simile “like I hardly knew her anymore” which emphasises their changed relationship. | |“The clouds were out and a storm was threatening” (p 105) |Pathetic fallacy tone‚ foreshadowing |When Tom visits the police station‚ the negative description of the weather‚ with the aminous storm “threatening” reflects his own emotional turmoil through pathetic fallacy. | |“I’m not saying Daniel was innocent‚ what he did was wrong‚ very wrong‚ but he was no criminal” (p135) |Repetition‚ conditional conjunction (“but”)
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creatures. Shakespeare also uses pathetic fallacy to generate the sense of the supernatural. “Thunder and lightning”‚ this device is also used as a way to establish the ambience of the opening scene. Setting the scene early on in the opening of the play allows the audience to become aware that the tone of the opening scene is going to be fairly serious and sinister‚ which enables the audience to immerse themselves entirely in the play. The use of pathetic fallacy in the opening scene also enhances
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aspects‚ one of the first books in the categories is’ The castle of Otranto’ published in 1767. They are typified by their dark‚ lachrymose atmosphere of hatred and fear. Hill used many traditional techniques such as the stereotypical use of pathetic fallacy reflecting the dark mood. The setting as its deserted and away from society‚ isolation ‚ a ghost with hauntings all follow the conventional aspects. However the modern twist to hills novel is that the characters are unconvential‚ as in the normal
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Stephanie Green Compare and analyse “just back: into the Mongolian nothingness” and “Kubla Khun” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem about the creative powers of the poetic mind. Through the use of vivid imagery Coleridge reproduces a paradise-like vision of the landscape and kingdom created by Kubla Khan. Whereas “just back: into the Mongolian nothingness” is a travel article. However it’s not the usual type of travel writing you would expect‚ as it’s
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generation is used to the plot style that The Princess Bride offers. This movie is set in medieval times‚ because some settings are located within castles‚ and there are princes and princesses. Pathetic fallacy is often used in the movie to symbolize the characters’ emotions. An example of the use of pathetic fallacy is during the scene of the swordfight between Inigo Montoya and
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of di¤erent kinds of metaphors. Three types of classifications of metaphor — semantic‚ structural and functional — are specified and reviewed. Finally‚ the article examines the cognate phenomena‚ viz. metaphoric personification (prosopopoeia‚ pathetic fallacy‚ apostrophe)‚ animalification‚ metaphoric antonomasia‚ metaphoric allusion‚ metaphoric periphrasis‚ synesthesia‚ allegory‚ and metaphoric symbolism. Possibly no other complex semiotic phenomenon has received such a broad theoretic coverage as
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Lord of the Flies Essay Topics Topic 1. Socio-political allegory * Thesis: William Golding uses socio-political allegory in the Lord of the Flies to establish a microcosm reflecting the idea that governments are not fundamentally bad‚ but if they are maintained poorly‚ it can lead to the downfall of its people. As it did within the story when the island’s initial democratic government the children establish revolutionizes to dictatorship which inadvertently leads to the deterioration of civilisation
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LITERARY DEVICES (ELEMENTS AND TECHNIQUES) Allegory Definition: An allegory is a symbolism device representing an abstract idea. Example: Faith is like a stony uphill climb: a single stumble might send you sprawling but belief and steadfastness will see you to the very top. Alliteration Definition: Alliteration is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Example: The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. Allusion
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incorporating symbolism of her freedom whilst she is swinging on the washing line ‘as the earth spins below’. This juxtaposes to her sense of self in present time where she feels ‘there are too many things tying me down’. ! ! Utilising pathetic fallacy‚ ‘an older more age-warped washing line’ becomes the manifestation of her ‘line-etched story of life in scars and wrinkles’. She depicts the backyard as dull and baron‚ much like her present self. Disappointment overshadows the vivid memories
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give the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen‚ bones also remind us of death. The use of pathetic fallacy “faintest of winds” in conjunction with the powerful verb “rattled” makes us feel confused because of the use of imagery. This powerful verb “rattled” has connotations of being empty‚ misty and abandoned through the use of pathetic fallacy. This creates an image of the woman in black being extremely wicked‚ venomous and malevolent. This could be important to the
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