The Theme is Developed in Poems, Forgetfulness, by Hart Crane and Billy Collins

Being perfect is impossible to handle so Bauer uses similes to describe Jill in how she handles her life. To have descriptive images, Bauer used similes to describe Jill when she is working to make readers understand how being perfect is like. When Jill was explaining how her job goes like in a day, she used her memory to tell the readers. The author had used a simile to how Jill acted, “... watching my station like a hawk, keeping the coffee brewing, getting the pancakes

Furthermore, she uses simile by using the word “Like.” She is comparing the seed packet promises for coming true. Another way the author conveys figurative language is by revealing simile. She uses simile by depicting,“ The answers to these questions tell a tale as complex

“The Metaphor,” by Budge Wilson tells the story of a shy and embarrassed middle-schooler, turned beautiful and confident high-schooler. As Charlotte reflects on her time as an adolescent, she remembers one of her favorite English teacher who was tragically killed. Miss Hancock inspired Charlotte in more ways than one, which is why it is understandable that she felt a great deal of guilt after she was killed. Although the story does not clarify, it is quite clear that Miss Hancock’s death was not a coincidence. The school bus that takes her life was symbolic of her failures as a teacher, which affected her deeply towards the end of her life. In Miss Hancock’s case, it was what she loved the most that ended up taking the most from her.

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

Verbal irony is used throughout the story as well and relates to the theme of hypocrisy. Throughout the story, many things are said that might confuse you or not make sense which is verbal irony. One of the characters, Old Man Warner said, “ Next thing you know they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves”(Jackson 4). This is ironic because he is making it seem that cave men and their lifestyles are modern which in reality they are not. Another example is told by Mrs. Delacroix, “ You’re in time, though. They’re still talking away up there”. Here she is talking to Tessi Hutchinson acting like their friends and everything is fine, but at the end of the story when Tessi is the one being stoned, Mrs. Delacroix picks up the biggest rock to throw.

In his poem, Flames and Dangling Wire, the first line immediately sets the scene allowing us to have a sense of where we are. The use of a simile in “The smoke of different fires in a row, like fingers spread and dragged to smudge” implies the filthiness of the tip and the smoke rising from the fires. This also causes the air to

This similer’s importance is to show how still and deserted everything

In addition, another simile that shows that not forgetting the past hurts us occurs when Mel is doing yard work at her house; She expresses, “I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear” (168). Right after this occurred, Melinda looks at her dad and asks for seeds to start growing flowers. The simile compares the popped blister to a tear, which happens to be a motif in the book because of how many tears Melinda lets out. Also, especially near the end of the book, gardening starts to become a hobby for Mel.

[...] But the thing about remembering is that you don’t forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present” (O’Brien 34). For a writer like O’Brien it must

The value of memory is an important aspect in a person’s life because most of the time our brains will go back into our memory and recall past events weather them being good or bad. Memory plays a part in every human being’s life, whether it may be about a great loss of someone you loved dearly or it be a great gift like having a child or a miracle happen like getting a perfect score on your SATs. Memory will always be an aspect in everyone’s life. In the passage, “Hope, Despair, and Memory” by Elie Wiesel, and in the excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger the value of memory are treated in both worthy and harmful ways using diction, repetition, and theme.

Similes and metaphors provide a clear picture of the despondent world that the author lived in. In the poem the dead are “Bound with ropes like the tree’s ball of roots

Have you ever read a book and had to read it again because you did not know what the heck it means? Have you ever thought the book was all a figure of speech? A metaphor is a figure of speech and for the books “Metamorphism”, “Hills like White Elephants”, and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” all reoccur a metaphor threw out the pages. These books discuss a reoccurring theme of metaphors by their hidden metaphorical message that will make a reader read again to understand the book. The metaphors that reoccur in the story are outraged for “Metamorphism”, abortion for “Hills like White Elephants”, and impetuous for “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.

In Forgetfulness, by Billy Collins, Collins creates an earnest tone through the use of imagery and metaphors in order to create the theme that forgetfulness is a natural and necessary process. In Forgetfulness, Collins develops an earnest tone by using imagery to create the theme that forgetfulness is natural and must occur in everyone’s lives. Throughout the poem Collins adds the imagery of the act of forgetting to illustrate how it is is a normal occurrence. To begin, Collins explains that “memories you used to harbor / decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of your brain”(Collins 6-7).

Throughout the journey of The Father and Boy, memory was a prominent theme in The Road that not only reminded the individuals of the past but played a significant role in influencing the direction of their lives. Memory is something of a double-edged sword in The Road. The Father wants to remember the past, but when he does, he has trouble focusing on survival. However, the setting of the novel is so terrible that the he really needs the sustenance of the past. The present world of the Road is dark and full of death, the only real color appears in The Father’s good dreams and memories which allow him to continue his journey, however, particular dreams and memories have the potential to create bad thoughts and disallow The Father to move forward

In "A Handful of Fog," Lakshmi talks about remembering and forgetting. How has the process of each changed the longer she has been away from home? Explain the two similes she uses at the end of the chapter to describe remembering and forgetting. Why is forgetting so much easier than remembering?