Analysis - "Exposure" by Wilfred Owen The poem "exposure" by Wilfred Owen is written in Winter of 1917. It portrays the message of the real enemy of the soldiers being the cold and icy conditions. Moreover‚ it provides us with a lively description of the persistent cold and awful conditions during one of the worst winters in the first world war. It shows that most of the soldiers were exposed rather than shot by enemies. The poem portrays all the opposing facts to make young men not join the war
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How does Poe use language and character to create tension in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’? Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be a master of writing macabre stories. Poe generally writes using this theme which shows he is comfortable with writing morbid dark tales. He is able to write short stories which are full of tension – one main example being ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. The genre choice being ‘short story’ automatically creates tension. Compared to a general ‘novel’ they are massively different. A short
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This clever use of figurative language continues when Adichie describes Ginika after a dialogue exchange‚ “There was a metallic‚ unfamiliar glamour in her gauntness‚ her olive skin‚ her short skirt that had risen up‚ barely covering her crotch‚ her straight-straight hair that she kept tucking behind her ears‚ blonde streaks shiny in the sunlight” (150). This sentence‚ as long and detailed as it is‚ gave me an idea of who Ginika had transformed into: an immigrant like Ifemelu‚ but one that had adapted
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The opening stanza is characterised by language about ’fatigue’: the soldiers ’marched asleep’‚ they ’trudge’‚ and ’limped on’. They are ’deaf’‚ ’lame’ and ’blind’; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects. The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim ’guttering‚ choking‚ drowning’. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death. The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong‚ representing both the anguish
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How does Gaiman create a frightening atmosphere in the novel? Gaiman creates a frightening atmosphere in the novel by using different techniques. In chapter one Coraline’s new home is described in a horror way and is introduced in this quotation: “It was a very old house…” using the phrase “old house” often refers to horror films because the adjective “old” describes the house to have: ghost‚ cobwebs‚ peeled painting‚ sickly green weeds and to be neglected. Gaiman approaches the cat as strange
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In the Lord of the Flies by the author William Golding‚ he creates an allegorical novel based on stranded children abandoned on an island. In order to create an allegory‚ it’s a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters‚ figures and events(Allegory). The novel Lord of the Flies it begins with a group of children that were stranded on an remote island without adult supervision. They start to develop their own civilization but however as they continue
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Poetics by Aristotle Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory 6 Constituent Parts * plot (mythos) Refers to the "structure of incidents" (actions). Key elements of the plot are reversals‚ recognitions‚ and suffering. The best plot should be "complex" (i.e. involve a change of fortune). It should imitate actions arousing fear and pity. Thus it should proceed from good fortune to bad
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The ideas surrounding utopian and dystopian societies are popular because authors use the context and setting of dystopian novels to voice their opinions about local or global politics. Everyone is seeing the news about black lives matter and how women should have rights and racism and sexism and ageism. But when the authors see the news they’re like‚” Oh‚ I’m going to tell everyone my opinion about racism and sexism and ageism except in the form of a book because that’s the only way people will
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Everyone is different in their own way therefore‚ language can be a major factor that can influence one’s identity. Often language may establish a part of a person’s individuality among the diverse human beings. Today in society‚ depending on what type of culture one embraces or language one speaks‚ others will be the mirror in which we see ourselves from day-to-day. This may have both a positive and negative affect on one’s character. Language can influence one’s identity socially‚ culturally‚ and
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is about and that this story will not be a happy one. Once Billy enters the B&B‚ he tells the Landlady‚ “I would very much like to stay here‚” to which she responds with‚ “I knew you would.” This choice of words in the dialogue is made to make the reader think‚ specifically about whether she somehow knew Billy would be coming
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