As the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God comes to a close Zora Hurston uses a lot of figurative language. On page 192 Hurston uses personification to emphasize her point. She says‚ "There was a finished silence" which makes the reader pause even before they reach the end of the sentence. The reader could either interpret the silence as being over‚ or they could see it as being a complete and undisturbed silence that was coming about. Directly after that the readers questions are answered. By saying
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in history because of his use of figurative language writing skills. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ Shakespeare uses figurative language multiple times throughout the play. Shakespeare uses figurative language in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar to create a special effect or feeling for the reader. Some examples of figurative language that Shakespeare uses throughout the play includes: verbal irony‚ personification and metaphors. By using figurative language in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ Shakespeare
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President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University Stadium‚ in which he appealed for support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s program to land humans on the Moon. In his speech‚ Kennedy uses process analysis‚ figurative language‚ and appeals to hope and responsibility to hopefully persuade Americans to donate towards NASA’s pursuit of space exploration. To start off his speech‚ Kennedy uses a "capsule history" to chronologically describe the efforts and accomplishments
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indirect characterization is action. According to paragraph number 8‚ it states‚ "In an instant I dragged him to the floor‚ and pulled the heavy bed over him". This describes how the narrator killed the old man and how it did not vex him. For figurative language‚ it consisted of personification and symbolism. According to paragraph number 6‚ it states‚ "All in vain; because Death‚ in approaching him had
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“Sonnet 83” by William Shakespeare conveys the indescribable beauty of a person using punctuation‚ imagery‚ and figurative language. The word “painting” as used in the first line of the poem is a type of poetic imagery that means praise or poetic flattery. This accompanied with “painting set” creates a much more elegant image than simply writing the word praising. Imagery and figurative language is more heavy and emphasized in the last two lines of the quatrains. The last line of stanza one for example
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The Seventh Man In the story “The seventh man” Murakami primarily employs techniques such as figurative language through the use of flashbacks and a feeling of foreboding to characterize the deadly wave. After several attempts to get K to make a last second escape‚ the wave finally makes its first appearance with a bang being depicted as “a wave like a huge snake with its head held high‚ poised to strike‚ was racing towards the shore” (Murakami‚ 178). Through the use of simile and personification
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In the story Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Emerson uses aspects of figurative language that are compelling. This language is established when Emerson compares roses to the present. In the text it says‚ “These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.” People are obsessed with the past that they typically neglect the present. Society is referenced because we compare the past to the present‚ even when
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Poetic Devices and Forms Line - equates a spatial measure or words or sounds‚ a fundamental conceptual unit. Stanza - a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length‚ metrical form‚ or rhyme scheme. Figurative language - Expressions or statements that are intentionally not literally true. Metaphor - A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving deeper meaning to the second. Forms of the "to be" verb are often used; "is" or "was". All the world’s a stage And men
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The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping us to understand why these nighttime fires left such a lasting impact on this grown woman from when she was only five years old. All of these things are
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The poems‚ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Is My Team Plowing” by AE Housman have their own perception of the idea of death which they further emphasize with the use of figurative language and style. To begin with‚ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is a poem about a person‚ most likely based on the views of Dickinson‚ who is too into her own world that she does not acknowledge her own death. This poem uses style to emphasize the idea of love. For example‚ on the second
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