WORDS How has Golding used silence and language to enhance the story? Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel where silence and language is used as a medium to communicate among the boys on the island. Language is used as a form of civilization but as the days go by the language starts to depreciate person by person along with the need of civilization. Language and silence are also used to foretell future events in the novel. ‘The conch was silent.’ Here Golding uses irony
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George Orwell portrays that rhetoric and language have the capability to control the population; “For one thing‚ Orwell’s entire story is predicated on a bleak and soulless view of humanity” (Scaliger 1). This is basically telling people to stay where they are living due to the nation that are growing less confident for what they believe in and for what feels right; both in real life and in the novel‚ suppose that a tragedy can occur that would appear on the news‚ which illustrates for the people
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How does the poet use language and form to give readers an insight into the thoughts and feelings of the speaker? Poems are a way of expressing yourself. To some people poems may seem like a bunch of meaning less words‚ however if you analyze each line you will find a great story behind it. In this essay I will be writing about two initially diverse poems‚ ‘Flag’ by John Agard and ‘Out of the Blue’ written by Simon Armitage. Agard is originally from Guyana in the Caribbean and is known
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alienated. Factors of war that caused modernists to scorn traditional ways will be examined in Wilfred Owen’s war poem ‘’Dulce Et Decorum Est‚’’ while alienation and individualism will be examined in poetic masterpieces by Edgar Allan Poe‚ ‘’Alone’’ and T.S Eliot’s ‘’The Love Song of J. Alfred
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repeated to remind us‚ as readers‚ that most of Pip’s family is dead. The word ‘buried’‚ suggests that it happened some time ago and that he never knew them‚ which makes us feel pity and sympathy for the character. Pip talks about his life in the marsh country‚ where he resided by the river and near the sea. This could possibly highlight how Pip (small like a river)‚ may be connected to something greater than he could’ve ever imagined (like the sea). Dickens also uses some interesting vocabulary
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How does Arthur Miller use Alfieri as a Dramatic device to make the Play more enjoyable? A View from the Bridge is a play set in the 1940’s by Arthur miller‚ it is a play written in the style of a Greek tragedy. Arthur Miller sets the scene in Red Hook in New York‚ Red Hook is a slum area inhibited mainly by Italian immigrants. The play revolves around the Carbone family who are also Italian Immigrants called Eddie and Beatrice; a married couple with their niece Catherine. The family smuggle
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Blackadder How is humour created and employed in episode 6 of Blackadder goes forth? The media release thousands of programmes every day each with their own type to be placed within. Humour is just one of the many types of program there are and many people have the stereotypical view that a comedy has to be full of laughs. The comedy I will be looking at is Blackadder goes forth. Humour must rely on several things‚ one of the most important things is the time of making if it is about a sensitive
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Eliot’s Poetical Devices T.S. Eliot was one of the great early 20th Century poets. He wrote many poems throughout his career including "The Waste Land"(1922)‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"(1917)‚ and "Ash Wednesday"(1930). Throughout his poems‚ he uses the same poetic devices to express emotion and give an added depth to his poetry and act like a trademark in his works. One of the devices used throughout is his personification of nature. The second device he often uses is allusions to Greek
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Martin Luther King uses a plethora of rhetorical devices and strategies throughout his speech about freedom‚ often tying in certain opinions or emotions to them. Three specific strategies he uses are‚ his diction‚ his use of metaphors and devices which cast freedom into a good light‚ and his use of metaphors and rhetorical devices tying dark things to oppression‚ thus portraying the current lack of freedoms and liberties in a decidedly bad light. Martin Luther King uses fairly simple vocabulary
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be accompanied by a form of human conflict resulting from human nature of self gain and interest. Witnesses of human conflict have chosen to represent their experiences through a variety of forms and text types‚ like the poet of interest Wilfred Owen.Wilfred Owen portrays his understanding and perspective of human conflict through placing the audience in his shoes‚ letting them relive the horrific events he witnessed throughout his service in war. Through the lens of Owen’s perspective‚ human conflict
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