Personification

Henry and X On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry addressed a speech to the 122 delegates from the colony of Virginia. He wanted to obtain freedom from the British, and become his own country. Almost 200 years later, Malcom X, a human rights activist, composed a very similar speech. His goal was to give equal rights to blacks in America. Although the two men may both be seen as extremists for their cause, they left a mark on America’s history of separatism. Patrick Henry and Malcom X both build…

This language gives an instant and unforgettable image of Clarisse. It also gets the reader thinking. Clarisse is so similar to a lot of the girls in this society, yet she was considered abnormal in Fahrenheit 451. The last example of imagery is personification. In Fahrenheit 451 the personified thing was the mechanical hound. Most of the firemen saw it as just a regular harmless dog, but Montag saw more than that. Montag saw a computerized dog that hated him and was out to get him. “It would be…

guns are anthropomorphically personified throughout the poem, as they are described as laughing.. It is recurrent throughout the duration of the poem, as the soldiers die, ‘Machine-guns chuckle..’, (4)and ‘splinters… tittered’ (10) The unusual personification of the guns, and the fact they guns are laughing works in concurrence with the allusion in the title implies that the guns have the last laugh in war, and not the humans. This is an untraditional way of viewing the winners of the war.…

uses the literary devices personification, simile,…

War; a state of armed conflict between different nations or states. World War I, commonly known as “The Great War”, took the meaning of the word ‘war’ to a whole new level. The War destroyed a generation of men, physically and mentally, through it’s barbarity and failure to acknowledge the similarities between “enemies”. New technologies, nationalism, and militarism introduced an uprising of not only violence but a response in literature. Authors such as Keith Douglas and Erich Maria Remarque…

Giver by extracting inspiration from Lois Lowry’s dynamic novel, The Giver. A novel that explores the community's lack of freedom to create the ideal society. I employed various language techniques in my writing, such as use of metaphor, simile, personification and onomatopoeia, to arouse a tangible sense of amazement and leave the audience questioning why we are not talking about the beauty of the world. "Truth" was written with the intention of drawing the reader into the magical world of…

He is very descriptive using things such as imagery, personification, and tone to express what he wants to say. It is Frost’s style of writing that makes his readers feel as if they are part of the poem, as if the events in the poem are truly taking place and the readers are merely people who are standing…

destination can help you to get there, however, sometimes we get fearful of what may happen for doing it but we can get even more fearful of what may happen if we do not do it. He also tells this throughout the poem by the use literary devices of personification and repetition. In this piece of poetry, the speaker seems to be a person who has just begun a journey. This journey seems to be unexpected…

relationship between his style and content: metaphor, personification, irony, hyperbole, oxymoron, synecdoche, repetition, metonymy, and understatement. In this specific passage, these stylistic devices give meaning to both the lines themselves and the meaning of the whole narrative. The personification of the waves and rivers not only creates imagery but also plays off of the role of the natural world in mythology. This said, the personification in this passage suggests that Aeschylus used them…

Briana Gaines Do we express our emotions authentically? Our faces do not always reflect how people genuinely feel. In the extended metaphor “We Wear the Mask”, Paul Dunbar integrates the use of hyperbole, personification and symbolism to promote the fact that lies and deceit lead into concealed pain and suffering . The poem begins with Dunbar’s expressing feelings for the whole entire black community. He has express his unconditional anger by having to hide his emotions. The use of hyperbole…