Simile

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

Imagery is a tool used by authors in order to make objects, ideas or actions appeal the reader’s physical senses.Peter Carey uses this tool often in his descriptions and while doing this, he also uses other tools like metaphor, simile, personification etc.In this essay, a few of examples of imagery in second part of “ Bliss” will be discussed. Below is the first example for imagery: “Look at him: sneaking up the stairs you might have thought he was impersonating a cat in a pantomime, or even without

Have you ever read a poem that just keeps you wonder the whole time.If not than you have never read the poem “ The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes. The poem is about a Highwayman who is someone who would rob people. He is in love with the landlord’s daughter Bess and he was going to rob someone one night and when he came back they were going to run away together. Someone told the soldier that the highway man would come back for bess because he was in love with her. So the soldier took Bess tied her

Margot is driving the children to desire the sun more. The children grew jealous, which resulted in them wanted to see the sun even more. While All Summer In a Day has symbolism, it also has a fair amount of similes. The text states that “The sun came out and showed it’s face”, while there are similes, there is more symbolism. Margot uses symbolism to explain the sun, which angered the children. Margot proclaimed “It’s like a penny” which angered the children as they went through a state of denial. All

diction and sentence structure as well as figurative language like similes, to help create meaning to the poem. The similes Ross used are important to the meaning of the poem. The simile, “When rage grows hot as an army of red ants..” is used to contribute to the feeling of anger in the poem. Red ants are known for being aggressive when they are provoked, their bite will even mimic the feeling of being touched by a lit match. This simile helps the reader understand just how enraged the narrator is at

The childlike indulgence of blackberry picking has the key to understanding adversity. In “Blackberry-Pickings”, a twentieth century poem by Seamus Heaney, the author conveys a deeper understanding of blackberry pickings by using similes and imagery to compare blackberry pickings to human suffering. Heaney’s use of imagery reveals the deeper meaning of the poem by creating a comparison between blackberries and humans. Humans have diverse characteristics like blackberries. We are “a glossy purple

stories. In the novel The Pigman the author, Paul Zindel, uses figurative language to create mood and tone. One example of this is when in the novel the character Norton is described using a simile. This simile is “Norton has eyes like a mean mouse, and he’s the type of kid who thinks everyone’s

In her essay “More Room”, Judith Ortiz Cofer uses many different similes and metaphors to describe her Grandmother’s house. A smile that Cofer uses is that her Grandmother’s house is like a “chambered nautilus”. A nautilus is an ocean dwelling mollusk whose shell has many different compartments or chambers. This simile gives the impression that Cofer’s Grandmother’s house is large, mysterious, and amazing. This simile is used at the beginning to introduce readers to the house. It immediately creates

poet imagines or needs them to be. Metaphors are frequently more demanding than similes because they are not signaled by particular words said in lines 16-17. Both metaphors and simile are subtle and powerful. The theme of the poem is shocking and perseverance because it gave unpleasant surprises such as in lines 1-4, “if you blinked on a second reading, you got the point of the poem because you recognized that the simile “like a hook into an eye” gives way to a play on words in the final two lines

tries to do her “perfect” way, but with customers in and out of the restaurant, the stress she has makes her fail at being perfect. The author’s overall argument in "Pancakes" is that it is impossible to be perfect through the use of foreshadowing, simile, and the first-person-point-of-view. Sometimes, life does not go as one expects. Bauer used foreshadowing for predictions, to what Jill had said about her life on how she always has control of it. Jill explains to the readers about her work day on