have close ties when it comes to the mind and the soul‚ but they also have major differences. It’s important to know the world and it’s culture. I’m going to inform you of
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