Analysis 5 Sicut Cervus Intro: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of spiritual music and the bestknown 16thcentury representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He has had a marvelous influence on the development of church music‚ and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina’s masses show how his compositional style developed over time. One of the symbols of Palestrina’s music is that dissonances are
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events the soldiers are going through. All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” exploit literary devices to affirm the horrors of war. Erich Maria Remarque and Wilfred Owen emphasize poetic language with the use of personification‚ simile‚ and imagery. An idea or animal that is nonhuman‚ is bequeathed with human virtues. In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front he emphasizes poetic language by giving the idea human virtues. Remarque refers to nature as a girl “one
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examples are similes‚ personification and hyperboles. One of the most obvious poetic devices in figurative language are similes. Similes are one way Wordsworth describes how he wanders alone as part of the landscape. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (line 1) is the first distinct simile in the poem. By using the word "as" the author helps the reader understand how he wanders alone by comparing it to a cloud. The author goes on to mention how long he wanders by using similes. "Continuous
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group apart. Although one boy‚ Jack‚ has instincts that will be beneficial during this time. Jacks instincts are animal like and will help with hunting and keeping the group safe. Golding shows us these animal like instincts by using imagery and similes. Golding uses imagery to paint an image of Jacks behaviors that reflect an animal. Imagery is when visually descriptive or figurative language is used in literary work. Golding uses imagery to describe the wild‚ dog like behavior of Jack and how
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types of figures of speech. 3. Construct a sentence using different kinds of figures of speech. 4. Recall the 5 commonly used figures of speech through quiz. II. Subject Matter and Materials A. Topic: Figures of Speech (Metaphor‚ Simile‚ Personification‚ Hyperbole & Irony) B. Year Level: 3rd Year High school C. Reference: Literature of the Philippines. Rex Bookstore‚ Inc. Ferdilyn C. Larcia and Lydia L. Libunao‚ Ed D et al. (2003). Essential English. Loyola Student Center
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this song we can find poetic elements like the following: a couplet‚ simile‚ and a thematic statement. This song contains a couplet; a couplet is a pair of successive lines endings must rhyme with one another. “ Another hero‚ another mindless crime. Behind the curtain‚ in the pantomime.” We can find this quote in the song. Crime and Pantomime endings rhyme and they are a pair of successive lines. We can also find a simile. A simile is two unlike things being compared using “like” or “as”. In the quote
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quote is about the Trojan Atrides defending the corpse of Patroclus. It is a great example of Homeric simile. It comparing Atrides to a lion. For this illustration I drew the events represented in the simile. These event are much simpler and clearer that the chaos described in the literal part. This quote is about Achilles while he is experiencing Aristeia. It is yet another example pf epic simile. This time I drew the figurative representation. The drawing itself is a simple picture of fire
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In the poem "Still I Rise" by Maya. Angelou‚ Angelou uses metaphorical language‚ similes‚ and rhetorical questions to convey to readers how powerful and strong Angelou has become as a person. The most effective usage of a poetic device that Maya Angelou uses is her reliance on metaphors. One use of this device that really sticks out is‚ "You may trod me in the very dirt But still‚ like dust‚ I’ll rise." Angelou’s use of a metaphor in this first stanza is effective because the readers are already
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also the patient’s trust. I will be imitating Virginia Woolf‚ the author of “Shakespeare’s Sister”‚ by using different forms of rhetorical techniques to get my point across to the audience; however‚ my main techniques will be imaginative scenario and simile. With using imaginative scenario‚ it helps use a plausible creative way to persuade the audience to the
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family owning a futuristic home that reminds them of their daily events and is specifically scheduled to perform chores chronologically throughout the day. In the short story‚ Bradbury’s use of simile provides the readers with a projection of the overall tone of the narrative. To begin‚ a quite striking simile is used‚ “The fire backed off‚ as even an elephant must at the sight of a dead snake (bradbury 3)”. By comparing the fire with an elephant‚ a clear image can be created in the reader’s mind on
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