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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two‚ I will look at the similarities and differences to evaluate the overall effectiveness. Both the poem and the song are about how white man came to Australia and took the Indigenous people’s land and changed their way of life. They both use juxtaposition to emphasise the point and show how the Indigenous community was affected. Each verse in the song focusses on an aspect of white culture or an
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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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Cut by Sylvia Plath for Susan O’Neill Roe What a thrill ---- My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for a sort of hinge Of skin‚ A flap like a hat‚ Dead white. Then that red plush. Little pilgrim‚ The Indian’s axed your scalp. Your turkey wattle Carpet rolls Straight from the heart. I step on it‚ Clutching my bottle Of pink fizz. A celebration‚ this is. Out of a gap A million soldiers run‚ Redcoats‚ every one. Whose side are they on? O my Homunculus‚ I am
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your actions as there are always consequences that follow. Bradbury uses his short story “A Sound of Thunder”‚ to convey a theme that a minuscule disruption of one element could be catastrophic. To enhance this theme the author uses allusions‚ juxtaposition and symbolism. Allusion is a literary device that makes reference to other events‚ place or other literary work. Bradbury makes use of this throughout this story. He mentions extremely significant events throughout history which all have their
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