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    Titanium Literary Devices

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    and the glue around your friends can inspire them to be just as strong as you are. This song shows the theme and strength through literary devices in almost every line. In the line that says “Ghost Town‚ Haunted Love” it shows a sense of imagery by using powerful

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    Macbeth - Act 5 Scenes 1-3 Literary Devices: Scene 1: Scene 2: Scene 3: Metonymous Macbeth asks the doctor‚ "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff/Which weights upon the heart?" (heart represents the soul) Alliteration Macbeth says‚ "And with some sweet oblivous antitdote..." (repetition of /s/) "Thou lily-livered boy..." (repetition of /l/) "Then fly‚ false thanes‚" Personification Macbeth: "Curses not loud but deep‚ mouth-honor‚ breath‚/Which the poor heart would fain deny‚ and

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    Buckminster Fuller) this quote shows how in “The Pedestrian” and “A Sound Of Thunder” technology is not used right. Many people in this generation are using technology for rich and fame and not caring how it could affect many other people. The story “The Pedestrian” tells you the danger of technology when a police car approached Mr.Mead‚ a man walking out at night. Mr.Mead wasn’t inside watching TV like everyone else. The story “A Sound of Thunder” tells you the danger of technology when Eckles and all the

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    Ray Bradbury’s ‘A sound of Thunder” and the Gloris Skurzynskis’s ‘Nethergrave’ are both science fiction short stories that its main characters with the help of very advanced technology are able to traverse hand of time and manage to live in a different world‚ ‘the other world”. In A sound of thunder Eckels with a couple of his friends by using time traveler machine travel to Jurassic period to hunt Dinosaurs and are able to live in that time and experience real time events. . In the ‘Nethergrave’

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    Shakespeare Literary Analysis Essay William Shakespeare was and it still is one of the greatest playwrights in English literature‚ with works generally categorized as tragedies‚ histories and comedies. Shakespeare’s comedies all seem to include elements of a struggle between young lovers ‚ mistaken identities ‚ disguises‚ a clever servant‚ family tensions‚ unexpected plots‚ and the use of comedy c language. These elements have become key components to a classic Shakespearean comedy. When put together

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    In studying and looking at the sophistication of literary terms in “The Lottery” there are many different literary devices we can figure out in the specific storyline of the lottery ad especially in its themes. The story “The Lottery” focuses on an extremely heavy amount of suspicion between different social classes in the story. This suspense is a literary device that can be heavily seen through the story. The celebration of the lottery can be seen as a vital tradition in their old-style neighborhood

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    of tension. In the poem ‘The Highwayman’ he uses many sound devices to create this tension. Another thing that creates the tension in the poem is the punctuation‚ how he is making you read the poem. Some examples of sound devices that he uses are alliteration‚ onimonipea‚ consonance‚ rhythm‚ and assonance. He creates many examples of these four sound devices in his work to create a very clear mood of tension. Alfred Noyes uses many sound devices

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    its literal or visible meaning. -This word origins in Middle English allegorie‚ from Latin allegoria‚ from Greek allegoria‚ from allegorein to speak figuratively‚ from allos ‘other’ + egorein ‘to speak publicly’. -A short example of this literary device can be the poem ‘Epigram’ by Langston Hughes: Oh‚ God of dust and rainbow‚ help us see That without dust the rainbow would not be. in which ‘dust’ and ‘rainbow’ stand for something else rather than their superficial meaning in this poem

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    chosen ‘The Raven’ written by Edgar Allen Poe because this poem manifests quite a selection of figurative language. Through his writing style and illustration of words‚ I have observed many examples of sound devices. Such as‚ * Alliteration – When you repeat the first letter or group of sounds in a specific part of the sentence so basically‚ so basically tongue twisters. * Onomatopoeia – Using a word that has the same action as the word * Personification – Giving an inanimate object

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    How Shakespeare Uses Literary Devices to Achieve the Moral in Macbeth In William Shakespeare’s play‚ “Macbeth”‚ one dominant moral is made clear to the audience‚ do not tempt fate‚ let nature take its course. Some of the ways that Shakespeare achieves this is through the development of conflicts in the plot and also through dialogue‚ vivid imagery and metaphors created by the atmosphere in the play. The characters develop in the early acts to identify the protagonist and antagonists to the audience

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