“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‚ Murakami is able to compare the
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There is nothing quite like a book the reader never wants to put down. To achieve this a novel must have interesting characters‚ a dilemma‚ and convey a lesson. Wuthering Heights‚ A Clockwork Orange‚ and The Death of Salesmen each contain these three main elements. All these books keep the reader interested. A Clockwork Orange does the best at fulfilling the readers interests. This novel has well developed characters. Even though the main character‚ Alex‚ commits horrible acts of violence to innocent
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Figurative Language in Shakespeare’s Macbeth Macbeth‚ the play of a greedy man who achieves his goals through treachery and murder‚ is filled with figurative language. Its author William Shakespeare‚ used imagery such as light and clothing to interpret the characters or themes. He also repeated several words as motifs throughout the play. A motif is a recurring theme in a story. One of the main motifs that Shakespeare uses is the word: blood. Blood is used forty-five times in Macbeth. It is used
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The use of figurative language or illustrations to represent objects‚ actions or ideas. An example of imagery. An example of imagery in this novel divergent are the factions. In the novel divergent‚ society is divided into five separate factions including‚ Amit faction ‘the peaceful’ was formed in order to have a peaceful society free from conflict and sadness caused by wars and instigation. Amity comes across as very kind and understanding. They strongly dislike war. They are truely a democratic
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adults‚ but children too. A child is just as capable of being in love. The novels Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility proves the powerful influence love can have on the different personalities of the children. Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Bronte. Bronte writes about two usually stable families and an intruder that stirs up their lives. "In the "beginning"‚ happiness reigned at Wuthering Heights . Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw and their parents were‚ seemingly‚ a felicitous
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Robert Frost utilizes exceptional imagery and figurative to highlight the physical wall between the neighbor and him‚ satirizing the critical emotional estrangement and boundary between neighbors. While Frost deems the neighbors’ outdated insistance of keeping the wall unreasonable‚ the speaker’s attitude was somehow ambiguous for there exists a border in his mind. The small conflicts and emotional changes are realistically amplied by the figurative language and imagery. To begin with‚ the great imgery
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Consider the importance of the method of narration employed in Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights is written by Emily Jane Brontë and narrated by Ellen Dean (Nelly)‚ a servant of both Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter‚ Catherine Linton. Emily Brontë must have thought she was the most convenient of characters to narrate this novel as Nelly was alive through each generation of both the Earnshaw and Linton families. Had someone like Catherine Earnshaw narrated the novel‚ it might have finished
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Wuthering Heights‚ written by Emily Bronte‚ is a book about a passionate and destroying love between the two main characters‚(possibly change this sentence) Catherine‚ a strong and beautiful young lady and Heathcliff‚ an adopted dark and handsome young man. Though they are meant to be together‚ their love was not an ordinary love; while both chose to make their love for each other more difficult than it needed to be‚ it is filled with wealth/status‚ revenge‚ and ghosts. Heathcliff‚ portrayed as a
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the town is scared of the Radley family although they don’t know much about them. This is important because without the Radley mystery half of the book wouldn’t have been written. It also shows many different types of rhetorical devices and figurative language. When Dill arrives in Macomb and Jem and Scout show him around town they stopped at the Radley house and describe it as a scary place‚ which does nothing but intrigue Dill to want to know more. Except he is to scared to do it himself so he
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and his scheming wife Lady Macbeth‚ using extracts from Act 1‚ Scene 7. I will also examine how the language used emphasises the key themes and ideas within the play. The characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are revealed and developed through their dialogues with use of soliloquies and asides‚ helping to reveal their personalities‚ states of mind‚ emotions and motivation. Much figurative language and imagery is used by Shakespeare to emphasise the themes within the play‚ creating atmosphere and
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