POETIC DEVICES IN MY PAPA’S WALTZ 1. Rhyme Scheme- a repeated pattern of rhymed words at the end of the line This poem has a simple ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH rhyme scheme‚ meaning that every other line within a stanza rhymes. Example: The whiskey on your breath (A) Could make a small boy dizzy; (B) But I hung on like death: (A) Such waltzing was not easy. (B) The lines with corresponding letters rhyme. The B rhyme in this stanza is an example of a slant rhyme – "dizzy"
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“Night” by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography in which Elie’s life during the Holocaust is explained. Elie Wiesel uses imagery‚ figurative language‚ and pathos as tools to express the horrors he experienced while living through a nightmare‚ the Holocaust. Elie describes his experiences with imagery. “Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the woid. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone.” “Some were crying. They used whatever strength they had left
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The poem‚ “My Papa’s Waltz‚” uses imagery to depict that‚ “/my right ear scraped a buckle/” to show how the child is being hurt unintendedly by his parent (lines 12). The term “buckle” also consists of a violent connotation to show that belts were used by parents to punish their children
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culture and journey as a whole in order to portray to world that female students deserve an education through the use of fictive figurative language‚ egalitarian and religious ethos‚ and abstract symbolism. She adopts a defiant tone in order to educate the Western world of the opportunity that is taken for granted‚ yet deprived of
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Mistress‚” a poem written by Andrew Marvell‚ presents a realistic view on the brevity of life. Marvell effectively presents a variety of figurative language‚ imagery‚ and a romantic tone to emphasize the theme of carpe diem: because time is one of the few things that are held certain in this world‚ one should take full advantage of it. The beautiful language that Marvell uses helps communicate the reality of time’s cruel passage. In fact‚ the poem begins with the hyperbolic statement “Had we but
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an antagonising rival might end up becoming quite a good friend. This phenomenon occurs in literature as well. In seventh grade‚ I was required to read My Papa’s Waltz. When I first read it I fixated on the whiskey and drunkenness‚ especially on the parts where it described‚ “At every step you missed‚ my right ear scraped a buckle” (My Papa’s Waltz‚ lines 11-12). I visualized this drunk‚ violent stupor. In reality‚ however‚ it was just someone dancing with his drunk dad‚ clumsily holding on. Although
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traditional folk tales and intersperse their conversations with Igbo words‚ sayings‚ proverbs‚ and phrases. The author’s choices in terms of diction and structure contribute to this piece‚ with the use of language conveying a sense of the Igbo culture. Throughout the novel‚ figurative language such as proverbs and metaphors are greatly used when the characters tell stories to one another as a way to teach morals‚ entertain the audience‚ or pass down tales from previous generations. For example‚ personification
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Thoughts on a section of Ethan Frome… (p.33 -34) Edith Wharton quite deliberately brings together human emotion and the environment in her novella Ethan Frome. The characters are circumscribed by the environment in which they exist and the impossibility of escape from the environmental forces of nature‚ heredity and place shape the characters of the text. A moment of hope arises as Mattie and Ethan walk home together from the dance and a more romantic sense of possibility emerges. The reader
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In the mid 1920’s‚ the American author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ wrote The Great Gatsby. It was not out of the blue to use words to describe African American people that nowadays would be taken offensively and people would get hostile about. Mainly the whole purpose of using such these harmful and abusive words were to classify African Americans as objects‚ and not as human beings. When Nick describes the "two Bucks" and a Negro girl passing them in a horse-drawn carriage with a white chauffeur he thinks
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After reading the two sonnets‚ I am trying hard to compare them in terms of the mindset of the poet‚ the object‚ and the way he uses language to describe beauty. It is so paradoxical that it appeared to the reader that the poems are written by different people. However‚ there is an idea that may explain this conflict. In sonnet 106‚ keeping in mind that the addressee is a male‚ the poet is (I could say) exaggerating in explaining the beauty of the object to an extent that even the predecessors barely
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