O’Brien combines the techniques of anaphora, metaphor, and negative word connotation to do so. The combination of these three rhetorical techniques evokes a fearful mood for the reader, but also grabs his attention. The metaphors with the negative word connotation create detailed imagery of what O’Brien is discussing. All of these techniques together make the excerpt more intense, passionate, and consequential. Ultimately, they emphasize the overall main point of the excerpt- the horror of the Vietnam…
The effect of symbolism to refer to past events and character is used in Part 2.…
When is the last time that you saw a literary device? In a poem, or a novel? Perhaps a short story? Literary devices: we all use them, we all love them, but what can it really do for an author's writing? When used correctly they can add character and dimension to one's writing, but what some fail to remember is that even the best writers can fall extremely short to writing excellent literary elements. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell uses literary devices such as personifications and allusions to help the reader better understand the plot and characters. Although Connell excelled in his numerous uses of personifications, his allusions he attempted were far from perfection.…
“Therefore, all the telephone calls from the wives were the frantic and portentous beating of the wings of the death angels, as it were. When the final news came, there would be a ring at the front door—a wife in this situation finds herself staring at the front door as if she no longer owns it or controls it—and outside the door would be a man … come to inform her that unfortunately something has happened out there, and her husband's body now lies incinerated in the swamps or the pines or the palmetto grass, "burned beyond recognition," which anyone who had been around an air base for very long (fortunately Jane had not) realized was quite an artful euphemism to describe a human body that now looked like an enormous fowl that has burned up in a stove, burned a blackish brown all over, greasy and blistered, fried, in a word, with not only the entire face and all the hair and the ears burned off, not to mention all the clothing, but also…
Throughout the entire novel, Fitzgerald creates symbolism through the vivid pictures he paints of every flashback, interaction, and setting. The difference of the character and attitudes of those that come from different backgrounds are explored with the details provided about the way they speak, the way they…
The vivid descriptions and connotative meanings are such efficient examples are effective literary techniques. The imagery alone illustrates his anecdotes perfectly.…
The Non-Commissioned-Officer is often referred to as the backbone of the Marine Corps. They are the primary and most visible leaders for most military personnel. They are the leaders mostly responsible for executing missions and training junior Marines so that they are also prepared to execute the missions and so they too can train the Marines they will have under them in the future. NCO’s have earned respect and their rank and should never be disrespected or talked back to. They were given their rank for a reason because they are trusted to take charge of Marines under them and set them up for success.…
4. Provide examples for the following literary devices and explain their importance to the author’s message: metaphor, parallelism and rhetorical question. (6 marks)…
11. ^ Hofstede, G (1984). "The cultural relativity of the quality of life concept". Academy of Management Review 9 (3): 389–398. doi:10.2307/258280. http://www.nyegaards.com/yansafiles/Geert%20Hofstede%20cultural%20attitudes.pdf.…
Despite the novel’s setting in the most enchanting society America has experienced, Fitzgerald established a gloomy tone through the dismal diction used to describe the Valley of Ashes and the decrepit eerie billboard overlooking the whole sad area. For example, he established a cheerless tone by…
In his most recent play, Dead Metaphor, George Walker uses strong character development to strengthen his claim that the internal struggles of each character affect society’s balance of good and bad. Dean, the main character, recently returned from the war, where he served as an army sniper, in order to start a family; however, he is having problems finding a job due to his background with the army. He is soon faced with a difficult decision when three people in his life ask him to commit murder including his own father who asks Dean to kill him after a tumor is discovered in his brain. The social worker, Oliver, who finally finds him a job also hires him to kill his wife, a very conservative and powerful politician who in turn hires Dean to kill Oliver. Although he is just trying to support his family and lead a successful business life, his military past continuously catches up with him.…
after he realizes that he caused the deaths of his family and that it was all avoidable. Diction plays a role in creating this shift in tone by developing a picture of sadness and weariness through using words and phrases such as, “angle of evil”, “death”, and “darkness”. The character’s actions and words have left the reader as sullen and dejected as the lead character himself.…
“There’s been a Death in the Opposite House” by Emily Dickinson observes a man witnessing an occurrence of death, and the aftermath of it. This poem is essentially about a man watching over the death of his neighbor across the street from him and watching the regular group of townspeople coming in and out of his house . It seems as if he has seen this even more than once in his life and is very intuitive about death. The readers start to see a relationship between death and the speaker and the figurative language helps to personify death and the houses it occurs in. Dickinson writes “ I know it by the numb look such houses have - always -” (Lines 2-4). The personification of death creates a sense of familiarity with the speaker and even more…
... is a form that is not merely like a novel. It consumes devices that happen to have originated with the novel and mixes them with every other device known to prose. And all the while, quite beyond matters of technique, it enjoys an advantage so obvious, so built-in, one almost forgets what power it has': the simple fact that the reader knows all this actually happened. The disclaimers have been erased. The screen is gone. The writer is one step closer to the absolute involvement of the reader thatHenry James and James Joyce dreamed of but never achieved.[19]…
Phillip Larkin has used a lot of imagery as the effect of these words and phrases leave you thinking and they all open up something new.…