He uses metaphors such as ‘bone’ to describe a tree, which also adds to the dark atmosphere as well as helping to create a picture of a dead environment. The description of the vultures is very vivid. The poet uses more metaphors, such as “a pebble on a stem” to describe the ...
The speaker, a drowned woman, seems to have accepted the fact that she has passed on and been forgotten, as she does not seem bitter or angry. She utilizes objective language and phrases to describe the photograph “of her”; which distances the speaker from the photograph and person who ...
Proverbs 30:15 sn The next two verses describe insatiable things, things that are problematic to normal life. The meaning of v. 15a and its relationship to 15b is debated. But the “leech” seems to have been selected to begin the section because it was symbolic of greed—it sucks blood...
When angry taxpayers liken the Internal Revenue Service to "vultures," they're actually making a deep linguistic connection. During the Middle Ages, English officials would charge a tax on non-resident merchants who sold goods on the streets. This duty was known as ascavage(after a Middle Fre...
would give up the information, though, Menelaus had to capture him—no mean feat, since Proteus had the ability to change into any natural shape he chose. The word protean came to describe this ability to change into many different shapes or to play many different roles in quick succession....
Frequency distributions in BD and AAD differ substantially (see Fig.8). In BD, a handful of English nouns were used more frequently to describe Yagan words. Here, the five most frequent nouns arecanoe(n = 1064), water(n = 833), man(n = 544),hand(n = 487), and...
It’s quite hard to describe since the image is huge but the experience is almost realistic. This type of imaging is a step forward to building that holodeck. The amount of detail that the resolution provides will be able to show more infomation for computers to see. Although current ...
In this way, the depicted episode is in the right sequence with the preceding images, with a distinct implicit connection with the killing of Baka that is the reason of Kirmīra’s furious rage, and also with the following pages of the manuscript that describe events happening in the third ...
One of your characters inMonstressused the term, “chop-suey cinema,” to describe the splicing together of East and West genres. Your writing defies stereotypes. You do not stigmatize your Filipino characters. What advice can you give to writers who want to write about characters where English...
Beat the drums. Shout it out. Write it down. Document everything. Fill the archives. Build more archives. If I don’t describe it, it will remain undescribed. Walking to work today I saw an old man in boxer shorts open his front door, float up his rosebud fingertips, and fold into ...