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    line‚ Piercy uses simile when she writes‚ “the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls.” By using this simile‚ Piercy piques the readers’ imagination‚ renewing their interest in the forgotten things people do. This simile shows that the people who do hard work make it look easy from doing it so well and the speaker wishes she could be like them. In addition to simile‚ Piercy uses metaphor and simile. To capture how hard the people work‚ Piercy uses metaphor

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    Flies using foreshadowing‚ mood‚ tone‚ and many types of figurative language. Golding uses many examples of figurative language such as similesmetaphors‚ personification‚ and hyperboles. A simile and metaphor compares two unlike objects. To differentiate the two‚ similes uses like or as and metaphors directly compares the two objects. An example of simile that Golding used is‚ “ Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane‚ with wings swept back…” Ralph

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    Metaphor Vs. Simile in Sonnet 130 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; *His mistress’ eyes…like the sun= simile because it is a direct comparison using “like.” Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; *Coral is far more red than her lips= would have been a simile because if he had not been making fun of these types of cliche poems‚ it would have been “her lips are as red as corals.” If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; *If he had not been satirical‚ this line

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    Marge Piercy conveys the theme through metaphorssimiles‚ and imagery. Throughout the poem‚ Marge Piercy uses metaphors to help teach her message. “They seem to become natives of that element‚ black sleek heads of seals” (5-6) states than anyone can become used to working vigorously and doing their best-- like seals become used to swimming gracefully in the ocean. In saying

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    Imagery in the language: Look especially on metaphorssimiles and symbols. You also have to interpret the title Julie - page 193-194 Page 193 line 7-8: “His son was outgrowing his teenage attitudes.” It is a metaphor because a plant can grow‚ but your teenage attitudes can’t be outgrowing. Page 193‚ line 15-17: "He was aware that he had become slightly afraid of his son‚ who‚ alongside his silences‚ was developing a sharp tongue. It is a metaphor because your tongue can’t be sharp. What Parvez

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    Dymond the writer uses a range of different languages. For example‚ similes are used a lot‚ like in stanza fourteen there are two similes‚ they are; her skin was soft as sable‚ and her eyes were wide as day. Whereas in John Lomas‚ there is only one simile in the whole ballad‚ that simile is; my conscience did like fuel burn. That simile is in stanza nine. In comparison Charlotte Dymond has four similes and John Lomas has one. Similes are when you say something is like another thing or when someone says

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    for the dogs. Dog meat for dogs‚” (Hosseini 277). Identically the metaphor is similar to the simile where the Hazaras are being compared to garbage‚ but this time‚ they were compared as if they were dog meat and were good for nothing else. This quote shows the brutality associated with being discriminated against. Not only were they shunned in society‚ but they were killed in brutal ways with no regard for their lives. The metaphor of comparing the Hazaras to dog meat shows how singled out they were

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    central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. A theme provides a unifying point around which the plot‚ characters‚ setting‚ point of view‚ symbols‚ and other elements of a work are organized 2-image : a word‚ phrase or figure of speech (simile or metaphor) that addresses the senses suggesting mental pictures of sight‚ s1-theme : the central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. A theme provides a unifying point around which the plot‚ characters‚ setting‚ point of v1-1-theme : the central

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    achieve these effects the author uses a variety of literary techniques such as metaphorssimiles and personifications. In this travel writing‚ the author talks about the North Yorkshire coast. The text covers three different places in three different paragraphs which all of them are set within the North Yorkshire coast. In the first paragraph‚ the author talks about St. Hilda. The author starts by using a metaphor‚ ‘A great black tooth’. This phrase creates villous and monstrous effects‚ bringing

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    as the narrator‚ Orwell uses the officer to show the evils of imperialism on not only the Burmese but also on the enforcers. Orwell develops his argument against British imperialism through his use of rhetorical strategies such as symbolism‚ similes/metaphors‚ and imagery. One rhetorical strategy that Orwell uses to establish his strong dislike for imperialism is symbolism. An example of this is the use of the rifle in Shooting an Elephant. The rifle is not only used to kill the elephant (imperialism)

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