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Figurative Language Essays (Examples)

165 results for “Figurative Language”.


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Literature

Figurative Language and Imagery in Poetry

Words: 1165
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

.....people the opportunity to see life from a new perspective, to be entertained, enlightened, and to experience some level of catharsis through engagement with a dramatic experience in reading.…

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Term Paper

Literature

Robert Frost's Use of Figurative Language

Words: 1105
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Figurative Language in Robert Frost's Poetryand "The Metamorphosis" Robert Frost is one poet that always utilizes figurative speech in dramatic ways. By employing the literary techniques of symbolism and…

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3 Pages
Essay

Poetry

Analyzing Poetry by Frost and Forche Figurative Language

Words: 1053
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Frost and Forche: Two Poems In "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost works the theme of choice into the poem by depicting a traveler -- a walker in the…

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3 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Figurative Language

Words: 749
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Speech in Anger, by Vallejo The poem "Anger" by Cesar Vallejo and translated into the English by Thomas Merton is absolutely suffused with successful utilizations of various figures of…

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2 Pages
Essay

Sports - Women

Men and Women and Language in Chaucer's Prologue

Words: 711
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Chaucer's General Prologue Men, Women, Class, and Language in Chaucer's "General Prologue" It is impossible to categorize characters generically in Chaucer's "General Prologue." Although he describes men and women…

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Term Paper

Communication - Language

Human Language

Words: 680
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

properties of human language (displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, cultural, transmission, discreteness, duality) discuss how human language differs from animal communication. Unlike animal language, human language can possess the property of…

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Research Paper

Teaching

Is Mandarin a Necessary Language to Learn

Words: 1545
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Mandarin a Necessary Language to Learn In many regards, learning Mandarin can be considered a necessary task for a host of reasons, not the least of which may be…

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3 Pages
Essay

Literature

Analyzing a Poem

Words: 1020
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

alt hitman grew to fame in America for writing poems that were as long and as sprawling as his very strides throughout the wide walks of the country itself.…

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Term Paper

Communication - Language

Precis Tropes Monikers Like The

Words: 588
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Language has the power to transform reality and especially figurative language. Figurative language can also illuminate areas of life that are taken for granted, ignored, or made invisible. Language…

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Research Paper

Family and Marriage

Twain Incorporates Humor by Using

Words: 565
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Research Paper

They are the same age but Buck's family is wealthy and, for all intents and purposes, he should be refined but he is not. Twain uses satire with the…

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Journal

Literature

Beowulf as a Hero Lesson

Words: 8817
Length: 19 Pages
Type: Journal

Your answer should be at least five sentences long. The Legend of Arthur Lesson 1 Journal Entry # 9 of 16 Journal Exercise 1.7A: Honor and Loyalty 1. Consider…

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Book Report

Film

Egyptian Box Chapter 1 Introduces the Main

Words: 1603
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Book Report

Egyptian Box Chapter 1 introduces the main character, Tee Woodie, a young girl who has just moved to a Southwestern town from her home in Maine after her parents…

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Term Paper

Literature

Courage That My Mother Had

Words: 1010
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

This is an interesting device because it indicates the author was looking at every aspect of the poem and thought long and hard about how to use words to…

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2 Pages
Essay

Children

Brady Makes Are Based on Her Personal

Words: 651
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Brady makes are based on her personal and professional needs, a few of the arguments Brady makes in her desire to have a wife seem to be from the…

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6 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Self-Discovery in Their Eyes Were

Words: 1661
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Again, we see a strong, confident woman in Janie. She is also mature. Hattenhauer maintains that we can see this in they way Janie understands certain truths about life.…

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20 Pages
Essay

Literature

Role and Importance of the

Words: 5946
Length: 20 Pages
Type: Essay

Most individuals fail to appreciate life to the fullest because they concentrate on being remembered as some of the greatest humans who ever lives. This makes it difficult for…

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Peer Reviewed Journal

Literature

Clifton Poetry Response This Author Begins Their

Words: 309
Length: 1 Pages
Type: Peer Reviewed Journal

Clifton Poetry Response This author begins their analysis with a bare-bones description of poet Lucille Clifton's life and authorial perspective. Specifically the author notes the lack of capitalization or…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Military

Nixon's The Great Silent Majority

Words: 1293
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Then he continued to express his understanding towards those who had been so vehement in their opposition of the war during the previous years. After he explained the current…

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Term Paper

Literature

St Augustine's Confessions Passage Explication From Book

Words: 1052
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

St. Augustine's Confessions: Passage Explication from Book III Aurelius Augustine, or St. Augustine (354-430), one of the most important historical figures of the Roman Catholic Church and a major…

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Questionnaire

Business - Miscellaneous

Principal Ideas or Arguments Advanced

Words: 941
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Questionnaire

The metaphor of the jigsaw puzzle-- "what good would it do to finish early? Three, the jigsaw puzzle isn't the important thing. The important thing is the fun of…

