Shakespeare’s use of Literary Techniques Candia Ndayizigiye ENG 4U1 Mr. Daranjo
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Cloudstreet Dramaturge/designer Report Dramaturge: The dramaturge explores the inner and outer world of the play and how the use of Design can be appropriate to the plays context and accurately portray the playwright’s intention while still conforming to the conventions and practices of the period. Location: Mainly Nedlands Western Australia (no. 1 Cloudstreet) but also rural WA‚ Margaret River and Geraldton. Time: 1943-1963 Social Conditions: Final two years of World War Two‚ The Korean
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“Harlem”‚ by Langston Hughes‚ is that the dreams of African Americans are forgotten‚ pushed aside‚ and simply never achieved; even though African Americans are freed from oppression‚ they still face discrimination in the American society. 2. Two literary devices in “I‚ Too” are a metaphor and the use of repetition. There is a metaphor in line two: “I am the darker brother”. This is a metaphor for the African American population because Hughes compares the African Americans to the whites. This metaphor
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Simile: Similes are used in comparative figurative language. They make direct comparisons between the two objects similarities‚ these are usually distinct and different. Similarly‚ metaphors are another literary device used to compare two objects‚ and they also work in a similar way. Unlike metaphors though‚ similes use the words “like” or “as” to make their comparisons. Take the phrase the room was as calm as a twister. The simile here compares the rooms calmness to a twist using the word “as.”
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Literary Devices #10 Antithesis: opposition‚ or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. Example: "I was not there‚ yet I was there. No‚ I did not go to the trial‚ I did not hear the verdict‚ because I knew all the time what it would be. Still‚ I was there. I was there as much as anyone else was there." Function: In Ernest Gaines’‚ A Lesson Before Dying‚ Grant Wiggins‚ the novel’s protagonist and narrator‚ is stuck with the difficult task of transforming a thoroughly
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times and looking up the meaning‚ there appears to be a great meaning to it. Each stanza talks about something different and even some may relate to one another in meaning‚ all the stanzas are extremely unique. In this poem‚ the author uses literary devices such as personification
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Death to a new Beginning All poems have underlined meanings‚ many are not straightforward‚ and sometimes what you think is happening‚ is the exact opposite. Emily Dickinson’s poem “Dying‚” is a perfect example of this idea. In her poem she talking about the idea of death and what happened before she died. Obviously she is not dead because she wrote the poem. Here in this poem‚ she uses the idea of actual death to symbolize rebirth; the ending of old way of living and the struggle of creating
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Text response homework: “Dolly and Oriel have more in common than they realise.’’ Tim Winton’s novel Cloudstreet presents two seemingly dissimilar families that are forced to live together in the same house. This piece of fiction contrasts many characters with diverse morals and behaviours‚ in particular the two mothers of the families‚ Dolly Pickles and Oriel Lamb. Beneath the surface‚ these women have more in common than they realise‚ especially when it concerns gaining power‚ suffering trauma
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think demonstrate your statements. Discuss each passage in relation to why it demonstrates your statement. Include references to tone‚ allegory‚ characterisation‚ context‚ and setting. Each statement’s should be at least 250 words. In the play Cloudstreet adapted by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo‚ one of the protagonist’s Dolly Pickles parades her femininity and promiscuous personality openly towards the readers. Her sexuality makes it difficult for the reader to form a bond with the character‚ which
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The conclusion of Tim Winton’s novel Cloudstreet is the amalgamation of the entire spiritual element of the narrative. Within the final two chapters the key spiritual themes of the story are resolved‚ which itself is the central theme of the story. I believe that the unexplained spiritual events in the everyday are the most memorable elements of the narrative‚ due to the consistent nature with which they appear through the text‚ giving it strong integrity as a unified whole. The consistency of the
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