Synecdoche

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. They had finally arrived back from the snorkeling trip on the boat. It was a long journey on that ship. They set off sail from the port one week ago, when they were supposed to be out on sea for one day. They left the island one week ago to go snorkeling in the beautiful coral reefs of the Caribbean. It took them aground two hours to get the coral reef. The boat had finally arrived and everyone was so excited, it was so…

Figurative language and figures of speech have two functions: first, to add vividness and immediacy; second, to interpret the object described or the attitude towards it. For example, instead of saying that a girl’s hair is black and glossy, you can stir the imagination of the reader if you say that the girl’s hair is black as a raven(simile). Examples: 1. We wouldn’t move a muscle; the room was an oven and we felt we could be roasted bread my moment. (Metaphor) 2. The river showed an insane…

but not internally ruined. This foul, outer appearance he creates for the world is heightened in lines seven and eight. He personifies the earth in saying it, “wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell” (7). Hopkins also inserts a couple of synecdoches in these lines. “Soil” stands for everything man has taken away from the outermost part of the planet (7). “Nor can foot feel, being shod” represents the whole human race and its isolation from nature. The “foot,” people, has forgotten how…

Through deliberate selection of the medium of production, composers are able to offer and emphasise their own perspectives on politics. This is evident in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian prose-fiction novel, Brave New World (1932), and Bruce Dawe’s poem, ‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’ (1959). Both texts capture the composers’ own political ideologies and caution readers of governments that abuse technology to manufacture a consumeristic, groupthink culture. Composer’s criticise government bodies…

later. The reader will find the use of many stylistic devices; including alliteration; “Felt a Funeral”, and “Silence, some Strange Race”; onomalopoola; “Creak”; repetition “Kept, treading, treading”, “beating, beating” and “down and down”; and synecdoche, substituting the speaker for the speaker 's ear. The use of the allegory of a funeral draws a stark comparison to…

an apostrophe, when the sailor addresses the dead captain. This shows the poet finds it hard to believe that the captain had died. The use of ‘bleeding drops of red’ is an allusion to Lincoln who died of a bloody wound. He uses the ‘shore’ as a synecdoche to represent the population of America. Ship, shore and harbour are also allegories; their literary meaning is not important, it is the abstract concept they convey, that helps us to interpret the text. The poet also uses a lot of visual…

“time”; love is not “Time’s fool” (9). Even when the lover turns old and grey; love still is not altered by time’s “brief hours and weeks” (11). Yet good looks do not last forever they are within time’s “bending sickle’s” (10). The “sickle” is a synecdoche used to describe the grim reaper; which is a metaphor for death. Time and death are combined in this line, to tell us that time has the sickle and good looks are within it so they will die one day, but love will never die, but good looks will…

while social movements use protests and mass demonstrations, and organized interests use contributions and lobbyists. Party’s relationship to the government is that for all intensive purposes they are what most of us would consider when hearing the synecdoche “the government”. These elected representatives form public policy through writing and voting directly on bills. Their relation to the government is that they are the fabric of the system that organized interests work within and social…

apart. Ethos is used to give his speech character and balance between pathos and logos, or your left and right side of your brain, and to make both of your senses lean toward supporting his argument. However, in comparison to Patrick Henry’s use of synecdoche and ethos when he tells the reader that should he keep his opinions to himself, he will be guilty of treason in the eyes of God. And how the tyrannical hand of the ministry and parliament have pushed away all of their appeals and petitions…

As time goes on, society ages. The values people hold dear also changes with time. Throughout history, each new period/age tends to emphasize different values and mindsets. For example, topics such as individuality and humanism were of huge interest during the Renaissance but were less important in the 17th century. “The Renaissance [embraced] a series of religious, economic, and political changes which [rippled] into areas of science, literature, and philosophy” (Judkins). It was during this…