time‚ as a child… the power might not come on again too soon” pg. 7- describes Montag’s past as a child. 8. Alliteration- “Monday burn Millay‚ Wednesday Whitman‚ Friday Faulkner” pg. 8- describes all the cities that they burn in one week. 9. Simile- “like a mirror” pg. 11- describes Clarisse and how her face reflects back to him. 10. Flashback- “nights when things got dull…a new game began” pg. 24-25- describes how they used to have fun on boring nights and use the hound for personal pleasure
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Paret Rhetorical Analysis In his article‚ “The Death of Benny Paret”‚ Norman Mailer sorrowfully retells his first-hand account of the tragic death of the boxer‚ Benny Paret and the horror that he witnessed that day. Using figurative language such as similes‚ and diction to enhance the readers’ emotions‚ the author conveys to the reader a sense of shock‚ loss‚ and regret. Mailer retells his heartrending witness of the death of Paret in order to order to convey to his readers of the inhumanity and nobility
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experience every day one after the other watching their fellow men die because of capital punishment. George Orwell’s text “A Hanging” uses a variety of rhetorical devices including similes‚ characterization and juxtaposition to convince people of the wrongness of capital punishment. WS1: The use of similes in “A Hanging” are almost always a description of the dehumanization of the people in the prison. One example Orwell uses at the beginning of the passage is when he compares the manner
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Imagery‚ symbols and word plays Line 1: "Bent double‚ like old beggars under sacks" is a simile‚ which compares the men marching to beggars. Instigating the poem with an image of men "doubled" generates a possibility that the soldiers have become two people: the men they were before the war and the unsympathetic men that they have become. Line 2: In this simile‚ Owen is referring to the men participating in the war as hags "Knock-kneed‚ coughing like hags”. Line
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Name ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Dateــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Activity 1: Simile and Metaphor Decide whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor‚ and identify the two things being compared. Then change the simile into metaphor and vice versa: 1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The dancer moved around the
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flower‚ and moth in the poem to show how they are all connected. Although their differences are highlighted throughout the poem‚ they all rely upon each other creating a sense of connection. Frost heavily uses similes to create a specific scene for the reader to set the scene. Using similes
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be gruesome and overly-descriptive‚ it leaves many questions for the reader. In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem‚ “The Fish” she uses similes‚ adjectives‚ and imagery to show the significance of inner beauty in people. During the poem‚ a reader can notice lots of smiles in order to describe the fish. Throughout the poem Bishop vividly describes the fish to the reader‚ and similes help make the poem
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is another way in which Thomas makes them appear extraordinary. In the second stanza Thomas suggests a sense of value to words by choosing similes to describe them‚ with language such as ‘precious as gold’‚ ‘tough as oak’‚ ‘as poppies and corn’ each simile has a reference to a natural value and suggests the need Thomas feels for words. For example the simile comparing words to poppies and corn suggests not only a vulnerability from the delicacy of a poppy but life’s fundamental need for foods such
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and informative passage. The author’s fascination of the river is incredible due to the simple‚ solid facts that are stated. Throughout the passage the author uses many rhetorical devices to amplify his message such as diction‚ vivid imagery‚ and simile. The author uses a series of rhetorical devices in the passage such as asyndeton to help communicate his fascination of rivers to the reader. An example of this is “It generates its own internal forces through its size‚ its sediment load‚ its depth
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classmates. Today I am going to explain to you how I used at least one form of intertextuality in my poem called ‘chilling with the boys’. I used various language techniques to create my rap poem; this includes juxtapositioning‚ hyperbole and a simile. The first technique that I am going to explain that I used to create my distinctive rap poem is juxtapositioning. “Dad comes by my room‚ and thinks I’m studying‚ quickly go to my desk‚ and act like I’m doing homework‚ he comes and lurks‚ over
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