Answer:
To advance his arguments on his essay "Education", Emerson uses figurative language as observed in the following examples:
- In this world of hurry and distraction
- Nature loves analogies but not repetitions
- The whole theory of the school is on the nurse’s or mother’s knee
- The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart
- You must lower your flag and reef your sails to wait for the dull sailors
Explanation:
The main role of the figurative language is to provide examples to make ideas clear through the use of different figures of speech. For instance:
1. Simile: It is used to make comparisons:
- The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart
2. Metaphor: It is used to make implicit comparisons:
- You must lower your flag and reef your sails to wait for the dull sailors.(
The sailors are the students in this case)
3. Personification: It is used to give human characteristics to unanimated beings.
- Nature loves analogies but not repetitions
4. Metonimy: It is used to develop a relation with a general meaning
- In this world of hurry and distraction. (World refers to some situations in everyday life)
5. Symbolism: It is used to signify ideas giving symbolic meanings that are different from their literal meanings
- The whole theory of the school is on the nurse’s or mother’s knee (The theory of school depends on the mother because children learn from her, but it is not literally on her body)
