bin Laden through his use of diction and pathos. Obama’s use of diction that included himself under the umbrella of the American public conveyed a sense of an all-inclusive and united America. President Obama consistently says “our” and “we” throughout his speech while referring to America. For example‚ he writes “we reaffirmed our ties to each other‚ and our love of community and country” (Obama). In doing so‚ President Obama is presenting America as one. This diction allowed Obama to both present
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through the celebration of the Christmas. And today I want to talk about a poem that was written by Jean Reidy "Christmas". Just from the poem’s name we can get the information‚ that the poem itself will talk about the Christmas. This poem contains many poetic devices‚ but I will talk about just three of them. They are personification‚ repetition and hyperbole. First I will talk about personification. First personification is on the line 8. This line says "Santa dance in your head". In reality Santa Clause
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John Donne’s Poetic Philosophy of Love For the enormously complex and vexed John Donne (1572-1631)‚ the one in whom all “contraries meet‚” (Holy Sonnet 18)‚ life was love—the love of women in his early life‚ then the love of his wife (Ann More)‚ and finally the love of God. All other aspects of his experience apart from love‚ it seems‚ were just details. Love was the supreme concern of his mind‚ the preoccupation of his heart‚ the focus of his experience‚ and the subject of his poetry
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The Tang: A Poetic People On the river‚ vainly I encounter a Yuan Shao’s sconce. Snowy ridge—alone I watch sun setting in the west; Swordgate—still hindering men coming from the north. (from Du Fu’s Autumn Is Done Translated by David McCraw) Readers of Tang Dynasty poetry have learned about social and political structures of the time because it was heavily integrated into society. Poetry was incorporated in nearly all aspects of everyday life during the rule of Emperor Xuangzong. Although
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Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz diction underlines the complexity of movement. He as a character is played by the same actress who plays Hannah in the text. Chemelwitz diction should be speculated. Although the face value of his tone seems unsympathetic‚ his diction emphasizes the exact opposite. His tone is introduction as ‘unapologetic’ during the funeral of Sarah Ironman. His in relation to the setting this is significant because he is performing a funeral service for Sarah Ironman. Chemelwitz voice
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relates to Aristotle’s view of tragedy. He believes there is a strong correlation between the two mechanisms due to the inquisitive art and emotions they both portray. Aristotle’s Poetics states that there are six major components within discovering a tragedy. The six components consist of plot‚ character‚ diction/language‚ thoughts/themes‚ spectacle‚ and lyric/song. I chose to relate Aristotle’s view of a tragedy to Aeschylus’s Agamemnon plot component due to the fact that Aristotle believes
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A Frequent Misconception A frequent misconception of poetic language is that a poet always seeks the most beautiful or noble sounding words. What they really seek are the most meaningful words‚ and these vary from one context to another. Language has many levels and verities‚ and poets may choose from all of them. Their words may be grandiose or humble‚ fanciful or matter-of-fact‚ romantic or realistic‚ archaic or modern‚ technical or conventional‚ monosyllabic or polysyllabic
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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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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 see‚ Robert has honed his senses to have a knack to interrupt each situation as it
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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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