Muchos Somoss By Pablo Neruda Literary Devices

Metaphor: “The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.” (Coelho, 73) In this quote, a metaphor is shown because it is comparing the desert to a capricious lady without using the words “like” or “as”. This quote is saying that the desert is unpredictable and it can make travelers go insane.

The Five Themes of Geography are: Location – Absolute points on a map or grid or Relative to where something may be; Place – The physical and/or human characteristics of a locations; Human/Environment Interactions – How humans have impacted the landscape or environment; Relationship between places Movement – How humans interact on the earth (i.e. how they communicate over distance (short or long)) and Regions – a unit of space that has commonalities defined by physical, human and environmental geography. The Explorers of the New World may have not known what the Five Themes of Geography were but they quickly learned. Of the five themes the ones that they all took advantage of was the physical Location and Place as they learned to navigate

Neruda express his thanks for thanks in many ways, and one way was figurative language. The speaker used a lot of powerful figurative language to get his point across. In my opinion, the strongest use of figurative language is one that hits you right in the first stanza. It states, “Thanks to thanks, / word / that melts / iron and snow.” This personification means that saying “thanks” can break through the toughest and harshest of situations (the iron) and the smallest, softest of situations (the snow). Another use of figurative language can be found in lines 9-14, where it states, “Thanks / makes the rounds / from one pair of lips to another, / soft as a bright / feather / and sweet as a petal of sugar.” First off, personification is used when the speaker says “makes the rounds from one pair

To begin, Foster made it clear that no matter what type of story it is, geography is there and it shapes the story. Whether it’s humans, land, canoeing, or sailing it’s geography. Not many people realize that geography is as big as it is. Writers use geography to represent what is going on in their lives and to show their personality. In poetry, writers use a better sense of people as geography. While in books and stories, the writer can take their time showing people the land. Foster states that no matter what it is, where it happened, or how it happened, it happened due to geography and writers have to show that. Foster explains, “Geography in literature can also be more. It can be revelatory of virtually any element in the work” (Foster 174). This statement shows that writers need to have a better understanding of what the geography is like before writing, and how important is to get a visual idea of the story. Moreover, geography’s impact is also shown throughout The Crucible.

Perez’s use figurative language throughout the poem transmits the concept of avarice in mankind with the ambition for amelioration. A representation of similes in the poem would be “Darkness spills across the sky like an oil plume.” In the literal sense, he is stating that it is nighttime which creates the setting of the poem. However, when referring to oil plumes, Perez is discussing the environmental damages such as destroying habitats and the source of diseases

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

One of the main aspects of a story begins and ends with the geography. Many things can be interpreted by the word geography and The Crucible by Arthur Miller along with “Geography Matters” by Thomas C. Foster found a way to express just how much geography can shape and change the way the story is told. Setting and geography have impacted everyone on this earth, including me. The way setting has impacted be makes up for who i am today and who i will be in the future. The Crucible and the passage “Geography Matters” go into depth on how geography shapes and defines the people in it.

In the first stanza the speaker uses 'One' to make the reader think that it could be anyone. Valleys my mind, gives the reader the idea of changes. The figurative speech is common in poetry it uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation for example the simile comparing “Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies on water.” The speaker is giving you a visual picture of an image to heighten and to draw upon your senses a possible experience. Using the word like to give the reader a second visual comparison of how it looks like lilies lying on the water. The metaphor declares that “dry grass to a lake.” This metaphor is used by the speaker to give the reader a visual of going from the lands grassy edge leading to a lake. "Beauty is different for everyone it is as they say in the eye of the beholder." If you are comparing the thought of changes in beauty to the meaning of life it can be get messy. "Beauty is skin deep" an example of this is when the speaker is talking about wading through the water in the grass. “Queen Anne’s lace is beautiful floating on top of the water” and glides with the push of a hand, but underneath the water it is hard to get through the grass it can entangle you

In the story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez intertwines the supernatural with the natural in an amazing manner. This essay analyzes how Marquez efficiently utilizes an exceptional style and imaginative tone that requests the reader to do a self-introspection on their life regarding their responses to normal and abnormal events.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-” “-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Lee 30).

Geographic differences include physical and human characteristics of a society. This includes where the civilization is located, and the specific features of each landscape. In “Of Cannibals”, “the situation of their country is along the sea-shore, enclosed on the other side towards the land, with great and high mountains, having about a hundred leagues in breadth between.” (Montaigne 3). Similarly, Utopia’s ideal society is also by the ocean but it is a crescent island, that is naturally protected by rocks that surround the island (More 49). While these locations may seem to offer similar advantages, More’s island is specifically different because the maze of rocks that surrounds it. The reasoning behind this is to have the entrance to the island be a secret between the citizens. The added protection is a geographic difference that originates from cultural order.

Furthermore, this poem heavily uses a mixture of literal and figurative imagery. One of my favourite examples of imagery in this poem was “hands reaching out / fists raising up / banners unfurling / megaphones booming” (Jetñil-Kijiner 62-65). This quote allows the reader to imagine the protests and the movements that people are trying to do in order to save the planet. That was a case of extremely powerful and inspiring literal imagery as it shows people’s fight for change. This is an example of people who are fighting to save the planet for not only the current generation but for future generations as well. There are also several examples of figurative imagery, the most prominent is personification. An example of personification is “they say [the lagoon] will gnaw at the shoreline / chew at the roots of your breadfruit trees / gulp down rows of your seawalls / and crunch your island’s shattered bones” (12-15). In this example, it is talking about the repercussions of climate change and what the future will look like if people do not change. The use of personification helps the reader understand the awful things that can

In the book, The Distance Between Us, Reyna Grande is ( *Ask when to use - is or was*) exposed to us multiple social issues, which predominantly revolves around the effects of inequality and problems within family. Through the early challenges in their life, Reyna, Mago, and Carlos all express maturity in their choices even though they were not granted that greatest quality of living. Mago, being the eldest siblings, adapted the motherly role beginning in her pre-teens. She expressed maturity in her school work and watched after Carlos and Reyna with intensity. Unlike most American children who grow up playing with toys and responsible parents, Mago had to raise herself and her siblings because of her parent's absences and her grandmother's

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.

Lorca described ‘Romance de la pena negra’ as one of the most representative poems from the ‘Romancero gitano’. The poem was written in 1924, when Lorca had been sent away from Granada, due to his homosexuality and was living in Madrid, the centre of the cultural ferment of the 1920’s. Here, he attended the ‘Institución Libre de Enseñanza’ (ILE), where he was inspired to search for the national Spanish spirit, through literature.