Simile

drummer, John Bonham, following a discussion with George Harrison about the band not writing ballads, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both lyrical geniuses, wrote this charming ballad about love (“Songfacts”). Jimmy Page and Robert Plant used metaphor, simile, and symbolism in order to compose a song that anyone can relate…

laws of relativity. The authors of these books explore the inevitability of war’s trauma throughout their works. In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the authors use the rhetorical devices of imagery, similes, personification, and arrangement in order to achieve their purposes of demonstrating the destructiveness and terrible reality of war; saying that it is worse for the mental than the physical health of people. Kurt Vonnegut uses the sense of…

Within novels, the incorporation of morals or events introduced in the initial sections throughout the remainder of the book is a common occurrence. This is evidenced within the pages of The Five People You Meet in Heaven, where the protagonist, Eddie, encounters Joseph Corvelzchik, often referred to as “The Blue Man”, who informs him of the interconnected nature of life, and how the notion of random acts is entirely inaccurate within the forty-eight page of the novel, where he states, “That…

question. James mother, referred as “mommy” never liked talking about her race or her past life. James McBride’s memoir, The Color of Water shows that culture isolates people through the theme of feeling lost using indirect characterizations and similes. James shows that culture isolates people through the theme of feeling lost using indirect characterization. While telling James her life story mommy stated, “My family mourned…

appearance of music in everyday life. Firstly, Levine describes in great detail what he believed the scenery was like back when the song that was playing on the radio was recorded. He describes the scenery such as the bright blue sky. Levine uses Simile multiple times throughout this poem. This can be seen, for instance, in lines 12-15 where Levine says, “Bird could have seen for miles if he’d looked, but what he saw was so foreign he clenched his eyes, shook his head, and barked like a dog…”…

and create or diffuse individuality. Enjambment and diction show the occupation of the words when independent of one another and their dependence while Eve shows her independence and dependence on Adam and Satan by being “led” by them. The use of simile and symbolism demonstrate…

He uses similes, metaphors, and imagery throughout the poem to describe the beauty that is in this woman. She is so beautiful that it almost seems impossible that she is a real person. He use of metaphors the poet describes how beautiful this woman really is. In…

to create a persuasive argument, I included rhetorical strategies in my writing; and in order to emulate Thoreau, I wrote using most of the rhetorical strategies he displayed: personification, rhetorical questioning, comparison using metaphors or similes, and definitive diction. I write with personification when in the first sentence when I ask if the answer neighborhoods, “... shape and form us entirely...”; this mirrors Thoreau's argument where in the first sentence, he too, questions we…

spending time on the Internet to engage with the world. Brokaw looked into the challenges and possibilities for communication, information retrieval, marketing and proselytizing. In his speech, he applies apostrophe, euphemism, connotation, anaphora, simile and appositive. He used these rhetorical devices in order to inform the audience of the positive and negative circumstances during the twentieth century like World War II and the Great Depression, but he mentions…

create warmth and cleaning out plates for scraps of food. The soldier needs to scavenge to get supplies that are scarcely provided for them in the army. In the second line of the stanza, “Is lied to like a child, cursed like a beast,” Jarrell uses similes and juxtaposition to show how the soldier is treated. These tackle the mental side of the soldiers conditions. Being lied to like a child by putting them down and telling the soldiers what they need to hear to justify their actions. Becoming…