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    Analysis of Themes & the Tenets of Romanticism within Poetry The romantic period in literature started in roughly the 1790s and ended around the 1830s. This was a period when people’s imagination and love for nature flourished‚ prospered and then sky-rocketed. When comparing the two poems The Ropewalk and Because I Could Not Stop for Death for theme and tenets of romanticism‚ it is evident that both poets’ exemplify the power of imagination and the weight of nature through poetic devices. While

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    excerpt of the novel “A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man” James Joyce does just this. Through his use of stylistic elements such as selection of diction‚ imagery‚ and syntax‚ Joyce explains the development of the protagonist’s stream of consciousness. In the beginning of the second section of the passage‚ Joyce selects the most simple and basic diction in order to portray the starting stages of the protagonist’s development. He draws attention to a story being told to a child by stating‚ “ He was

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    Muir uses diction to make the essay come alive and exert power on the words as well as the tone that makes us follow all his steps in this essay. Muir use of diction makes us imagine in our head the purity of the flower: "The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower." purity has a positive connotation when we read this word in his essay we think of something pure it something that is clean and free from anything that can contaminate and an even be something

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    her lack of capabilities as she delivered her Tilbury Speech on August 9th‚ 1588. Through her use of diction‚ imagery‚ and sentence structure the Queen successfully rallies her troops to confront the encroaching enemy. The Queen uses diction to praise and motivate her people using words like‚ "faithful" and "loving‚" praising their "loyal" and "goodwill‚" to describe her subjects; this use of diction allows her subjects to view her as a caring‚ kind‚ and kinglike leader. She also uses words like “noble”

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    the Pacific cause it. Baliunas makes this argument by deducing from from scientific studies‚ facts‚ and computer models; presenting the studies and models about El Niño and Pacific Decadal Oscillation‚ and presenting with scientific and authentic diction. The conclusion about climate change is it does not exist and the warming of the earth occurs naturally. At least‚ this is how Baliunas presents

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    Diction is defined as an author’s choice of words to fit their context‚ also a spoken clarity in which words are easily understood. In our two versions of The Iliad the first has poetic impulse that when the words are spoken‚ it is given a beautiful sound and rhyme. This diction also works as word choice‚ and seeing as the epic version is meant to have a certain higher quality of vocabulary

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    throughout the poem while the lover’s optimistic and somewhat naive tone is put to shame by the clocks cynicism. The speaker uses diction‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ and hyperbole to ultimately get his point across that everything ends and we must cherish the temporary rather than deceiving ourselves with eternal love. In the speaker’s first stanza‚ he or she’s use diction such as describing the river as “brimming” (5) and the crowds as “fields of harvest wheat” (4) alluding to the eventual death

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    devices to make it effective. Moreover‚ their diction and repetition of words help emphasize the importance of the message the author is trying to get through to the readers. Furthermore‚ the authors of the sermons‚ Jonathan Edwards and John Winthrop know their audience‚ which makes it easier to get their point across. Though the sermon‚ "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" written by Jonathan Edwards is more effective because it uses a more enthralling diction and imagery throughout the sermon. In addition

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    was glad he hooked the fish‚ then he felt sorry for the fish‚ and finally he felt guilty for going out so far. He describes Santiago’s views by using many different stylistic elements such as diction and tone. The first stylistic element that Hemingway uses to show Santiago’s emotions for the fish is diction. Hemingway accomplishes this through the use of opposite words. "Aren’t they lovely? Eat them good now and then there is the tuna. Hard

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    In Leonard Pitts‚ nonfiction essay‚“The other F-word” he uses powerful diction‚ evidence‚ and personal experiences to suggest that women need to be proud of their feminist’s values. He adopts a bold passionate tone in order for his mainly women audience to address the importance of this issue. Pitts opens his essay by powerful diction that makes the reader realize his passions on the subject. He starts by saying “I’m going to uses a word that offends folks. I’m talking

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