We as people of decision should in fact be held responsible for our actions because although the quote "The crazy things I'd do for love" is used as a statement of expression, we all have our own mind. Whether or not one has been taught right from wrong, everyone has their own perspective of love but the law is the top priority so even if you feel it's right or wrong to take extreme measures, the law decides for you. The example given in the third paragraph of Diane Ackerman's "Love's Vocabulary" where she states that in some countries, outrageous crimes are excused if it was an act of passion. This statement is disagreeable because of the fact that an act of passion does not excuse murder nor does it excuse any other extreme crime such as
Every work of art expresses an idea or opinion for the viewer to interpret, and many topics have different views. The two pieces that have been discussed, The Kiss and Gnaw, both communicate different perspectives of love. The Kiss conveys love as being deeply emotional, filled with passion, sensuality, and intimacy, while the Gnaw shows love as society has made it, materialistic. It shows our cultural views on beauty, self-image, and the use of substitutes for love and affection. These are two different views on love, by two different artists, made at two different times, for two different reasons, but both communicate, express an opinion, and are viewed and interpreted by hundreds of people to this
Option B uses figurative language to describe the image shown above. The example I have identified, option B, is figurative language because it uses a device called a metaphor. A metaphor is a comparison of two different things that show how they are the same. Option B uses a metaphor because it compares a group of protesters to a swarm of bees demanding attention instead of a fly that could be ignored.
The cultural metaphors can consider as a cultural system or use of language that shared within people with the same culture and values. Moreover, the use of a certain metaphor in a culture can be not understandable and doesn’t make sense for another culture due to the difference in values and beliefs. The metaphorical meanings in different cultures motivate and state
Sayeh Shahriari Mrs. Vermillion Ap language and composition 26 October, 2016 Oogy: the dog only a family could love Oogy was written by Larry Levin. The story is about a Dogo who had been used for bait in a dogfight and was severely injured. The left side of his face was torn off, including his ear. Luckily Oogy was rescued by Diane one of the doctors at AAH, who had saved Oogy’s life.
Making a reference to something that is not direct in types of writings An example would be if a person was lying all the time then someone might make a statement about Pinocchio and his nose. Analogy: used to explain the comparison between two different thing. An example would be: life is a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you might get
Figurative language is using words or phrases differently than the literal definition and is used in literature to provide more drama to the story or to just make the text more interesting. Homer uses many types of figurative language in the text; including similes, metaphors, epithets, personifications, alliterations, and epic similes. In Homer’s poem The Odyssey, figurative language is used to intensify
According to James G. Southworth, Professor of Poetry at University of Toledo, “Theodore Roethke is an intensely introspective poet (Southworth 326).” Most of his poems are difficult for readers to understand, but his poems help us to think deeply and gain knowledge about life. “The Waking” is an example of Roethke’s thoughtful work. He uses metaphors to express his feeling of human life. Metaphors are tools that help us to compare one thing in terms of another without using like or as.
Reaction Paper Amy C. Steinbugler the author of Beyond Loving, examines interracial intimacy in the beginning of the twenty-first century and it has continued to developed new ideologies. Segregation, slavery, court cases, black lives matter and many other historical movements occurred decades ago and people were not allowed to form a relationship outside of their race, because of biracial which was looked upon as wrong. It became a phase of racial denials in which interracial relationships are seen as symbols of racial progress. This book examines the racial dynamics of everyday life of lesbian, gay heterosexual of black and white couples. Overall, this book analyzes cotemporary interracial through “racework”.
The author Khaled Hosseini used figurative language in many ways throughout the novel. The first example would be personification. Personification was used when the author said “Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring the sky. They danced above the trees on the west end of the park” (Hosseini, 1). Similes and metaphors are used for comparison, for instance the novel stated “Baba was like the widower who re-marries but can’t let go of his dead wife” (Hosseini, 129).
In his article “Baseball or Soccer?”, David Brooks writes that people tend to imitate the actions of the peers they reside with, however we are now thinking more individually by being more involved with social networks. David Brooks starts by mentioning the comparison of baseball and soccer, stating that baseball is a team sport, but made up of more individual attributes. While soccer is more of an intrinsic individual sport with the help of your teammates. He quotes, “People with vast acquaintances have more jobs than people with fewer but deeper friendships.” We are playing soccer not baseball.
The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan, a non-traditional style of novel, follows a dictionary setup while recounting parts of the narrator’s relationship with his girlfriend. There is a point in the book, tucked away somewhere in the middle of the story, where the author seems to dismiss the entire novel. Levithan strikes a perfect balance between the universal and the personal. He claims that trying to write about love is a futile exercise, similar to describing life using dictionary definitions. Yet the novel continues.
The short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver is about four friends- Laura, Mel, Nick, and Terri, gathering on a table and having a conversation. As they start to drink, the subject abruptly comes to “love.” Then, the main topic of their conversation becomes to find the definition of love, in other word to define what exactly love means. However, at the end, they cannot find out the definition of love even though they talk on the subject for a day long. Raymond Carver in “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” illustrates the difficulty of defining love by using symbols such as heart, gin, and the sunlight.
In the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, a group of friends are sitting around discussing their thoughts on what they think love is. Overall what the reader can see is that none of them can exactly define it because love is always changing. One day a person might be madly in love and the next day the feeling could be gone. The story begins with four friends sitting around a table drinking gin.
In this essay, the idea of pattern recognition is the base concept, an idea discussed in the book “Riveted”. Pattern recognition refers to a cognitive process; which is a higher mental process such as perception, memory, language, problem solving, and abstract thinking. It connects information from a stimulus with information recovered from memory. Commonly, the recognized patterns can be those observed in facial features, units of music, and components of language. Pattern recognition is an inherent and inborn ability of animals (humans).
