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who had undertaken an extremely risky adventure. The essay is written by the author in his adulthood, but, nevertheless, he still manages to create this essay as if he is still in his childhood. Hoffman uses stylistic devices like metaphor, imagery, simile, and personification to create meaning in the short story, The Dare. This story is a about a boy named Roger who was intelligent and got A’s on everything unlike his other friends who didn’t, was struggling to make the cut in a tough Atlanta grammar

a fading star, at the beginning of this part. In (22), the poet uses 'cactus' as an adjective, making the land desert-like, desolate and dry like the voices and the grass in Part I. It is, of course, lacking in life. 5.2.2 Simile and Metaphor Both the metaphor and the simile are related to the topic of similarity, for although the comparison is made between two words of unlike nature. Metaphor gives clearness and liveliness to words. In 'Hollow Men', the following cases are found: 23. " our dried

their minds and to develop characters. The Pigman includes a handful of figurative language examples to help the reader have a vision of the story. In chapter four, the author uses the following simile, “Norton had eyes like a mean mouse” to describe Norton’s eyes. Through the author’s use of a simile, the reader can portray a picture in my head of Norton’s eyes. Mean mice generally have small eyes that appear to be squinting. If Norton’s eyes are like a mean mouse’s eyes, then it is easy for the

and nature, but in this poem it isn’t a good relationship between them because in the poem it talks about how we have damaged the Earth. In the poem it also has personification where the poet has personified Nature as a woman the poet has also used similes and metaphors. My other poem I’ve decided to do is Lament because it talks about how the Gulf War has affected the people, the animals and also the environment around us, like Report To Wordsworth the poem explores the feeling of sorrow, grief and

about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.” (FCF 4). 1. Simile – “as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away” . Through this simile Gatsby
is shown as extremely complex and sophisticated personality; also, it is obvious that he is the main character standing in the center of events (earthquakes). The quality of

Atwood uses simple, but effective imagery to engage the senses of the reader, for example: ‘[…] that is a fish, blue and flat’ (l. 4). These images grow more elaborate and it becomes clear that she uses metaphors and simile to convey more intricate ideas. As the speaker confesses that there is more to the world than they let on, the use of enjambment, repetition and punctuation directs the focus on certain words and gives the poem certain acuteness and urgency as the pace increases: ‘Once you have

Esther Jacob ENG 220 – 06 Prof. Schrader May 2017 War: Like Hell on Earth Wilfred Owens, an English poet and soldier, is well-known for his poems about war. Born in 1983, Owens took the front line of the army by 1916. When asked why he decided to enlist Owens replied, “I came out in order to help these boys—directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can” (“Poet Wilfred Owen Killed in Action”). He used

Beowulf Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye, is the story of a hero that overcomes the evil of Cain by admitting to the evil in himself. This epic novel tells of light and dark or good and evil. They also have many moments of horror, disgust, and hero´s. The author shows the evil in men using monsters and truly evil things. Characters in this book include Skyld Sceffling, Hrothgar, Beowulf, Wealhtheow and Unferth. With all of these people, you see the good and bad within them. I think the moral

works we will be looking at are In the Old Neighborhood, My Mother Enters the Work Force, and The Bistro Styx. Through these three works you will see examples of Rita Dove’s use of home in her poetry, her use of figurative devices such as similes and metaphors, and you will see Dove’s view on children coming of age in different ways.       By looking at the poem “In the Old

Every individual will undergo many journeys throughout their lifetime - without journeys, they would be limited in experience and knowledge, and this is highlighted in many examples of media and literature. The nature of journeys also have an impact on the individual; the journey may be harsh, stressful or confusing. Anh Do’s The Happiest Refugee (2010) and Peter Skrzynecki's Migrant Hostel (1975) are two texts that convey the transformative, unstable, segregative and communicative nature of journeys