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Allegory and Simile
Includes questions related the use of symbolic representation and the comparison of unlike things.
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A comparison of unlike things using a word of comparison such as like or as is called?
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epic simile
A direct comparison between two unlike things without using like or as?
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It is called a metaphor. A metaphor is a type of figurative language
What is a simile or metaphor for scared?
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Surely you have been scared sometime! Write what it was like. Here's a link to show you how to describe people.
What device is used to tell a story usually an allegory within a story?
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Dream-Vision
What is the difference between simile metaphor and personification?
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It may be possibe to have an expression to be mentaphor and personification. But strongle I believe that it can happen in few cases not all cases
What is an example of a 2 stanza simile poem?
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Love Love Love...
Love Is Life...
Love Needs Us...
Love Love Love...
Love Is Blind
Love Is Patient and takes time...
Love Love Love...
Everyone needs love
What is a simile for sorrow?
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He felt only sorrow in the pit of his stomach, when he saw the little girl.
What is forshadowing?
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Foreshadowing is when the author of a piece of writing hints at or suggests an event that will develop later on in the plot of the story. An example of foreshadowing in a story is the use of prophecy or omens. One famous literary piece that makes use of foreshadowing through prophecy is Oedipus Rex. An oracle tells the King of Thebes that he will have a son who will later kill him and marry his wife, Jocasta. This foreshadowed the actual events that later came to pass.
What are some examples of similes in the story 'The Mary Celeste'?
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A detective's file is an example of a simile in the story The Mary Celeste. A simile serves to compare what or who is unlike one another through use of the words "as" or "like." Manhattan-born author Jane Yolen writes of her wannabe sleuth, a daughter who seeks to emulate her detective father, considering the collecting of paper trails and of physical evidence regarding the disappearance of the Mary Celeste 10 in November 1872 as like unto compiling a folder to be filed in a detective's cabinet of closed, ongoing and unsolved cases.
What is 5 example simile and metaphor?
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- Sweatier than a pig in a BBQ joint
- Breaking through the wall of doubt
- The cookie of universal consciousness drops its crumbs of music, art, and prose.
- His mangled conscience accepted no laws that Mother Nature hadn't forced upon him.
- I'll drive you to ecstasy, but you'll need to wear a seatbelt.
Is this a simile or metaphor your love is like a long stemmed rose?
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rose: prickly, scary at bottom, closer and closer to top it gets less prickly, and eventually happiness and beautiful at end; this, is just like love, its hard to find, scary at first, but when you feel it/havce it, it's amazing and just incredible♥
Why do authors use metaphors and similes?
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To create atmosphere, to describe something elaborately, and to try to help the reader understand.
Imagine trying to write about thunder. You could say "the thunder sounded loud in the sky," but that would not be nearly as potent as saying "the roars of raging gods echoed across the sky."
What is the definition of a Homeric simile?
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Homeric simile, also called epic simile, is a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that is many lines in length.
The typical Homeric simile makes a comparison to some kind of event, in the form "like a ____ when it ______." The object of the comparison is usually something familiar to the audience, such as an animal or the weather.
Your best best is to look for something familiar to you as it is compared to the sirens in Homer.
Is Beowulf a Christian Allegory or a Pagan Epic?
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i supose that no one can prove if it is fiction or non fictoin after all buewulf stated from a poem and has been told in the same way laods of times and who knows maybe there is some truth to the story
What are the simile in ode to autumn?
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How can I know that ? Iam come to here cuz I want know the answer . not answer it
