Essays Tagged: "literal meaning"
Communcation style
ed by Rober Norton as 'the way one verbally, nonverbally, and para verbally interacts to signal how literal meaning should be taken, interpreted, filtered, or understood'(1996.p.229) In this, Norton h ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill"
ll and her "alter-ego", the fur. A symbol is "a person, object or event that suggests more than its literal meaning." In other words, it is something that has two levels of meaning: on the literal lev ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"A rose for Emily" (Faulkner) or something more? Talks of symbolism
A symbol is a person, object, or event that suggests more than its literal meaning. In the story 'A Rose for Emily,' the symbolism shows more about the character than ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Argument from Design - Fact, Fantasy or Wishful Thinking?
Dennett wistfully recalls this simple melody from his youth, but does not lament the demise of its literal meaning at the hands of the hero of his book. No thinking adult could still cling to the myt ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
A Visit of Charity by Eudora Welty
Irony is the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. Eudora Welty successfully uses this literary technique to elucidate the theme of th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
This essay explores the character of Grendel in the epic "Beowulf" as opposed to his character in the novel titled "Grendel."
a Latin phrase meaning a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed. Upon assessing the literal meaning of the word and the plethora of existing synonyms, several instances may be readily ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Non Conformity and Society
al members do not display a reasonable extent of conformity. This e.g. implies that even though the literal meaning of conformity remains the same, the way the people embrace it changes. To a large ex ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Comparison of Three Short Stories from Michael Ondaatje's collection "From Ink Lake".
emely short and marginally descriptive one might have a difficult time discerning little beyond its literal meaning. However due its placement in Michael Ondaatje's collection "From Ink Lake" the stor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Biodiversity
taneous generation. However, what I do believe is all this hoopla is more psychological rather than literal. Meaning the material learned from studies about evolution and creationist teaches us eterna ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Introduction To Jewish Law about SUicide
by the Creator to Moses, and non-biblical rules.8 Interestingly, Jewish law does not recognize the literal meaning of a verse in the bible, the Torah, as an authoritative statement of law. Indeed, so ... f a verse in the bible, the Torah, as an authoritative statement of law. Indeed, some verses, taken literally, are incomprehensible.9 Instead, Jewish law maintains that an oral tradition transmitted t ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
Poetry anyalsis of the "Root Cellar"
y understandable to read and on the surface it explains vegetables in a root cellar. The text has a literal meaning of that but the figurative language Roethke used in his poem painted a very differen ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The Road Not Taken
as an essence, which provokes an experience that appeals to the senses.Robert Frost includes both a literal meaning as well as a sensual experience in his poem "The Road Not Taken." At face value, the ... ss traveled by led to some place different than the other path. Frost's scenario can be seen as the literal meaning of the poem. The author, however, does not stop at literal meaning, and achieves gre ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Figurative Language in Poetry
Figurative language is used when a piece of writing or speech departs from its literal meaning in order to obtain a different meaning or a special effect. A poem can "unfold" its ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Discussing symbolism in the "lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, And of Clay are we created by Isabel Allende and Hills like white elephant by Ernest Hemingway.
o the Longman Contemporary Dictionary, symbolism can be defined as a device that evokes more than a literal meaning from a person, object, image or word. The author Isabel Allende in his short story, ... s not just a past but it was "a claw sunk in his throat.Symbolism, a device that evokes more than a literal meaning from a person, object, image is important to the development of the central idea. Th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Opposition to Materialism" shown by William Wordsworth: Why is Wordsworth opposed to materialism?(with reference to some of his short poems) .
The literal meaning of "materialism" is "the belief that money,possessions and physical comforts are mor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Study Guide for "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville
f omniscient narration.-Irony-Irony is defined as "the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning". In the beginning of the story Billy is described as an innocent, likeable, and swe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Religion in the Public Arena
iefs. They prayed in schools and discussed Christian beliefs openly. No way could they conceive the literal meaning of the First Amendment. They only thought it was to keep government from applying de ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
True Diversity
ple believe that the terms morals, values and ethics are used interchangeably. However, to take the literal meaning of them all you would find that their differences outweigh the similarities. Morals ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
A Better Life Feature Article: Utopia
The literal meaning of Utopia is actually “no place” or “place that does not exist”. ... vational tool rather than the end goal. It is, in reality, an unattainable ideal (as evident by its literal meaning) however it exists as a representation of could be for those unsatisfied with what i ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
By the Waters of Babylon
t is "It was not idly that our fathers forbade the Dead Places.""Truth is a hard deer to hunt." The literal meaning of the statement could be interpreted as; the truth is hard to find. Then the questi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American