1. Metaphor The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. This is an example of metaphor because there is a comparison of two unlike things without using "as" or "like". The moon is being compared to "a ghostly galleon ". In this metaphor, the author tries to set up a spooky and terrifying mood in this scene. Therefore, this helps to demonstrate a dark scene to the audience in order to build a scary atmosphere. 2. Symbolism Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair. In this sentence, there is an example of symbolism because a dark red love-knot symbolizes the love between Bess and the robber. Dark usually symbolizes death and despair, and red normally means love. So, a dark red love-knot represents the hard relationship …show more content…
between Bess and the robber. It gives audience a hint that their love would be grieved and painful. 3.
Dramatic irony Where Tim the ostler listened. His face was white and peaked. ...But he loved the landlord's daughter, The landlord's red-lipped daughter. Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say--- This is an example of dramatic irony because audience perceives that Tim loves Bess and eavesdrops the conversation between Bess and the robber but Bess and the robber do not know that. He is "dumb as a dog he listened", because he does not want anyone to find that he is eavesdropping. Since Tim knows that Bess and the robber fall in love, he feels jealous. This is a hint to the audience that Tim probably would hurt the star-crossed lovers. 4. Simile "His face burnt like a brand The poet uses a simile in this sentence because there is a comparison of two unlike things using "like". The robber's face is being compared to a burnt brand. Burnt brand is red, so when the robber's face becomes red, it reveals his deep and passionate love effectively. By using this simile, the poet wants the audience to visualize their hot love. 5. Imagery "As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his …show more content…
breast; And he kissed its waves in the moonlight," There is an example of imagery in this quotation because kissing is a sense of touching.
The highwayman loves Bess so when he looks at her beautiful hair, he kisses her out of control. This imagery has the effect of establishing Bess and the highwayman's love, as he kisses her. The poet tries to tell audience that the highwayman loves Bess and does not want to leave her. 6. Foreshadowing "His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay," There is an example of foreshadowing in this quotation, because Tim's madness suggests that he will revenge because of his jealousy. As expected, Tim informs against the highwayman so Bess and the highwayman both are killed. This foreshadowing has the effect of establishing a jealous and devious character, as he eavesdrops Bess and the highwayman's conversation. The poet wants the audience to visualize Tim's nasty behaviour and personality. 7.Personification " There was death at every window; And hell at one dark window;" The poet uses a personification in this quotation because it gives a human quality to the window, which is death. The poet vitalize the windows with life, which establish a despairing tone and darkness. This helps to demonstrate a dead and dark scene for the audience and make them visualize Bess's
suffering. 8. Hyperbole "...and the hours crawled by like years." In this sentence, the poet uses a hyperbole because years are the exaggeration of hours. Bess feels that the time travels too slow because she is undergoing the physical pain and mental anguish. This sentence expresses and emphasizes Bess's pain through the exaggeration of time. The poet reveals a ruthless incident and a miserable experience of Bess to the audience. 9. Repetition "For the road lay bare in the moonlight; Blank and bare in the moonlight; And the blood of her veins, in the moonlight, throbbed to her love's refrain." An example of repetition is used in this sentence because the poet repeats the phrase "in the moonlight" three times. This repetition emphasizes the importance of moonlight in the poem, because the robber has a promise to Bess that he will come to her by moonlight. The poet wants the audience to visualize that Bess sacrifices for love and her great courage. 10.Alliteration "They had bound a musket beside her, with the muzzle beneath her breast!" In this quotation, the poet uses an alliteration with the consonant sound because a "B" sound is highlighted and repeated throughout the phrase "beneath her breast". This alliteration has a strong effect of emphasizing that Bess is suffering inhuman torture. Through this literary device, the audience is be able to see the King George's men's devilry and Bess's pain.
Watson successfully utilizes figurative language many times throughout the poem. Watsons personifies the highway various times throughout the poem. The highway is represented as a monster through the words “petulant beast”, “monster” and “recalcitrant animal”. The reason that this is done, is due to the large amount of fatal car accidents that occur on highways, therefore Watson portrays the highway as a killer. Repetition is also often used in the
There are multiple examples of visual imagery in this poem. An example of a simile is “curled like a possum within the hollow trunk”. The effect this has is the way it creates an image for the reader to see how the man is sleeping. An example of personification is, “yet both belonged to the bush, and now are one”. The result this has is how it creates an emotion for the reader to feel
While on the subway, the speaker is sitting on the opposite side of the car, facing the boy. The speaker utilizes imagery in this line, “He has the casual look of a mugger, alert under hooded lids. He is wearing red, like the inside of the body exposed. I am wearing dark for fur, the whole skin of an animal taken and used.” This imagery appeals to the audience by the sense of sight. The speaker is depicting the boy’s appearance as well as her own. She does this to contrast the differences between his raw appearance and her opulent appearance. She wants to elucidate that he looks treacherous while she looks like she could be the victim of a burglary. All of the imagery in the rest of the poem serves to describe the variations between the boy and herself.
