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    How Imagery and Macbeth Go Together An ability to form mental images of things or events is called Imagery. William Shakespeare used a lot of imagery in his plays to help connect his readers and audience members to the characters. In one of Shakespeare’s famous plays “The Tragedy of Macbeth”‚ Imagery involved itself in every way and played a big role; that depicted high emotions between the play and characters; Stimulating one in a visual‚ auditory and organic way. Visual Imagery is a flow

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    Gerard Hopkins share similar views but express them through different figurative language

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    first person view of the person lying on a couch in the house‚ using a pleasant and calming tone. The person pictures two main scenes: (1) nature with trees‚ daffodils‚ and hills‚ and (2) space with stars and the Milky Way. William Wordsworth uses figurative language such as personification through out the whole poem to bring the nouns to life. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" shows how people can doze off easily have no limits to how far their imagination can go. The poet starts off with "I wandered

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    Memorial. He argued passionately and powerfully with the help of language strategies. I believe Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream speech uses effective language. Martin Luther King uses clear and memorable language strategies‚ figures of speech‚ and sound devices effectively in his speech‚ “I Have a Dream.” Martin Luther King’s "I have a Dream"speech uses clear and memorable language strategies such as repetition and concrete language effectively. Repetition means‚ "An instance of using a word‚

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    Figurative language allows readers to better understand the message that the author is trying to say. Personification allows writers to easily reveal what they are trying to say when descriptions fail them. By including personification‚ the author can clearly communicate how he felt at a specific time. As a reader‚ personification allows us to easier relate to the idea or feeling the author is conveying. Wiesel uses personification on page thirty nine‚ when he says “Remorse began to gnaw at me.”

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    Still‚ it is true Paul advocates for mimesis. However‚ what true imitation looks like for him is not one which leads to glorification of social order‚ but the opposite. It is this opposite‚ counter-cultural view of the cross that Paul has been articulating in all of chapter 4‚ and in 1 Corinthians 1-4 entirely. As problematic as 4:14-21 can seem‚ when this pericope is kept in view of the chapter as a whole a different interpretation Paul’s aim emerges. Still‚ Paul’s command to “imitate me” can seem

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    the poem‚ the mindset about desire is clearly contained by the use of repetition‚ metaphors‚ and shifts. The poetic devices allow the speaker’s experience with desire to be expressed as a powerful force. In the first four lines‚ the speaker opens up by blaming desire for the outcome of his life. The speaker holds an accusatory tone through a series of metaphors‚ which channel his anger with desire itself. Using figurative language‚ the speaker describes this need as “thou fool’s self chosen snare

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    His people on the right path and walking with them at good and bad times in their lives. They both tell us not to be afraid because God is with us. Moreover‚ David speaks about dwelling in the Lord’s house forever. Finally‚ both psalms illustrates imagery as it discusses the happenings as David prays. For example‚ sheep and green pastures‚ being fought by the enemy‚ walking a path with God‚ cup overflowing‚ and a table being filled with food are all images that can be displayed in one’s head.

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    In the Holocaust memoir Night‚ Elie Wiesel communicates the horrors of his journey from Sighet as an innocent‚ passionate child to his time spent at the Auschwitz concentration camps facing a harsh reality. Through the use of diction and syntax‚ Wiesel emphasizes the deterioration of the Jewish prisoners’ emotional and physical conditions. Within the first five chapters‚ Wiesel utilizes terminology to present the Jewish background of Sighet‚ as well as his own passion towards worship. For example

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    descriptive tale about a countryman of Paris France‚ and his trials with an distasteful Prussian officer. In this short story Maupassant uses his figurative language to portray the distraught and demoralized city of Paris. Maupassant’s use of irony‚ figurative language‚ style‚ tone and other elements make this story captivating for the readers. Maupassant uses a delightful flourish to this writing by expressing an underdog situation for the readers to appreciate. Maupassant’s story starts off explaining

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