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B. Music makes people happy.
C. Life is short; laugh and be merry.
D. Fighting doesn't resolve problems.
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.
Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.
Laugh and Be Merry/John Masefield/Public Domain
“Laugh and Be Merry” by John Masefield explains the main idea that C. Life is short; laugh and be merry.
The poem insists that the song of merry and laughter makes the world a better place. Such happiness helps in eradicating the sadness and negativity of the world. Further, it insists that the world becomes a better place when justice is served to those who did wrong, “Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.”
Linking it with the first line that happiness and laughter help in seeking justice.
The life is short like “a thread the length of a span”, hence, asking to laugh in the short span of life and make it meaningful. In the end, the poem insists to not to laugh just for oneself but for the humanity and history.
2. simile
3. metaphor
4. extended metaphor
Earth, Sky
“[…] they are white like this piece of chalk.”
“Fireflies went about with their tiny green lamps […]”
wrestler, drums
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To answer this question we need to know the definition of each term.
1- Personification is the action of attributing personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman. In this case it would be wrestler, drums as the author is personifying the drums as wrestlers.
2- A Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind and it's used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Therefore, in this case, the simile would be “[…] they are white like this piece of chalk" as the author is comparing men to a piece of chalk to show the reader how vivid and white the color of those men was.
3- A Metaphor is a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract. In this case, it would be “Fireflies went about with their tiny green lamps […]" as the author is talking about the symbolic "lamps" that fireflies have when referring to their bioluminescence.
4- An extended metaphor is when the author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors, vehicles, and grounds throughout a poem or story. In this case it would be the remaining option, earth, sky.
The quotes and topics in Things Fall Apart are matched with specific figures of speech, including personification, simile, and metaphor.
The figure of speech used in the quotes and topics from Things Fall Apart are:
Personification is used when the Earth and Sky are given human characteristics or actions. The quote about being white like the chalk is a simile because it compares two things using 'like' or 'as'. The quote about fireflies having tiny green lamps is a metaphor because it attributes the characteristics of tiny green lamps to the fireflies. Lastly, the use of the words wrestler and drums in a metaphorical sense means that they are representing something else.
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