Similes And Metaphors In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. In the novel Kidd used a simile to compare and make readers understand more. “ I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason”.(11) Kidd compared Rosaleen to a flower to express that at times

“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst is a short story about a man looking back on his childhood and his experience with his little brother, Doodle. The author uses simile to foreshadow the ending of the story and to show the theme. One of the first examples of is when the protagonist’s parents decide on a name for their child, “They named him William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail on a small kite,” (Hurst) The simile foreshadows the ending because it is exactly what happens in the ending. After the protagonist teaches his brother how to walk, he decides to train Doodle to fight, run, and swim.

Similes also help readers understand many different themes throughout the novel. One can understand a story better if they can figure out what the main theme is. Figurative language can

Metaphors are considered to be one of the most important forms of figurative languages used in everyday speech, prose, fiction, and poetry. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a metaphor is “a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison” (Van Engen, 2008). Metaphors are used to enhance imagination of the reader when reading stories and poems. Metaphors make imaginative comparisons between two completely different objects; one object said to be another. For instance, in the poem Casey at the Bat, the author uses a metaphor to compare players to objects by stating the players are those actual

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Give an example of figurative language used in the novel (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia). You could also give an example of imagery. Explain why the author uses this figurative language or imagery. How does it enhance your understanding of the novel?

A simile is a form of figurative language that uses the word “like” or “as” to make a comparison. An effective simile can tell a lot about a character or scenario. Early on in Wiesel’s book he describes Moishe as “Physically, he was awkward as a clown. His waiflike shyness made people smile” (3).

In “Shitty First Drafts,” Anne Lamott illustrates the challenges and difficulties writers face while preparing to write their first drafts, by explaining many different examples and how to eliminate those issues and exceed into creating the “Shitty First Draft.” Anne Lamott’s use of figures of speech, narration, and audience appeals, teach the readers how to write their first draft. Lamott’s descriptive writing and use of details allows the readers to experience her struggles and compare that to themselves. “Even after I’d been doing this for years, panic would set in. I’d try to write a lead, but instead I’d write a couple of dreadful sentences, XX them out, try again, XX everything out, and then feel despair and worry settle on my chest like

Similes are used to compare characters to build characteristics. He used simile when he said, “Like an elastic rope, he lengthened his lead until any thought of someone else winning snapped altogether” (Zusak 245). He compares Rudy to an elastic rope because it's what he looked like when he ran. This helps build characteristic to the character. Another place he used simile is when he says “It seemed to surrender slowly, like a falling tree” (Zusak 249). This simile helps build characteristic to the setting of the story. It is a simile and imagery because when it says falling tree; you picture a tree slowly falling which makes the reference

Metaphorical language is are expressions that put aside literal meanings in favor of imaginative connections. There are many stories that we have read that this trait shows, but the two that show it the most are A Sound of Thunder and The Scarlet Ibis. A quote from A Sound of Thunder is “Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell”. (506) A quote from The Scarlet Ibis is “He collapsed onto the grass like a half-empty flour sack”. (346) The reason that the quote from A Sound of Thunder is important to the story is because the it shows the most dramatic moment in the story into term that the reader can understand, like an avalanche or a stone falling. The reason the quote from The Scarlet Ibis is important is because it helps

For example, the story “The Sirens” in The Odyssey, on lines 690-691 Odysseus says “or know what death we baffle if we can. Sirens weaving a haunting song over the sea.” This metaphor is comparing death to the Sirens, this helps to identify that this is a dangerous route that Odysseus knows of and how he is still pursuing it. This metaphor helps describe the thought that Odysseus needs to

A metaphor is figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. In Emily Dickinson's poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” showed a great amount of metaphors in the literary art. In the poem it states, “Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me”(ll.1-2). The line shows a use of metaphor because Death is being personified and Death literally cannot stop for another individual. In “Thanatopsis,” the poem talks about the beauty in death and compares it to nature. “Thanatopsis,” doesn’t show much of the literary element, but i found a few that could be classified as a metaphor. In the poem, it states, “when thy summons comes to join…”(264). This is a metaphor because the statement is not literally applicable.

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.”

There is an example simile in “David”, when they are describing what the mountain looks like. The simile that was used is “The peak was up thrust like a fist in a frozen ocean of rock that swirled into valleys the moon could be rolled in”. There is also simile

Similes are a poetic device that are commonly used throughout The Odyssey to compare one thing to another thing that may be more familiar or easier to picture. When Odysseus arrives at the island of the man-eating giants called the Laestrygonians,

The use of figurative language in writing brings a story to life in the mind of the reader giving them a better grasp of the events taking place. Using hyperbole, simile and personification serves to develop the characters of a story as well as enhancing its theme (Kirszner and Mandell, 2012).