"Onomatopoeia" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 21 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Omniscient point of view: Can read the minds of all characters‚ can be everywhere‚ see everything‚ penetrate innermost secrets of all the characters. Example #1: “The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin. Example #2: “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they mean. Example #1: Buzz‚ buzz‚ buzz Example #2: Hiss‚ hiss‚ hiss Oxymoron: The pairing together of opposite words. Example #1: Pretty ugly Example #2: Cold fire

    Premium Narrative Narrative mode Narrator

    • 282 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    In The Monkey’s Paw written by W.W. Jacobs and The Red Room written by H.G. Wells‚ there are many similarities and differences in the ways the stories are written and suspense created. For example‚ both stories belong to the horror genre where the supernatural appears due to human interferences‚ and both have a fast and frantic climax where the characters’ lives are put in jeopardy. However they do differ in places‚ one of the key differences being that The Monkey’s Paw is written in third person

    Premium The Reader The Climax

    • 3078 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The first passage of “The Birds” uses sibilance to emphasise the politeness of the birds in the first two sentences. The phonology of the passage is that onomatopoeia is used in the word “whistling” and in the phrase “rustling like silk”. The phrase is emphasising how softly and smoothly the birds are flying. “As the slow sea socked at the shore” is another example of sibilance to show how polite these birds are. Passage one begins with an antonym‚ “black and white”. This shows that the sentences

    Premium Word Sentence Question

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Mysticism and Rain

    • 309 Words
    • 2 Pages

    example in the following passage: How it clatters along the roofs‚ Like the tramp of hoofs How it gushes and struggles out From the throat of the overflowing spout! Note the way that the sound of the rain is created through the onomatopoeia of "clatter" and how the simile compares the sound to the "tramp of hoofs." Then the poem goes on to describe the different reactions of many different types of people to this rain and how it helps and heals them. The sick man’s fever is cooled

    Premium Mysticism Universe Poetry

    • 309 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Bishkek Humanities University named after K. Karasaev The Faculty of European Civilizations The English Language Department “Peculiarities of the Lexical Stylistic devices (Metaphor‚ metonymy‚ irony‚ simile‚ epithet) in the novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen” DIPLOMA PAPER Scientific Supervisor: E. B. Jumakeeva Done by: Satarova Rahat‚ group: A08-2 Contents: Pages: Introduction

    Premium Soviet Union Russia Sociology

    • 8198 Words
    • 33 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Decuis Vs Calphurnia Essay

    • 1062 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Decuis vs. Calphurnia‚ Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar takes place in Ancient Rome‚ 44 BC‚ during this time period there was an assassination planned for Julius Caesar. Various rumors about this plan were circulating throughout Rome. Calphurnia‚ Caesar’s wife‚ tries to explain to him that it is safer for him to stay home. Meanwhile‚ a conspirator‚ named Decius‚ combats her argument and tries to convince him to come to a senate meeting. Both Decuis and Calphurnia use several rhetorical devices to

    Premium Julius Caesar Roman Empire Roman Republic

    • 1062 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    What do you find most striking about the poem Kubla Khan?’’Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.’’ - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this essay I am going to discuss one of the most famous and very striking poem Kubla Khan which was written by Coleridge. The poem is about the nature of creativity. Coleridge describes the dome of pleasure which he sees in his dream while he is opium- induced. While he

    Free Poetry Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    • 1156 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy creates an interesting character. Write about the way the character is created‚ and compare this with the way other characters are created in three other poems. You should compare it with one poem by Simon Armitage and two poems from the pre-1912 poetry bank. In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy explores the character of Mrs Havisham and develops her by using vivid imagery and metaphors. She starts the poem with ‘Beloved sweetheart bastard’ which is an oxymoron‚ used to display

    Premium Love Robert Browning Poetry

    • 1243 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    How does Dowd create tension and pace in chapter 46‚ building up to the climax at the end? Dowd creates tension by using short sentences. She says‚ “I live. I work. I pump.” It creates tension by mimicking the sound of Mel’s heartbeat which lets you know her situation is very pressured. With the use of short sentences Dowd has been able to give away very less information and so it makes you want to read on to find out out more about the three sentences. Dowd also uses adjectives to create tension

    Premium

    • 1215 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    disciplined. The type of language used‚ is definitely a technique that attracts the audience. Different forms of poetry are used in the text. On the second line of the poem‚ an onomatopoeia is used ‘and when I say eyes right I want to hear those eyeballs click and the gentle pitter patter of falling dandruff’. Onomatopoeia is the formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. ‘Pitter patter’ is an example of this. This poem includes a hyperbole

    Premium Poetry World War II Army

    • 1317 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 50