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    Imagery in “The Broken Heart';      John Donnes’ poem “The Broken Heart'; is full of imagery, used to portray his broken heart. Donne uses the imagery so we can get a visual picture of what love means to him. He uses the imagery because it’s necessary to see a picture of the pain he lives with. Donne uses several aspects of imagery, including death to show his grief and Donne also does uses despair to display his pain.      The

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    Thousand Splendid Suns

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    passage because, through imagery and symbolism, it not only showcases the grief Mammy is feeling, but also Laila’s concern and yearning for love from Mammy. The passage begins as Laila notices alarming differences in Mammy’s appearance. Mammy’s two sons had died in war, leaving her in a serious state off grief. We see these deaths take a toll on Mammy’s lifestyle, as her quality of life, both mentally and physically, begins to deteriorate. This is expressed through extreme imagery. “And it startled Laila

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    addresses the hellish nature of war and the retells the experience of a soldier being poisoned by gas. In this poem, Owen uses similes and imagery to emphasize the idea that war is hell through the living conditions and the experience of a comrade being poisoned by gas. For example, the speaker emphasizes the idea that war is hell through the use of similes and imagery in the first stanza by telling of

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    protagonists, Roger Chillingworth and his internal appeals. Hawthorne displays a significant change in Chillingworth and his development throughout the story by scrutinizing his initial personality and how he copes with Hester’s adultery crime by utilizing imagery and theme. Chillingworth began the novel as a scholarly, reasonable, educated physician who married a young woman named Hester. The author noted Chillingworth with his advanced medical background and education to imply his tendency to make

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    her New York Times bestseller I Am Malala. Throughout the novel malala uses various rhetorical devices in order to express her beliefs on education and women's rights across the world. Malala uses Ethos in order to show she is a credible source, Imagery to bring pakistan to life in mere words, as well as pathos to create a bond between the reader and her, the author and allow the reader share empathy and in certain cases sympathy. Malala implements pathos into I Am Malala. Its purpose is to tap into

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    success. (Mullins, 2008) Browne & Mahoney claim that mental training is the use of imagery to project future success. When athletes are negative, negative things are visualized and therefore occur. Mental perpetration works best when paired with practice, not on its own. An athlete still has to work at what they want to achieve, but visualizing can help heighten performance. Scott (1997) claims that by using imagery, which is a technique when athletes picture their goals which turns on neurons

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    Emerson Metaphors

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    common sense, similes and imagery. Emerson starts off by stating that everyone is very common but also very different. For example, when Emerson says, “Every heart vibrates to that iron string” (Pg. 591, Line 37), he expresses that people are very similar. A matter of fact, there is an actual study that shows when a human being listens to music, the beat of your heart goes with the rhythm of the music. This piece of the puzzle has one powerful image. And that is an image of imagery and metaphor. Emerson

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    Shakespeare’s powerful words clearly illustrate Hamlet is mentally unstable. He is uncertain about death. Hamlet is proved to be troubled in the play when he says “To be, or not to be, that is the question:” (III.i.63). When Shakespeare uses the colon he illustrates Hamlet is debating with himself on life and death. He answers himself by saying “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune;” (III.i.64) Shakespeare uses various forms of imagery in the famous

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    unmuted cry against racism” (Margolick 92). After it was converted into a song by Billie Holiday, it became increasingly popular, as well as becoming Holiday’s top hit. “Strange Fruit” was the first song to blatantly speak out against racism with powerful imagery such as “black bodies hanging from the polar trees” and in turn the song “almost single-handedly changed the politics of American black culture and put the elements of protest and resistance back at the center of contemporary black musical culture”

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    closed, “He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. …….the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them”. This powerful line shows how the loss of life has been so badly imprinted on Stephens’s mind that even, normal, everyday things were turning into gruesome, deathly images. Faulks uses a lot of dream like imagery to show how badly the soldiers were affected by loss, even when they are sleeping or floating within their imagination, all they can think about is

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