Key Image Terms 1. simile- compares two dissimilar objects using like or as. Example #1: N. Scott Momaday describes shadows from clouds "that move upon the grain like water." Commentary: This simile shows vs. tells. It helps me to picture what the shadows looked like. They weren’t stationary‚ they were moving very fluid over a field of grain. By comparing the shadows to water‚ Momaday paints a picture of something being intangible to something that is tangible. I didn’t directly see the shadows
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Outline Plato’s simile of the ship and two of its possible purposes (15 Marks) Plato’s simile of the ship is used as a retort to Adeimantus’ assertions that philosophers are “very odd birds‚ not to say thoroughly vicious”‚ and even their best qualities prove to be completely useless to society. In the simile‚ each feature represents an element of Athenian society. The ship itself represents the Athenian democratic state. The captain of the ship‚ who is large and strong‚ is also deaf and short-sighted
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In her 1994 article‚ “To ‘See—Comparatively’: Emily Dickinson’s Use of Simile‚” Shirley Sharon-Zisser “explores Emily Dickinson’s use of similes from the perspective of her meta-poetic stances and the consciousness of the untranscendable opacity of epistemological and metaphysical boundaries that so pervades her poetry” (60). Essentially‚ she argues that Dickinson’s similes have both linguistic and metalinguistic functions and that the two functions counterbalance each other so that the reader is
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In The Veldt‚ Ray Bradbury uses simile‚ tone and mood to give readers deeper understanding. It gives readers a creepy‚ unsettling feeling. The foreshadowing gives subtle hints on what’s to come. Despite some people claiming symbolism presents a cleaner picture‚ that can be proven wrong. Having better tone and mood gives the reader a deeper sense of reality. Good tone and usage of similes make the story seem more realistic. Ray Bradbury’s usage of simile‚ tone and mood‚ create a higher quality story
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left on the street" - simile "bleed water from the sea" - imagery‚ metaphor "hands together tight like a closed book" - simile "dark round monkey eyes" - imagery‚ metaphor "sleepy eyes like cats in the sun" - simile‚ imagery "like someone is poking it with a stick" - imagery "soft and tickly as seagull feathers" - simile "’see my stomach’ she barks" - personification "her long hair plays in the wind" - personification " I thump my head like a ripe watermelon" - simile "I watch Uhmma’s shoes
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Analysis of the Simile from the Iliad A passage will be extracted from the Iliad to analyze how the contents of passage are expressed and contain the similes. The selected passage describes the fight between Achilles and Hector. In fact‚ the scene tells how fierce Achilles chases after Hector. Furthermore‚ it describes how Hector gets frightened as facing his death by means of the similes: Hector looked up‚ saw him‚ started to tremble‚ nerve gone‚ he could hold his ground no longer‚ he left
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The Odyssey Book Ten: The Grace of the Witch (916-925) 1. Who lives on the island of Aeolus? ___________________________________________ 2. What gifts does Aeolus give Odysseus? _______________________________________ 3. What do Odysseus’ men do that curses their voyage even more? ___________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 4. What happens in the land of the Laestrygones? _________________________________
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convincing him to kill Duncan‚ like a storm on a wedding would. b. Simile 2. Vocabulary Word: Chide a. Macbeth chides himself after killing Duncan like parents would to their ruthless child. b. Simile 3. Vocabulary Word: Cloistered a. If I were Macbeth after murdering Duncan‚ I’d remain as cloistered as a caveman. b. Simile 4. Vocabulary Word: Dauntless a. Lady Macbeth is like a lion‚ displaying her dauntless side. b. Simile 5. Vocabulary Word: Fruitless a. Macbeth hopes that his actions do not
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but not just any firefighter. In this future world books are burned‚ and the firefighters are responsible for burning books. Between the use of metaphors and similes Bradbury illustrates and embeds a clear
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Wedding‚” by Faith Shearin‚ simile and imagery work together to show the overall themes of love and what comes with it. The majority of the similes used in the poem involve imagery. They paint a vivid picture of the poem in the reader’s mind and make it much easier for the reader to follow along with the poem. The imagery used in this poem shows everything in love and a relationship from the time two people fall in love to death. In “After The Wedding‚” Faith Shearin uses simile throughout. “Answers come
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