with love because it won’t stop singing day and night in the mate season. And he uses the turtle because it is a bird that only has a couple‚ and if it is separated from it‚ they remain alone forever. He is comparing the season with love. He uses alliteration in the first line‚ the “s” in “soote” and “season” and the “b” in “bud”‚ “bloom” and “brings”. He is using pastoral imagery of coming spring‚ because he is talking about the green
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Prayer Before Birth By: Louis MacNeice Context Written during the Second World War‚ more specifically in 1944. During 1944 London was being bombed to a large extent and as such it was a time of fear for the future. Content An unborn child expresses its fear of what the world can do to the innocent. It does this through the form of a prayer (possibly to God) in which it pleas to be preserved from the dangers that future on earth might hold‚ including its own corruption
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Sans Merci‚ has twelve stanzas which are all quatrains. Also‚ Keats uses a set rhyme scheme of abcb’ throughout the entire poem. Keats also uses very little alliteration and assonance just as he uses very little rhyming throughout the poem. "Her hair was long‚ her foot was light" (15); "And made sweet moan" (20) are examples of alliteration that Keats uses in the poem. "So haggard and so woe-begone?" (6) Is an example of assonance. In this ballad‚ John Keats uses repetition of first stanza at the
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also an example of alliteration. The next line reads‚ “no one dares overtake”. It is using the strong word dares‚ instead of just saying no one overtakes‚ to highlight the danger in trying to overtake while the traffic is grouped and crowded. Foulcher then writes‚ “Sunlight scrawls through the dust and the fumes‚ and shadows slap at the edge of the grass”. This contains several important writing devices. “Sunlight scrawls” and “Shadows slap” are both examples of alliteration‚ which makes them
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loneness is his shell and shield And neither he nor we will yield. He wasn’t there at the wall today‚ Someone said he moved away To another school and place And on the wall where he used to lean Someone had chalked ’watch this space’. RHYME ALLITERATION ONAMATOPOEIA PERSONIFICATION SIMILE METAPHOR ASSONANCE HYPERBOLE Also a metaphor Level: Year 7/8 Genre: Poem VOICE – A teenager/s seeing the events occur - experiencing isolation TONE – Sad‚ alone MOOD
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“Mooses” The poem “Mooses”‚ by Ted Hughes‚ is about two mooses that find themselves ugly and not attractive. But my thesis is‚ mooses are large mentally challenged animals. I came down to this because of the author’s statements in his poem. The author thinks that the moose is mentally challenged because he states‚ “And why am I so ugly?” This shows that he is mentally challenged because‚ in some cases‚ looks can show a person’s mental capacity. And in this case‚ the author thinks that the mooses’
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How does the Prologue at the start of Romeo and Juliet create suspense? William Shakespeare‚ writer of Romeo and Juliet‚ creates suspense through the use of different techniques. Shakespeare is very particular in his choice of diction‚ by wisely picking specific vocabulary to create an atmosphere. It is usual that a Greek tragedy‚ such as Romeo and Juliet‚ contains a Prologue to set the tone for the rest of the play. Shakespeare wrote the Prologue in a Sonnet form using Iambic Pentameter‚ which
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Hamlet’s disintegrating mind‚ a stagnating plot before Hamlet’s soliloquy that allows the plot to evolve. This statement is backed up with the intervention of new characters‚ the occupation of space onstage‚ use of words‚ different consonants‚ alliteration and the length of the each situation. The actors’ entrances and exits introduce new characters and allow the audience to distinguish one situation from another. As such‚ the scene can be cut into 5 parts: Polonius talking to King Claudius and
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the Office of the Registrar (Present your COR and ID receipt) 5. June 13‚ 2011 – First Day of Classes for the First Semester‚ Academic Year 2011-2012. Alliteration refers to the repetition of a consonant sound‚ at least three times in a sentence. It is often used as a figure of speech in poetry‚ and even advertisements use alliteration in their tag
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illustrating the wasteful deaths of war to shock the audience and bring forth emotions of sympathy and sadness -lack of reverence -loss of innocence and life -futility of war ‘’each slow dusk a drawing –down of blinds’’ Metaphor Symbolism Alliteration Metaphorically this expresses the end of another futile day of battle and the mourning of the soldiers loved ones back at home‚ but also symbolises the end of life for the young soldiers who have died. The depression sound of the ‘’d’’ letter
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