Personification

stories of the past, popular media of the present, and clear possibilities of death in the future. In past stories, Death is personified as being terrorising and merciless towards humans, yet complex, as seen in various stories around the world. Personifications of death date way back to the…

In the “Mirror”, by Sylvia Plath, shows the lack of confidence women face with image/reflection and the hours associated with aging through personification and metaphors. The author is accomplishing numerous forms of figurative language devices. Symbolism to show images only last for a very short time and resulting, the speaker’s attitude toward truthfulness. In the next couple paragraphs I would like to focus on the theme, tone/attitude and figurative language device used in this poem. The…

The poet Tupac Shakur faced a good deal of racial discrimination throughout his life. His poem “The rose that grew from concrete” is about Tupac Shakur sticking to his dream even though the hard times. The speaker describes the feeling of what arise when he held on to his dream. In “The rose grew from concrete” the main literary devices that Tupac Shakur used was metaphor to compare the difficulty of keeping your dream even when no else was there to support you. In “The rose that grew from…

In OneRepublic’s song, “Ordinary Human” the narrator sings about if you are an ordinary human, you can create meaningful changes in the world. It gives you the message that ordinary is everywhere, but doing something different will cause you to stand out. Everyone is capable of doing the extraordinary, and that is what people will be recognized for. People are always following the crowd, making them ordinary, however, that’s your choice to stay with them. Anyone has the possibility of…

“Birthplace” by Taherah Saffazadech is about how a woman from Iran reflects on being a girl and how girls are affected in her culture. This poem is told in 1st person as the tone of this literary work shifts from sad and shameful to accepting and Prideful but also a bit skeptical, since in her culture being a girl is frowned upon. “It’s a girl” the midwife trembled…unsure of birthing fee… and goodbye to circumcision feast.” This phrase depicts how much shame it is to have a girl, as the midwife…

Throughout the novel Cue For Treason, Geoffrey Trease captures and maintains the audience's attention. He uses multiple strategies to do so. Following a formula for each chapter, using a variety of characters, and literary devices are just a few out of those strategies. Each chapter of Cue For Treason follows a formula to create suspense. At the start of each chapter, Trease resolves the cliffhanger of the previous chapter. Next, he builds the action and suspense to lead us to the climax.…

Shakespeare uses dreary diction, the personification of Death, and a break in the meter to present King Richard II’s epiphany about commonness of kings. In the beginning lines of Richard II’s monologue, Shakespeare integrates nouns such as “graves”, “executors”, and “deposed bodies” to create an introspective tone that centers around the concept of death. Shakespeare’s deliberate word choice emphasizes the importance of Richard II’s newfound understanding of death’s universality in his overall…

rhymes the song provides symbolism, personification, metaphors and imagery. Listening to it takes the listeners to a different time and place as the lead singer sings about someone looking back in the past. Almost all music has some form of poetry but this song covers all aspects of what poetry stands for. The song opens with…

12.1.6) Author’s purpose T ext structure and text aides Literary Elements (plot, setting, characterization, conflict, theme, point of view, tone/mood) Literary Techniques (flashback, foreshadow, imagery, symbol, allusion, figurative language [personification, metaphor, simile], dialect, irony, epiphany, oxymoron, allusion, suspense) Poetic Device (rhyme, rhythm, stanza, alliteration, assonance, consonance, refrain, onomatopoeia) Other: idiom, pun, hyperbole satire, motif, archetype, foil, comic…

form images in people’s heads and people can have better knowledge of different situations and others perspectives. Poems especially are great for this. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” underlines the courage seen and the sacrifices made mainly through personification because the poem describes the horrors that war presents. Examples of this are, “--Only the monstrous anger of the guns. / Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle.” (Owen 2-3). Wilfred Owen uses descriptive figurative language to enhance…