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3 Pages
Essay

Literature

Anna Quindlen's The Name Is Mine the

Words: 937
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Anna Quindlen's "The Name is Mine," the author uses a personal anecdote to convey her experiences grappling with battling patriarchy. Marge Piercy presents a much more pessimistic view of…

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4 Pages
Essay

Music

Sonny's Blues Examination

Words: 1253
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Sonny's Blues ho is the main character in the story (choose between Sonny and the narrator)? Also, explain why then you consider the other man to be a minor…

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7 Pages
Research Paper

Literature

Sensibility and Paul De Man Conclusions Despite

Words: 1993
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Research Paper

SENSIBILITY AND PAUL DE MAN "CONCLUSIONS" Despite the fact that De man was not a trained philosopher his post war theoretical work is majorly concerned with the nature of…

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4 Pages
Essay

Criminal Justice

Mencken and Anna Quindley Use Rhetorical Devices

Words: 1363
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Mencken and Anna Quindley use rhetorical devices to convince readers to take a side on the controversial issue of capital punishment. These two essays demonstrate how authors use ambiguity,…

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15 Pages
Term Paper

Mythology - Religion

Exegesis of Revelation Chapter 20

Words: 4904
Length: 15 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Book of Revelation is a unique portion of the New Testament. Unlike the other Books found in the latter part of the Bible, the Book of Revelation is not…

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3 Pages
Essay

Literature

Kubla Kahn Imagery in Coleridge's

Words: 1010
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

In other words, the simile is more concrete and memorable than the green hill it is supposed to describe. The lack of 'realism' of the poem becomes even more…

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2 Pages
Essay

Teaching

Reporting and Giving Feedback on

Words: 645
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Some teachers require students to have their parents 'sign' or initial that they saw a (poor) grade. Parents are also asked to have conferences to discuss their student's progress…

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Essay

Literature

Neruda and Whitman

Words: 870
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Huges in week five, tell us about one of Neruda's poems. Don't tell us about teme or ow you relate to it. Tell us about te form of te…

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4 Pages
Essay

Poetry

The Role of Nature in Song of Myself

Words: 1425
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Nature as Guide in "Song of Myself" hitman's "Song of Myself" is a celebration of Nature in the Romantic-Enlightenment tradition. As is evident from a close reading of the…

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Creative Writing

Poetry

How to Write an Epic Poem

Words: 1416
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Creative Writing

Westopia: An Epic Narrative Describing the History of the West post-Reformation and the Rise of New Peoples and Places in Conflict with the Old In anno domini 1650, the…

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17 Pages

Film

Analyzing Student Data Project

Words: 2259
Length: 17 Pages
Type:

dramatic change in the American public schools' demographics due to the country's immigration peak; the highest in the nation's history. This is happening at a time when American schools…

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5 Pages
Research Paper

Teaching

Classrooms of the Past There

Words: 2184
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Picture connects to a few words Picture supports topic Clear, detailed picture enhances topic Beginning Writer's ubric -- Organization 0 1 2 3 Page is blank or illegible No…

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5 Pages
Essay

Literature

The Lilies of Landsford Canal

Words: 1965
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

UAN LUDVIGON[footnoteRef:1] [1: usan Ludvigson was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on February 13, 1942 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls in 1965 with majors in…

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3 Pages
Essay

Film

Analyzing Module 3 & 4 Spe

Words: 950
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

interaction between the caregiver and the child with regard to the development of communication. The awareness and receptiveness of the caregiver together with particular communicative language conducts have a…

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2 Pages
Essay

Literature

Hughes and Holiday Harlem and

Words: 721
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

" The drying up of the dream like a raisin suggests that the spirit of someone who is the victim of prejudice experiences a kind of living death, with…

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Essay

Literature

Yeats' Poem the Isle of

Words: 648
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

hile imagination is important to the poem, it is not all of it. Stuart claims that the poem is often "dismissed as a youthful, nostalgic, derivatively romantic lyric" (Stuart…

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6 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Postcolonial Theory on Imperialism JM Coetzee and Edward Said

Words: 1908
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Postcolonial Theory on Imperialism The Strains of Living in a Postcolonial orld In the wake of Colonialism and Imperialism, much of the world still finds itself in pieces --…

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3 Pages
Essay

Mythology

Blue Winds Dancing The Narrator Here Is

Words: 1396
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Blue Winds Dancing. The narrator here is in clear conflict with the value system of the white men. He is a Native American Indian who is attached to nature…

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Essay

Literature

Paired Poets it Attempts to Compare and

Words: 1920
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Essay

Paired Poets." It attempts to compare and contrast the lives, personality, psychology and the work of T.S. Elliot and DH Lawrence. Furthermore, it elaborates the similarities and the differences…

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3 Pages
Term Paper

Music

Robert Wrigley News There's a

Words: 1265
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

How much feeling there is in the third and fourth stanzas! -- the panicked and fearful bird, heart pumping, the calmness of the man, the soft, loving strokes and…

