"Onomatopoeia" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 32 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Questions on Poems

    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Answer the following questions in PEE paragraphs in your English books. Choose your best one to complete on a body outline. 1. How does the poet describe the setting of the poem? (the weather‚ atmosphere) 2. What effect does Porphyria have on the atmosphere in the cottage? 3. Why can’t Porphyria give herself to the narrator completely? 4. What does the narrator realise and how does this make him feel? 5. What does the narrator do and why? 6. What happens at the end of

    Free Poetry Rhyme

    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    out and telling you that in one boring sentence. As you can see there’s more to making a book scary than just a creepy title. You have to be able to drag out the part of suspense in order to really make it feel more suspenseful. You have to use onomatopoeia‚ which is to use sound effects in your writing‚ which helps it become more three dimensional. Finally‚ you must be able to create a frightening mood‚ or else it doesn’t seem scary at all. In conclusion‚ Edgar Allen Poe has an extraordinary act

    Premium

    • 463 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    behavior of said opulent people. The personification of the American flag “disapproving” of Jordan’s intemperance of material goods and egotistical behavior depicts the negative perception of others towards the habits of the wealthy. Furthermore‚ the onomatopoeia of “tut-tut-tut-tut” connotes the visual and auditory imagery of a scolding authority figure in response to this unacceptable demeanor. Fitzgerald used the American flag’s disapproval of Jordan’s self-centered mien of the affluent persons in the

    Premium F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

    • 444 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. 12. Metonymy- one thing is named or referred to by the name of another‚ (EX: the use of White House in referring to the presidential administration.) 13. Onomatopoeia- The formation

    Premium United States Figure of speech Rhetoric

    • 492 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Alliteration is used to describe the particular place in the second stanza with “sleek coal caves” which shows the reader where Harry worked and how he visioned the setting. The use of onomatopoeia in the third stanza is also used to describe the place of the mines with “the shovels rattled the earth” gives the reader sound and images of the mines when they were all of a sudden abanded. The imagery throughout the fifth stanza represents the

    Premium Poetry English-language films Fiction

    • 480 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    to evoke meaning. Sound devices are poems that honor people important to the speaker or focus on the speaker’s own identity. People can communicate with poetry in many ways talking about their relationships using sound devices such as rhyme‚ onomatopoeia‚ alliteration‚ and repetition. “Annabel Lee” was written by Edgar Allen Poe who was born in 1904 and passed away in 1949 . This poem shows that Edgar Allen Poe had great literary success but he suffered many personal losses in his life.

    Premium Poetry Edgar Allan Poe Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe

    • 446 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Homecoming by Bruce Dawe

    • 548 Words
    • 3 Pages

    proposed in conjunction to the large number of dead‚ Dawe Expresses his concern on the dehumanization and the lack of respect that the dead bodies of solders endure. Dawe does this primarily through the use of metaphor‚ personification‚ simile and onomatopoeia. Dawe’s intention for this is to create imagery of a factory like setting where the bodies have no identity and are “zipped”‚ “Tagging” and deep freezed‚ like meat in butchery. The line “whining like hounds” encourages us to perceive that there

    Premium Vietnam War Poetry Death

    • 548 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    poetry

    • 450 Words
    • 2 Pages

    sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language. Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words‚ or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance‚ alliteration‚ onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects.

    Premium Poetry

    • 450 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The poem begins with a vivid imagery of sensations. The onomatopoeia of line one „The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard“ is redoubled in line seven. „And the saw snarled and rattled‚ snarled and rattled.” The assonance emphasizes the sound of the sawing machine. The cutting noise of the saw is compared to a wild animal‚ like a tiger‚ which shows a personification. Both words “snarled” and “rattled” resonate with sound and fury. Repetition is also used in “Electricity comes to Cocoa Bottom”

    Premium Poetry Sound Alliteration

    • 490 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Comparing and Contrasting

    • 429 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Compare and contrast the way the poets present a rustic activity? The two poems ‘Photograph of Haymaker 1890’ by Molly Holden and ‘Hay-making’ by Gillian Clarke portray rustic activity in a similar way. The poem ‘Photograph of Haymaker 1890’ consists of two stanzas and this could be linked to the fact that it is a reminiscing photo of a man who cuts hay. This shows the rustic activity due to the fact it is the poet possibly describing a relative of hers working. Whereas‚ the poem ‘Hay-making’ has

    Premium Poetry Meter Stanza

    • 429 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 50