Similes are sometimes made without using the words "like" or "as." This often occurs when making comparisons of differing values. "Norman was more anxious to leave the area than Herman Milquetoast after seeing ten abominable snowmen charging his way with hunger in their eyes." "But this truth is more obvious than the sun--here it is; look at it; its brightness blinds you." "Shall I compare thee to a summer ’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:" - William Shakespeare‚ Sonnet 18
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Personification Paper Hero English 3 10-6-13 Many suns and moons have passed over my head. It gets cold here‚ but the people warm my life with their laughter and merriment that I bring to them. I truly enjoy making people happy‚ in fact‚ it is my job. I was created to please others and every chance I get to do that‚ I try. I bring shelter to warriors‚ noblemen‚ the king‚ the queen‚ and other folk of the town. I am a celebration centerpiece to reward the people for their efforts in making our
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Chopin uses optimistic imagery to state that freedom is a spark that becomes a flame to those who are binded by darkness as her main idea. She is able to convey this main idea to the readers through metaphors and similes that correlates with freedom. Chopin states her main idea by using optimistic metaphor about the taste of freedom from a woman‚ whose husband was thought to be dead. In the story‚ the narrator says‚ “she was drinking in a very
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The Personification of Family “I have found the paradox‚ that if you love until it hurts‚ there can be no more hurt‚ only more love”. As humans we learn to accept those we love despite their strengths and weaknesses. We create bonds that go beyond logic and reasoning. Bonds that overpower the mind and with the proper time allow us to omit our pain. Love stands superior to all faults in a relationship. Such is the imperfection of love that without experiencing pain‚ love is never really understood
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In nowadays literature world personification is defined as attribution of humanlike qualities to non-human objects. Contemporary and long-recognized authors commonly use this technique in their writings. Moreover‚ until recently‚ personification was directly linked to allegory (Paxson‚ 1994)‚ so the most antique works of literature can be now associated with this writing method. One of those works is Homer’s Odyssey‚ which is filled with several personifications. Dawn is most commonly personified
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Death” by Emily Dickinson‚ most people would assume that the poem would take on a gloomy mood because of the word death‚ but in this case the poem has a gentle and peaceful mood to it. Dickinson uses the personification of death to cast the peaceful and gentle mood for the poem. Personification and mood both play big parts in revealing the theme that death does not wait for anyone‚ and often comes unexpectedly. In the poem‚ Dickinson personifies death‚ and makes death a character in the poem. The
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The entirety of the story revolves around the traits of the main characters and their relationships with not only themselves but with nature as well. The author’s use of personification actively contributes to the theme through the traits of nature and being able to further explain the attributes of it. Personification allows the reader to compare nature’s destructiveness to the destructive nature of hate within the main characters‚ Ulrich and Georg. Somewhere this was used was when lightning
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the poet can smell violence in the air “like the lash of coming rain; and this feeling seems to the poet to be “poised like a cobra”. These are original similes; and these are followed by a series of metaphors based on serpent-behaviour. These are only a few of the examples. Actually Daruwalla’s poetry contains an abundance of similes and metaphors. Daruwalla finds that there is violence in the very air‚ and that this violence is an indication of the mass hatreds drifting across the moon and hovering
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In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‚" Jonothan Edwards makes use of similes‚ hyperboles‚ and repetition to strike fear into his audience in order to persuade them. By utilizing the sense of fear along with the rhetorical devices he manages to prove his point. By utilizing similes‚ Edwards makes a comparison to illustrate his point. An example would be when he states‚ "his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else..." In the quote the comparison being
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Nature in the end continues to move forward in the cycle without them and washes away the footprint so that eventually any trace or remembrance of those who died will be forgotten signifying their insignificance in the world. In addition of using personification‚ Longfellow also uses imagery to characterize the value of nature as humankind being insignificant to the
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