The Funeral‚ by: Gordon Parks “Death ends a life‚ not a relationship.” ― Mitch Albom‚ Tuesdays with Morrie. In “The Funeral‚” a poem by Gordon Parks‚ it talks about his father’s own funeral. Gordon Parks was a photographer‚ director‚ poet‚ and a screenwriter. He worked at Life Magazine and he also composed music. He was born in Chicago in 1912. In 1942 he won a photography contest. I chose this poem because of the title and the picture next to the poem. “The Funeral” is a descriptive poem that talks
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1. Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound. is a term that describes a literary stylistic device. Alliteration occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. For example‚ “She sells sea-shells down by the sea-short” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” are both alliterative phrases. In the former‚ all the words start with the “s” sound‚ while in the later‚ the “p’s” take precedence. Aside from tongue twisters‚ alliteration
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mental burdens the soldiers faced returning home from battle through the use of poetic techniques. Mental Cases revolves around the victims of shell shock and their experiences of never truly leaving the war. The use of oxymoron’s‚ hyperboles and alliteration effectively demonstrate the horrific experiences these soldiers can never mentally leave behind. The oxymoron ‘slow panic’ emphasizes the terrifying experiences that helped cause the soldier’s mental collapse. This allows the readers a chance to
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devices such as similes‚ personification‚ metaphors‚ alliteration and repetition. It uses a more devices and they are more understandable than ‘Vultures’. A simile used in ‘Not my business’ is ‘Beat him soft like clay’. This simile was used to describe how Akanni was beat up and it shows that the people that beat him up were very strong as they describe it to be ‘soft like clay’. An alliteration used is ‘dragged Danladi’. The use of this alliteration emphasises the way they dragged him and it suggest
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wishes that often result in a man’s downfall. Sir Philip Sidney in the passionate “Thou Blind Man’s Mark” portrays his hypocrisy towards desire and shows how it influenced to their downfall and destruction. In his sonnet‚ Sidney uses metaphor‚ alliteration‚ repetition and personification to convey his feelings for desire. Throughout “Thou Blind Man’s Mark” Sidney uses metaphors that clearly illustrates the effects of desire on one’s life. He begins with the metaphor of desire as a “blind man’s mark“
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Equally important‚ Kennedy effectively uses rhetorical devices such as parallelism‚ alliteration‚ and repetition in his Inaugural Address to successfully express his goal for his presidency. For example‚ Kenney uses parallelism in perhaps his most memorable line of his Inaugural Address‚ “Ask not what you can do for your country- ask what you can do for your country” (Kennedy). Through parallelism‚ John F. Kennedy dramatically symbolizes his entire speech into one sentence. By reversing the order
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to war‚ and the war as a concept. The first short stanza opens with a hard “d” sound of “down” almost immediately setting a dark atmosphere‚ and sets the scene for going off to war. With the description of “darkening lanes” not only is there alliteration with the first word “down”‚ but it also creates a gloomy effect from the very start of the poem. This is juxtaposed with the description “sang their way to the siding-shed.” Usually‚ when someone or something is described as singing‚ it has a positive
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the town of Holcomb in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. This town consists of run down buildings and citizens who understand the importance of education. To help tell his story‚ Capote uses alliteration‚ imagery and his own selection of detail to bring his story to life. Throughout the story‚ Capote uses alliteration to keep the reader’s attention directed towards the condition of the town. Using word groups to describe the town such as: “haphazard hamlet”‚”stucco structure”‚ and the streets as “unnamed
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worthy to embrace the queen‚in the second stanza it shows the narrators passion for her dead lover. His once beautiful hair is now “clotted”‚ also the writer uses letters “c” to show alliterations to show to her sister‚ sister Maude. Another technique used by Christina Rossetti is alliteration‚ the poet has used alliteration such as “cold he lies‚ as cold as a stone with clotted curls about her face” the letter “c” is a plosive and echoes her anger‚ also the quote says “cold he lies as cold as stone”this
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“Cool” is not Cool Anymore Thesis: Mrs. Brooks wrote a poem in 1960 mostly suggesting the type of outcome life will take if one takes the choice the teenagers in her poem took. I) Alliteration A) Words that have the same consonant B) Perfect examples coming from the poem C) Great style to make the reading fun II) Diction D) The word choice of the poet E) “We Real Cool” makes the reader think the poem is something else than what it really is. F)
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