• Now consider similes and metaphors; what semantic areas do they belong? What is the poet’s aim in using them? Simile compares soldiers to beggars because of appearance (ragged‚ dirty) but also has connotations of being uncared-for‚ homeless‚ impoverished. Simile compares soldiers to hags because coughing‚ slow‚ infirm as if they were old; also has negative connotations (ugly‚ witch). Simile describes sensations the reader may be more familiar with to show the pain the soldier is going through
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oppression through his use of similes‚ metaphors‚ contradictions‚ and biblical allusions. McKay uses a simile to introduce his trope of blacks being hogs trapped in the city. He also establishes that being a hog is not something that he likes and that he wants to change. The simile is found in the first line of the poem when McKay states‚ “If we must die‚ let it not be like hogs.” Here‚ McKay is telling the reader that they cannot stand to be hogs anymore. He follows the simile to describe the hogs by
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Poetry is a form of literature that is expressive and can sometimes communicate a message more effectively than prose. It can be filled with literary elements and vivid language that can help poets relay their message to the readers. What is fascinating about poetry‚ is that each poem can relate to a person in multiple ways. In the poems "Harlem" and "Weary Blues" Langston Hughes uses language that effectively communicates the overall themes of both poems and relates to the African American experience
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SHAKY START Left to himself‚ Ratan Tata would probably have stayed on in the United States after training as an architect at Cornell University. But the son of deputy group chairman Naval Tata and the nephew of JRD Tata couldn’t be allowed to work outside the group (he had an offer from IBM). In 1962‚ Ratan joined the family business‚ working on the Tata Steel shopfloor at Jamshedpur‚ just one of several thousand employees. He got his first independent assignment less than a decade later --
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to read it. The last reason this poem is a master piece is because the poet uses a lot of similes. An example like‚ “ Bess’s face is compared to a light”. If this poem or any kind of poem didn’t have any similes in it the poem wouldn’t have that much excitement to tell about. If there wasn’t any similes nothing could be compared together making the poem plain and boring. If the poem didn’t have any similes than the poem would be boring‚ plain‚ and no one would want to read the
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streets‚ and if their families tried to sneak out to drag them back into their homes‚ we’d shoot them too. We left them in the streets for days. We left them 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
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experiences “Years and place-names/Recognised by accents”. The simile “like birds of passage” in the third stanza echoes the simile in stanza two so again we see the need for belonging to create this sense of human fulfillment and familiarity. Skrzynecki uses a simile again in stanza four “rose and fell like a finger/pointed in reprimand or shame” for the “barrier at the main gate” and so is also personified‚ through this simile it suggests a feeling of blame and imprisonment in a literal and
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leave. Even though houses like the “Happylife Home” don’t really exist yet‚ the imagery helps the reader picture what it would be like to live in a house like that. Others say that a craft more used during the story would be similes and metaphors. While this is true‚ the similes do not help lead to the climax‚ only letting the text flow a little better. A more prominent example of author’s craft would be the personification of the “Happylife Home” itself. This craft helps the reader see how clouded
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African Americans are still targets to get picked on for any little thing. There are some interesting literary elements Langston Hughes points out. Hughes uses literary devices such as simile‚ imagery‚ and anaphora to show the reader the theme of ill effects on African Americans in society. Through the use of simile‚ the author reveals the comparisons of a dream to rotten meat. In the poem‚ it says‚ “Does it stink like rotten meat?” (Hughes 6). This quote shows that a dream can sometimes be like a
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start at the rainforest floor and I go to a tree that looks pretty sturdy and goes up a decent amount. Narrator: Jack climbed the tree to the under canopy. Jack the explorer: I have to be careful because a lot of the predators live here like jaguars‚pumas and snakes. The thing is
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