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- 41: Ode On A Grecian Urn
- ... to know." This is a great example of a paradox revealing a truth about life. A simile is a direct comparison of two essentially dissimilar objects using the word "like" or "as" in the comparison. Similes are often used to help glamorize a story with vivid comparisons. Keats uses simile in "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity." Metaphors are comparisons ...
- 42: Ode On A Grecian Urn
- ... to know." This is a great example of a paradox revealing a truth about life. A simile is a direct comparison of two essentially dissimilar objects using the word "like" or "as" in the comparison. Similes are often used to help glamorize a story with vivid comparisons. Keats uses simile in "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity." Metaphors are comparisons ...
- 43: The Sniper Analysis
- ... coarse of the plot development. Little extra tricks have been used through the story that could only been described as style. Little things such as short sentences to create extra suspense. Use of alliteration and similes creates a more powerful image. Short, simple sentences gives impact to the final climax of the story. So concludes this analysis of The Sniper written by Liam O Flaherty. Shown above are references onto how ...
- 44: “All Summer In A Day”: Selfish And Hateful Of The Human Race
- ... know how much the other children hate and despise Margot. Imagery, which is the use of figurative language, helps the reader understand the children’s circumstances and their feelings in the story. The author uses similes many times in the story to give the reader a vivid picture of what is happening. “The children pressed to each other like so many roses,” gives the reader the impression that all the children ...
- 45: Sybolism In White Fang
- ... this story so successful and effective is the style Jack London uses. He uses a lot of detail and descriptive words which help aid the symbols and meaning embedded in the novel. Personification, metaphors and similes all throughout the novel, brilliantly placed and inciting vocabulary keeps this book hard to put down. Also a lot of well thought alliteration words are used to give it that enjoyable reading feeling. Furthermore, the ...
- 46: Dream Deferred
- ... just like the raisin in the sun. Hughes continues to make his point through the symbols of inanimate objects as the poem progresses. In addition, all of the symbolic statements except the final one are similes. In lines four and five, the statement, "Or fester like a sore--And then run?" is extremely symbolic. The visual picture of a sore festering and then finally breaking open and running is again equal ...
- 47: Daddy, Vampires, And Dark Hearts
- ... Plath felt oppressed and stifled throughout her life by her use of the simile "I have lived like a shoe for thirty years poor and white, barely able to breath or Achoo." The use of similes and metaphors such as "Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belson." and "I think I may well be a Jew" clearly shows the feelings of anguished hopelessness and the ripping ...
- 48: The Outsiders 3
- ... hair was jet-black and heavily greased and combed to the side, but it was so long that it fell in shaggy bangs across his forehead. The author uses description very well. She uses metaphors, similes, quotes that help the reader these people, where they live, and what they do. The reader is made to feell as if he were living right there with them. The level of vocabulary is not ...
- 49: A Raisin In The Sun
- ... emphasize the points that are being made. As Perrine says, people use metaphors because they say "...what we want to say more vividly and forcefully..." Owen capitalizes greatly on this by using strong metaphors and similes. Right off in the first line, he describes the troops as being "like old beggars under sacks." This not only says that they are tired, but that they are so tired they have been brought ...
- 50: A Birthday
- ... literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes toward love. A simile is comparison with one thing described as if it were another, using the words "like" or "as". In the poem similes are used to portray the joy of the speaker. Example of the joy of the speaker are found in the liens "My heart is like a singing bird", and "My heart is like a rainbow ...
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