true feelings‚ that you may hurt her and give Maya Angelou dirty looks‚ yet she will be the bigger person. Maya Angelou uses figurative language to hook her readers with the points she tries to express. Maya Angelou grew up in the 1930’s‚living in a country plagued with bigotry‚ particularly towards women and people of color. Thesis: In “Still I Rise”‚ Maya Angelou uses strong figurative language such as personification‚ metaphors‚ and similes to convey her ideas. BP1: In “Still I Rise”
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Night Portfolio By: Scott Kahler Mrs.Grandel 2nd Hour November 19‚ 2010 Figurative Language 1. Simile- “Physically he was as awkward as a clown. (pg.1).” Moshe was compared as a clown because he was a funny guy. 2. Metaphor- “Thousand gates and one gates leading in to the orchard of mystical truth.” This is a metaphor because each
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11/9/2014 Mary Cooper Lit 101 Language is a way for every person to express themselves. In Sandra Cisneros’ “An Offering to the Power of Language”‚ she teaches the reader how the language you were born speaking holds a certain power to you. She writes about how important certain words can be to a person‚ and how they have connotations that can either be positive or negative. These words can have even more power to a person if they can’t be translated into another language. I believe that Cisneros has
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In a typical and ideal parent child relationship‚ the parent loves their child. Sappho’s poem “Sleep‚ Darling” portrays through allusion and figurative language that the speakers daughter is very precious to them. The speaker has “a small/ daughter” (1‚2) named “Kleis” (3). In Greek‚ this name means ’a key’. Keys often symbolize release or the opening of things hence freedom. Thus this line entails that the speaker feels liberated from the rest of the world through their daughter. This is
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witty” (Keshmiri 78). It begs to question how he managed to organize words that would instigate such distinct feelings in the reader. Despite his novels being in prose‚ they share many qualities with poetry that utilizes precise word choice‚ figurative language‚ and phonetics to enhance the reading‚ and thus his mere prose leaves an impact on the audience that is similar to poetry and at times invokes the surreal and therefore mirrors the complexity of the human mind. His use of this “lyricism pointedly
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Lincoln expresses a desire to finally end the civil war in order to reunite the country. To accomplish this‚ he uses several unique stylistic elements in his address such as effective use of repetition‚ a religious tone‚ and comprehensible figurative language. Lincoln uses repetition in his inaugural address to notify his countrymen that the Civil War will end soon. He stresses the importance of unity in order to heal the wounds inflicted by the war. “With malice toward none; with charity toward
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Woolf keeps an eye on the moth and watches as the moths go through its course of life of struggling to get through the windowpanes‚ and eventually reaches death. The figurative language and syntax in the essay efficiently conveys the matters of life and death and what it means to be nothing but life. In the short essay‚ figurative language‚ specifically metaphor‚ is used effectively to connect life and death. Woolf witnessed the comparison and connection of life and death as she saw the moth struggling
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The figurative language used gave out a very negative and abusive vibe in the song “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem. To start right at the beginning‚ Rihanna sings‚ "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn‚” as an opener. Now we know that she is not actually on fire‚ making this a metaphor. This first line is immediately putting out there that she feels terrible‚ hence fire equals bad‚ and she knows that this other person is just standing there and letting it happen. If she was actually on fire
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Patricia Jackson 3/22/2013 EN-1102 VIVID IMAGINATION There was this young child who acquired a unique quality about her. Some might call it a gift‚ others may even think of it as a psychological problem. This is why I ask this question‚ “What is it about me that’s so unique?” My topic may be about a vivid imagination‚ but what you are about to read appeared real to me. I was born and raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin. I have seven siblings and a host of half sisters and
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My grandfather has a very special place in my life. He is the greatest person I know‚ and I really admire and respect him as a person. Grandfather was tall‚ thin with lots of white hair. He was in his 60’s when I passed away. Although I spent little time with him‚ I have lots of memory of him. My grandfather lived in a small village called Ibi‚ in Imo state‚ Nigeria. I was living with him at the age of four‚ because my parents were in Rome‚ Italy. I spent about six years with him before I joined
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