Simile

and detailed similes are found in abundance within the poem. These similes are often used to emphasize the strength and power of warriors. While many similes compare warriors to animals, only a few compare warriors to nature. This essay will focus on two similes that compare warriors to the natural elements. The elemental nature of the Homeric simile heightens the power of Achilles, portraying him as more powerful than the Achaean and Trojan armies combined. The first…

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, epic simile is frequently used to create elaborate and sweeping comparisons that contribute to a character’s development. In Book IX, Milton compares Eve to a list of goddesses by writing “To Pales, or Pomona, thus adorned / Likest she seemed Pomona when she fled / Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her prime / Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove” (393-6). This comparison constitutes as a epic simile because it spans multiple lines and goes into great detail. One thing that…

Yann Martel uses similes to advance and evolve Pi's charter in chapter 94. "Doctors and nurses cared for me as if I were a premature baby" and "This beach, so soft, firm and vast, was like the cheek of God..." are two examples found in chapter 94 page 285 and 286. Yann Martel uses similes to show us that Pi is determined to survive and also what he does throughout his time on the boat. These similes make us feel like we can see what is going on looking though Pi’s eyes. Pi is very strong and…

A simile is the figure of speech used to compare two things using the words like or as, and so on. In the Iliad, Homer uses a lot of similes either to explain the character, or to explain the situation explicitly. The above simile is from book 16, titled Patroclus Fights and Dies. Patroclus knows a large number of the Achaeans are struggling to survive on the ship: some of them hit by arrows and others run through with spears. Achilles, a great warrior, could save them if he goes in war but he…

bloodshed. Through the use of Homeric similes, Homer foreshadows and depicts the ongoing events of the war. His detailed similes help readers to predict the outcome of battles and understand the effects of the war upon each of the characters in the book. Homeric similes help readers to see that death in the war is due to fate and nature, which makes the theme of war and mortality evident in all books of Homers Illiad. In book 6 of The Iliad, a Homeric simile arises that compares the many deaths…

pieces of literature empowers others to analyze the injustices and prejudices colored people had faced in the past. Angelou was an influential woman who eloquently shared her opinions, and inspired others to do the same. In her poem, Angelou’s uses similes and rhetorical questions to bitterly bite back at the white oppressors, just as Ellison paint scenes, where the characters retaliate against Whites. During the Invisible Man’s odyssey, he takes on different types of jobs, but remains as a…

illustrates Telemachus coming age by using imagery of nature, formal diction, and simile portraying how he is maturing and developing himself to become like his father. People change due to situation in their life, Telemachus son of Odysseus has to develop himself into a man. He has to pick up where his has left off; usually we don’t expect people to change themselves in short notice. However, Telemachus knew he had…

and shake like a horse shaking off flies"(73). George Orwell compares the proles to horses and the party to flies on the back of a horse. This is demonstrated with the use of a simile. The reason of comparing proles to horses is because of the immense strength shown by booting the opposing party. The main use of this simile is to show how dominant a unit can be if they come together for the same goal.¬ "Day and night the telescreens bruised your ear with statistics proving that people today…

poet. He is the author of the epic-tale of the Greek-Troy war entitled the Iliad. Homer immortalized it and its epic heroes .In this essay, I will examine the similes, that immortalize Homer as a poet, consider the canonization of his work, and end up offering a short poem as an example of how a literary work can become canonical. Homer’s similes characterized that they are long, extended, rich, omniscient, and informative. The Iliad is comprised of more than fifteen thousands of lines, divided…

little town… it involves missing children [and] a cave that occasionally belches a terrifying roar…” First of all, I am not convinced that this horror show is horrifying if the author is comparing it to sausage. Although it’s amusing, the ineffective simile is distracting. What is that suppose to mean? Is that suppose to segway into the fact that this show takes place in Germany? There…