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2 Pages
Essay

Sports - Women

Leslie Vryenhoek's Longing Leslie Vyenhoek's Short Poem

Words: 606
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Leslie Vryenhoek's "Longing" Leslie Vyenhoek's short poem "Longing" expresses the manner in which the breakdown of family can divide both the physical and emotional. The poet's use of figurative…

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Essay

Literature

Lament for Dark Peoples by Langston Hughes

Words: 668
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Lament for Dark Peoples by Langston Hughes Langston Hughes is widely known for his simple and open poems with messages that are not coated in so many artistic and…

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3 Pages
Essay

Literature

Swift's Modesty

Words: 979
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is quite an unusual work of literature, and one which certainly has a surprise ending. The only allusions to the wild solution that the…

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4 Pages
Essay

Literature

Two Minimalist Short Stories

Words: 1470
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

English Literature - Introduction Minimalism -- John Barth's Description Minimalism certainly means using fewer words to express thoughts, plots, ideas, quotes and action, but there is more to it…

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Essay

Plays

Analzying American Literature Marge Piercys Poem Whats That Smell in the Kitchen

Words: 746
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

American Literature-Marge Piercy's poem "What's That Smell in the Kitchen?" How figurative language is used in the poem to evoke vivid images. In the poem "What's That Smell in…

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2 Pages
Essay

Poetry

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman Poetry

Words: 683
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

alt hitman's "Song of Myself" continues to evoke strong emotions because of the paradox inherent in the juxtaposition between egotism on the one hand and selfless idealism on the…

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5 Pages
Research Proposal

Communication - Language

Ells Elsa Is an Eager

Words: 1558
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

The word layer is a figurative one in this case, as layers generally refer to more concrete items as in layers of cake or clothing. Similarly, the question about…

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10 Pages
Term Paper

Communication - Language

David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations

Words: 2867
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

David Mamet From the perspective of pure plot, David Mamet's 1974 play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, is not exactly easy to summarize, although this difficulty is formally built in…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

American History

Remarks on the 40th Anniversary

Words: 1206
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Therefore he establishes a strong personal ethos which he sustains throughout the remainder of the speech, (Rowland, p. 237). Reagan knew that many in the audience which he was…

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1 Pages
Essay

Literature

Sensory Information Throughout Most of

Words: 323
Length: 1 Pages
Type: Essay

The author's point-of-view is certainly visible in the text, but it is based purely on objective facts and as such the text's language remains highly objective, as well. There…

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4 Pages
Essay

Literature

Various Authors

Words: 1320
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Fictional Elements in Selected orks from Kate Chopin and Anton Chekhov In both of Kate Chopin's works, "The Story of an Hour" and "Desiree's Baby," the most important element…

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3 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Poetic Comparisons The Death of

Words: 1149
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Rather than Klein's more stagnant relationship with his father, a man locked, in the past, the subject of the poem "Keine Lazarovitch" is almost as complex as the ebb…

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2 Pages
Essay

Literature

Phillip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella

Words: 674
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

microtheme poem- Astrophil Stella Sidney link: http://pages.uoregon./rbear/Stella.html a microtheme analysis Arguably, the most vital aspect of Sir Phillip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella is the initial sonnet that begets this…

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2 Pages
Essay

Literature

Microtheme Gordonr's Poem - File Attached a

Words: 630
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

microtheme Gordonr's poem - file attached a microtheme analysis paper focuses a specific poem a specific Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem "To My Brother" addresses the ills of poverty. The…

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4 Pages
Thesis

Mythology

Romantic Poet a Midsummer's Night

Words: 1435
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Thesis

1). Oberon and Titania are thus not above the common desires and petty passions that motivate all mortals -- but they know the harms that their jealousies can do,…

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Term Paper

Biology

Mary Oliver's Seven White Butterflies and West

Words: 1577
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Mary Oliver's Seven White Butterflies And West Wind This is a poetry analysis of Mary Oliver's Seven White Butterflies and West Wind 2. It uses the poems as the…

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3 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Diverse Poems

Words: 909
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

T.S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, & Ezra Pound "Preludes" by T.S. Eliot adopts a slant rhyme pattern to convey the state of his thoughts as he writes the poem. The…

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5 Pages
Essay

Literature

Huckleberry Finn Emma Woodhouse and

Words: 1750
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

sher, Emma, Huck Finn, they all have a mentor at some point in their lives. Huck is guided by Jim, who although described like a child who needs constant…

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Research Proposal

Literature

Li-Young Lee's Poetry on the

Words: 1065
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

So it isn't just about sex, it's about love and appreciation. Readers know the poet is watching because Donna's stomach is white. That is different from an Asian's skin…

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4 Pages
Essay

Literature

Memory of Elena a Poem to Explain

Words: 1115
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Memory of Elena A Poem to Explain Grief Often a poem's meaning is apparent from only the title. This is not the case with "The Memory of Elena," a…

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