In the Holocaust memoir Night‚ Elie Wiesel communicates the horrors of his journey from Sighet as an innocent‚ passionate child to his time spent at the Auschwitz concentration camps facing a harsh reality. Through the use of diction and syntax‚ Wiesel emphasizes the deterioration of the Jewish prisoners’ emotional and physical conditions. Within the first five chapters‚ Wiesel utilizes terminology to present the Jewish background of Sighet‚ as well as his own passion towards worship. For example
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people. For some‚ dialogue makes a story suspenseful and others maybe diction or even a combination of two aspects but typically not the same aspects for every person. In a movie‚ it is usually the sounds and darkness and location. In a book though‚ there are no sounds so you need other aspects such as diction‚ dialogue‚ imagery‚ plot‚ etc. The Most Dangerous Game is much more suspenseful and scary than the Interlopers due to diction. “He lunged for it; a short‚ hoarse cry came from his lips as he
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them as they optimistically keep their eyes glued to the players. The way that Updike combines sentences along with the sentence structure is also support as Updike shows the audiences point of view towards the game. The use of metaphor‚ syntax and diction show the attitude of the audiences at the opening season of a baseball event. Throughout the excerpt from The First Kiss by John Updike‚ the use of metaphor is evident. An example of this is Our eyeballs grew calluses (lines 14-15). This shows not
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Elizabeth I of England gave a motivational speech to her troops using the rhetorical devices of diction‚ imagery‚ and sentence structure to motivate her subjects positively and to instill the fear of the pending invasion in their hearts. <br> <br>The queen uses positive diction‚ sentence structure‚ and imagery in her effort to motivate her people to defend their country from their Spanish invaders. She uses diction to praise and motivate her subjects. The queen refers to her people as "faithful" and "loving
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description to the life people in Santa Ana live. The Santa Ana winds changed the behaviors of people it touched‚ made people act differently‚ and even took a toll on the residents’ health. Didion’s usage of many stylistic elements such as syntax‚ diction‚ and figurative language greatly contributed to her essay‚ in the sense that it provided many concepts and ideas to her writing that it wouldn’t have had otherwise. Didion’s usage of syntax added to the type of language she built throughout her
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so special. She does not have to be perfect or even seem close to it for him to feel as he does about her. The use of diction‚ figurative language‚ and imagery in William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 reveal the narrator’s true love for his mistress despite her flaws. In this sonnet‚ Shakespeare uses many techniques to depict how the narrator views his mistress. His use of diction greatly describes how the mistress in the poem looks‚ smells‚ and even how she speaks. He uses descriptive words like
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GENRES / BRANCHES OF LITERATURE CONTINUATION a. What is prose: types and elements b. What is drama? Types and elements c. What is poetry? Types and elements 5.LITERARY TECHNIQUES AND STYLE a. flashback‚ sons / chorus(es) dances b. Language / diction – proverb‚ vernacular‚ pidgin / colloquial (authorized jargon) c. Literary appreciation / critiquing 6.FORMS OF PROSE a. Fiction and non – fiction with specific examples. b. Distinguishing features c. Seen and unseen prose; parts of a novel
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She uses diction‚ imagery‚ syntax and detail to show this feeling. Joan Didion’s diction and imagery throughout the story creates danger‚ tension and mysteriousness. In the first paragraph‚ she describes the wind as "uneasy" and "tense". She states that the wind "whines" through the canyons and "dries the nerves to a flash point". She describes sires blaring‚ babies crying‚ arguments and sulking. She also talks about Indians jumping into the sea and bar fights. Overall‚ through diction and imagery
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commonplace. Samuel Taylor Coleridge has a poetic diction unlike that of William Wordsworth‚ he relies more heavily on imagination for poetic inspiration‚ and he also incorporates religion into his poetry differently. Wordsworth’s conception of poetry hinges on three major premises. Wordsworth asserts that poetry is the language of the common man: Poetry should be understandable to anybody living in the world. Wordsworth eschews the use of lofty‚ poetic diction‚ which in his mind is not related to the language
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reader and induce extensive thought in order to connect the words to the meaning. An author can manipulate language to convey their message by their choice of diction throughout a passage or by further applying various forms of figurative language to create imagery. An author can use language to convey their message by their choice of diction throughout a story. An extraordinary example that demonstrates the economic usage of constructive words in order to express meaning can be observed in Elie Wiesel’s
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