On March 4‚ 1865‚ Lincoln presented himself to the public to deliver his speech; days before the Civil War came to the end. Lincoln’s anguish is displayed as he summarized the events that led to the Civil War. Trust was destroyed between the North and South and Lincoln was left with a nation in turmoil fighting over slavery. He reminded the people that they were one nation‚ not two independent nations warring against each other. He did not want to throw accusations to one side and chose to show the
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They say true love conquers that the love they shared is eternal‚ and regardless of her death‚ their love will last forever. This poem was described with many elements that help illustrate a tragic fairy tale love story. Imagery‚ word choice‚ and alliteration are all poetic elements that helped shaped this poem. Edgar Allan Poe wrote Annabel Lee in 1849 and died shortly after. Later that year it was published and left everyone asking who this poem was about? Was this poem autobiographical? It is a
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The English language is full of nondescript‚ emotionless words that fail to convey any meaningful feelings. To get around this shortcoming many old English writers like the one that wrote Beowulf use kennings to create an emotionally evocative word with the meaning of the emotionless word. In Beowulf the author uses the kenning‚ “It would keep the bone-cage of his body safe” to provide a more descript and emotionally charged description than the word skeleton would create if used in the sentence
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“The Raven‚” while for another it may be Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing.” In my personal opinion‚ William Blake’s poem‚ “The Tyger” is one of the world’s greatest poems because of the poet’s use of the various literary and sound devices including: alliteration‚ consonance‚ assonance and repetition‚ among others‚ and also because of the poet’s use of questions to create a sense of mystery. First of all‚ Blake’s poem‚ “The Tyger” is comprised of six quatrains in rhymed couplets‚ and the meter is regular
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Eleanor Roosevelt once said "A woman is like a teabag you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." The persona in Robert Brownings‚ "the laboratory" took this quote to a new extreme. Here is yet another eye grabbing dramatic monologue by Robert Browning where a jealous women takes revenge to the next level. Shockingly‚ there is some true events behind this poem. It was based off of a French women‚ Marie-Madeleine-Marguérite d’aubray marquise de Brihvillers. She had killed her
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And God smiled again‚ And the rainbow appeared‚ And curled itself around His shoulder Then God raised His arm and He waved his hand.” The author used plenty of poetic devices in the passage such as alliteration‚ tone and repetition to emphasize God’s creation. For example‚ alliteration in “green grass” and “pine-tree pointed” was possibly used to anthropomorphize nature. This means to give human characteristics to non-human objects. Pine-trees were said to have fingers‚ oaks to have arms
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going on almost as long as humans have walked the earth. In the epic poem Beowulf this longstanding battle between good and evil is present between Beowulf‚ the hero‚ and Grendel‚ the monster from the moor. The extensive use of both kennings and alliterations in the poem assist in defining these roles of good and evil through Beowulf and Grendel. Kennings provide a powerful description of these characters by exchanging banal adjectives or nouns with strong and direct compound words that seem to perfectly
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true or does not make sense. Figurative meaning is far more interesting when it is used in a sentence. It encourages us to use our imaginations. There are different ways to use figurative language in our daily life such as simile‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ paradox and etc. Niklaus runs like a duck. (it’s a simile‚ as Niklaus is explicitly compared to a duck with the use of the words “like” or “as”) Love is a ruthless game (it’s a metaphor‚ as one thing is compared to another without the use
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begin‚ alliteration is a series of words that begin with the same consonant sound. To start with‚ in the second stanza‚ Poe states‚ Eagerly I wished the morrow;-vainly I had sought to borrow/From my books a surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore (Lines 9-10). First‚ Poe uses alliteration to surcease of Sorrow to symbolize that he is trying to stop thinking about his wife. This alliteration sets a sad mood by him not caring that his wife died. Thus‚ lines 9 and 10 show alliteration to express
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Rhyme: a word agreeing with another in terminal sound. Rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhymes used in a poem. Sound devices: elements of literature and poetry that emphasize sound. End rhyme: rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry. Alliteration: stylistic device in which a number of words‚ having the same first consonant sound‚ occur close together in a series. Assonance: resemblance of sounds. Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word by imitation of a sound. Couplet: a pair of successive
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