responses from the responder. His poems ’Meatworks’ and ’Flames and Dangling Wire’‚ both social commentaries‚ exemplify techniques he calls upon in order to reproduce the personas feelings‚ emotions and thoughts through powerful images. Assonance and alliteration are employed by Gray to increase the memorability of an image‚ leaving it lingering in the responders mind. He uses these techniques to ensure lengthened visualisation of specific images‚ portraying the grotesque and repulsive nature of his subjects
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seems to sound like it is in a different language. High schoolers have the opportunity to completely tear apart an old piece of literature and find out every speck of literary devices used inside of it. Some of those literary devices may include alliteration‚ inversion‚ irony‚ allusion‚ personification‚ and equivocation. Many people may not know what equivocation means‚ but it means to have a double meaning. That double meaning can be shown through having reality and appearance different or having
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[pic] I am a provider‚ to those living and to those not: My abundant leaves for the paper you waste‚ My towering trunk for what furniture’s based‚ Air breathed and fruits consumed‚ I bestow upon you. I am a tree; please acknowledge me. 5 I am like a child‚ defenseless‚ desperate‚ and delicate. High and mighty I stand without bothering your people‚ Yet you ravenously wreck the grounds of the feeble. What was once plenty is now
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of literature but making it more understandable to the less than advanced reader. Another way Heaney nears the Anglo-Saxon style of writing and Raffel digresses from it is the use of poetry and poetic devices in the translations. Heaney uses alliteration in nearly every line of his translation. For example‚ in line twenty five‚ “blundering back with the butchered corpses‚” repeats the letter “B” three times. He translated Beowulf by making sure the same meaning is transferred into the new language
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sometimes have consonant sounds. An example of this could be “he knows there is no end in sight.” You will find this in a lot of poetry. Alliteration is used to make something sound catchy; it is meant to get someone’s attention by having the same letter or sound. Examples of how alliteration is used would be Coca-Cola‚ Life Lock‚ and Dunkin’ Donuts. Alliteration is also used to create a rhyme. Rhymes are using in a lot of poetry‚ typically towards the end of the lines. Rhymes bring rhythm to music
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being ‘succulent stalks’(soft and fun) to ‘iron hard hybrids’(hard and dissatisfied). Gonzalez’s use of alliteration is used to further emphasize contrasting emotions as well as the mood which the author chooses to convey. ‘Succulent stalks’ and hard hybrid’ is an example of contrasting emotions; contentment versus disappointment. The mood of the poem is also affected by the use of alliteration when the author writes ‘hustling‚ hanging around job hunting’‚ ‘scarred skin and cane soot’. The mood is
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B | I | N | G | O | Alliteration“Let us go forth to lead the land we love.” | Allusion“I have sworn before you and all mighty God.” | Personification“With history the final judge of our deeds” | Metaphor“We are the heirs of the first revolution.” | Hortative Sentence“So let us begin a new one…” | PathosBased on the emotions of JFK. | Cumulative Sentence But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort…yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance. | Oxymoron“But
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and parallelism to juxtapose Christianity and Paganism and how Paganism is a heathen‚ ineffective religion‚ while through Christianity and faith in God anything can be accomplished‚ even the most impossible of tasks. The use of kennings and alliteration are ever present in Beowulf. In lines 62-64 the speaker uses the kenning “hell-forged
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yet a soft sound. I might be that the writer wanted the rhythm to slow down perhaps. The quote described clearly the image of the gunnery when the soldier’s using it. “Sudden successive flights of bullets streak out the silence.” Alliteration The quote has the alliteration of the s sound in the word sudden and successive. S is a hard sound so this helps emphasize the flights of bullet tearing the silence. The quote help raise questions in the reader: Has the battle begin again? “Worried by the silence
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letter The sentence "In the quietness of these winter evenings there is one clock: the sea" The sentence "The long arm of the law will catch him in the end" contains: personification. The sentence “…to rob Peter to pay Paul” belongs to…style: alliteration The sentence “A fine friend you are! That’s pretty kettle of fish!” belongs to…style: irony The sentence “Dear Nature is the kindest Mother still. (Byron)” belongs to…style : metaphor The sentence “Dot’s mother never stood on anything but
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