The song “Red” by Taylor Swift includes many literary devices to convey a highly strong message. The most important literary devices the artist uses are personification‚ symbolism and hyperbole. Primarily‚ the artist uses personification to show the problem encountered in her life. Personification is the attributes of human traits‚ emotion and form applied to something nonhuman. It is used to give writing life‚ and relate ideas and objects to humans‚ which is more effective to convey the author’s
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Compare and Contrast Essay Short stories are often the best way to learn about literary terms and their uses. They’re short‚ as their name depicts‚ but contain everything that longer stories would have such as the elements of plot‚ foreshadowing‚ themes‚ tone‚ and other literary devices. The two short stories‚ The Parsley Garden by William Saroyan and Sweat by Zora Neale Hudson were both amazing to read and offered a lot of insight to American history. The Parsley Garden told the story of an
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O’Brien is a great example of one of these pieces of fiction. A big part of this novel was O’Brien’s theme of metafiction. Metafiction is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. This in another sense means that metafiction is the act of writing about writing. This literary device is used in The Things They Carried‚ as O’Brien’s method to systematically remind his readers that the stories that he is telling are fiction but that sometimes stories can be more real than
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If a stone is missing form the fence‚ you can bet that the two men are out there putting it back together piece by piece. Frost’s description of every detail in this poem is quite interesting‚ very pleasant to read‚ and extremely imaginable. He leaves the reader to decide for himself what deductions
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“Harlem”‚ by Langston Hughes‚ is that the dreams of African Americans are forgotten‚ pushed aside‚ and simply never achieved; even though African Americans are freed from oppression‚ they still face discrimination in the American society. 2. Two literary devices in “I‚ Too” are a metaphor and the use of repetition. There is a metaphor in line two: “I am the darker brother”. This is a metaphor for the African American population because Hughes compares the African Americans to the whites. This metaphor
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times and looking up the meaning‚ there appears to be a great meaning to it. Each stanza talks about something different and even some may relate to one another in meaning‚ all the stanzas are extremely unique. In this poem‚ the author uses literary devices such as personification
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In everyday life‚ there is a constant struggle to create a sense of self within the mind of every person in this world. There is always a conflict present between the importance of self and the influence that others pose on this sense. When this sense is reached in life‚ there is still constant influence from others to alter this frame of mind. In many works of literature‚ this struggle can be seen within the characters of the story. A conflict is always found between the importance of self and
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How important is it to know your race? How important is it if you’re mixed? In the work “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin you will go through the story of a baby who’s race is of great controversy among many people. That baby will even get his mother kicked out from her husband’s house. Throughout the book‚ Kate Chopin uses literary devices such as foreshadowing and suspense to make the story interesting and to keep her readers captivated. Kate Chopin uses foreshadowing to tantalize the readers
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METAPHOR AND DIALECTICS AS LITERARY DEVICES AND COMMUNICATIVE TOOLS By Odum‚ ikechukwu A. B.a‚ m.a‚ PGD (sc/antr)‚ Mnipr Metaphor as a Literary Device The classical Greek philosopher‚ Aristotle declared metaphor one of the highest achievements of poetic style. According to him‚ “it is the mark of genius – for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances …” (Dukore 50). Our literary world especially‚ the African literary world is pervaded with metaphors. Metaphor has become an indispensable
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The Holy Bible is seen as a whole book complete with great works of literature. Authors interconnected an array of literary devices within their writings and two of these are referred to as formulaic introductions and conclusions‚ which are frequent in the books of I and II Kings. These literary devices are able to frame accounts and narratives of the main subject‚ in this case‚ the kings. Throughout the historic and prophetic writings of I and II Kings‚ it is noteworthy to look further into the
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