Language Study: English

A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. In the novel Kidd used a simile to compare and make readers understand more. “ I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason”.(11) Kidd compared Rosaleen to a flower to express that at times

It is a literary device that makes the comparison about a fact to enhance something about it by using a comparison tool like ‘as’, ‘like’, etc. My first is this one: “My papa’s hair is like a broom” (p.6 in “Hairs”). It represent the straightness of Esperanza’s dad’s hair by using “like” to make it in relation with a broom. Secondly, this one, “but Sally doesn’t talk about the time he hits her with his hands, just like a dog, she said, like if I was an animal!” (p. 92 in “What Sally said” ). There, the author makes us understand that Sally’s husband beats her hard, without any form pitty. Cisneros even makes the comparison of Sally being a beaten dog by the use of the word “like”. Simile is much used in THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET to enhance the writing and the description made about

A metaphor is comparing two objects without the use of like or as. One example of a metaphor in the letter is found in 39th paragraph and reads “Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away.”(King). This is a metaphor because it compares dark clouds to racial prejudice without like or as. Another metaphor is in the 39th paragraph and reads “the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow and the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”(King). This is a metaphor because it compares radiant starts to love and brotherhood without like or

A simile is a form of figurative language that uses the word “like” or “as” to make a comparison. An effective simile can tell a lot about a character or scenario. Early on in Wiesel’s book he describes Moishe as “Physically, he was awkward as a clown. His waiflike shyness made people smile” (3).

Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable (not using ‘like’ or ‘as’)

Find at least 5 similes (Comparisons using "like" or "as") in the text. Does his use of comparisons enhance the imagery of the text? If yes, how? If not, what is the significance of that imagery. - “The hair was yellow like that of a circus kewpie doll…” - “The face heavily powered and rouged, as though to form an abstract mask…” - “Her breasts were firm and round as the domes of East Indian temples…” - “To see the fine skin texture and beads of pearly perspiration glistening like dew around the pink and erected buds of her nipples.”

Analogy: A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. An analogy can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more

Device: Simile–A word or expression that makes an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common. Similes usually use the terms “like” or “as” in making that explicit comparison.

A simile is an explicit comparison of two common things with a common quality. Barry illustrates similes throughout his collection of humor articles and stories. For example, after being told he has high cholesterol, Barry describes the comic he was given “If too many cholesterols get stuck, your blood vessel looks like a New York subway train at

Metaphor: a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way to explain an idea or make a comparison “What, ho! you men, you beasts,” “That quench the fire of your pernicious rage” -Prince Escalus is describing the Montagues and Capulets as beasts that are fighting in the streets as animals.

Personification is when an object receives human traits such as talking or screaming. Another example of a figurative language is located on page 226. “My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death.” That quote is an example of a simile and a metaphor. A simile is a comparison using like or as, while on the other hand, a metaphor is a comparison without using like or as.

Language – Method of communication either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured or conventional way. A recognised structured system of gestures, signs and symbols used to communicate. Body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, geographical area or same cultural tradition.

a metaphor, which is the comparison of two things by just stating that one thing is the other.

Language is a method in which individuals communicate in order to get their opinion across to the listening party. Language is the tool which ideas can be conveyed in various ways. Typically, language is referred to verbal communication, however, it ranges to all methods of communication i.e. sign language.

Burke (1945) regards metaphor as a device for seeing something in terms of something else. This simple definition of metaphor says that metaphor has two distinct ideas which lie in the core of metaphor. In order to understand one better, the other idea is used. Littlemore and Low (2006a) state that “metaphor involves one entity in