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The overall worst team to ever play major league baseball would have to be the Cleveland Spiders. The Spiders started off the season winning only 8 out of 38 games. The team would then go on to win only 12 of their last 112 games. Their best pitcher of the year had a record of 4-22 on the season. Finally the spiders at the end of the season the Cleveland Spiders would finish 35 games out of 11th place, and 72 games out of first place.
By saying this, he wanted to give the reader a visual of how inky it was outside. I believe the author was effective because you are able to picture in your mind how it feels to try to see through a blanket and compare it to the story. Another example of a simile used in the story is “An apprehensive night slowly crawled by like a wounded snake…” (Connell 30). Connell
Douglass uses many rhetorical strategies here to make this paragraph sound almost poetic. He has personification through describing the sounds the animals make, metaphor in the line “She gropes her way, in the darkness of age...”, and his choice of diction allowed for words like “feet” and “meet” or “remains” and “things” to rhyme. He uses striking parallelism in the line “She stands- she sits- she staggers- she falls-
What is the purpose of all the contrasting, descriptive imagery? What elements underlyingly stand for other items? The poem opens with the speaker reflecting on their past and relating to frogs asserting that they
The understanding goes to the mouse but the hatred goes to the louse Robert Burns’s poems “To a Mouse” and “To a louse” are about a farmer who talks to a mouse and a man watching a louse in a woman’s hair. By looking at the names of the poems one would assume they might share a theme, a plot, or a style, however these poems share a contrast. In “To a Mouse” the farmer speaks to the Mouse as if they are equals.
The poem "Fear" by G. Mcstrawl uses many different types of figurative language. This poem talks about the feelings of a mother and misery in losing her daughter. She is fearful of her daughter leaving her. The poem uses repeated metaphors, imagery, and symbols to show the emotion and feelings of the mother. The author uses the metaphor, " I don't want them to turn her into a swallow" multiple times.
Similes in the poem such as ‘till he was like to drop’ are used to create a more descriptive image in the reader’s mind. Metaphors when saying ‘He lifted up his hairy paw’ and in many other sections of the poem to exaggerate areas to give the reader a more interesting view. So the poet can express what he is trying to prove through and entertaining way. The imagery device enhances the poem to make it stand out more so it grabs the reader attention. The poem was a very entertaining and humorous.
Jumping spider are interesting because they move around by jumping around it is one of the most interesting spider in Kentucky. Jumping spiders habitat they mostly stay in temperate forest and tropical rain forest. The jumping spider is a small a spider it can grow to the size of a U.S dime or they can grow up to 13-20 millimeters. They aren 't harmful to humans they they rather run away from humans than attack them the venom is not medically threatening. They don 't have webs but there are fast runners and they mostly will hunt at night time but the cant spin there web so they mostly travel alot and not stay in there web and wait until they catch their lunch.
In the poem A Noiseless Patient Spider the speacker uses a spider throwing out filament as an exapample. He uses the spider because when a spider throws filament it does it to try to connect to something stable. This
In “Traveling through the Dark” there is a solemn and contemplative tone, but a blunt and aggressive tone is seen in “Woodchucks.” Much of the difference in the tone is due to word choice used within the poems. In “Traveling through the Dark” there are no unnecessary words used, this gives the poem the appearance of being well-thought out. When the
She employs personification, the assignment of human traits to non-humans, to emphasize the applicability of her argument to all living organisms. Personification is used when “[the moth] seemed to say, death is stronger than I am” (Woolf). The ability to talk is given to the moth and encourages the reader to view the moth more as a human being. As a result, the reader forms a deeper connection to the moth’s life and regards the appearance of such circumstances of death and suffering in a human’s life very possible. Personification is also used when Woolf states ‘The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various … appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying his meagre opportunities”(Woolf).
one of the many times he uses imagery throughout this story is when the narrator says, “on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows” (Pg 1). By using imagery to compare walking through the neighborhood as walking through a graveyard shows that it is completely silent and there is no activity in any of the houses. Most people wouldn't describe their neighborhood as a graveyard, this also develops the mood. Another time he uses imagery is when the narrator says, “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in mid-country” (1). This shows mood because the narrator describes him as a hawk in mid-country, that means that he is all alone in what he feels to be like a barren or abandoned place.
There is a common saying that goes like, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Spiders, however, are judged unfairly because of their “cover”, or their appearance. Spiders should be treated better because they’re good at getting rid of other bugs in your home, they can be pets, and they are just interesting. First and foremost, spiders act like a safer, more natural, bug spray, ironically. If you have any unwanted crawling guests in your home, you can fight fire with fire and get a spider to kill it.
In the poems “Traveling through the Dark” by William Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, two distinct speakers are portrayed by their contrasting approaches to the death of wild animals. “Traveling through the Dark” shows a thoughtful relationship between a man and nature as he comes across the gruesome sight of a pregnant deer that has been hit on the road. “Woodchuck,” on the other hand, introduces the unpleasant reality of human egotism toward animals as the main character is seen slaughtering birds. Although “Traveling through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” both illustrate nature and the death of animals, a combination of tone, diction, and imagery stresses a barrier amidst them, revealing the dissimilar mentalities of both speakers in handling situations expressively.
The poet compared the graves like a shipwreck that is the death will take the human go down and drowning to the underground like the dead bodies in the graves. The last line “as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul.” is like the rotting of the dead bodies. The second stanza there is one Simile in this