the ____________ causing this? LITERARY DEVICES Alliteration (sound device) the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. E.g. ___________________________. Stanza ______‚ Line ___________. Onomatopoeia (sound device) The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. E.g. ____________________________. Stanza ______‚ Line ___________. Repetition
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The eventual devouring of a character is foreshadowed throughout the passage. Pi tells the stranger No wonder you ’re starved for customers. ’ There is irony here as Pi is the stranger ’s customer. Later when they are together the stranger tells of how Pi ’s heart‚ flesh and liver ’ are with him. This may have had a sinister undertone to it as with the stranger having an overeager embrace ’ on Pi ’s throat. Pi suggests the two feast on each others company ’ the use of the word feast confirms
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Funeral‚ in my Brain’. She uses the dashes in between the words “treading” and “beating” to get the idea of the repetitive beating sound into our heads and how relative it is to the text. In Dickinson’s work‚ she also has very unique uses of onomatopoeia which emphasises meanings to the poems. A good example of this is in the poem ‘A Bird came down the Walk’. In the last stanza‚ she is trying to get across that the flight of the bird is much more graceful and softer than a boat rowing in the ocean
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Toads Many people are outside on a hot‚ summers’ day mowing their lawns. Most people at some point in their lifetime have hit or run over something living. In the poem “The Death of a Toad” by Richard Wilbur‚ the speaker tells his experience of hitting a toad with the “power mower”. Through the rhyme scheme‚ rhythmic pattern‚ sound techniques‚ and figures of speech‚ the poet reveals how the toad suffers by the harm the speaker inflicts on the toad. The poet arranges the poem in three stanzas
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The Ancient Mariner Literature Essay "The Rime of The Ancient‚ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚" is the poem we have been reading in class for the last few days. The poem is memorable because it’s twenty-one pages long and has a distinct theme‚ which involves horror and part conservation. It is also memorable because its one of the first horror stories ever written. The story is about a mariner who is at a wedding and he tells the story to a wedding guest of what happened to him and his crew after he
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tired of this I don’t know what to do” (11). Like this example‚ Wright commonly uses apostrophe‚ specifically directed to the Lord‚ to show the stereotypical religious fervency of the black race. When Bigger watches as Max leaves the jail cell‚ onomatopoeia is used. “He heard the ring of steel against steel as a far door clanged shut” (545). Using the sounds that Bigger hears‚ Wright provides auditory characteristics of the steel door to accompany Bigger’s visual perception as
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Comparative burger The authors of Macbeth and The laboratory also have different ways of portraying their characters to be disturbed. One way they do this is that one of the characters feel guilt whereas the other finds some sort of joy from what she is doing. One way Shakespeare highlights Lady Macbeth to be disturbed is in Act 5 Scene 1. This is when Lady Macbeth says “The smell of blood is still there. All the perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten this little hand” This quote is very important
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Havisham is Miss Havisham’s story in her own words. Miss Havisham reflects on her feelings for the man who left her‚ and the effect it has had on her. It explores how she could have come to be the woman she is. She remembers her ex in her dreams‚ and feels better until she wakes herself up trying to bite him. There is a sexual element to the dreams‚ and this is carried on into the violent end of the poem that wants him dead. The poem provides another insight into Miss Havisham‚ which gives the reader
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The book that I have recently read was “The things they carried”. The book was written by Tim O’Brien who was once a US soldier. The book is about the Vietnam War which was started around 1955. Tim himself was a soldier fighting in the war who had survived. He writes the story fictionally but the names of the characters are of real people. The book is a series of short stories and the situation in the story reflects horror of the war. There are three areas of conflicts that occur in the stories
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F451 Dialectic Journal |Chapter |Passage |Significance | |1 |“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten‚ to see things |There is absolute pleasure when eating something. When something changes‚ it could| | |blackened and changed.” Narrator page 3 |end up good or bad. However‚ when something is blackened‚
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