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    cotton field such as: nurturing an infant while proceeding in harsh labor and confliction between slave and slave owners. Presence of Literacy Convention: Metaphors and Similes Throughout the story‚ a few metaphors and similes were used in order to create and establish a comparison between certain objectives. Within this simile‚ “With that she leaped straight up into the air and was gone like a bird‚ flying over field and wood.” (57)‚ the storyteller is

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    Vignettes November 26‚ 2013 Similes Metaphor Personification Imagery My Name I would like to know how my name began. In English‚ it is free holder. In Latin‚ it is a beautiful woman. In Nicaragua‚ it means half a dozen people answer when it is called. It’s like going into a dark alley filled with cats and calling‚ “Here kitty.” Carolina means common‚ its just ordinary. It is eight sweet letters. Carolina is like a song of happiness or joy. It is the color of the rainbow that comes after

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    Epic similes are literary comparisons meant to distract the reader from the story. In The Odyssey‚ the author Homer uses epic similes to detract the reader from the brutality present in battle. These similes demonstrate the festal and barbaric qualities that men adopt when they are in battle and often compare warriors to majestic animals‚ like lions‚ attacking prey. When it is time for the battle between Odysseus and the suitors to begin‚ the suitors‚ mad with the fear of death‚ storm like stampeding

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    Similes – Dream Deferred Writing Assignment Name: Brandon Long Date: 6/27/11 Read the Langston Hughes poem "Dream Deferred" again: Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load Or does it explode? Look up definitions for the words defer and fester and write

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    of ‘love’ in Act 2 Scene2‚ which was composed between 1594-1595. This play mainly focuses on love‚ by utilising exceptional poetic approach which comprise of similes‚ sibilance‚ metaphors‚ personification and oxymoron’s. Shakespeare exploits numerous poetic techniques in the play Romeo and Juliet‚ but one of the techniques used was similes. In line 166 and 167 Romeo states ‘How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongue by night‚ like softest music to attending ears!’ The meaning of this example is ‘the

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    bringing it to life. Frankenstein abandons the monster forcing the monster over the edge where he then kills everyone Frankenstein loves. In Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley uses literary devices such as similes‚ rhetorical questions‚ and imagery to convey meaning to her readers. To begin‚ Shelley uses similes throughout the book to connect more with readers. One such example is “men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each others blood”(Shelley 63). In this small section of a larger quote‚ Elizabeth

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    Mental and physical health: a contrast or a simile The mind and the body are actually a single system. In western cultures‚ the mind is somewhere in the head and that everything else is body. This dualism can be traced back to Descartes and his writings. This dualism can even be seen in the way health insurance is treated in the United States. Most insurance policies provide much better coverage for "physical" disorders than they do for "mental" disorders. No such dualism ever existed in eastern

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    get more addicted to cigarettes and changes his whole life s he can adjust himself to make the accessibility of cigarettes easier. Many people who become addicted to cigarettes change their life styles to accommodate their needs. By incorporating‚ similes‚ personification and satire; Sedaris hyperbolizes the idea of being addicted to cigarettes changes the way someone runs their life. Sedaris recalls memories of his addiction to cigarettes and how it all began. He uses many rhetorical elements to

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    Silas Jones was a young black boy in times that there was still segregation between colored and whites. He was forced to meet young Larry Ott when his mother and Larry’s Father tried to start driving to school together. Then when Mrs. Ott stops that interaction‚ and the boys are told not to see each other again‚ they start playing in the woods again. Later when they get older‚ they no longer speak to each other and Larry is the strange book worm and Silas is a star baseball player. Silas was

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    The use of similes in the Iliad is very prevalent and much used‚ and in books fourteen and fifteen in particular those similes have been very interesting. They have been used to describe the great and mighty fighters like Ajax and Hector‚ and they truly are marvelous in their comparison to the similes of the regular soldier In books fourteen and fifteen the Achaeans take the upper hand in the battle‚ and push back the Trojans. Ajax himself picks up a giant boulder and vaults it into Hector’s chest

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