on the experience of warfare in the Sentry and Dulce Et Decorum Est are themes that run throughout both‚ such as the theme of guilt and the theme of drowning also involving water imagery. Owen uses poetic techniques such as pathetic fallacy and onomatopoeia to foreground the experiences warfare. Owen reflects on the experience of warfare in the two poems with the theme of guilt. In the Sentry it says in stanza 2 ‘watch my dreams still; but I forgot him there’. This shows that the Sentry watches him
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” [iambic pentameter] Frost‚ “Mending Wall” Mood – The feeling created by a literary work. “Ah‚ distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” Poe‚ “The Raven” Onomatopoeia - The use of words which imitate an actual sound. bang; pow; swish; buzz Parallelism – The use of similar grammatical structure to express ideas that are related or of equal importance. “I sit and look out…I hear secret…I see in low
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or it can be a matter of syntactic inversion Consonance: The repetition of final consonants in words or stressed syllables whose vowel sounds are different Homophone: A word that sounds identical to another word but has a different meaning Onomatopoeia: Verbal sounds that imitate and evoke the meanings they denote Rhyme: The repetition of identical vowel sounds in stressed syllables whose initial consonants differ. Rhyme includes masculine and feminine forms‚ half rhyme‚ full rhyme‚ rhyme riche
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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
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They are like the shadows one sees at night that gives them a terrible fright. The content of their songs are scary and short and aren’t complex. The structure of their song shows that they don’t have the greatest vocabulary. They like to use onomatopoeia like “Snap!” and “Grab!”. They of course are referring to the torture that they will bestow upon their
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from the cyberbullying. The story also manipulates the line where Mercutio refers to Tybalt as the “King of Cats” by using it in a metaphor at the beginning of the story when the main character calls Tyler a “hissing cat.” The constant use of onomatopoeia and personification assisted in building tension and rhythm as it created a harsh‚ jarring mood. Oppositions such as the light of the phone against the dark room and the beauty and ugliness of social media were used to dramatise the story. The
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The illustrated text “The viewer” by Shaun Tan and Gary Crew tells the story of the curious protagonist‚ Tristan whose obsession with random artefacts lead him to discover a corrupt view master‚ in which depicts horrific events of our own history. The protagonist and responders are lead to make several discoveries in which force a re-evaluation of modern society and their attitude towards the world. The theme of urban disintegration and wastefulness is explored throughout the text. The use of the
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Simile - a kind of comparison in which two things are com¬pared be¬cause they have something in common though they are in all other respects different. The imagina¬tive compa¬rison is explicitly made with the help of like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. This simile suggests /implies / illustrates that ... Metaphor - a comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using the words like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is
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compares two unlike things without using any comparison words Apostrophe Figure of speech that directly addresses an abstract quality‚ a nonhuman‚ or an individual that is not present Hyperbole Figure of speech that uses exaggeration for effect Onomatopoeia Figure of speech in which the sound of the word corresponds to its meaning Alliteration Repetition of initial consonant sounds Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds within words Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words Understatement
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effectively to enhance the understanding and fluency of the poem. She uses alliterations such as “Greek God” “bride’s breath” to make the poem go fluently and she uses sibilance which is the alliteration with s’s like “soured‚ stank”. She also uses onomatopoeia “hissed” reason for this is to contact with the audience make the reader feel as they are in the poem. By all of these‚ she makes the reader think about effects of actions‚ empathy with the heart broken Medusa and what change people. Tones
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