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    by the General. If he made it 3 days without being caught‚ then Rainsford gets to go home; Dolefully that did not happen to any other human before Rainsford. In Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game‚” The use of similes/metaphors and Imagery contributes to the story’s overall mood. Similes

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    Emily Dickinson uses personification to similate how death is a gentleman that stopped to give someone a pleasant ride to their destination. The gentleman (Death) waits for her is the way the poet conveyed in the poem. As if death is a person waiting for her to join him. Another personification is when the writer compares death to someone having good manners‚ although this is not possible‚ they travel together at no certain speed with no time limit. As they pass through the town the sun sets

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    The Seven Deadly Sins: How Deadly Can They Be The Seven Deadly Sins is a major aspect to the religion of Christianity. Religion in the Middle Ages was exceedingly important and the central character to the lives of the people living in this time era. In early fourteenth century‚ Robert Manning of Brunne wrote a poem of an educational text informing people to avoid the seven deadly sins. Sometime later‚ in the late 1500s‚ Edmund Spenser wrote a book entitled The Faerie Queene and in Book 1‚ Canto

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    definition of metaphor as‚ “consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else; the transference being either from genus to species‚ or from species to genus‚ or from species to species‚ or on grounds of analogy” (Lan‚ 2005). This explanation of metaphor emphasizes on its distinctiveness as being a rhetoric phenomenon or rather a device that is transference from one word to another in enhancing the forcefulness and complexness of the expressions. In simpler words‚ metaphor is a figure

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    Personification in this chapter is shown in this chapter when the narrator says what she is doing on the porch. “So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth‚ and quenching the thirst of the day.” (ch.10‚ pg. 95) Here Janie is deciding whether or not she should be wary of Tea Cake; their shared love seems too perfect. This tension is also evident in Tea Cake’s name—his proper name‚ Vergible Woods‚ reminds readers of Janie’s past relationships with

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    having nothing but his wits. In his short story‚ “The Most Dangerous Game‚” Richard Connell uses personification and foreshadowing to heighten the suspense and conflict of the story. Connell uses a lot of personification in his story to create suspense. As Rainsford is hiding from Zaroff in a tree‚ he describes the length of time by stating “the night crawled slowly by” (53). Using personification in a way to describe time makes the story more suspenseful because it shows how time drags by and

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    | | | | I. INTRODUCTION II. OBJECTIVES III. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF METAPHOR IV. METAPHOR AND OTHER LANGUAGE FEATURES ANALYSIS OF MARGARET THATCHER’S SPEECH TO 1987 CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE IN BLACKPOOL V. CONCLUSION VI. REFERENCES VII. APPENDIX I I. -------------------------------------------------

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    is the simile and metaphor on page 314‚ and how to use these types to make the reader feel and imagine what happened in my essay. In addition‚ if you want to develop your writing skills‚ I think the figurative language is important to add the interest‚ personality‚ and variety to my writing skills. Also‚ using an effective word that helps the reader paint a picture in his/her mind. The first essay "Polaroids" by Anne Lamott‚ the author used the effective figurative language by used metaphor and simile

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    By looking at Shakespeare’s similes and the descriptions of the mistress‚ we can see that the beauty standards of the time are haunting the mistress and giving her a corpse-like appearance. Shakespeare’s sonnet consists of similes used to describe the mistress in unpleasant ways in order to show how different she is from the typical woman one would see during the Elizabethan Age: “If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun / […] / I have seen roses damasked red and white‚ / But no such roses

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    More often than we would prefer‚ we are inclined to forget the significances of the events and experiences of our past - such is only human‚ if we fail to record our incidents. However‚ this is far from the case for expressive memoir author Virginia Woolf‚ whose afternoon sailing one day had impacted her for life. There are several descriptions‚ allusions‚ and idiomatic phrases in the reminiscent passage which harken back to the significance of Woolf’s undertakings as depicted. Specifically‚ those

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