In the piece “ The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman he describes the life of a man named Phil through literary techniques. Ellen spoke of the man unable to be memorable and a pedestrian man who was easily replaced. Utilizing them he created an apathetic attitude that accepted Phil’s death quite easily despite him being a “Type A” worker and a vice president for a company . Rhetorical techniques that were incorporated in the writing include both the writer’s and Phil’s “Dearly beloved” perspective ‚
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Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Vonnegut chooses to use special literary techniques that better explain his own encounters in war as well as help his readers bare the horridness of war. Vonnegut adds black humor in his text to benefit readers as well as “an author-as-character” perspective to set barriers and help protect his own memories in the war. Without adding these two specific devices‚ Vonnegut could possibly have lost reader’s interests in the book or lost his own interest in writing the
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The literary device that is being used is juxtaposition .In stanza 1 states‚”To say...would suffice”.In the poem I realize more and more how their poem relates to how fire and ice are opposites but they both causes destruction. The author wanted to tell the reader about all regrets before it’s too late . This how this poem uses literary devices such as juxtaposition. Second to last this poem is as symbolic to the journey
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understand about suicides‚ are why the happiest people are the ones who commit suicide. Through the story that theme is explained vividly‚ even the happiest of people are struggling to conquer demons within. The main literary tools I used were: conflict and dialogue. The narrative goes between Averie’s suicide letter to Elena’s‚ describing how both battled depression and hid it with fake
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Going Home In the piece “On Going Home” Joan Didion uses many literary techniques to emphasis her sentences. Didion’s use of quotation marks around specific words stands out first to the reader. The quotation marks suggest that the meaning she was trying to come across was a bit different from the original meaning the word normally would carry. For example when Didion quotes the words “happy‚ home‚ and normal”‚ they are usually described as positive meaning. But it depends on how the reader takes
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The Most Dangerous Game Literary Devices When is the last time that you saw a literary device? In a poem‚ or a novel? Perhaps a short story? Literary devices: we all use them‚ we all love them‚ but what can it really do for an author’s writing? When used correctly they can add character and dimension to one’s writing‚ but what some fail to remember is that even the best writers can fall extremely short to writing excellent literary elements. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game‚” Richard
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Red Grief People use literary devices in their speech every day. However‚ few people know what they’re called. In his short story “The Whirligig of Life” O Henry demonstrates five common examples of literary devices. The first example of figurative language is in the very beginning of the excerpt‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief”. O Henry ironically uses the simile “as flat as a flannel cake” to describe the town of Summit. The irony is that the flat town of Summit doesn’t contain a single summit. The
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One of the techniques the poem used to achieve it this is imagery‚ and this can be evidently seen in stanzas 1‚ 2 and the first half of three‚ especially in quotes "TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood"‚ "And looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth
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THE SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD Studying the Literary themes and techniques The One Thousand and One Nights and various tales within it make use of many innovative literary techniques which the storytellers of the tales rely on for increased drama‚ suspense‚ or other emotions. The tales vary widely: they include historical tales‚ love stories‚ tragedies‚ comedies‚ poems‚ burlesques and various forms of erotica. Since the twentieth century The Arabian Nights have also received serious critical attention
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soldier‚ the hopelessness‚ instinct of an animal‚ and appreciation for things as simple as the earth that we walk on. While explaining these effects Remarque uses literary and rhetorical devices. Portraying Paul’s sense of being helpless and trapped as an effect of being on the battle front‚ Remarque uses various literary devices to describe Paul’s feelings. The narrator Paul states‚ “To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool” a “vortex sucking me…into itself.” This extended metaphor expresses
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