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…
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…
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
“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.
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 order to completely grasp exactly how the old maid appears to the woman on the sidewalk and the love she feels for the man walking with her, Sara Teasdale uses personification to describe the characters in the poem. One would be, “Her soul was frozen in the dark/ Unwarmed forever by love’s flame.” Obviously, a person’s soul cannot be frozen, but the meaning is that the old maid had never felt a heated intensity between herself and someone special to her which could give her a cold outlook on life. Another time the poet uses personification is when the speaker states, “His eyes were magic to defy”. Eyes cannot be magic. By saying that his eyes were magic the reader can get the notion that when the speaker looks into the eyes of her lover she feels awed, happy, or even entranced. Sara Teasdale also uses a metaphor in her work, “Her body was a thing growing thin,” In that line the speaker is comparing the old maid’s draining body to something that can get thinner. The poet uses a rhyme scheme of rhyming the second with the fourth line and there are four lines in every stanza. Finally, in this narrative poem there are eight syllables per line of the poem.
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...
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”
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.
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.
The author use personification in the poem because he sees but things will be easier to explain if he uses figurative language. The metaphor comparing to things without using like or as like when she said in the poem ´´ Big ghost in a cloud´ ´ She used metaphor to give a better example of what she sees and what she sees Is cloud shaped as different animals or anything but in the poem she pretty much-seen cloud shaped as the ghost.
In the first paragraph similes and personification are used to show how his mental state is beginning to show change. In a flashback he remembers the first time he thought for himself “The night I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking a buried mine” (Bradbury 1). In this scene he starts to realize that there is something wrong with his society. How it was no big deal the his wife, Mildred had just tried to kill herself. His views on everything about society changed this night. He realizes that he wan...