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Afrikaans – as die perde horings kry ("when horses grow horns"); Albanian – ne 36 gusht ("on the thirty-sixth of August"); Arabic has a wide range of idioms differing from a region to another.
He wrote "Sympathy" at least in part because he was feeling "like he was trapped in a cage" while working there. [3] [4] [5] Alice Dunbar Nelson, Dunbar's wife, later wrote in a 1914 article that: [2]: xxii [3] The iron grating of the book stacks in the Library of Congress suggested to him the bars of the bird’s cage. June and July days are hot.
Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
Kimberly Williams-Paisley opens up about being 'trapped in my own body' for 2 years amid health crisis. Shania Russell. December 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM. Emma McIntyre/Getty. Kimberly-Williams Paisley.
The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as". A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms. Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects." (from "Sweet ...
At around 600 miles wide and up to 6,000 meters (nearly four miles) deep, the Drake is objectively a vast body of water. To us, that is. To the planet as a whole, less so.
In the 16th-century Chinese folk novel, Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West, the Buddhist monk Tang Sanzang's odyssey includes being trapped in a spider's cave and bound by beautiful women and many children, who are transformations of spiders. [58] Published in 1808, the poem Marmion by Walter Scott [f] includes the popularly quoted line: