Simile

speaker down. The speaker taunts the pain. In “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou uses the poetic device of simile to let the readers know that when life knocks you down, you have to get back up. In the poem, Maya Angelou uses the poetic device of simile in the seven quatrains. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker says, “You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise” (3-4). The simile show how life pushed the speaker in the dirt, but the speaker got back up and persevered.…

back to love in some way. In most cases he used figurative language to achieve this. When using figurative language Shakespeare is also able to allow the reader to develop his or her own idea on what the poem means to themselves. Shakespeare uses similes, metaphors, and symbolism to tell a story about a love story between two people. Firstly, Shakespeare uses metaphors, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (1) comparing a woman to that of a summers day. This allows for the reader to make…

particularly similes, involving animals in Homeric writing. This article was written as typical culture presents animalistic comparisons to be insignificant, making the beast-similes in the Iliad superficial rather than been seen as essential to many aspects of the plot. According to Clarke, this concept led to the common belief that Homer’s use of beast-similes is to relieve the repetitiveness and dreariness from battle scenes. Modern theories tend to suggests that these similes bare being used…

McGee,conveys unconditional love through the use of simile, Aphorisms and repetition. aphorisms demonstrates how he feels for this girl. Wearese , The similes captures how he really feels for the girl. And repetition illustrates the real love for her. Although repetition is a comedic,the universal truth is most humorously expressed with similes that are relating to comedic things in everyday life. The poem is meant to have really pointless similes describing the love for the girl in a large…

devices throughout the song.The key literary devices used in the song are Similes, Personification, and Symbolism. Firstly, Similes are one of the most common literary devices used in the song red by Taylor Swift. A Simile is a figure of speech that involves comparing two things to make the statement more vivid. Taylor Swift state's “Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street” (Line 1).In this Simile I think Taylor Swift was trying to compare driving an awesome new car and…

until he can escape with three other boys and makes it back to Opium where he lives as ruler after El Patron dies from heart failure. Farmer focused deeply on metaphors and similes to show Matt’s thinking, to draw attention to important moments, and to show character personality. In the beginning, Farmer uses metaphors and similes…

such as: alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, and personification. In this essay I will be talking about simile, hyperbole and idioms, in the book harris and me. Some authors of fiction use similes to spark a reader's imagination while getting the information across. In Harris and me Gary Pulsen uses this simile, “they were like two hair covered dinosaurs”. This simile helped get the information across to me and my imagination…

Simile Essay “The Most Dangerous Game” has a lot of figurative language. The author uses a lot of similes in the text. Richard Connell (author) uses similes to show how and animal are treated and how an animal's feels when it's being hunted. This adds more emotion in the story, it makes the reader have emotion since he usually compares humans with inanimate objects. Therefore this essay will analyze three examples when he uses similes and his purpose for it. First quote from the story is “He…

well used one are similes. Metaphors are also very important in the story. They really keep it together. The main character is really important and that is shown well in this story because of its great usage of author’s craft. Throughout the story, Fritch says things like President and Cogs to show different meanings for normal things. In this story they are examples of symbolism. When the Author say President he means multiple things. He means it as something special…

needed. He used lots of descriptive language to help visualize the scene or setting of the story. Bradbury uses different authors craft to help transform the text. Although he uses similes there is more evidence of symbolism and descriptive language to describe the more important events. Ray Bradbury only adds similes to his story to make a comparison or metaphor. The author puts descriptive language to show a visual to the readers. A example of descriptive language is “The children press…