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- 91: The Adventures And Maturing Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... Sawyer; but that ain't no matter." The incorrect grammar of a juvenile, southern boy begins to introduce the reader to Huck and it develops his character right away. Twain also uses imagery, metaphors, and similes to paint pictures. "The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead." Mark Twain wrote The ...
- 92: Daddy, Vampires, Black Hearts ( An Insite Into A Life )
- ... 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 ...
- 93: The Media: Newspapers
- ... other. The language (or diction) used in the articles is also different. The Daily Telegraph uses very complicated words but The Daily Mail sticks to simpler words. The tabloid also uses a lot of alliteration, similes and metaphors. For example, ‘Child Genius Goes for Gold’ (alliteration). I have come to the conclusion that the tabloid type of newspaper is definitely the easiest paper to read if you are young, do not ...
- 94: Shakespeare's Sonnets: Time And Decay
- ... Shakespeare uses this theme in many of his sonnets. The sonnets give no hint of an afterlife and express that nothing survives time. Shakespeare used numerous methods to depict this theme including personification, metaphors and similes. Even though Shakespeare says that time destroys everything, he also addresses how to “defeat” time to a degree. One way to “defeat” time is to marry and have children. A person’s offspring will in ...
- 95: Elements Of Romanticism In Wordsworth's "London, 1802" And Blake's "The Lamb"
- ... wholly or partially covered by water, mud, clay, or dirt."(Oxford English Dictionary). From this line a realistic setting is produced. The narrator further conveys a visionary experience through the extensive uses of nature via similes and metaphors within the poem. On lines 2, 9, 10, 11 it states, England hath need of thee: she is a fen Thy soul was like a Star Thou hadst a voice whose sound was ...
- 96: Cynthia Ozick
- ... and terrible, it did not seem like it. ’s writing would not be explained in details, she would let the reader figure out where the story was taking place. She would use figurative language and similes in order to describe something. For example, in the short story "The Shawl", Magda began to cry because she wanted the shawl. When Rosa found the shawl, "Magda was high up, elevated, riding someone's ...
- 97: The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'
- ... been fishing. Next, Bishop compares the fish to familiar household objects: "here and there / his brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper, / and its pattern of darker brown / was like wallpaper;" she uses two similes with common objects to create sympathy for the captive. Bishop then goes on to clearly illustrate what she means by "wallpaper": "shapes like full-blown roses / stained and lost through age." She uses another simile ...
- 98: Maxine Kumin And Her Poetry
- ... the past by, “...unwind(ing) it, paste it together in a different collage...”. In this poem, Maxine Kumin, uses plants to describe her feelings, as in; “scatter like milkweed” and “pods of the soul”. These similes show what she sees and feels. “The Longing to be Saved”, is a dream, where her barn catches fire. “In and out of dreams as thin as acetate.” She visualizes herself getting the horses out ...
- 99: A Philosophy For All: An Analysis Of The Tao
- ... over stream. Alert as a warrior in enemy territory. Courteous as a guest. Fluid as melting ice. Shapable as a block of wood. Receptive as a valley. Clear as a glass of water." With these similes he explains that as a Taoist the reader should be cautious and kind, flexible and open, observant and straightforward. He does not accept honor or glory as values. Unlike many other philosophies/religions where the ...
- 100: Plato Vs. Aristotle
- ... in The Republic that Philosopher Rulers who possess knowledge of the good should be the governors in a city state. His strong interest in metaphysics is demonstrated in The Republic various times: for example, the similes of the cave, the sun, and the line, and his theory of the forms. Because he is so involved in metaphysics, his views on politics are more theoretical as opposed to actual. Aristotle, contrarily, holds ...
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