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- 71: “The Birds” By John Updike
- ... The author purposefully constructs the poem like this because it gives the reader a complete sense of his experience. Lastly, the figurative language contributes to the author’s climactic ending. First, the author uses many similes to show the reader the beauty of the situation. Updike especially focuses on the scenery when setting up his poem: “maples were colored like apples,” “[r]ipe apples were caught like red fish in the ...
- 72: The Scarlet Letter 6
- ... onward...to the themes that were brooding deepest in their hearts." line 17-18). Thus, establishing ethos, the reader can relate to the thoughts of the characters through the structuralization of the sentences. Metaphors and similes abound this passage each establishing a visual effect in the mind of the reader. Hawthorne implies that they [Hester and Dimmesdale] were led by one another into the woods both searching for a sense of ...
- 73: Analysing War Poetry
- ... beginning of the poem Owen is describing to the reader the terrible condition he and his fellow comrades are in as they are making their way back from the warzone, and does this by using similes and metaphors. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Drunk with fatigue; These descriptions give you the impression of troops of men trudging along, ill and ...
- 74: Iliad
- Paris: Magnificent Hero or Spoiled Child? Homer uses tone, imagery, epithets, and similes to describe Paris’ character. Outwardly, Paris is a brave person, but inwardly, he is full of doubts and fears. He is like a stallion that has been pampered too much, a child who is allowed ...
- 75: Herman Melville- Moby Dick
- ... are watching a sunset is that it says "the warm waves blush like wine. The gold brow plumbs the blue. The diver sun—long dived from noon,—goes down; my soul mounts up!" B. The similes the author uses are the comparison of the colored waves of the sunset to wine. I believe that when the author is talking about the "Iron Crown of Lombardy" he is talking about the sun ...
- 76: Imagine Being A Swinger Of Bir
- ... be. So I once myself a swinger of birches. And through these words Frost exposes his desires to find earth's path of truth and heaven's path of truth, through all the metaphors and similes. The poem now takes a big turn and now you don't see that birch scene any more. Frost starts to summarizes his experience. You see confusion, weeping, and earth's truth ripping Frost apart ...
- 77: Analysis Of “The Vietnam Wall”
- ... beginning, longest in the middle and again short at the end. This not only resembles the shape but is also the manner in which names appear on the wall. Throughout the poem Rio uses many similes and comparisons For instance when conveying the uncontrollable emotions felt when viewing the wall Rio writes: I Have seen it And I like it: The magic; The way like cutting onions Brings water out of ...
- 78: THE ILLIAD
- ... to hear more of the gore that we claim to detest. It appears evident that Homer was conscious of the dark side that all humans possess. Crawford pg. 4 Homer also employs the use of similes that enables us to relate the things that which are familiar, to those such as the “gods”, that we do not understand. This analogical language that Homer uses, eases the transition from not knowing , to ...
- 79: Book Review On Grapes Of Wrath
- ... always, is rich with colorful language and sensual images. His pages are filled with lines such as, The dust-filled air muffled sound more completely than fog does, and all sorts of literary elements from similes to personifications. There is one thing that a reader will never get with The Grapes of Wrath and that is bored because of how descriptive the settings are. The passages of nature are especially vibrant ...
- 80: Metadrama In Shakespeare
- ... quote a passage. Note the style of the lines, “The rugged Pyrrhus, like th’ Hyrcanian beast...” (Act II, scene ii, line 425) They are written in a pompous, mechanical formal style using exaggerated metaphors and similes: “With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrus / Old grandsire Priam seeks” (Act II, scene ii, lines 438-440) This style was much used by Shakespeare’s earlier contemporaries, the sort of passionate speechifying Bottom makes ...
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