Simile

successful in the manipulation of responders to place them in a position that helps convey their story and its messages that the persona is trying to tell. In ‘North coast town’ and’ Flames and dangling wires’, Gray uses a combination of imagery and similes to relate to the responder therefore easing his task of positioning the reader to experience what he is seeing when he writes. In the poem, Grey is trying warn the responder that society are causing pollution and not noticing it while He is…

with words and people and love you move at ease”. Overall the poem uses different elements of poetry to portray the idea that although his “dear” has many imperfect qualities, he loves her despite of them all. The author uses literary tools such as similes, metaphors, and personification…

For example, in the first stanza, the author uses a simile to describe the older boy: “His friend ran a few lengths ahead, like a wild rabbit across the grass.” Not only does this simile add an interesting element to the story for the reader to think about, but it also visually stimulates the reader. Perhaps the most powerful figure of speech, though, is the metaphor…

A Good Story is an Effective Story “High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.” - John Mayer. A story is more appealing to the audience and the reader when something is being described in detail like the John Mayer quote about high school and sporks. Also, when using literary elements, that pulls the reader in because they want to know what is being said or talked about. It puts a picture into the reader’s minds. Stories that…

In poems “The Lighters” and “Nursing,” Rennie McQuilkin articulates the variety and complexity of his feelings towards the sickening and passing of his mother. To vividly illustrate his sentimental attachments, McQuilkin extensively and effectively utilizes literary techniques such as contrasts, diction, and allusions in these two poems, leaving an accessible yet woeful depiction of his desperation and resignation in response to his mother’s suffering. McQuilkin frequently employs sharp…

and create a new one. Throughout the story she must shed every identity that she creates due to issues that she runs into, until she is finally forced to return to her hometown and clear her original name. In the novel The Passenger by Lisa Lutz, similes, imagery, and metaphors are used to convey that viewing situations as permanent causes one to become sedentary, therefore one must shift their perspective in order to realize that everything is only temporary. In the novel The Passenger by Lisa…

how “I Have 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…

visualize what she is talking about. To begin, Taya uses figurative language throughout the story to get a point across to her reader. One type of figurative language she uses to do this is simile. For example, Taya writes, “‘Please,’ I said, feeling like a drowning swimmer groping for a rope,” (105). Taya uses the simile to really get…

Thought his image and emotion filled work, percy shelley expresses his inner battles and thoughts to his audience through his deep poetry. Shelly had a challenging life from the start.At the age of ten,shelly olef the secutity of his home inorder to pursue diffrent aspects of his life.When this wasnt wnough for him,he deciede to enroll at eton where he was physcaly and mentaly bulied.Percy was out cased for his belifs of atheism,free love,polital radicalism and vegitarianism,becuase his family…

Ballard, Kim. “Rhetoric, Power and Persuasion in Julius Caesar.” British Library, British Library Board, www.bl.uk/. Accessed 5 Oct. 2016. “Rhetoric, Power, and Persuasion in Julius Caesar” written by Kim Ballard explains the importance of these three topics in Julius Caesar, one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Although the article only focuses on a single play, it does an excellent job explaining the rhetoric used by William Shakespeare. The article explains the background of William…