Symbolism, personification, alliteration, similes, and metaphors all enhance the literature in which they are incorporated. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston uses a variety of literary devices; however, Hurston's use of hair to symbolize sexuality is a prevalent theme throughout the novel. ... The ability to control Janie is symbolized using her hair. ... This refers to their marriage as a whole, not just his amazement with her hair. ... Zora Neale Hurston effectively uses this device along with several others to enhance the enjoyment of Their Eyes Were Watching God, a...

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The language used is simplistic, with little use of metaphors or even similes. ... Orwell prefers to use descriptions that are specific and naturalistic, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." ... This would further be supported by the fact that O"Brien has been watching over Winston's conduct from the beginning. ... The narrator has a God-like omnipotence, which Winston then seems to refer onto O"Brien during his torture. ... The narrator is used to provide the reader with a dispassionate account of Winston's life in order to allow them to form ...

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The biblical allusions "exile", "offering" and "mercy" underline the notion that the immigrants are at the mercy of God. ... The red imagery represents pain, hardship and blood in the old communist country where they had to "mock salute" to red banners, being bound to the "shackles" and was tired with "sunken eyes". ... Despite the bleak imagery in the poem, there is a glimmer of hope as the immigrants gave thanks to God for their chance of new life. ... The painful memories of the Nazi regimes in Wold War 2 are expressed in the simile "like cattle brought to slaughter", "the metaphor "pigeons...

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Owen uses a simile to describe the soldiers as "like old beggars". ... Owen uses "clumsy" to describe the helmet when he is really referring to the soldiers in their state of panic. ... Owen then uses a wonderful but awful simile to describe the death of the soldier. ... Owen alludes to Jessie Pope with the comment "you too could pace behind the wagon" and "watch the white eyes writhing in his face". ... He uses alliteration and another simile to describe the soldier's wounds as being "obscene as cancer" and "bitter as the cud". ...

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They simply watch the snow fall and the wind blow as they begin to accept their fate. ... They also see a nice warm fire and the word jingle is used, to help show their happy thoughts of this scene. ... We can see that the men don't doubt God's existence or God's creation. ... This is "All their eyes are ice". Owen is obviously comparing the men's eyes t...

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Her tone when comparing Hurston's, Their Eyes Where Watching God and Richard Wright's Native Son, is one of some-what disappointment that other critics rank Wright's novel higher. ... Near the end of her passage, Walker uses a very noticeable amount of metaphors and similes, which is interesting because she is describing white female writers also. ... These words emphasize to the reader how pale the lives were for women who Walker wants to resurrect in memory. ... The second poem gives reassurance as the title suggests, to women who have the tools, but do not know how to use the...

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The colour "blue" denotes a suggestion of magic, whilst the simile shows people are drawn to his beautiful life of fun and riches. ... Myrtle has "an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering." ... Both Gatsby and Myrtle's energy are highlighted because of the Buchanan's lethargy, which is revealed in Daisy's inability to shape their future; "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? ... Willy is using language that suggests that his suicide would be a business deal, and would allow Biff a...

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These kind of prisons came to be workhouses for people who had lost all their belongings. ... In chapter one, Dickens uses metaphors and similes to describe the setting and atmosphere. ... Dickens goes on to describe his eyes as looking "so awfully hungry." ... When Magwitch tells Joe he has eaten his pie, Joe responds saying "God knows you"re welcome to it- so far as it was ever mine." ... When Magwitch returns, we are reminded of the weather conditions of the stormy marshes on their first meeting. ...

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At the time, Manchester was experiencing a textile boom, which infused the town with a rising middle-class, and because these families were erecting magnificent houses, Hodgson's merchandise was in demand. ... He is described as looking like the god Pan (the god of ): he has rosy cheeks, rough curly hair, and blue eyes precisely the same color as the sky over the moor; he even carries a set of pan-pipes. ... His power to tame creatures works on Colin and Mary as well, and is one of the central causes of their wondrous transformations. ... Both Mary and Colin express the wish that she w...

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As with the other poems, I will discuss what this work is about, what it means, and the literary techniques that were used. ... His parents were able to send him to school as soon as he was old enough since his father had a good paying job. ... These poems were original works but showed the formal style of the 18th century, which was no longer popular. ... "In the end, he asks God and nature for forgiveness as he dies from the wounds he has received." ... However, when he is reminiscing about his past mistakes, the past tense is used to depict what his sins were and why he was imprisoned...

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Past tense is used in the written form. ... Symbols used in the epic are the Achaean ships; the shield of Achilles. ... Tense used in the epic is usually past, sometimes switching to present to increase the immediacy of a scene. Virgil also uses the future tense, for prophecy and prediction. ... They were both the offspring of humanity and deity, and thus demanded the special attention of the gods. ...

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Through the dining room window, Jane also liked watching the traffic go by for an hour or two, early in the morning (Laski 75). ... She used a creaking door as her warning of approach from any unwanted guests. ... Although arranged marriages without reference to the feelings of the bride or groom, were common in the past, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, they were becoming less common. ... This act is not uncommon for their day. ... Both Jane and Elizabeth were examples of this opportunity. ...

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