Essays Tagged: "Figure of speech"
Cyrano de Bergerac
lives life to the hilt, and because he is a victim of his surroundings. If there was ever a figure who would not be denied his sensibilities, it is Cyrano. When lovers admit, 'I'd die for you, ... denied his sensibilities, it is Cyrano. When lovers admit, 'I'd die for you,' it is usually only a figure of speech. Cyrano actually crossed over enemy lines every day simply to mail love letters. He ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Cyrano De Bergerac
cause he lives life to the hilt, and because he is a victim of his surroundings.If there was ever a figure who would not be denied his sensibilities, it is Cyrano. When lovers admit, 'I'd die for you, ... denied his sensibilities, it is Cyrano. When lovers admit, 'I'd die for you,' it is usually only a figure of speech. Cyrano actually crossed over enemy lines every day simply to mail love letters. He ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
In the story Beowulf there are many monsters. The explanation of what accounts for Grendel's evil can be shown by the author's figure of speech.
ghts and conquers. The explanation of what accounts for Grendel's evil can be shown by the author's figure of speech.One way the author uses figure of speech is through imagery. In the first part of t ... erent. Grendel's bloodthirst is a major contributor towards the reason of him being so evil.Another figure of speech the author uses to show Grendel's evilness is by using metaphors. The story suggest ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
An analysis of the story "The price of Eggs in China" by Don Lee.
ee that the author creates a very interesting connection. One of the definitions of a metaphor is a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally den ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Theodore Roethke's "I knew a Woman," Various Figures of Speach
In the Poem "I Knew a Woman," the author, Theodore Roethke, uses figures of speech, primarily hyperbole and metaphor, to reveal the wonders of a woman's body, as wel ... er and also implies his attitude towards her to be of amazement and admiration.The speaker's use of Figure of speech is first introduced in the first stanza of the poem. Here Roethke uses word repetit ... elings for the woman with time and aging. Line 22 "Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay" is a figure of speech that makes reference to the life cycle of grass and has sexual imagery of "mowing," ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Successful Satire within Volatire's "Candide"
] broad term referring to the recognition of a reality different from appearance. Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words that carry the opposite meaning."A ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Definition of Irony
o the Oxford English Dictionary, the word irony has two different denotations. The first one is, "A figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Irony definition essay
o the Oxford English Dictionary, the word irony has two different denotations. The first one is, "A figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
How Clothing Imagery Defines the Characters Within "King Lear"
at characters nature, and helps the readers interpret their emotions. Imagery is a word, phrase, or figure of speech (especially a simile or a metaphor) that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
How do we determine the intended meaning of a metaphor?
culating of minds there are indeed wisps of pure poetry. The metaphor, metaphore, or metaphora is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denotes one kind of object or idea used in plac ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
"Sky High" Hannah Roberts
onto the clothesline.The title "Sky High", used also in the first sentence of Paragraph 3 is also a figure of speech. "Sky High" is a hyperbole highlighting the extreme sense of change that Hannah fee ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Passion of the Odyssey: A formal expository essay about the personification, epithets, and similies within Homer's "Odyssey"
omponents: personification, epithets, and similes, are what give the story its passionA simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things or concepts are shown to be similar using the words "lik ... graphic, this passage is one of the best examples of captivating epic similes.Personification is a figure of speech in which an animal, force of nature, idea, or inanimate object is given human chara ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
How Cliché!
d using them in literary works. According to George Orwell, "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print." He is, of course referring to cliché ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing
Good And Bad Poetry
erstand what makes them either good poems or bad poems by the writers? usage of diction, images and figure of speech, details, and the poems general impression. As well, it will incorporate that both ... ls of readers, one can argue that they both get a check mark for ?good?. A poem?s images and figure of speech can be crucial in what makes a poem ?good? or ?bad?. Images and figure of speech, o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Emotions Of Poetry
otions of Poetry In the poem "The Slave Mother," Frances Ellen Watkins Harper uses imagery, figures of speech and voice to help the reader feel the poem. The emotion portrayed by the character ... he is a mother. The joy this child has brought his mother is described in the body of the poem. The figure of speech with, "A fountain gushing ever new, amid life's desert wild."(27-28) The boy's pres ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Literary Analysis of the poem “Hymn to the Night”, by
rich and diverse. Longfellow uses a lot of personifications, similes, metaphors, and other literary figures to create the aesthetic atmosphere of the poem.Personification: The most widely used device ... he Night is not an abstract phenomenon, it is a person, the beloved woman.Metaphor: Another figure of speech that is widely used in the poem is metaphor. "The sable skirts" of the Night are "a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Irony in Act Three
r a society?s traditions? (337).Verbal irony is often the easiest to see and understand as it is ?a figure of speech in which the speaker says the opposite of what he or she intends to say? (337). Ver ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Short Stories
e metaphors, which are closely linked to analogies but they have their differences. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in ... wthorns ?Young Goodman Brown?.?Aesop?s Fables? display an incomparable amount of personification, a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, object, or a concept. In ?Aesop?s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Analysis of School Children by W.H Auden
to prove or enhance his point. One of the variations used in this poem is a "simile" A simile is a figure of speech that, like metaphor, compares unlike things in order to describe something. Similes ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Analysis of "Sympathy",written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
ration twice using the letters w and s."And the river flows like a stream of glass" the poet uses a figure of speech which is a simile to compare the river with glass, the purpose of this simile is to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry