( “Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn” by Emily Dickinson) Presentiment – is that long shadow – on the lawn – Metaphor is comparing two unlike objects or things, which may have some common qualities. Rossetti has used simile thrice in this part of the poem, comparing her heart to a “singing bird”, “an apple-tree”, and a rainbow shell.” The poet makes comparison of heart to a happy bird in a nest, an apple tree full with fruits and a beautiful shell in the sea, full of peace and joy. It is a type of comparison between things or objects by using “as” or “like.” See the following example: In this line, the speaker is using an understatement because someone has killed his family and he is just taking it very normal like nothing serious has happened. ( “The Chosen One” by Boon Collins and Rob Schneider) Whereas understatement uses less than whatever is intended, such as, Just imagine when China and Africa would meet and can river jump up over the mountains? How salmon can be intelligent enough so that it could sing and evolve enough and walk the streets? In this poem, Auden has used hyperbole to stress on how long his love his beloved would last. It stirs up emotions among the readers, these emotions could be about happiness, romance, inspiration, laughter or sadness. It exaggerates to lay emphasis on a certain quality or feature. These two figures of speech are opposite to each other. This is trait of using finger-tips in hair is a human one. In the above lines, the speaker is personifying sunshine as it has finger tips that wound their way into her hair. (“ The Mother’s Recompense” by Edith Wharton) “Hadn’t she felt it in every touch of the sunshine, as its golden finger-tips pressed her lids open and wound their way through her hair?” It is similar to metaphors and similes that also use comparison between two objects. It occurs when a writer gives human traits to non-human or inanimate objects. Here are a few of them with detailed descriptions: Personification There are many types of figures of speech. That is why it is helpful in creating vivid rhetorical effect. It conveys meaning by identifying or comparing one thing to another, which has connotation or meaning familiar to the audience. Examples such as evening meal, cheddar, water, eye, gedik can be given for single item idioms.A figure of speech is a phrase or word having different meanings than its literal meanings. If we give an example from Turkish, we can show thousands of them such as “mouth-beating, spreading flour, sitting sitting, removing the pods from the mouth, fell to the uncle…”. Idiom is a word formed by using more than one word together and rarely in the connotation of a single word to express a certain concept, a certain emotion or situation. Can you hear the clicks coming from the roof?.The sounds of some beings in nature can sometimes be used to express other situations related to those beings and sometimes similar. People sometimes need to use reflection words to strengthen their expression. If we describe it briefly, we can say the words that are inspired by the sounds of living or inanimate beings in nature and emit those sounds. Onomatopoeia is one of the issues that we often encounter in daily life.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |