Belonging: Supplementary texts Then and Now – Oodgeroo Noonuccal Belonging is a state of acceptance and understanding within ones social and physical environment. Displacement from the known and familiar hinders a meaningful connection to the environment and diminishes personal wellbeing. Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poem Then and Now (1974) is an exploration of the impact of colonisation on aboriginals through the experience of a young woman who feels displaced from her spiritual home. Noonuccal
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One example is of anaphora " He was proud"‚ " He was ambitious"‚ " He was cruel"‚ " He was of all"‚ the reader could think of him as being a cruel and scary man. Douglass uses parallel structure " To be accused was to be punished‚ the reader gets the feeling that being punished
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homicide. Poe uses this story to amaze his readers and keep them on the edge of their seats. He attempts to do so by making the reader feel as if they are not up to the same standards as the main character Dupin. Poe uses devices such as hypophora‚ and anaphora as ways to make the readers long to be better. By doing so‚ and in addition to his use of the story contract‚ Poe does an outstanding job of making the reader feel as if they are part of the story. The largest and probably the most important piece
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which elaborates on the emotional oppression constraints that women dealt with as a result of men sexual greed. As Cruz continues to dissect the patriarchal society in the poem‚ she delves into the root of the issue‚ that is to say men. Cruz uses anaphora throughout her poem to emphasize that women were wrongly accused and ill treated by men. The same “men” prey‚ oppress‚ love and eventually look at them with disgust are the same men whose “arrogance is allied with the world‚ the flesh‚ and the
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building up of tension and suspense in his texts‚ as well as differences. The ways Poe does this vary between the narrator’s sanity‚ including its cruelty after committing a crime and the sense of guilt afterwards‚ to the use of literary devices such as anaphora. Two short stories that can be compared in this aspect are “The Tall-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat.” There are particular ways in which Poe builds the tension in “The Black Cat” that he does not use in “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In the first place
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becomes one of culpability. Including those statements mentioned previously‚ overwhelming evidence of this logical fallacy‚ guilt-by-association‚ exists throughout Slater’s essay. More specifically‚ Slater manipulates the stylistic devices asyndeton‚ anaphora‚ and later understated hyperbole‚ achieving various intentional and unintentional effects. The most compelling evidence regarding this matter can be found in the fifth‚ sixth‚ and seventh paragraphs of Slater’s essay. To some readers‚ Slater’s intent
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each from Kennedy’s Inaugural Address Alliteration: repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence: Little Larry likes lemons. Examples: faithful friends. whom we welcome. same high standards of strength and sacrifice Anaphora: repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases‚clauses or lines: I have a dream…I have a dream…I have a dream Examples: Let both sides... Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems
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Meditation on Yellow Olive Senior is a Jamaican poet who explores Caribbean history. Her poetry often conveys her displeasure of colonization and the suffering Caribbean people endured. Meditation on Yellow explores the colonization and exploitation process carried out by the Europeans. This poem strong conveys Senior discontentment as it relates to the exploitation of the land and the Amerindian tribe. It through the use of symbolism‚ language and repetition the brutality of colonization
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“anyone lived in a pretty how town” analysis This poem by e.e. Cummings is one of the rear pieces of his work that resembles a typical‚ ordinary poem. At least that’s what its structure reveals – the poem consists of 9 quatrains written with no particular meter and a rhyming scheme of a a b c. Regardless of the poem’s fairly common structure‚ we can easily notice some irregularities in the writing. The one that is most striking at a first glance is the use of lower case letters both in the title
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cut is very similar to how you can shed tears when you are in love. ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’ is the title of the poem by Elizabeth and is also the first line of this passionate love sonnet. Throughout this poem the author uses anaphora which is when an arrangement of words are repeated at the beginning of verses or lines in this case when ‘I love thee’ is repeated eight times. ‘I love thee to the depth and breadth and height’ by using repetition‚ this creates emphasis on the
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