Jonathan Edwards incorporates simile‚ personification‚ and metaphor as his rhetorical techniques within his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Edwards incorporates rhetorical devices as a means to terrorize and persuade Puritans and to repent their sins. Throughout his sermon‚ Edward utilizes details and God himself to construct a frightening corollary for sinners in the after life. Edward emphasizes how dreadful and cruel the wrath of God truly is. For instance‚ Edward compares the "destruction"
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In the short story “The Metaphor” by Budge Wilson‚ a girl named Charlotte has a wonderfully flamboyant English teacher‚ Ms. Hancock. Mrs. Hancock has a certain way of making reading‚ writing and interpreting stories come alive for Charlotte. However‚ Charlotte’s mother does not approve of Ms. Hancock and is extremely rude and disrespectful to her. After Ms. Hancock passed away‚ Charlotte’s mom stated "lf you would examine this whole‚ perfectly natural situation with a modicum of rationality‚ you
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The Metaphor The people you interact in your live influences who you become. In Budge Wilson’s short story "The Metaphor" two characters named ’Miss Hancock’ and ’Charlottes Mother’ are both important role models for Charlotte‚ who is the main character. These women have very different personalities‚ with a few similarities. Miss Hancock and Charlotte’s mother have a few similarities. One characteristic is that they are both important role models in Charlotte’s life. At school‚ Charlotte idolizes
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In Homer’s book‚ The Iliad‚ epic similes are used throughout the book‚ by exploring one of these similes‚ Homer reveals ‚in the simile‚ that men of war can transform into an animal and take on their characteristics. Homer uses the epic simile to reveal how men of war are akin to a predator attacking its prey. In the epic simile‚ as Homer describes Aeantes and Little Ajax as lions‚ he uses the word “seize” as another way to say pounce. That these Achaeans have taken on the form of a predator‚ the
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The brilliant uses of imagery‚ personification‚ and symbolism in Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death” reveal that death is not the end‚ but only the beginning of an eternity. Through Dickinson’s use of imagery‚ she successfully paints the different scenes with descriptive language and metaphors to allow the reader to get a deeper sense of the mood and what the poem is conveying. Using personification as one of the most important tools of literature in the poem‚ the author creates
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Award winning novelist‚ Mark Zusak‚ in his novella The Book Thief (2005)‚ explains that fear in Nazi Germany was widespread World War II. His explanation is illustrating through allusions‚ highlighting the fact that fear was rampant through similes‚ and displaying fear through oxymorons. The purpose of this novella is to exhibit fear in order to reveal the life of Germans in the 1940’s. Zusak’s somber‚ yet comedic‚ informal novella to young readers shows the angle of German citizens during World
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uses Personification‚ Alliteration‚ and Imagery to create a picture in the readers mind‚ to show the difficulty of his decision to “take the road less traveled by” and to express the necessity of the making a choice. Frost uses personification in the poem to help the reader relate to the object (Personification the giving of a human quality to a non-human object). An Example is “Because it was grassy and wanted wear”‚ Frost is saying the road wants‚ which it cannot ‘want’. Personification also helps
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An example of personification in the story is when Rikki says‚ “It must be the head‚” he said at last‚ “the head above the hood; and when I am once there‚ I must not let go (para 57).” This shows the use of personification because the author uses the mongoose’s natural instinct to kill cobras and combines it with the text so that it seems as if Rikki-Tikki is thinking where to bite Nag. Another time when the author used personification is when the text states‚ “Darzee’s wife
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In the story "Cornet at night" by Sinclair Ross‚ personification can be used for a variety of Different in what way?different things. Personification‚ as we all know is primarilly used for giving a human emotion‚ feeling or action to an abstract idea or inanimate object‚ but personification can be used for so much more. In this case‚ personification can be used to also let the reader picture what is to come and to let them experience or draw their own feelings from the story. It lets them feel as
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