Milton's Grand Style

For example, Bradbury writes “He would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.” The simile used does a great job showing the reader the setting of this scene in the “The Pedestrian”. In this scene a man is walking down the sidewalk kicking up ash-like dust. When the reader sees the image of that man, the reader gets the sense of a content and tranquil situation.

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

The author uses a pair of similes to help people have a picture in their head about the story. In the story he says ¨It was empty as a jungle glade at a hot high noon¨. This simple quote makes the story a whole lot more realistic. You can practically feel the hot sun pouring down on your back. It helps people form an illustration in their head about what is happening in the story. Another simile used is ¨The house lights followed her like a flock of fireflies.¨ This quote

He also shows Similes in The Veldt by foreshadowing. When he says, “The awful death in the jaws of a lion.” He is foreshadowing that the parents, or someone else might die by the lions.

In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” By Richard Connell there are many similes used to help develop the story. One simile Connell uses in his story is “He strained his eyes in the direction from which it was like trying to see through a blanket.” The simile means that he couldn’t see at all. This impacts the text by building suspense for the reader. At this moment He heard a shot and looked around for the shot but then shortly he reached too far and fell off the ship. The fact the author chose to use this simile made the island creepy and mysterious. Another simile used in the short story is “where there’s none; giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as I crush this

similes stick to the time period of his writing. To add, in the second publication the similes

Another example of author's craft used in The Veldt is similes used to compare things we know to things in the story. An example used is “It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon.” Ray Bradbury uses examples like red paprika and hot paws comparing senses to Africa. Another simile used was “ like peppermint candy, eyes like bright blue agate marbles a smell of ozone” to show the power of imagination represented by similes to compare things we know to things used in the

BibliographyMilton, John. The Complete Poetry of John Milton. New York; Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. , 1971.

Not only are the similes potentially overlooked, they also create a bigger problem in deterring readers from finding the more interesting themes, such as truth and loyalty, in the novel. If they skim over the similes, they will most likely skim over some of these important, and interesting, themes. His interactions with

In Milton’s true style, what the poem says and what the poem means to convey are two drastically different things entirely. The initial meaning of the

An example of his use of similes is “...and his eyes have all the seeming, of a demon's that is dreaming…”.

Allusions can be found in nearly every work of literature and art due to the influence they have in creating a universal understanding. Biblical and mythological references are the most common allusions because they are regarded as primary sources for the basis of human reason. William Shakespeare alludes to both religion and mythology in Hamlet in order to emphasize the importance and failure of religion and to reveal the nature and psychological complexes of characters.

The theme of the 'heroic' in John Milton's Paradise Lost is one that has often been the focus of critical debate, namely in the debate surrounding which character is the 'true' hero of the poem. Most critics of the subject have, however, noted that the difficultly in defining the 'hero' of Milton's work is mainly due to our “vague understanding of what constitutes heroism”1 and the fact that “the term itself is equivocal”2. The 'vague' terming of what heroism can be defined as it what draws critics to disagree with one another over the nature of heroism, as Charles Martindale points out that there are 'different models of heroic', many of which Milton employs in his epic poem. To incorporate these different 'models' of the heroic into his

In order to give “The Bard” literary standing, and thus provide an effective platform to broadcast his views, the poet makes several careful and deliberate choices in the poem’s structure and language to create a sense age and grandeur for the poem. By referring to both to classical Greek poetry and popular and influential literary pieces, like Milton’s Paradise Lost (Gray 20), Gray manufactures standing for his poem. The full title specifies the poem as a ‘Pindaric Ode’. Though this was not an uncommon form of ode – and one which Gray used frequently – specifying that “The Bard” is a classical style of poem immediately sets the reader up with the understanding that this poem will be written with the Greek style in mind, and thus gives it an almost classical credibility. Although it was written before the Romantic period of literature, Gray’s use of landscape and nature, ask the reader to contrast the landscape to the actions of the English army and begs comparisons between physical nature and human nature. Gray, whilst linking the poem to ancient works and

Dante Alighieri’s life of lost love and exile from his home reveals an understanding of Dante’s philosophical epic, The Divine Comedy. The impact from famous classical writers and philosophers effect Dante’s use of interchanging language and style while his undying love for Beatrice remains a constant character in his works.