She is using a sweeping housewife who does her daily work, likewise the rays of the setting sun sweep away beneath the horizon. Example #3: She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms (By Emily Dickinson) Personificationĭickinson uses personification of a housewife to describe the sunset in the very first line of this poem. The cage represents physical barriers, fear, addiction, or society while the song of the bird represents true self yearning for something greater in life. The entire poem is rich with metaphor as a bird in a cage represents a group of people who are oppressed and cannot get freedom. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill …Īnd his tune is heard on the distant hill for His wings are clipped and his feet are tied The poet use similes between the lines to depict his scattered thoughts before taking action, and makes comparison as, “ like a tight-rope,” “ like a dropped ball,” and “ hovers like an ecstatic bird.” Example #2: I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings (By Maya Angelou) Metaphorīut a BIRD that stalks down his narrow cage The similes and word choice of this poem makes it a masterpiece. He’s only flirting, crowd him, crowd him, Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird, Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on! … Examples of Figurative Language from LiteratureĮxample #1: The Base Stealer (By Robert Francis) Simile The new generation is addicted to the use of plastic money.At this time, he owns nine head of cattle.He is looking at his own grey hair and his agility.
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He does not know how to behave with the special people.Buckingham Palace is world’s oldest symbol of democracy.10 Downing Street is located in London.The Hollywood is a home of English movies.The Pentagon is located in Washington in the United States.Creatively dull person cannot do anything in his life.Please, watch with closed eyes and you will see the heaven.Kindly cruel treatment made him flabbergasted.Sharply blunt razor cannot do anything to you.He is dying with his untrustworthy belief.He saw the pink kite floating past the tall trees.Calling the cow an ox is like putting the cart before the horse.Get a seat with a treat in our local hall.They have not learned how to catch the cat.He lets the pink ball fall with a tall man.Might of the fright seems greater than the actual fear.This artificial stream is going to flow to the downtown of the town.He heard the sound of the fire, like wire striking the air.The light on the site did not let him see the sight.Zigzag fissures in the land made him look for snakes.His friend was looking at spooky glissando twangs.He did not like the odorless and colorless shape of water.He left with his haunted and spell-bound face.The house stood half-demolished and abandoned.OR “A little girl is walking through the highlands and falls down and gets bruises on her elbow. For instance, if you are reading a book that mentions some Shop clerk in a European country is enveloping his customer in a handmade cashmere wrap and the soft silk wool breeze is brushing against his arms. This will be working hand in hand with your sense of touch. All this can happen just in your imagination. For instance, if you imagine that you are eating French fries then you would also wish to add some spices and butter to it and make it even tastier. With the help of this taste buds, the author will try to take you down the sensory highway. Whenever you smell some good food you feel like grabbing it and swallowing it in just one go. Now this is something related to your taste buds. And it is no surprise that authors want to tap into some of those last moments you make your reading experience more and more interesting. With a single smell of our grandmother’s favorite flower you can take yourself back in time. This type of imagery is getting popular because of the reader’s always find a strong link to the past. This will help you to imagine the story character or relate to someone in your real life. For instance, an author has described a woman’s appearance with words “Jenny was beautiful with chestnut brown hair with glimmering golden hues”. The authors of the book describe a person’s character, appearance or a situation in a very interesting way. All these things will make the visual imagery very common and paramount. These elements are interrelated to each other provided with different images of the characters and scenery. In the core, you might have observed that every story will have five major elements ie introduction, rising actions, climax, falling action, and resolution. In English literature, it is one of the most common imagery.