Cognitive metaphor

space. Gretchen Shirm does so by taking on multiple characters’ stories, including different perspectives and interwoven storylines, all the while being chock full of vivid imagery and carefully crafted with literary techniques such as similes and metaphors. She also gives such specific, detailed, and relatable examples, appealing to multiple senses that make the reader feel almost as if they are actually there. For me, all of these techniques make the book more relatable, which in turn makes it…

Commentary on Hamlet’s First Soliloquy A soliloquy, defined by The Merriam –Webster dictionary, is an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any listeners. This literary technique is especially employed in plays. Hamlet’s soliloquy in Scene two of the first Act is the first time we are clearly able to understand Hamlet’s character, his opinions and inner thoughts. The general tenor of the soliloquy is personal and reveals the despair Hamlet feels over his current…

Woolf uses a practical way of writing to deliver her message. She makes use of rhetorical devices such as a hopeless tone as an intent for the reader to feel pity for the moth and develop their own thoughts of life and death. She also makes use of metaphors, symbolism and imagery to further construct this narrative essay. The death of the moth in this sense proposes the idea that death is an inevitable result of living, where humans battle through life and death only to realize that it is a…

pass”. Meyers makes a point that first love is beautiful and timeless when you’re in it, but it will come to an end eventually. The beauty of the first love is preserved in a memory “like unbroken snow”. Through the poem Meyers uses lots of imagery, metaphors and other poetic devices to capture the idea of first love, as well as the loss of…

turns out to be. The poet, Robert Frost, begins the poem with describing a walk in the forest on a fall day as the leaves are turning yellow. As he walks, the road forks and comes a moment of decision regarding which direction to take. This is a metaphor for the times in life when one has to choose one path or decision over another. Making this decision is difficult for him and he thinks for a long time…

Throughout the story she must shed every identity that she creates due to issues that she runs into, until she is finally forced to return to her hometown and clear her original name. In the novel The Passenger by Lisa Lutz, similes, imagery, and metaphors are used to convey that viewing situations as permanent causes one to become sedentary, therefore one must shift their perspective in order to realize that everything is only temporary. In the novel The Passenger by Lisa Lutz, imagery is used…

this poem, Taken consistently uses a metaphor to describe the girl as a werewolf, a vampire, or a monster. I believe she uses those terms for the connotation that they give off. They are then seen as frightening, dark, and mysterious. In the beginning of the poem,…

He implements metaphor to compare humans to negative objects; this is backed up by his use of structure and punctuation. Not one line in the poem ‘North Coast Town’ is exciting. The sentences almost feel cut short. “A car slows and I chase it”. ‘Two hoods going shooting…

Hughes does this by using visual imagery and painting a picture of the unity that Harlem makes when bringing cultures together. He also uses structure to emphasize how stepping into Harlem allows for people to have voice and, finally Hughes uses metaphors to compare Harlem to the famous melting pot that America is, to show that we are all united as one. Hughes paints a picture of what a colored person likes along with also suggesting that a white person likes these things too. For example, in…

Maya Angelou both authors convey the same message which is overcoming hardships in life. In the two poems they show their similarities through repetition which will be shown in the first paragraph and literary devices such as figurative language,metaphors and similes, while also showing their differences through parallel structure of both the poems, and through rhetorical questions. Hughes and Angelou show their similarities through repetition which helps the reader grasp the key…