Essays Tagged: "Literal and figurative language"
analysis of Karl Shapiro's "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
listic and sometimes transcendent effect. In some places in the poem, the words can easily be taken literally to convey scenery or an emotion, but they can also be taken so as to make the reader think ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Poetry Analysis of the poem "I, Too" by Langston Hughes.
" means family and symbolizes equality and acceptance. Another example, "sit at the table," has its literal meaning, and also a second meaning, indicating politics and being involved in making decisio ... seen in the line, "They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes." It has two meanings. The literal meaning means the employers send him away when guests arrive. The other meaning means Americ ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Definition of Irony from Personal Experience
h it is used. Consider the phrase "How clever you are." Without any context, the phrase seems quite literal. If you put some context on it, such as the hearer just made an obvious mistake, then it has ... it, such as the hearer just made an obvious mistake, then it has a much deeper impression than the literal expression. Another thing to consider about irony is that it is always used to create an unp ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Self Reponse to Prayer Before Birth Louis Macneice
A good poem does not need superb text; it needs superb use of poetic techniques and a good structure. 'Prayer before birth' is a fine example of a good poem; however, the text is s ... wards I agreed with some points. However, I felt angry when the author expects water to support him and trees to talk to him, but afterwards going in the depths of this stanza it seemed real. Everybod ... wants things or people to support them or to talk to them. Everyone fears something in their life, and for the author, they were bats, stoats and ghouls.'Prayer before birth' is not only the title bu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"In Flanders Fields" A symbolism analysis
are brought to life in this poem to send us their message. Their "failing hands" can not of course literally throw a torch, which is symbolic of the war effort and patriotism. This is simply meant to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
figurative language works in this story are showing the comparison to how small the boat really is and how big the waves are. They are so big compared to the boat that they can't see anything but tho ... ative language will be shown on later in this paper.This story was truly a conflict between the men and the sea. All of the men worked together to try to conquer the sea. For instance when the men wer ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
How do we determine the intended meaning of a metaphor?
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 place of another to suggest a likeness or analo ... ehension Model (Clark & Lucy, 1975)Utterances may have intended meanings that differ from their literal meanings. According to Grice, the intended meaning is based on the cooperative principle max ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Journey Into Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology can help us in many ways. Simile's products and solutions incorporate patent-pending technology in statistical analysis, artificial intelligence ... echnology in statistical analysis, artificial intelligence, information theory, pattern recognition and linguistics. The technology discovers patterns present in text based on the use and frequency of ... In doing so, Simile creates a multi-dimensional mathematical symbol for a document or piece of text and rapidly retrieves similar symbols in other information available to the software. Since the comp ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
The Organization
The organization, diction, and figurative language used, in "The Great Scarf of Birds"� prepares the reader for the spea ... ader for the speaker's concluding response. The organization of the poem helps the reader to understand the importance of the event and prepares them for the speaker's concluding response. The diction ... d detail used by the author. The figurative language used in the poem helps to heighten the imagery and to emphasize the importance of the event, which prepares the reader for the speaker's concluding ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Discuss how the Author Tom Godwin uses "Cold" Imagery Effectively to Develop the Impersonalism of the Space Frontier in "The Cold Equations"
Through Tom Goodwin’s portrayal of the setting and atmosphere in “The Cold Equations,” the reader undoubtedly experiences the lonesome an ... ome and cold feeling occurring in the story. The author’s brilliant use of figurative language and imagery illustrating Barton’s occupation produces a character deficient of personality and ... g imagery expertly depicted by the author, vividly generating a cold atmosphere lacking personality and emotion.Goodwin’s effective delineation of the “frontier,” the setting of which t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Rising Five By Norman Nicholson Message conveyed through the child's experience
Maturing into an adult and "rising" up has been conveyed through Rising Five as the child's experience. Nicholson uses vari ... child's experience. Nicholson uses various parallel structure, clever imagery, intriguing metonymy and various language techniques to imply the message that rushing towards the future may not be the ... conversation. Already in the beginning, Nicholson has intentionally made the boy negate the present and choose to be "Rising five". Personification is cleverly used by Nicholson to describe his "littl ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White Seminar Preparation - includes information about EB Whites use of literary devices, symbolism, and purpose.
1.In paragraphs two, ten, and twelve of "Once More to the Lake," White's brilliant use of metaphors, similes, and personificat ... etaphors, similes, and personification illustrates a lucid image of the speaker's intertwining past and present for the reader. White starts paragraph ten with a fragment, "Peace and goodness and joll ... aph ten with a fragment, "Peace and goodness and jollity," and creates a great emphasis on his past and current feelings. He continues to illustrate his past memories with a personification of the voc ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Figurative and Literal Language
Figurative language versus literal languageIntroductionFigurative language versus literal language is a differentiation in trad ... language versus literal language is a differentiation in traditional system for examining language. Literal language concerns with words which actually do not vary from their determined, fixed, define ... y do not vary from their determined, fixed, defined and specified meaning and we can also addressed literal language like that a word to word meaning and saying is called literal meaning. Talking abou ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers