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    doing this to try and feel like she is at home‚ trying to connect back to where she came from‚ it is almost as if the hurricane has brought her a message that where ever you are on earth it is still the same place. “Falling as heavy as whales” is a simile and this is effective because the torrential rain that comes with a hurricane becomes like the sea and the tree’s become like whales. Also when she says “Come break the frozen lake in me” it is as though being away from her own country has made her

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    reader wince! The poem is as much about how Hughes deals with the dangerous situation and his feelings about the incident. Hughes uses a lot of sensual imagery and figurative language in this poem. The poem contains: Personification‚ metaphors and similes and he also uses paradox‚ or oxymoron. Sensual imagery There are many lines in which Hughes personifies the tractor giving it feeling and emotion. The most important example is probably the last line of the poem‚ where the words‚ ’raging and trembling

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    that a strong sense of identity can overshadow the derogations made by others. When Touchstone claims in Act Two that he is one of Corin’s ‘betters‚’ Corin replies contentedly ‘Or else are they very wretched.’ Further on in the play‚ Touchstone uses simile to describe Corin ‘like an ill roasted egg‚ cooked all on one side’ when claiming Corin to be ‘wicked’ having never been to court. Corin‚ happy with his bucolic lifestyle‚ shrugs off each remark stating ‘Thou have too courtly a wit for me – I’ll rest

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    A.D AP Literature – Period 1 TPS-FASTT Poem: America Poet: Claude McKay America Although she feeds me bread of bitterness‚  And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth‚  Stealing my breath of life‚ I will confess  I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.  Her vigor flows like tides into my blood‚  5 Giving me strength erect against her hate‚ 

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    nor we will yield. He wasn’t there at the wall today‚ Someone said he moved away To another school and place And on the wall where he used to lean Someone had chalked ’watch this space’. RHYME ALLITERATION ONAMATOPOEIA PERSONIFICATION SIMILE METAPHOR ASSONANCE HYPERBOLE  Also a metaphor Level: Year 7/8 Genre: Poem VOICE – A teenager/s seeing the events occur - experiencing isolation TONE – Sad‚ alone MOOD - Sad THEME – Not everyone has the chance

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    isolation within captivity. She is powerless‚ stuck in a situation she has no control and no power; stuck in a place where she truly doesn’t belong. It also allows the responder to feel for the sick giraffe and empathise it in its yearning for life. Similes are also used to provide the reader with imagery‚ such as "like a black leather strap as she chews‚" this symbolically compares the tongue to a leather belt‚ often used in torture or punishment it could also

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    I am going to show that the whole piece is aimed at entertaining the reader. Writers use different stylistic devices to create humorous effect. There are many comic effects used in this extract Dominant prose systems in this story are narrative and interior monologue‚ which overlap and go together t(he story is told by the 2 people simultaneously) The author uses this strategy not only to reveal character’s personality‚ but also to break the monotony‚ to create humorous effect. General tone of

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    Charles Chauncy “Enthusiasm Described and Caution’d Against” In the excerpt from his sermon “Enthusiasm Described and Caution’d Against” from 1742‚ Charles Chauncy makes use of metaphors and similes in order to describe the so called “enthusiasts”. On the other hand‚ he changes his register by incorporating words related to business and thus establishes a contrast between the “enthusiasts” and the “reasonable” (387) followers of God. Towards the beginning of the application of his sermon‚ Chauncy

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    The image of two gaunt trees combines visual and audial effects played by the onomatopoeia (‘rattled rather than rustled’) and colour adjectives ‘blackened’‚ ‘smoke-dried’. This image symbolizes death and the absence of emotions. The distinctive simile between the ‘chandelier’ and ‘vault’‚ expressed by comparison ‘a monstrous tear’‚ stresses the connotation of humidity which is connected with the bleak atmosphere of the passage. In the beginning of the text‚ the author’s vision pans with impersonal

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    cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats cats are meaningful because they meow symbol simile metaphor WOW this is a poem about cats how awesome is this meow meow meow apparently i must keep typing if i’m to enter the site why is this essay too short? what if I had a really good point and I’m just geniusly able to get it across in such a small piece of writing?! Look at Shakespeare’s sonnets... they’re short‚ but that doesn’t mean they’re bad! on the contrary‚ they’re quite wonderful

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