1. Alliteration Alliteration is a literary device in which two or more consecutive words‚ or words that are nearby in the same sentence‚ start with the same letter. It is often used in poetry‚ literature‚ slogans‚ and other propaganda because it is usually impressive and memorable. For example‚ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 2. Assonance Assonance is the repetition of a pattern of similar sounds within a sentence. It is used to produce a form of rhyme throughout the whole
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people they love and look forward to another great year. Sandra Cisneros‚ the author of the st ory‚ Eleven‚ portrays herself as Rachel‚ an eleven year old girl who wishes to be one hundred and two years old. Rachel dislikes the red sweater described numerous times within the story. The red sweater creates major conflict between Mrs. Price and Rachel. Cisneros characterizes Rachel’s feelings about her eleventh birthday using rhetorical devices such as a simile‚ tone‚ and stream-of-consciousness. Rachel
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Rebecca Jones Ms. Garvin English Comp. II MWF 12-12:50 6 November 2012 Literary Devices There are many different literary devices found in the book Night written by Elie Wiesel that deal with his personal experience with the faith he had to keep and then lost during the Holocaust. In Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses tone‚ irony‚ and characterization to illustrate his faith throughout the Holocaust. In the book Night‚ Wiesel uses tone to explain the many sufferings that the Jews were required to face
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afterwards I wrote the response‚ “A good war is a war that teaches it’s mistakes without one having to live with them.” At first I didn’t know if I had truly responded to the question. I analyzed both the question and response carefully through the literary devices and found myself satisfied with the responses standing. When analyzing the response I first had to return to the question. “When does paradox become hypocrisy?” Referring to this question I had to ask if my response held a paradox. “A good
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The imprisonment of Frederick Douglass‚ Malcolm X‚ and Sandra Cisneros affected their literacy. In all of the essays‚ the three authors talk about their experience of being imprisoned. In the three essays‚ Frederick Douglass writes of himself when he was a 12 year old in slavery‚ Malcolm X writes of his experience in an actual prison‚ and Sandra Cisneros writes of her time being left alone by her family. While they share the similarity of being imprisoned they differ in the way this imprisonment
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have read two poems about someone growing old and sick. It is a very serious topic because of what is destined to happen. Death. That’s why it is very important to spend time with your loved ones while you still can. “Abuelito Who?” written by Sandra Cisneros is a poem about a grandfather that used to be very involved and lively and
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talked about in conversations or written about; but Sandra Cisneros has‚ very charmingly and humorously‚ taken this subject and turned it into one of the situations her famous character‚ Esperanza‚ goes through in her book‚ The House on Mango Street. In her short story titled simply “Hips”‚ Sandra Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza and three other girls discussing theories of what hips are and what functions they have; but more importantly Cisneros is subtly exploring what kind of divide the ripening
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Shakespeare’s "to be or not to be" soliloquoy examines the role of life and death in the tradegy of Hamlet and in the human condition. The use of literary devices emphasizes the fear of uncertainty and mortality. At first‚ the "to be or not to be" soliloquoy appears to analyze Hamlet’s own emotions‚ however‚ upon further examination‚ the universal nature of the messages in Shakespeare’s words becomes apparent. Perhaps one of the most ubiquitous lines in literature‚ "to be or not to be"‚ remains
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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Literary Devices Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sound in a series o words. It adds rhythm/emphasizes emotion. Example: The menacing moonlight created mystery Allusion: References to events or characters from history‚ myth‚ religion‚ literature‚ pop culture etc. Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words to add a musical effect. Example: We moaned and groaned as the horse bumped homeward. Flashback: A jump back into the past to provide an explanation
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