How funny it is‚ to think we could ever really know another human being. Oh we muddle through all right‚ mostly in peace‚ at some level of adequacy but you never have a clue as to what exactly is going on in anybody’s head‚ or as to why another person does anything. Nobody understands anybody‚ heck‚ nobody understands themselves. I doubt our minds could even grasp the whole truth about anything‚ let alone a person. One mind can only think up its own questions and biases; it rarely surprises itself
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persecuted‚ then robbed of their citizenship‚ then moved into ghettos‚ and quickly into concentration camps. The evil plot developed and grew and what started out as hatred turned into a scheme of mass murder. Steven Spielberg uses color‚ shadows‚ and juxtaposition of scenes to display the inhumanity of the Nazi Germans and the hopelessness of the Jewish people during the Holocaust of World War II. Spielberg uses shadows to symbolize the archetype of good and evil in Oskar Schindler. The shadow on Schindler’s
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Pamel Peralta Juxtaposition is often used in this book of short stories. It is the fact of two things that are completely different and create a contrasting effect‚ being put together. Danticat uses the variety of stories to help break down the harsh Haitian life. In each story‚ each character is experiencing their own problems and trying to take things day by day. In the book Krik Krak‚ a series of short stories‚ the author Danicat utilizes juxtaposition to create strong and positive characters
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meter‚ enjambment‚ form (sonnet‚ ode‚ ballad‚ lyric‚ etc.)] Step 6: Identify examples of figurative language – identify metaphors‚ similes‚ examples of personification‚ alliteration‚ etc. Step 7: Imagery – identify central images and/or the juxtaposition of images. Step 8: Diction - circle significant words and words that you don’t know (look them up!). Comment on the use of repetition‚ author’s word choices or a word’s connotations. Step 9: Symbols – identify any symbolic images. Step 10:
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content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place?” ("Report to" Par 4). John F. Kennedy’s repetition of the word “cannot” multiple times shows the importance of overcoming the racial divide in transcending segregation. His juxtaposition of black and white life in America makes the listener feel for the
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tedious brief scene of young Pyramus And his love Thisby; very tragical mirth.’ Merry and tragical! tedious and brief! That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow." Incongruity – The interaction between two things that are not compatible. Juxtaposition – placing two
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exactly what happened‚ but uses part of the truth and part made up in order to express the truth of what emotion was felt‚ which an important thematic element in the novel is. The three literary devices he uses to express this are diction‚ imagery‚ juxtaposition‚ and hyperbole. All of these elements allow the reader to identify emotion that is expressed in each story‚ as though that were the complete truth. O’Brien’s diction is descriptive. It is important to analyze O’Brien’s use of diction because he
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In Mark Twain’s novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ the young protagonist Huckleberry Finn runs away from his abusive father with Jim‚ a black slave. Throughout the novel‚ Huck encounters people that fail to understand the injustice of slavery and violence‚ despite their education. Although Huck lacks any substantial education‚ his moral values and judgment are highly developed. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain uses uneducated‚ colloquial diction and deliberate syntax
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shares. The story of Macbeth by Shakespeare includes a theme that is the epitome of a trait that all mammals share‚ weak versus strong. Through the use of metaphors including birds‚ the symbolism of Macbeth as an owl throughout the story‚ and the juxtaposition between birds‚ weak versus strong is represented by the motif of birds in Macbeth. Birds are incorporated into other literary elements that Shakespeare utilizes‚ showing the true depth of his writing. Metaphors allow the reader to paint a picture
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but the facts that both Eliot and the Surrealists owed much to Charles Baudelaire’s can perhaps best explain any similarity "strangely evocative explorations of the symbolic suggestions of objects and images." Its unusual‚ sometimes startling juxtapositions often characterize surrealism‚ by which it tries to transcend logic and habitual thinking‚ to reveal deeper levels of meaning and of unconscious associations. Although scholars might not classify Eliot as a Surrealist‚ the surreal landscape‚ defined
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