In the poem, it says, “ Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?”. Since they are comparing two dissimilar things using “like” or “as”, it is a simile. In “Harlem Night”, there is imagery. In the poem, it says, “Moon is shining./Night sky is blue./Stars are great drops/Of golden dew” (Hughes 7-10). There is nice, descriptive images.
In this poem called “Creatures” by the author Billy Collins there is a literary device called a metaphor when the reader is reading this poem. A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as. In lines one (1) through...
Symbolism Symbolism can be defined “as the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense” (C. Bavota). James Hurst gives us many examples of symbolism in his short story “The Scarlet Ibis.” James Hurst was born in 1922 and was the youngest of three children. He attended North Carolina State College and served in the United States Army during World War II. He had originally studied to become a chemical engineer, but he realized he had a passion for music and became a student at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
An example is, when Grummore makes reference to the heir the nurse tearfully said, “never had no hair. Anybody that studied the the loyal family knowed that.” This is funny because the nurse says hair instead of heir and loyal not royal.To support his purpose and tone, the author uses literary devices such as simile and personification. Simile uses like or as to compare unrelated items. When Kay was trying to convince Sir Ector to go to London, White uses the phrase “eyes like marbles” to describe Grummore’s eyes. He also uses simile during the scene where Merlin is giving up his position as tutor and is leaving the household. White describes Archimedes as “spinning like a top” when he disappears from Merlyn's shoulder. Also, in the scene where Wart pulled the sword from the stone, thousands
The informal language and intimacy of the poem are two techniques the poet uses to convey his message to his audience. He speaks openly and simply, as if he is talking to a close friend. The language is full of slang, two-word sentences, and rambling thoughts; all of which are aspects of conversations between two people who know each other well. The fact that none of the lines ryhme adds to the idea of an ordinary conversation, because most people do not speak in verse. The tone of the poem is rambling and gives the impression that the speaker is thinking and jumping from one thought to the next very quickly. His outside actions of touching the wall and looking at all the names are causing him to react internally. He is remembering the past and is attempting to suppress the emotions that are rising within him.
“He uses similes such as the breeze that ‘blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale frogs’ and that also made a shadow on the ‘wine-colored rug’ as ‘wind does on the sea’.”
When given a chance to become a hero would you take it? Cowardice and courage are main themes in numerous of Tim O’Brien’s stories. “On the Rainy River”, a short story by O’Brien, the author uses a variety of figurative language, follows the conventional mythological structure with a twist, and the theme of cowardice.
Symbolism is a literary device in which words, phrases or actions allude to something more than their literal meanings. In the short story “A Jury of Her Peers”, a major example of symbolism is the quilt. The quilt is perhaps the biggest example because it can be tied to many other examples of symbolism within the story, and can also be interpreted in different ways.
The speaker uses figurative language to compare a girl that he loves to the happiness of nature, and to state that he will make a special relationship end happily. Simile is a type of figurative language that compares two things using the words “like” or “as.” A simile in line five has a very powerful meaning: “Like everything that’s green, girl, I ne...
Symbolism is strongly represented through Kaplan’s short story. The symbols represented are the ocean, the killing of the doe and the woods. Visiting the ocean for the first time at the Jersey Shore was new for Andy. Since then she had been awfully frightened of the ocean. She believes the ocean to be a huge, vast that constantly moved, keeps shifting
Personification is an important theme throughout this poem. In lines 1-2 it says, “The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once:.” Also in lines 3-4 it says, “I noticed that I missed stars in the west, where its black body cut into the sky.” This is an example of personification. In lines 5-6 it says, Near me it seemed: I felt it like a wall behind which i was sheltered from a wind.” Most of the examples showing personification in this poem, are displayed in the first couple of lines of the poem.
With a main problem that there is a robber or bad guy that is in love with the landlord's daughter. This poem is kind of a tragic romance story because of how that they both end up dying and how she was dying to be able to save him and then he dies because he realizes that he can’t save her and that his life is over. But at the end of the story it kind of has a sweet ending to it with both of them ending up dying they are able to be with each other and it kind of goes along with the storyline of what has happened in the story “Romeo & Juliet” where they had fallen in love but are forbidden to be with each other and they just want to be together. That is the main style that the poem “Highwayman”