Metaphor

a Dream” develops. King uses a unique style of diction in his speech such as archetypal similes/metaphors, terminology, vocabulary and tone. Incorporating his own style of diction makes his speech affective and powerful. Through analyzing King’s diction one can start to understand the significance it plays within the speech. Throughout the speech, King uses archetypal (universal) similes and metaphors to help emphasize his purpose and unique diction. First, some…

elements such as repetition, onomatopoeia, symbols, metaphors, similes and irony. Ultimately, the use of metaphors in “The Things They Carried” adds importance to soldiers and the burdens that they carry through war. O’Brien writes about the things soldiers carry such as ammunitions, ponchos and weapons. Furthermore, O’Brien continues on additional burdens such as emotional and social burdens that soldiers endure. In the short story, O’Brien uses the metaphor” Kiowa also…

the core of this lyrical relationship is the metaphor or Xing in Chinese context. This is because the metaphor is intertwined in all the stages of the poetic process, running from the creative stages to the impact on the readers’ minds. Most importantly, the use of metaphor in Chinese poem dictates the variant expressions of the relationship between scene and feeling through an implicit correlation between the two components. The influence of metaphor…

Myself”, by Marlon James. Many people use it for others to understand their feelings in one way or another. Trope has typically five different expressions they use throughout their essays. Trope is any unit of figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia or hyperbole. Trope is used to describe a word or phrase in which causes an artistic affect. Reading these essays, I would of thought that they would be more intersecting I wasn’t really motivated to continue…

“The Calm” by Sean O’Brien is a four part metaphor representing the infinite serenity of the ocean and the stars as well as the revolving of a lighthouse in comparison to the people who have fallen from the light. In the first three stanzas we see beautiful metaphors comparing the rolling of the waves to the movement of the stars and, the revolving of the lighthouse to the tilt of the harbor. The poem continues to describe the inhabitants of a nearby bar who have fallen from stardom, sharing a…

Lost and Found: Identification and Community in “The Stenographers” and “This is a Photograph of Me” P.K. Page’s “The Stenographers” and Margaret Atwood’s “This is a Photograph of Me” navigate the state of being ostracized from the larger community. The poetic devices utilised within the poems create a sense of community and belonging for the lost or unnoticed. In Page’s poem it illustrates the mental condition of the stenographers, a profession women took up during the Second World War, in an…

visual light-dark contrast brings birches to the front of the mind, giving it distinct focus. This also gives the reader an important textural image of the elasticity of the birch tree when compared dark and rigid trees around it. The use of extended metaphors throughout the poem continues to broaden the diverging images of flexibility and rigidity. The “crystal shells [s]hattering and avalanching on the snow-crust” like ‘heaps of broken glass to sweep away” (lines 10-12) compares the layer of…

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…

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…

Faulkner mainly focuses on Vardaman referencing animals, in the form of metaphors. The significance of Vardaman using a fish to symbolize his mom, is so the reader can understand his despair. Vardaman is contemplating people’s existence on earth and what life truly means. “I will be where the fish was, and it all cut up into not-fish now (Faulkner 53).” Vardaman questions if his mom is not an alive anymore, does that mean she never was? The question of Addie’s existence is reiterated several…