The Use of Similes in Auto Wreck Essay

In the first verse Griffin begins her poem by describing the flower in a field. Within the first few lines, imagery is used in such a way that it creates a vivid picture for the reader. “Love should grow up like a wild iris in the fields/ unexpected, after a terrible storm, opening a purple/ mouth to the rain, with not a thought to the future/ ignorant of the grass and the graveyard of leaves/ around,

In “Drive in Movie”, Gary Soto uses descriptive similes to prove how dedicated he is towards going to a movie. Some people back out when there is work involved but in this story, a movie motivates Soto to do many hard chores so his mother would recognize his hard work and treat him out to a movie. Soto uses a simile in the text when he says, “I began to hurry because my arms were hurting and my stung foot looked like a water balloon”. He is describing how his foot was blown up because he was doing all that hard work and he was stung in the process. By comparing his stung foot to a water balloon, he shows that he will even go through pain to achieve what he wants.

In the last three stanzas, it shows two rhetorical devices which are metaphor an antithesis. Metaphor is a two comparison without using a "like" or "as". For instance, "ripen", "unfolding" and "bud" are meant for a flower and a fruit. His purposes is been compared to a flower like when it open ups, and "ripen" is when the person they finally get it. Antithesis is a direct contrast to something that come previously.

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.

Owen and Frost convey extreme experiences and feelings very powerfully and evoke it in a way for us the reader to imagine clearly. In Disabled, Owen conveys the image of death very vividly with immense use of imagery writing 'He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,' this darkness is referring to the sense that the soldier's life is interminable to him now. Owen is trying to tell us that this soldier's life has been cut short by the war and that he cannot be the same individual he was perhaps five to ten years earlier. Another example of strong imagery in Disabled which conveys extreme experiences and feelings is the good use of visual imagery where he writes 'Legless, sewn short at the elbow.' This powerful phrase gives us the reader an image of the soldier seated in a wheelchair with no legs as well as part of his arm 'deattached', this image being emphasised by the words 'Legless' and 'sewn short'.

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

When telling a story, other elements like plot, setting, characterization, symbol, similes and metaphor also play a significant role. In this excerpt, the writer showed the plot and setting of painful condition of a dying soldier, who was injured in the civil war. She uses various similes and lyrical metaphors. For example, “Every breath he draws is like a stab.” Here by using metaphor “like a stab’, she succeeded to showed the real picture of a dying soldier to her readers. Once again, she uses another simile saying, “gathering the bent head in my arms as freely as if he had been a little child”. This example conveys the picture of John as a young child rests in his mother’s lap. Regarding characterization, by implementing analogies, she displays the altruistic mindset of the brave soldier, who joined the army for her mother and for his country. For instance, when she asked him. “Do you regret coming here”, he was positive at all and replied “I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done, and people kept saying the men who were in earnest ought to fight. I was in earnest, the Lord knows! but I held off as long as I could, not knowing which was my duty; mother saw the case, gave me her ring to keep me steady”. Even when he is on

Owen uses Imagery as another method to convey the brutality of war and also as a means of contrast to show his life before and after. In the third stanza he creates a picture of blood being poured away; “poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry” and he uses metaphorical language to emphasis the point that he nearly bled to death as you cannot literally pour the blood out of your veins.

Ray Bradbury also shows similes in his story through word choices and descriptions. When he says, “...lurking in the trees with colorful flights of butterflies, like animated bouquets, lingering in her long hair.” I see a bunch of butterflies flying around a beautiful girl, and then all of them lifting her into the air, and he singing the whole way up.

Every flower starts as a bud. Claiming its territory (participial phrase), the bud firmly roots itself into the ground and sprouts. The process continues until the once seemingly worthless seedling morphs into a delicate, divine work of art. The bud, now a full grown flower, spread its own seed, distributing new clusters throughout lush-green meadows. However, the flower may wither and as a result lose its previous allure. Cancer, similar to a flower, blooms inside a person’s system and weakens his or her abilities.The short story “Learning to Drive”, written by Ron Rindo, illustrates the misfortunes brought upon by cancer, while also emphasizing the impact this disease has on an individual and his family. The protagonist, an unnamed father (appositive), loses his leg as a result of his battle with cancer. Forced to cope with the amputation (participial phrase), he receives a prosthetic leg and returns home to be greeted with gifts and a celebration. Despite an attempt to return to normalcy and his daily routine (prepositional phrase), his fate changes once the cancer returns. This time, however, death is inevitable. Shortly after hearing the news, the protagonist spirals into a severe state of depression. While he struggles to persevere through the aftermath of the

Anzia Yezierska employs hyperbole and simile in her writing to effectively exaggerate the feelings of shock, anguish and pain she feels when she encounters her former lover at a friend’s wedding. She sprinkles hyperbole throughout the text, especially in the resolution of the story, where she describes an encounter with her ex-boyfriend: “I wanted to run away from him, but everything in me rushed to him... Such a tearing, grinding pain was dragging me to the floor.” She also uses a simile in the introduction of the story, when briefly summarizing the encounter: “The sight of him was like an earthquake shaking me to pieces.” This simile compares a powerful earthquake to the discombobulating feeling of seeing a former love.

In literature, however, scars, marks, and deformities speak even louder than they do in reality because writers often use them as symbols. Unlike real-world wounds, writers can manipulate a character’s injury to express a desired concept, theme, or representation

In the first few lines of the poem, the reader can already receive a feel of the irony as the poet describes the scene of a maiden left behind as her lover falls in battle. The poet illustrates a scene as to where most readers would feel sorrow and sympathy towards the maiden and perhaps have the speaker in the poem enlighten the

In the poem, the theme illness is explored. Illness is the major theme in the poem, because Harold and his tumour fight everyday to see who will win this fight. The tumour can breed so rapidly that he is not sure if the chemo will be able to stop the growing and kill the tumour. I AND MY TUMOUR DEARLY FIGHT. (3). The poem shows the reader what he is going through, he is describing himself through his experience and not through what other people told him. Harold is really suffering with the cancer and that is why illness is a major theme in his poem.

Both poems have metaphors in, George Square uses ‘incurable as cancer’ as quite a shocking metaphor to describe how we can’t get rid of flowers and weeds in the city no matter how hard we try.