Poe shows that he mourns his lost wife‚ Lenore. All throughout the poem he uses figurative language to make memorable imagery and intrigue the reader. He uses alliteration and repetition to intensify the poem. In the beginning of the poem the narrator uses the words “rapping‚ rapping” and “at my chamber door” are repeated. The two most important
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Elizabeth Bishop is regarded as one of the best poets during the twentieth century. The techniques that she used were crucial in the success of her poetry. She often used imagery in her poetry to appeal to the reader. Imagery is figurative language that creates a description for the reader and was used by Bishop to emphasize a larger meaning. Elizabeth Bishop uses vivid images of her everyday experiences to emphasize to a great extent how people should interpret the conventional experiences in their
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though Desdemona has been nothing but faithful Othello still believes she has cheated and must pay the price with her life. In these lines he compares Desdemona to many different things such as a light‚ a rose‚ and a statue through the use of figurative language. At first Othello is comparing her to a statue referring to her skin as “monumental alabaster” however‚ he keeps reflecting on the fact that her skin is so white. He says “whiter skin” which literally means white skin. I am not sure that Othello
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Though no one was a native to the down the teacher was suddenly different because of what side of the state she was raised in Pg. 21 Figurative Language: Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. The author is describing the small town of Maycomb (in Scout’s perspective) as a tired old town‚ which justifies that back in the previous years the town had more life/excitement
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their dreams due to systematic oppression‚ will inevitably resort to violence. "Harlem" is a short‚ eleven line poem‚ consisting of three stanzas which are littered with literary and poetic devices such as imagery‚ italics‚ diction/syntax‚ figurative language‚ and rhetorical questions to name several. However‚ despite all the clever techniques Hughes deploys‚ his use of symbolism contributes most to defining‚ and clearly expressing‚ the poems main theme. The poem begins with a one line stanza in
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| Symbolism | Imagery | Figurative Language | Theme | Tone | Significant Passages (Pgs. 20‚ 25‚ 62‚ 63‚ 64‚ 67‚ 75) | “Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay‚ whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe. Those beautiful vessels‚ robed in purest white‚ so delightful to the eye of freemen‚ were to me so many shrouded ghosts…” (Douglass 63).“I at first rejected the idea‚ that the simple carrying of a root in my pocket would have any such
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Southern Summer Nights 1. What is the subject of this text? What is it about? What sections of the text in particular helped you come to this conclusion? And‚ what is the theme of the text? What central message is the writer trying to convey? The subject of this text appears to be a young boy by the name of Richard Wright who tells his life story commencing from his “four-year-old-days” (3) until his early adulthood. The opening sentence in chapter 1 stated that the opening sequence took place during
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imagery to move towards a consideration of human relationships and also the role of his art. Shakespeare’s sonnets 18 and 73 burst of imagery and metaphors‚ they alone tell the story and point out the main argument‚ "the vividness of a poems language resides primarily
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ucture/flow/style -figurative language use -how Fitzgerald constructed each novel similarly/differently -theme/setting differences -motifs being similar - HEADINGS FOR EACH OF THESE TOPICS -thesis statement (RQ comparing and contrasting the two different novels )after the background info. Then these topics Background Information on the Author Fitzgerald can usually be associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the 1930s. He proved to be very “versatile”
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In addition‚ the author also uses figurative language in his description of Richard Parker: “The result was a face that looked like the wings of a butterfly and bore an expression vaguely old and Chinese” (107). Specifically‚ the author utilizes similes to compare the tiger’s face to the wings
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