Sestina is one of the core text written by Elizabeth Bishop. It is a representation of a moment in her childhood. A childhood‚ marked by dramatic events which shaped Bishop both as a character and a writer. After her father’s death before the age of one and her mother’s permanent hospitalization at the age of five‚ Elizabeth started living with her maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia who were poor people with a modest background. The picture in Sestina perfectly fits with Bishop’s past. It depicts
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readers buoyant and not disconsolate earned Brontë a large audience. In the final chapters of Wuthering Heights‚ Brontë’s only novel‚ Heathcliff undergoes a spiritual reassessment of himself and apprehends that the love he feels for Catherine surmounts his hunger for revenge against all those‚ and their children‚ who hindered him from being with her. Heathcliff‚ an orphan boy brought to Wuthering Heights by the owner‚ Mr. Earnshaw‚ grew up playing in the moors together with his step-sister Catherine
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cheat his way to the throne. In one of his last moments‚ Hamlet labels his uncle’s actions as “cozenage”‚ a word which rarely appears in Shakespeare’s writing and therefore holds significance when it is used throughout English texts. Shakespeare’s use of this word corresponds to the colloquial definition which categorizes it as‚ “cheating‚ deception‚ and fraud” (Oxford Dictionary). While cozenage is definitely out of date in modern day‚ it also remained unpopular during the time Shakespeare wrote
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In Chapter 25 of the novel‚ The Grapes of Wrath‚ John Steinbeck introduces the state of California during its spring season. A great deal of sensory details‚ along with figurative language are provided in this passage. Steinbeck introduces the valleys of California with “fruit blossoms that are fragrant pink and white waters in a shallow sea”(346). These visual images allows the readers to imagine with greater detail and color. The reader’s ability to imagine the scene Steinbeck describes is once
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He uses imagery to be very descriptive about the season‚ though he doesn’t come out and say it. We can infer that it’s spring since he talks about the bird singing and petals falling‚ meaning that the trees are getting their leaves again. He uses alliteration with the words petal‚ past‚ and pear and uses personification so that readers know what the bird is “feeling” and “saying.” All of these examples of figurative language set the mood for the poem: a happy‚
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When writing to the Kappus‚ he stated that‚ even if his everyday life is not interesting or poor‚ he still has his “childhood‚ that jewel beyond all price‚ that treasure house of memories” (Page 2). Through the use of extended metaphor‚ the comparison between his childhood memories to a treasure chest filled with jewel‚ expresses to the young poet that his childhood memories is special and original‚ because of the fact that only he experienced through it. Furthermore
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In both “Lights Out” by Edward Thomas and “To Sleep” by John Keats‚ techniques such as selection of detail‚ diction‚ and figurative language are utilized to convey each speaker’s state of mind. The poems have similar ideas‚ but the techniques they use show the many differences in the speakers. Both poems use sleep as a metaphor for death. Thomas describes sleep as an “unfathomable deep” where all “lose their way.” Keats describes it as an “embalmer of the still midnight.” Despite their similar themes
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and vanity.Edward had a Tremendous impact on his puritan audience because of his angry tone‚ vivid imagery and use of expressive figurative language. In" Sinners in the hands of an an angry God" Edward (the author) uses a large sum of figurative language. Metaphor is one type of figurative language he uses to compare too or more things. In paragraph 1 line 1-3 he uses extended metaphor to compare the ease of God’s
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open heart. In this poem the author uses literary elements and figurative language to help us to understand the feeling and the poem’s reason‚ some examples of it are the metric pattern that is used. The poem use a metric pattern in iambic pentameter the author is using this technique around the whole poem to make the reader feel and think like he wants to. It also give a rhythm to the poem.
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In the short “ Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.‚ his choice of figurative language and negative themes left the reader frighten for the future. Vonnegut also uses alliteration to describe Harrison’s handicaps in great detail. On page 24 Vonnegut writes‚ “The rest of Harrison’s appearance was Halloween and hardware.Nobody had ever born heavier handicaps.” This part of the story creates a scary and intimidating image along with a scary and intimidating mood. The mood is scary because Harrison
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