Personification

heart trouble, and it is about how she struggles with her newfound and some awakened feelings when she receives news of her husband’s death. Kate Chopin illustrates the surfacing of Louise’s repressed feelings using metaphors, symbolism, and personification. Kate Chopin uses metaphors to help the reader understand the progression of Louise's repressed feelings. Initially, when Louise's sister breaks to her the news of her husband’s death, her feelings of sadness overcome…

Poems are able to express a tremendous amount of meaning within a minimal amount of words. In the poem “Love is Not all” there is a plethora of different literary devices that model specific interpretations. The structural setup, metaphors, personification, diction, and imagery create the theme and tone of the poem. The theme and tone are concerning the consequences of love leaving a bitter, longing tone. The orator states that “Love is not all” but is there compelling evidence to support this…

course regardless of our personal troubles. Mary Oliver writes an inspiring and thought-provoking poem emphasizing the idea that the world will continue to go on, despite our troubles. By utilizing poetic devices such as repetition, imagery and personification, Mary Oliver helps the reader understand that we do not need to be perfect in order to appreciate the world and make the most of what life has to offer. In the beginning of the poem, Mary Oliver uses repetition and visual imagery…

Bob Dylan, the American folk singer has recently received the Nobel peace prize in literature, the second to receive this honor for songwriting. The Nobel peace prize is one of five Nobel prizes created by a Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel. This award was given to Bob Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the “great American song tradition.” Dylan was not only a musician, publishing six books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a…

family themselves. The family has all different viewpoints and opinions on the issue of technology. Within that struggle and within the story, the author, Ray Bradbury used multiple craft moves for different purposes in the story. First, he used personification to build a mood in the story. Second, he used foreshadowing to hint at what’s to come in the story. And finally, he used descriptive language to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. This is not the only importance of these craft moves,…

to his other tone of melancholy because when he turns around, he sets the scene of sadness and the audience reacts by pitying him. When he gets such a reaction from the audience, Antony continues to manipulate with his melancholy tone. He uses personification as a final device. The “sweet Caesar’s wounds” become personified to “poor dumb mouths” as he shows the crowd the 23 stab wounds. The wounds he believes should speak as though they are a mouth, like the people should feel sorry for Caesar…

undeniable. Alfred Austin spent his entirety of “Forgiveness” using many comparisons and unlike things to show the goodness of forgiveness. Alfred Austin’s poem, “ Forgiveness”, shows the importance of letting go of a grudge. “Forgiveness” uses personification, imagery, and diction to prove this true. Austin did not beat around the bush and gave us his feelings of happiness after letting go of his hate and past pain. “Forgiveness” relates to the short story The Interlopers because they both…

Throughout the course of the play, a young boy-the narrator of Dickinson’s poem- meticulously describes the sighting of a slithering snake as an encounter with a “narrow fellow in the grass”. The readers are at first, tricked by Dickinson’s use of personification into believing that there is an actual man who is hiding in the grass. For instance, Dickinson’s use of the terms “him”, ‘Nature’s People”, and “fellow” creates an image of an actual man.…

Long ago, in the earlier stages of the nineteenth century, countries continued to look for new types of energy to power their cities. Tom Goodwin and Charles Dickens wrote about the consequences of fueling London, England, with coal on the Earth and its people. However, they achieve this is different ways; the different uses of logos and pathos, as well as sentence structure. In Tim Goodwin’s passage, he utilized a great deal of statistics. He states, “deaths from respiratory disease tripled.”…

better image to the reader, letting them connect to it on a personal level by using personification. In both versions an example of personification such as giving water the human quality of living, “The water lives so far”, and also giving the grass emotions, “The grass does not appear afraid” (1890/1999). Version B offers more examples of personification. With one version (1999) containing more examples of personification, the other version is lacking image and meaning. Although both poems…