Simile

U.S president to buy Indian land and relocate Native Americans into reservations. Chief Seattle’s purpose is to express his amity towards the white man, and also harbinger the consequences if they failed to honor their word and promises. He uses similes, symbolism and juxtaposition to create a strong argument and make his point. He appeals to governor Stevens’ honor and offer of goodwill and friendship. Chief Seattle has no opposition in accepting Stevens friendly proposal, and so for he…

In the book The Woman In Black written by Susan Hill the main character, whose name is Arthur Kipps, travels out of London to a little village called Crythin Gifford to go through the papers of the dead Mrs Drablow. Her house, called the Eel Marsh House, is far away from any other house, and it is said to be haunted. When Arthur gets to the house, he sees a woman. She appears and disappears multiple times and Arthur gets a little frightened. The place is nerve-wrecking, so a pony and trap picks…

subjects that the human mind yearns to understand. They can accomplish a feat that no person can do. In passages by John James Audubon and Annie Dillard, flocks of birds are described vividly through rhetorical strategies such as diction, analogies, and similes. Both passages were similar in nature, but each author had its own style. Seeing the flocks of birds deeply impacted the observers. It is evident from these passages that watching these birds provided joy and astonishment to the…

This detailed simile descriptively compares Odysseus’ crew of sailors on their boat to “ calves in stalls”. It shows how dependent and vulnerable they are for love from there captain Odysseus and the remaining crew. Odysseus and the rest of crew which are symbolized as “cows” shows that they think that they would return or save them like a cow and its calve. The sailors represent calves because of their dependence and longing for their mother. The epic simile is about the sailor crew…

In William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio leaves Hero at the alter, “killing” her, leaving her uncle Antonio to challenge Claudio to avenge her “death”. Shakespeare uses repetition and simile to reveal that men are violent and want to be in control. Shakespeare uses repetition to show that men will stereotype one another to leverage persona power. Antonio states “He shall kill two of us, and men indeed, But that’s no matter. Let him kill one first. Win me and…

“YOLO! We’re going to die anyways..” is a common saying people like to throw around when they do something risky. Whether it’s dangerous like skydiving or harmful to us like drugs, we like to say “We’re going to die either way” so our actions don’t look and feels as bad as they really are. In this poem the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, contradicts that saying, which i find very intriguing. In this poem, Henry Wadsworth is saying not to live life in the pursuit of death, but instead live…

In Keats’s poems, he has the speaker find different ways to express his views on mortality and death. This common theme is not surprising because Keats was exposed to many deaths throughout his life; he lost his parents and two brothers (Smith, 390-404). In “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”, for example, the speaker explains how the knowledge of mortality has affected him, and also includes a positive view towards it. In “The Human Seasons”, the speaker takes a direct approach and draws parallels…

black haired woman who allegedly committed suicide. “The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky” (lines 1-3). The narrator uses a simile to describe the black-haired tree and how she believes it is a woman who drowned into the hot sky. This simile expresses how the author views her world in a complete different limelight and is experiencing some harsh pain. The imagery of death is seen in the disassociation with the town in lines…

his writing. These methods include literary devices, setting, and symbolism. Bradbury's choice to use of literary devices has an impact on the success of creating a negative view of technology. He uses the literary devices personification, simile,…

Simile is a style of comparing two or more things to each other by use of words such as “like” and “as”. In this case, the poet compares himself to a cloud. The title itself shows the simile style “I wonder lonely as a cloud.” (stanza1) Another simile in the poem is in stanza four; “continuous as the stars that shine” in this case he compares the fluttering dance of daffodils…