anticipation leads the audience through a series of events that build towards the climatical action of the passage. Through rhythmic syntax that propels the scene forward‚ dissonant diction and savage details‚ Huxley provides a lurid atmosphere as the lead-in to the horrifying act of sacrifice. Immediately‚ cacophonous diction begin to agitate the auditory senses.
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Comment on the contrasting descriptions and opinions of Mr. and Mrs. Chawla on their son‚ Sampath. Explore tones‚ contrasts‚ changes brought out by diction‚ etc. (Approx. 600-800 words) Chapter three of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai brings out interesting contrasting opinions of Mr and Mrs Chawla‚ on their son‚ Sampath. Firstly‚ Mr Chawla’s character is of a person who is extremely planned‚ organized and positive. “He hoped to inspire his family and seek out a day as full of
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Walt Whitman’s poetry is relatively formless and his random patterns have a significant effect on the meaning evoked from the poems. Whitman has a constant theme of the link between nature/natural experience and humans. He expresses his emotions and opinions through his poems. Some of his poems are very personable‚ which makes them very easier to understand and more enjoyable to read. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is a poem about the sharing of experiences. All humans are somehow connected through the
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In the soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Henry IV‚ Part II‚ King Henry is prodigiously vexed by his inability to sleep. In addressing sleep itself‚ with the use of an apostrophe‚ he hopes to persuade it to fall upon him by asking various rhetorical questions. He pleads with sleep for it to abandon its partiality and bestow upon him some rest‚ as it does upon the commoners. At the end of the passage‚ however‚ his indignation turns into resignation‚ as he realizes that he can do little to alter his situation
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dreadfully provoked...”(Edwards 79). Jonathon Edwards uses many rhetorical devices such as imagery‚ metaphor‚ and tone/diction which effectively explains God’s wrath towards the people. Edwards purpose was to create scare tactics so that the sinners will confess and convert immediately. He was very effective in proving his purpose while exaggerating the uses of tone and diction. Jonathon Edward’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God proves that everyone is condemned to an eternity in hell and only
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O’Brien’s Diction The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a historical fiction novel that presents a variety of anecdotes and dialogues exposing the reality and impact of the Vietnam War. The stories of several characters let the readers understand the wide impact of the war. O’Brien presents all these stories by the use of dialogue‚ and he does this successfully by maneuvering his diction. By the use of slang‚ soldier jargon‚ and vulgar language the author is able to manipulate his diction to simplify
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with‚ the way authors use language is called diction. Diction helps set the tone‚ or mood‚ of an author’s writing. The diction harnessed by Quindlen is mainly abstract and formal. This imprints a tone of complexity. In a many parts of her essay‚ Quindlen is dignified and diplomatic‚ and in others she is disapproving. On the other hand‚ Kennedy’s is a tone of directness and impartialness‚ which is enforced by his use of an informal and colloquial diction. One of the passages in Quindlen’s story points
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story would not be as engaging as it could be. Often in stories‚ mood and tone are developed by diction‚ or the word choice that the author uses to help the readers define the feelings and emotions of the characters and the story itself. The short stories that Alice Walker wrote use a massive amount of diction to represent and further all the moods and tone that appears in her stories. Without diction‚ the mood and tone would not be as easily identified‚ or even created. Therefore‚ the mood and tone
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Girls Can We Educate We Dads? Diction. “Girls can we educate we dads” is a poem written by James Berry‚ a Jamaican poet in the 1900’s which speaks about a girl who criticizes her dad’s stereotypical views about girls’ behavior and thoughts. The main message or theme that the author is trying to send to the reader is that involving stereotyping‚ generalization‚ and sexism and how these thoughts are present in many men all around the world yet are not true. This poem consists of many factors
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individual to a summer’s day. Shakespeare uses the literary devices imagery and diction throughout the poem. Imagery is the one device that stands out the most due to Shakespeare’s intricate way of describing the summer day with such detail that the reader feels like they are there. Diction is an important literary device which I will focus on‚ because Shakespeare switches back and forth between abstract and concrete diction. Shakespeare used imagery to its fullest in this poem. Using the phrases
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