What are some of the key metaphors of the Gospel of John?
To me, this is the most important metaphor of the gospel of John: Jesus death by crucifixion was actually his enthronement as King of the cosmos (this understood as the greek word “kosmos”). Besides being the most prominent metaphor in the gospel (“Can´t you see? What you are mocking, he was actually in his most triumphal hour!”), it is the boldest claim, and it was probably the most difficult one to accept. The cross was shame. Dying by crucifixion was the most undignified way of dying. Imagine the most undignified way of dying in the 21st century. Which would it be? Think for a minute……Now, that you have that horrible image in mind, the gospel of John took it and did claim that it was actually Jesus´ finest hour, the moment when the messiah took control and ascended to his throne. That was bold. That was incredibly creative and that is probably why John had to portray Jesus in total control at that painful hour.
What is an example of allusion and a metaphor in the book Night by Elie Wiesel?
Also, the silent God that Elie Wiesel talks about when the young boy is hanged is a subtle allusion to the Biblical story of Abraham and his son Isaac, but with a twist: instead of saving the boy, God remains silent, and the boy is killed. The same scene of the young boy hanging can also (perhaps more so) be considered an allusion to the crucifixion. When it is noted that God is hanging on the hallows, it is not only a poignant statement, but also contributes to the scene of a Christ-figure hanging, alongside thieves (as Christ hung on the cross between two thieves). (the scene with the young boy is in Section 4 of the book) Metaphor: "One day when we came back from work, we saw three gallows rearing up in the assembly place, three black crows." (pg. 61)
What are examples of poems with similes, personification, and metaphors?
AdonisThe poet from Arab. He hates the status quo of his country, about politics, religion, and wars. So there are a lot of poems that shout to against the situation, they are tough and sharp, but pass all of that, something hidden is a heart that hot and soft.‘What is the prevailing morality?’‘Candle, that is about to extinguish in a suffocating cave.’‘The land of Arad is sad, her sadness is the wrinkle on the forehead of language.’‘Time stopped in Arab’s society. Despite this, it looks like only the time is still working.’‘Despair has fingers, but it only could catch the butterfly that dead already. ’‘Metaphor is a migration. Between fire and fire, between death and death.’Wound (Selected)If I had a harbor in the landof dreams and mirrors, if I had a ship,if I had the remainsof a city, if I had a cityin the land of children and weeping,I would have written all this down for the wound’s sake,a song like a spearthat penetrates trees, stone, and sky,soft like waterunbridled, startling like conquest.Desert (Selected)You will see—say his namesay you drew his facereach out your hand toward himor smileor say I was happy onceor say I was sad onceyou will see:there is no country there.Some information is from the internet.AdonisAdunis - Wikipedia
What are some examples of alliteration in The Great Gatsby?
"The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.""Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away.""At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.""A dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blooms, followed by two carriages with drawn blinds, and by more cheerful carriages for friends.""While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.""For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust.""I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground""And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock."So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
ELIE WIESEL. Question on a metaphor?
When Elie says in chapter 7 " Then the train resumed it's journey, leaving in it's wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb." What two things are being compared in this metaphor. I think it has something to do with death and a funeral, but could I have some other ideas?