“For You O Democracy” Walt Whitman Imagery‚ Diction‚ and Tone In “For You O Democracy‚” Walt Whitman uses imagery of paradise and words of emotion to evoke a strong message: to struggle for what one believes in therefore create an ideal world‚ a paradise. Whitman on a personal level uses literary devices like imagery and diction to illustrate his struggle‚ motivated by his love for democracy. Throughout the poem‚ Whitman creates an idea of unity‚ a feeling of peace‚ as well as dreams of an ideal
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with female genders‚ for the boys "tower and bristle‚" suggesting something naturally intimidating is inherent to the male gender. This is followed by the description of the girl‚ who is "smooth and sleek‚" an alliteration that denotes the use of diction‚ for the contrasted descriptions also have a set syllable pattern: the description of the boys uses two syllables per word in order to create a harsh‚ rough connotation‚ and the girl’s description flows smoothly in each of the single syllable words
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[qf‚ruq G-r1 MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENIGLISH (MEG) ASSIGNMENT (For July‚ 2013 and Januaryr 2014 session) LITE‚RARY CRITICISM & THEORY: MEG. 05 School of Humanities Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi‚ New Delhi - 110 068 ASSIGN M E NT MASTER‚S DEIR$E IN ENGLISH Literary Criticism & Theory (MEG _ 05) programme: MEG Course Code: MEG _ 05 Dear Student You are required to assignment for the elective English course entitled Literarycriticism and Theory (MEG - {1:n"^ the Master’s
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Chapter 1 Infant tongue Denotation- Infant means newborn‚ or new‚ while tongue means the organ the human body uses when it speaks. Connotations- What Dickens could try to mean in this small passage is that he doesn’t have the mastery that he should have over his tongue because he is very young and doesn’t know much about the world. Simple Sentence Declarative Sentence It relates to the theme of social class‚ because Pip is a poor young boy at the time. Being a from the poor class‚ he doesn’t
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intimate relations with him. The poem has three stanzas; each with a different purpose: the first stanza gently and subtly flatters his mistress‚ using positive diction and images to show‚ how Marvell wishes he could love her for all of eternity; the second stanza‚ however‚ uses imagery to show how time is moving fast and also‚ strongly negative diction and images to show how life must be lived happily‚ for there is no chance to after death; the last stanza‚ the conclusion of the poem‚ uses quite sexual
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anticipation leads the audience through a series of events that build towards the climatical action of the passage. Through rhythmic syntax that propels the scene forward‚ dissonant diction and savage details‚ Huxley provides a lurid atmosphere as the lead-in to the horrifying act of sacrifice. Immediately‚ cacophonous diction begin to agitate the auditory senses.
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Comment on the contrasting descriptions and opinions of Mr. and Mrs. Chawla on their son‚ Sampath. Explore tones‚ contrasts‚ changes brought out by diction‚ etc. (Approx. 600-800 words) Chapter three of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai brings out interesting contrasting opinions of Mr and Mrs Chawla‚ on their son‚ Sampath. Firstly‚ Mr Chawla’s character is of a person who is extremely planned‚ organized and positive. “He hoped to inspire his family and seek out a day as full of
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Walt Whitman’s poetry is relatively formless and his random patterns have a significant effect on the meaning evoked from the poems. Whitman has a constant theme of the link between nature/natural experience and humans. He expresses his emotions and opinions through his poems. Some of his poems are very personable‚ which makes them very easier to understand and more enjoyable to read. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is a poem about the sharing of experiences. All humans are somehow connected through the
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In the soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Henry IV‚ Part II‚ King Henry is prodigiously vexed by his inability to sleep. In addressing sleep itself‚ with the use of an apostrophe‚ he hopes to persuade it to fall upon him by asking various rhetorical questions. He pleads with sleep for it to abandon its partiality and bestow upon him some rest‚ as it does upon the commoners. At the end of the passage‚ however‚ his indignation turns into resignation‚ as he realizes that he can do little to alter his situation
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motivate us to work to improve‚ but is practice really the key to success? Malcolm Gladwell makes an argument on page 40 of his book‚ Outliers that‚ “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class-expert--- in anything.” There are several people who disagree with his thinking. Although I agree with Gladwell partially that lots of practice can lead to mastery of skills‚ I don’t agree with
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