Examples Of Similes In The Veldt

In Helena Maria Viramontes’s story “The Moths,” she uses various types of figurative language that help create meaning to the story. For example in the passage “My hands began to fan out, grow like a liar’s nose until they hung by my side like low weights. Abuelita made a balm out of dried month wings and Vicks and rubbed my hands, shaping them back to size. It was the strangest feeling. Like bones melting. Like sun shining through the darkness of your eyelids. I didn’t mind helping Abuelita after that, so Amá would always send me over to her” Viramontes uses figurative language to show hoe the moths bring things back to life (811-812). Viramontes uses similes throughout this story, and in this passage, she uses a lot of similes. For example,

To begin the story, strong figurative language in the form of a simile, is already being used in order to describe the mood of the setting that the characters are in. David and his father are in an enourmous bank. David describes his surroundings by saying, “Men and women streamed out as if the room were some enormous beast pulsing with a lifeblood of people and cash” (Sanderson 1). This helps the reader obtain a sense in how large the bank was and how many people were in it, completely oblivious to the outside world. David continues to construe the bank and all its elements while

In this part of the passage, Ray Bradbury (the author) uses imagery, diction, and figurative language to foreshadow the ending of “The Veldt.” He uses these to foreshadow the ending of the story by showing that something had been killed recently and that everything had seemed a bit too real because of all the odors.

Authors use metaphors to make comparisons that the reader has to ponder on and consider, opposed to a simile where the comparison is blatantly displayed. Metaphors can be helpful to readers in the regard that they allow the reader to make connections within the text that they might not have made without the metaphor. Author David Levithan uses a metaphor to help the reader equate depression to something the reader might understand better. In the text, the main character states, “Depression has been likened to both a black cloud and a black black dog. For someone like Kelsea, the black dog is the right metaphor ”(Levithan 121). This quote tells the reader that depression can be equated to a black figure, or a dark looming presence. This could

Stephen Crane’s use of metaphors and similes, personification and imagery are very affective in the book The Red Badge of Courage. It is clearly expressed throughout the whole book. Learning it from Henry the main character on his journey during his time in the war when he hated it most. All he wanted after being in war forever was the red badge of courage for his bravery and courage.

Figurative language usage in almost all writing makes it easy for the reader to understand the concept faster. However, in his essay, he didn't use figurative languages such as simile which is why it's still hard to get his clear thoughts easily. Therefore, I suggest him to use more metaphorical language to help out the readers with their comprehension.

Throughout Hamlets soliloquy Hamlet uses multiple Stylistic Devices. Such as similes, double negative, enumeration, personification, assonance, capitalization, enjambment…ext. From start to finish I will be commenting on the stylistic devices used by Hamlet. We will start the commentary by talking about the uses of Similes in Hamlet’s soliloquy. An example that explains how he uses similes is “My father’s brother, but no more like my father; Than I to Hercules”(II 152-152).

A simile is a method of expression that compares different things using the word like or as. Authors utilize similes for a few reasons, yet the most evident one is illustration. They need to make an enduring impression in the audiences' minds. In Book II of The Iliad, the similes are drawn immensely from the world of nature: monsters, trees and plants, and scenes from lifeless nature (mountains, sun, moon, stars, fire, mists, ocean, snow, and so on.) The assembled armed forces are contrasted with herds of winged animals.

An Examination of Similes in the Iliad - and how Homer's Use of Them Affected the

The article in titled Between Lions and Men, Images of the Hero in the Iliad by Michael Clarke is a very innovate piece of work. In the article, Clarke puts forward the idea of how the referencing of wild animals in the Iliad is symbolic and highly significant to the ethical and psychological problems of heroism within Homer’s Iliad. The focus that Clarke is placing in relation to the animal similes within the Iliad is the lion similes. As the Iliad is focused on Achilles and his death, it is no wonder that the lion similes are associated with this so called hero. Achilles and how he associates himself with the wolf and particularly the lion is the focal point of this article. In this essay I will analyse and comment on the argument put forward

The author used the simile “I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine” (85) to describe the time when he was running, with the SS officers behind him commanding him to quicken his pace. The simile shows how Wiesel feels inhuman, how he feels more like a machine than a person. No one thinks twice about machines, they are used until they’re broken, and then fix them up a little before they break again. They are used whenever the use pleases, however they please, as much as they please. The SS officers treated Wiesel and the other Jews the same way.

I think that using "similies" and ""metaphors" add creative expression in writing. Similies is when we compare two different things and it use the word like or as. Using similie in writing adds an additional interest for readers. It doesn't make writing boring. It can take a long words to explain feelings without using similies but if I am using similies I can explain all my feelings in one line so using similies makes the writing creative. Using similies can draw a picture or can gives a king of feeling to the reader for example "The blanket is soft" doesn't gave any idea how soft it is but if I will say that "The blanket is as soft as a feather" it gave the idea and feeling to the readers how soft the blanket is in

When asked what some of the joys in his life were, the very first thing that Abe mentioned was his children and grandchildren. Any time that Abe is able to spend time with his grandchildren is a “joyous occasion.” He is very thankful to his family, mother, and father for showing him at a young age how important family is. Abe is also grateful for the privileges he had as a child, and the experiences he was able to enjoy. Another joy in his life is all of the adventures he has been a part of.

Metaphor is one of the most commonly used and important stylistic devices. It is defined by McRae (1998/2003:140) as ‘a word or phrase which establishes a comparison or analogy between one object or idea and another’. In other words, if one finds that certain features or characteristics of two otherwise completely different and unrelated objects are similar in some way, a metaphor can be created (Galperin, 1977:140). These are not comparisons like similes, however, as metaphors are constructed in a way that clearly states that object A is object B, rather than object A is similar to object B (ibid.). As a result, we may regard these objects differently than before.

There is no doubt that we have heard about Greek and the great history that they had however, whenever it comes in our minds the word Greek we remember the most popular epics ever in the history, Iliad. Iliad is an epic poem that tells the story of the Trojan War and the Odyssey which have been considered as the most important Greek epic poem for the blind epic poet, Homer. Despite the doubts in his presence whether he was the one who wrote the epic or not however, his epic poetry is still studying till this century. If we travel back in time to the century that Homer has been written this epic, we will find that his epic is dating back to the eighteenth or nineteenth century BC according to the history of Greek. One hundred years