to evoke. b) I think the subject matter is a bird in a bare tree‚ at dusk. (98) Question 2 a) Techniques used in this poem are: • Alliteration “bare branch” (Line 1) • Assonance “rook roosts” (Line 2) “autumn dusk” (Line 3) • “Kigo” – a word stating or suggesting a season “autumn” (Line 3) b) The alliteration of “b” creates a cold‚ lonely sound. The assonance of “roo” and “u” evokes the cry of a bird‚ deepening the melancholic and sad effect. 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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Eve Merriam‚ she talk about the theme of how everyone is unique‚ and no one will ever be just like us. She uses alliteration and metaphor to expound on her theme. I have also reached a time in my life where I appreciate my uniqueness. The poem "Thumbprint" discloses the festivity of being a unique individual. The poet demonstrates the speaker’s thumb’s separateness by using alliteration like “whorls‚ whirls‚ wheels." These descriptions show us how the thumbprint is unique unto it‚ and permit the
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is born.” Yeats clearly suggests the points he is trying to get across to the reader. The oxymoron “terrible beauty” is used to show just how terrible but also how beautiful the result of the rising was. The use of sibilance “so sensitive” and alliteration “casual comedy” and “What is it but nightfall?/ No‚ no ‚no not night” help the reader to visualise what Yeats I trying to show. Yeats uses a stone in a stream as a metaphor for how stubborn the people who supported the Easter rising were‚ but this
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PHENOMENAL WOMEN - CRITICAL ANALYSIS Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou (1928 -2014 ) was an American author ‚ poet ‚ historian ‚ playright ‚ songwriter ‚ dancer ‚ producer ‚ director ‚ performer and a civil right activist . She was the first Black women director in Hollywood . Her contribution to film making is immense . She was also made the life time Reynold’s Professor of American studies and Wake Forest University . Maya Angelou is best known for addressing the world through the medium of her own
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Some the literary elements that Poe uses in the bells are onomatopoeia‚ alliteration‚ assonance‚ repetition‚ and rhythm. Onomatopoeia which is the formation of word by imitation of a sound made or associated with its referent‚ it is used in line 3 with the phrase tinkle tinkle‚ tinkle. Alliteration is the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group‚ used in verse 2 lines 10 and 12 “frantic fire” and “desperate desire.” Assonance
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Discuss The Images In Sympathy That Reveal The Pain Of Slavery When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass‚ Alliteration used twice using the letters W and S. I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the cruel bars The poet is using imagery and a rather painful one by describing the bars of the cage covered with the bird’s red blood which is describe the struggle
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“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost Robert Frost was born on March 26‚ 1874. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost‚ Jr. His father was a drinker and a gambler‚ which made growing up hard for Robert. On June 25‚ 1876‚ Robert’s sister Jeannie was born. In 1879‚ Frost entered kindergarten however; he soon came home because of nervous stomach “pain” and did not return back to school that whole year. The next year‚ he tried going to the first grade‚ but dropped out again; the
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I have chosen this poem to write about because the poem seems to be giving a clear message about how life can be taken away from you and death can come at anytime. This poem interest me because Henry Longfellow explains how people should not waste their life away‚ but instead takes advantage of their life. I like this poem because I was able to understand the poem’s meaning and it helped me understand how I and everyone else shouldn’t waste the life they have because today may be their last day and
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in a cage and is also is tired and weak. He tries desperately to escape‚ so he paces back and forth as a way of saying he won’t be tamed. Rilke uses symbolism and alliteration to get this theme across. When he is talking about the iron bars‚ it symbolizes the lack of freedom. He shows how small and contained he is through alliteration. When he says “cramped circles” and “powerful soft strides”. We see it as shift in the panther when it decides to open his eyes in the third stanza‚ feeling a strong
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