Simile

Paul Bogard effectively made use of his article “Let There Be Dark” to inform his audience about the importance of preserving natural darkness at night. He effectively build his argument by using personal anecdotes, simile, appealing to emotions and logic,and offering solutions. Paul begins introducing his article by using personal anecdotes and memories. He remembers having the opportunity to see nighty skies and meteors, but unfortunately children in United States today are unable to…

The other literary devices that were used includes simile and imageries. A simile is basically a contrasting to seemingly unalike things to enhance the meaning of a situation or theme using like or as. In this story Charlis and I the phrase “It soared up like a startled bird” is a perfect example for a simile. Here the author is comparing the kick of the ball with that of a startled bird soaring up high in the sky. The other simile is “rhythms that sang in his blood like the whisper of his…

chapter starts out with “Durn that road,” and we quickly jump into the main complaints about the road: He says that thanks to the road, “Every bad luck that comes and goes is bound to find” their house. Anse also complains about the road when he uses a simile to say that roads are “like a snake,” which, as a Christian, Anse uses to connect the road to Satan. Through this, he blames societal issues onto this road instead of onto the…

continuing reading we have accepted a dreadful trip cloaked as a date. We begin by looking at the evening "spread out across the sky," being a simile for the speakers sense of helplessness. Now that the reader has entered Prufrock's world, or more so his hell, they must experience the same pain, insecurity, and doubt as him. Eliot uses imagery to enhance his initial simile with "half- deserted streets," "muttering retreats," and "sleepless nights." It’s not the "retreats" that are "muttering,"…

relationship that is inevitable yet, causes emotional and or physical harm. Atwood does this by utilizing a simile by comparing a relationship to a fish's eye and a hook while using like or as. Atwood compares the relationship to the fish and the hook in order to show her readers the emotional and or physical harm the relationship is causing towards the speaker. Atwood’s uses a simile to demonstrate the significance of the relationship when the speaker states, “You fit into me like a hook…

that she has the ability to achieve significant marks in English. Collectively, the use of similes, personification, tone, and a myriad of other language techniques allows the reader to engage with the story; i.e. “The purple hue surrounding my eye extenuates the fairness of my skin and makes me stand out more than an elephant in a room.” This extract from the text, provides an example of imagery and a simile, comparing the purple hue, a black eye, to a figurative elephant in a room.…

1. The speaker's tone will change in a few ways in the first stanza of the poem "Dover Beach." The first change will come when the poem shifts from a third person’s view concerning the scenery in the first ‘five’ lines to directly addressing a listener. “Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! ... Listen! you hear” ... The tone of the beginning of the stanza is peaceful an calm, and uses words like "tranquil," "calm," and "sweet", the scene is described as "fair". In the second part of the…

Fitzgerald’s Styles In order to successfully portray his characters, Fitzgerald used various different styles of writing to construct his novel. This is an important factor of The Great Gatsby because his diction choices assisted in aesthetically exemplifying his literature. A specific example of this can be found in chapter three of The Great Gatsby. A passage was composed to illustrate to his readers the extravagance of Gatsby’s parties and the riches he possesses. Fitzgerald effectively uses…

with “My Son”. Solomon was a good wise teacher he liked to use the compare and contrast method of teaching along with similes and metaphors. A good example of how Solomon used compare and contrast in his teaching would be Proverbs 10:8, “The wise heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin. He also used similes and metaphors. As stated earlier he also uses similes and metaphors and a good example would be Proverbs 18:4 says, “The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters, but the…

figurative language as well as classic appeals to explain why all people must join together for the sake of progress. Of all the forms of figurative language which Booker T, Washington includes in his speech, the most prominent are symbolism, and similes. The most obvious and prevalent symbol in his speech is the symbol of the bucket. He spins the tale of a ship lost and desperate when they finally come across another boat. After asking them for water only to be told to cast down their buckets…