Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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Stylistic Devices in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury ’s 1953 Fahrenheit 451 contains a number of interesting stylistic devices. Robert Reilly praises Bradbury for having a style "like a great organ. ..." (73). David Mogen comments on the novel ’s "vivid style" (110). Peter Sisario applauds the "subtle depth" of Bradbury ’s allusions (201)‚ and Donald Watt pursues Bradbury ’s bipolar "symbolic fire" (197) imagery. In recent articles I discussed Bradbury ’s use of mirror imagery and nature imagery.
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work as a director and producer of several popular movie’s including Edward Scissorhands‚ the Nightmare Before Christmas‚ and Alice and Wonderland (2010). His style is often described as dark and gothic‚ but also with a hint of comedy. Tim burton achieves this mood by using music‚ long shots‚ and lighting to give a scene and setting a dark or mysterious feeling. Music‚ specifically non-diegetic music‚ is used in Edward Scissorhands mostly to give scenes a more mysterious or heinous feel. But‚ in one
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remarkable films. From Edward Scissorhands‚ where the main character has scissors for hands instead of real hands‚ to Alice in Wonderland‚ where the main character is thrown into a strange land with gruesome creatures and maniac queens‚ Burton’s unique talent of twisting innocent stories into darker‚ more sinister versions‚ is evident. To do so‚ He often incorporates the use of specific cinematic techniques that help
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outsider. Tim Burton’s films fall under the outcast category. His films are unusually unique. In his films Alice in Wonderland and Edward Scissorhands Burton takes an original idea from his childhood and a common fairytale and pulls out the grim side of the story‚ yet still keeps the film’s child-like feeling. Alice‚ from Alice in Wonderland‚ and Edward from‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ are both characters that are treated as social pariahs and also see the world differently. Tim Burton uses multiple cinematic
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Jonathan Edwards was strictly focused on wicked Puritians and thier belife on their almighty God. Edwards wanted to persue his audience that all wicked people should repent from thier sins or else they would face the consquences of angry God. Thougout this sermon Johnathan Edwards incorpriates retorical devices to persue his audience that they need to repent from thier sins. The retoical devices Edwards uses to emphasize his point are illusions‚ similies‚ and analogies. Jonathan Edwards utilized
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techniques in order to enhance the fact that his characters are dark in many scenes and also to make the viewer feel scared of them. Tim Burton in Edward Scissorshands uses low angles in order to create suspense. For example when Jim yelled at Edward and told him to leave‚ Edward stormed off in rage‚ and started to cut everything in his path and while Edward was on a destructive rampage‚ the camera was getting lowered at the same time. This use of angles makes
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Tim Burton‚ in Edward Scissorhands‚ uses non-diegetic sound to help improve the film‚ by creating many different types of tone and mood. Two examples of when Burton uses non diegetic sound to help create mood and tone is when‚ Edward is with Kim‚ and also when Edward has flashbacks. Tim Burton uses non-diegetic sound to help create a warm‚ loving‚ and peaceful mood when Kim and Edward are together after Edward comes home from trying to get away from the cops. This warm‚ loving‚ and peaceful music
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Roosting" is one of the many poems published by Ted Hughes during his literary career dealing with animal and nature. In this poem we have a Hawk who thinks that everything in nature is inferior to him and he will allow no change in his life. The stylistic devices used by Hughes make this poem harsh and dynamic showing us an aggressive‚ unsentimental and gloomy image of the Hawk and at the same time realistic‚ which help to mirror the character of the Hawk. The poem is written in six regular stanzas‚ each
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The experience of moving into the world can challenge individual’s beliefs and attitudes. The texts The Story of Tom Brennan and Edward Scizzorhands illustrate this through their featured themes of belonging and the introduction to a new world. The Story of Tom Brennan illustrates that the introduction to a new environment can force an indiviual to rethink their beliefs and attitudes. The plot takes Tom and his family‚ the Brennans out of their home town after tragedy strikes and they are forced
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