3 Examples Of Figurative Language

“The light, full and smooth, lay like a gold rind over the turf” (Adams 123) “I can feel the danger like a wire round my neck-like a wire-Hazel, help?” (Adams 13). These are examples of similes because they use the words like or as to compare two different things. Simile help the reader to be able to see what is happening in the story in their mind and to be able to imagine it. For example, “Her hair was red” is dull and is not very descriptive, but “Her hair was as red as fire” gives the reader an idea of how red it the hair was and allows the reader to imagine it.

In “A River Runs Through It,” similes are used constantly. They usually relate a person or object to an animal or living entity. For one example, Maclean uses a simile to compare life’s

Ray Bradbury is focused on multiple craft such as similes to give bigger and better pictures in your heads, metaphors to give us examples and to give us pictures as well, and foreshadowing to give use hints on what might come later in the story. He uses these craft moves to emphasize how spoiled the Hadley children have become. Ray Bradbury uses similes often in his story The Veldt to give us better images in our heads when reading the book. This is how Bradbury uses one of his similes. “The house lights followed her like a flock of fireflies.”

Similes is like sun in literature, without it, nothing would would be alive. It is what makes up figurative language and keeps it from extinction. One example of a simile used in the story is right in the beginning of the book, comparing how children really enjoy Eddie. “They drew in like cold hands to a fire” (page 13). The many children that adventure Ruby Pier everyday are very attracted to Eddie. Children love him. It was like it was destiny. Eddie was meant for Ruby Pier, not because his father worked their, but because he was meant to protect every child from the roller coasters. That’s why he was maintenance. So that he could fix the rides to protect the children. So this simile really acts as a symbol and a little bit of foreshadowing. But mainly, this simile compares how the children are like cold hands to a fire because they can never get away from

Ray Bradbury also shows similes in his story through word choices and descriptions. When he says, “...lurking in the trees with colorful flights of butterflies, like animated bouquets, lingering in her long hair.” I see a bunch of butterflies flying around a beautiful girl, and then all of them lifting her into the air, and he singing the whole way up.

Simile is a figure of speech which shows a similarity between two apparently unlike things by using the words “like” or “as.” One example of simile is, “The god that holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire…” In this sentence you are being compared to a spider, or a loathsome insect. This means that God is holding you out of hell like someone would hold a bug over the trash. A second example of simile is, “your wickedness makes you as if it were as heavy as lead.” Your wickedness is being compared to lead. It is saying that you have so much sin and wickedness in you, that it weighs you down because it’s so heavy. The more wicked you get, the lower God’s hand drops, and the sooner you fall into

In his poem, Flames and Dangling Wire, the first line immediately sets the scene allowing us to have a sense of where we are. The use of a simile in “The smoke of different fires in a row, like fingers spread and dragged to smudge” implies the filthiness of the tip and the smoke rising from the fires. This also causes the air to

2. “Your name is like a golden bell hung in my heart…..”(Cyrano de bergerac 127).

Find at least 5 similes (Comparisons using "like" or "as") in the text. Does his use of comparisons enhance the imagery of the text? If yes, how? If not, what is the significance of that imagery. - “The hair was yellow like that of a circus kewpie doll…” - “The face heavily powered and rouged, as though to form an abstract mask…” - “Her breasts were firm and round as the domes of East Indian temples…” - “To see the fine skin texture and beads of pearly perspiration glistening like dew around the pink and erected buds of her nipples.”

In the excerpt, I Am Legend, Richard Matheson uses a variety amount of rhetorical devices to identify the themes and ideas that emerge between good and evil, reflecting human beings. In the authors writing, he uses similes to compare two things. For instance, "he saw the man's throat moving like clammy turkey skin" and "his fingers like skeleton fingers. " To explain the readers that Neville is describing the man's throat to a bumpy wrinkled skin, and how the man's hands are old and bony.

A simile is when you compare 2 things using like or as. The simile i used is farely simple. I used this one because they talk about diamonds and are wealthy. they are also “like an angry diamond”. 5.

Similarly, in “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou conveys that people can not let anything stop them from achieving their dream and to fight back. The use of similes expresses this because it shows how good or bad a

Simile is a kind of speech involving the comparison of two things. In the story he says, “ I do not know the customs of the rivers - we are the People of the Hills. “ , he was comparing the customs of the rivers to the people of the

In the opening of the poem the speaker uses a visual image that is also a simile to compare a dream deferred to a raisin. "Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?" The simile in the question is comparing a dream deferred to raisin in the sun. Like a raisin, a dream deferred shrivels up

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