Metaphor

Throughout the story Lily is trying to find her place and the find her mother figure she’s been missing in her life. The metaphor of bees going into a frenzy when they lose their queen is used to describe Lily’s and especially T. Ray’s life without Deborah. Sue Monk Kidd specifically chose bees to represent Lily’s and T. Ray’s struggle without their “queen”.…

media have on the society? There are popular metaphors that are used to discuss the role of media in society. A popular metaphor used in discussion is called the “Window”, what is meant by this is that the media gives us a wider view of the world which enables us to see more of the world than our experiences allow. Metaphors contain a wealth of information hidden in one seemingly simple concept. The “mirror” metaphor is similar to the window metaphor which refers to media widening our…

Poet Leslie Marmon Silko uses metaphors, several poetic elements, and origins from her culture to mystically express the emotional and physical beauty found only in nature. Silko writes about nature in her poems, with that she has a distinct form that one may only find by reading her poems. In her poem “Prayer to the Pacific” she writes about the ocean and her poem form kind of look like waves. Silko also uses a wide range of metaphors that have to do with nature, for example in her poem ‘In…

A photograph has a lot of meaning to it, as in the article “Essay: Icons as Fast, Fiction and Metaphor” by Philip Gefter says. When we think about a historical event, we tend to think about a photograph first just like how Rosa Parks picture reminds us about the civil rights moments and equality. Gefter talks about how some photograph makes us think that we are actually in there even though we are not. There are a lot of stories, emotions behind a photograph and it is not easy to identify. We…

There is a significant metaphor that recurs throughout the passage that compares Alexander to something vulnerable and shattered such as glass. The author’s choice of words such as "fractured" "shards" and “splintered” connote glass and all of its frailty. It also reflects her desire to “see” straight to herself through the glass. However, all that shines back from looking into the glass is cracked or broken image of herself; this suggests her frustration caused by fractured identity and uneven…

evil and death. The narrator is attempting to motivate you to see the raven as his own misery and his far approaching morality. There are many ways for you to see the raven in as a metaphor for grief inside “The Raven” by the use of his constant appearance and statement of “ Nevermore.” The raven is used as a metaphor throughout this poem multiple times making him more worrisome. As the raven…

be focused on throughout this response is Psalm 23. With the use of different literary techniques, the audience is able to fully interpret what is being said during this passage and helps them to develop a deeper understanding of it. To begin, metaphors are featured in Psalm 23, for example “dwell in the house of the Lord”. The Lord does not have a literal house that we roam in. This refers to our relationship with Him and our place in His Kingdom, wherever that may be. It is a representation…

Metaphors are the crucial element in the story to draw attention to unfamiliar concepts, trigger emotions, and motivates to act. Mason’s work portraits the metaphoric journey from the beginning to the end of the story where in the beginning she provides the symbol in the form of settings, and during the end of the story, she exclaimed that “Leroy takes a lungful of smoke and closes his eyes as Norma Jean’s words sink in. He tries to focus on the fact that thirty-five hundred soldiers died on the…

Fences is a metaphor that is pointed out well in the movie and in the book. Troy the father and husband he was married to rose he had two children. He was from the south so he had a problem with the whites so fences to him seemed like to keep him out aka as segregation. Troy wasn't the marrying type because he doesn't like commitments. This is shown later on in the play and in the movie when he had another child with someone else later on the play. He didn't treat his kids that well because the…

excerpt from the poem “Strange Fruit”. In this poem, the main point that the authors, Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, wrote about is the “strange fruit” which is actually a metaphor. The metaphor is comparing the fruit and slaves, and how they were hung from trees during the pre-Civil Rights times. Along with the metaphors, the literary devices that the author Billie Holiday uses in the poem “Strange Fruit” are imagery and emotional appeal. These literary devices are seen used throughout most…