My Heart Will Go On Figurative Language

In Steelheart, Brandon Sanderson delivers the robust concluding lines, “I’ve seen Steelheart bleed. And i will see him bleed again” (Sanderson 9). These last two brief, seemingly trivial sentences, conceal this whole literary work within them. A young boy has witnessed his father be killed by the very being who was thought to protect them. With this slender feeling of hope essentially crushed from his very being, David, is the only living testimony to know this villain’s weakness. And with this information, he vows to seek retribution. The basis of this story was really compelling to me because of the incorporation of vivid imagery and descriptive figurative language, which allowed me to connect with the characters. Although not being able to completely resonate with this story, I have encountered the feeling of revenge, which was clearly foreseen within this writing and deeply empathetic.

Throughout my lifetime, there have been moments of laughter as well as grief. The first time I felt what it was truly like to lose the love of my life I ended up heartbroken and devastated. From that moment on my perception of love changed completely. The song by Christian Nodal- “Adios Amor” showed me how at times when the love fades between partners to the point where there is no love at all, you have to do your best to move on rather than spending time grieving the love that is lost. Therefore, the song “Adios Amor” taught me that some relationships are best to let go of if they don’t work as a young adult, and will continue to guide me throughout my life.

Therefore, some may interpret their love as lasting forever because they are ‘everything’, possibly even death itself.

Just as Mozart was passionate about composing music, Gandhi for advocating non-violence, and Mother Teresa for serving the poor, William Shakespeare’s character of Romeo in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, also displays the personality trait of being passionate. To be passionate, one must show intense feelings of love for someone or something. In Act II, scene ii of the play, Romeo expresses this passion for Juliet in the form of a soliloquy. This scene ensues in the dark of night while Romeo is observing Juliet from afar. The literary elements and diction in Romeo’s “But soft!”

possibility of losing them, but it also declares that the beauty of love is well worth the pain of

“Strumpet! Strumpet!” is what the people in Brave New World would say to the real world’s society because of with the government has told them. Totalitarian government in this society of Brave New World is a way to control the masses to become just a mass of bodies to work and only complete their assigned jobs. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses figurative language and details to explain political and social issues in the 1920s-1930s when this novel was written.

“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” Within Brave New World, a totalitarian government in a utopian world is depicted by a handful of hatchery directors that condition each of their creations and divide them into groups amongst one another based on qualities in order to establish an idealistic stable community depicting the theme of power. Aldous Huxley illustrates social and political worldly conflicts within a newfound society to ridicule the behavior of other upon him and the strictness of his living environment during the 1930’s and surroundings by using figurative language, tone, and detail.

The speaker did a very good job with his speech. His speech I believe is more informative, because he is describing his recent experience with appendicitis. The area that I liked most about his speech was his introduction. He had a very good hooked that got a lot of people’s attention including my own. He scared me for a moment, because he made everybody believe that he was going to show everybody his appendix that he just had removed from his body. Instead he showed the appendix of a book. Also, as he presented his speech he expressed what happened to him with very personal information. This information helped him establish his credibility. He presented his speech very well and sounded very confident. However, there were a few brief pauses

Every morning, a 71 year-old male stranger accompanies me on my way to school. I only know of his name, but I enjoy his company and chuckle as he comments on my generation’s use of language. Yet once NPR’s linguistic segment of Fresh Air ends, Geoff Nunberg’s witty remarks fade into the abyss. In the quietness of the car, I am left to revel in my own passion for languages: a transformative journey through Spanish and Chinese.

What is a world with actual stability and perfection? In Brave New World, the author,

The title of the poem “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun” suggests that the speaker is not in love with his ‘mistress’. However, this is not the case. Shakespeare uses figurative language by using criticizing hyperboles to mock the traditional love sonnet. Thus, showing not only that the ideal woman is not always a ‘goddess’, but mocking the way others write about love. Shakespeare proves that love can be written about and accomplished without the artificial and exuberant. The speaker’s tone is ironic, sarcastic, and comical turning the traditional conceit around using satire. The traditional iambic pentameter rhyming scheme of the sonnet makes the diction fall into place as relaxed, truthful, and with elegance in the easy flowing verse. In turn, making this sonnet one of parody and real love.

In the poem of “Before I got my eye put out” the speaker lost the vision of her eyes. Which made her feel sad

This song is an impactful experience for anyone who listens, if they know of its purpose or not. It displays a message further beyond their tribute to James, and shows how loss affects everyone. When somebody loses a person that was close to

“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” by John Donne explores love through the ideas of assurance and separation. Donne uses vivid imagery to impart his moral themes on his audience. A truer, more refined love, Donne explains comes from a connection at the mind, the joining of two souls as one. Physical presence is irrelevant if a true marriage of the minds has occurred, joining a pair of lovers’ souls eternally.

Throughout Milton’s Paradise Lost, figures are depicted watching a view, often fluctuating, the outlines of which dissolve while they are being watched. These visual scenarios, often constructed through a Miltonic simile, include the moon observed through Galileo’s telescope (I, 287–91); Satan surveying the cosmic panorama of the created world (III, 555–73); Galileo’s telescope that reappears “less assured” (III, 588–90; V, 261–3); and finally, a man following a wandering light into the marshes (IX, 634–42). The visual allure of these similes is drawn in part by the description of a natural scene that induces an emotional response, with the human figure standing in for the reader in this emotional reaction. These similes animate human emotions in a description of mental events, as individuals attempt to relate the objective, natural world to the subjective perception of the musing subject. Such an interest in the visual image as a manifestation of an individual’s psychological condition suggests that the simile partakes in the perceptual psychology of the epic poem. However, much of the imagery in the Milton’s similes is visually unstable; that is to say, the similes disturb perception by distorting what is seen. Exploitations of perspective in the course of understanding visions and their significance engender misjudgment that represents the poem’s central concern with fallibility. To explore these ideas further, I will