Aristotle’s Poetics defines the nature of tragic drama‚ discusses the six essential elements of drama‚ states his opinion on the best type of tragic plot‚ and suggests the most effective means to arouse essential emotions such as pity and fear. He presents here the elaborate structure of justice of virtue rewarded and villain punished‚ broadly speaking the poetic justice. Now since in the finest kind of tragedy the structure should be complex and not simple‚ and since it should also be a representation
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Diction of The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne presents the reader with the harsh‚ life changing conflicts of three Puritan characters during the 17th century. Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Robert Chillingworth must endure their different‚ yet surprisingly similar struggles as the novel progresses. Despite their similarities‚ Hawthorne shows these individuals deal with their conflicts differently‚ and in the end‚ only one prevails. Nathaniel
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“Hominid Alone: Imagery‚ Symbolism‚ and Diction” Home and being alone are two of the worst things to be on a cold day in the middle of the winter. In the poem February by Margret Atwood there is a lot to be said about the content. When reading take focus on things such as the Imagery‚ Symbolism‚ and Diction of the poem itself. The women or man that is narrating the poem is not in a good place in their life. What is happening around them seems to be much more upbeat and intriguing. The narrator is
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sight? In the short story‚ “Cathedral”‚ by Raymond Carver‚ its inferred that blind people truly can visualize the world‚ not physically‚ but in a more remarkable way than others. To help develop this theme of blind people being able to see‚ and those who can see are blind‚ Raymond Carver uses different rhetorical devices such as simple diction and irony. The narrator of the story lacks deep thought on different subjects; however‚ as for the blind man he puts in extra thought into life. Although he cannot
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Orwell’s use of satirical diction is another way that he is able to send his message to his audience. One way his satire is shown is through the ministries within the party. Each ministry is named in a way that it contrasts their actions. The ministry of love is responsible for the treatment of party members who have "lost their ways". Their methods include torture which utilizes the deepest fears of captives. We see this when Obrien is in the process of ’fixing’ Winston which he starts by saying
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In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle…” Thomas uses intricate diction in order to establish his message to live life to its highest potential while you still can. For example‚ when Thomas states that wise men “ had forked no lightning” in stanza two‚ he truly means that they haven’t left their mark yet‚ and are still fighting to leave their legacy. He later states that “they/ Do not go gentle into that good night.” (5‚6) This reveals that even though they know that their time is near they aren’t giving up
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Confessions of an Embarrassed Soldier Tim O’Brien’s personal short story‚ “On the Rainy River‚” evokes an inner struggle to serve‚ or to “run” to Canada. O’Brien shamefully expresses his own horrific tale of compromise of the draft in the summer of ‘68. At 21 years old‚ “young‚ yes‚ and politically naive‚” he feels “moral confusion” for the decision he has to make. O’Brien’s use of first person narration in his old age‚ evokes a sense of embarrassment which he feels for choosing to fight in
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many exquisite meals prepared. The second meal‚ bland and boring. Woolf uses different forms of syntax that help the reader more fully understand her perception of these two places. She uses very forward diction with long and drawn out sentences in the first passage. The second passage‚ the diction is more harsh and the sentences more choppy. Woolf also uses imagery to help describe the meals and settings that she is seeing. The structure of the work as a whole
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Street”‚ she uses specific diction‚ syntax‚ and imagery to create tone. The best example of this is in paragraph 3 when Esperanza talks about her grandmother. Using imagery for example‚ Cisneros paints a picture by saying‚ “My great-grandmother. I would’ve liked to have known her‚ a wild horse of a woman‚ so wild she wouldn’t marry. Until my great-grandfather threw a sack over her head and carried her off. Just like that‚ as if she were a fancy chandelier. That’s the way he did it…‚” this helps the
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Diction and Imagery in Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” Children are now welcomed to earth as presents bundled in pinks and blues. In the 1800’s children were treated as workers straight from the womb. Children trained early in age to perform unbearable tasks (Ward 3). Imagine how it felt to be unwanted by a parent and sold to a master who also cared nothing about them. Many children earned a few pennies by becoming chimney sweeps or working in the streets running errands‚ calling cabs
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