Simile

In texts authors can use literary elements to affect a story's meaning and to help make connection to readers. Literary elements include many things, such as, imagery, hyperboles, similes, metaphors, connotative meaning, emotion, and shades of meaning. These elements help authors to create new depths of meaning in a various amount of ways, some texts that use literary elements to impact meaning and tone are, "I Have A Dream", "38 Witnesses", and "Night". To begin, one text that is affected by…

Sonnet 130 Have you ever read a poem and did not understand it, even after reading it over and over again? Authors use things such as figurative language in order for you to have to think to figure out the poem is saying. Knowing what figurative language is may help you figure out the poem. Figurative language is “used with a meaning that is different from the basic meaning and that expresses an idea in an interesting way by using language that usually describes something else.” (Merriam…

is a simile. “We treat a misspelled word like a crime and penalize the misspeller severely”(454). He is comparing the misspelled words to a crime. A crime is on a different level of severeness than an error in a word, but the comparison between the two misdoings magnifies the distress that teachers have when kids spell words wrong. The use of the simile makes the reader feel as if the world will end over one wrong word, and it over dramatizes the situation which is the key point of the simile.…

Gordon Grice, an essayist and writer, is caught in a web that is the mystery of the black widow. He himself has been enamored by the widow’s venom, in particular, and how it seems to be more powerful than need be. He reflects on killing widows with his mother and the gravity his mother held while doing so. Putting the powerful venom of the widow in perspective, Grice explains how there is no need for the deathly venom yet it still exists, and he relates this to the evil of the world, how…

The two stylistic devices mostly used being metaphors and similes. For example, in the first paragraph she explains how “one naturalist refused to kill a weasel” explaining that it was “socketed into his hand deeply as a rattlesnake” (“Living Like Weasels”, Dillard). The person eventually having to “soak him off like a stubborn label” (“Living Like Weasels”, Dillard). Those being examples of a simile. She effectively uses an elaborated metaphor through the involvement of imagery…

Similes such as “featured like him, like him with friends possessed” show that the author compares himself with his friends. He wishes that he were full of hope like his friends, which is not the case. The simile, “like to the lark at the break of day arising” shows that he compares his state to the lark. The lark is a bird that gets out of its nest full…

satisfying, as she would rather be traveling and meeting new people. “The Chrysanthemums” tone changes from hopeful to one of isolation, and that tone is created by a combination language elements including, contextual symbolism, figurative images using similes and metaphors, and irony. Tone is further supported by the fiction elements point of view and language. Allen is a married woman living in California. Mrs. Allen spends her time doing ordinary household chores such as, caring for her…

perception of life, and to widen and sharpen the readers’ experiences. Dickinson’s poetry strongly affects the minds of her readers because she uses many forms of figurative language, such as, irony, personification, paradox, and similes. For example, in her poem “Because I could not stop for Death,” Dickinson writes “Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me- / The Carriage held but just Ourselves- / And Immortality.” (Lines 1-4) In this passage, Dickinson…

she is able to overlook the negative remarks and believe in herself. Additionally, Maya’s use of wealthy symbols display that she is not afraid to dream of a time when skin color is of no importance to your quality of life. Lastly, the use of similes and metaphors creates an empowering tone, which allows the reader to commend her. Ultimately, Maya Angelou suggests that with self-confidence and a strong belief in equality, the human spirit can rise above and conquer any obstacle. Maya…

these devices the authors of these works of art are able to portray a clearer more crisp image or are able to change the story from one of joy to one of sorrow. Soto uses devices in his poem such as similes as well as the repetition of the word “I” to bring about a better piece of writing. These similes and metaphors that Soto used helped aid to the imagery mentioned earlier. They brought forth a fun, exciting way of reading the poem, instead of just blatantly stating what the character did. “I…