Essays Tagged: "figures of speech"
To Tell or to Lie, a look at ancient philosophy
n learning how to distinguish truth from falsehood. It is the art of forceful language, emphasizing figures of speech and focusing on devices for swaying and persuading an audience, that would be most ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
An Explication of Tennyson's 'Tithonus'
, man grows more undesirable every day while losing his affectiveness. Tennyson, by using different figures of speech and imagery, shows the speakers desire for immortality. He also creates a thought ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
Martin Luther King. Speaks of "Letter from Birmingham jail"
devices which King uses to communicate with his audience, and stir emotional response. The numerous figures of speech augment the clarity, liveliness, and passion of King's rhetoric.'Why direct action ... hose King spoke of. The reader is reminded of the passion and intensity of each of those historical figures, further supporting King's argument. The reader envisions that King is doing good for humani ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"Flannery O'Conner" What are five things you learned about Flannery O'Conner from reading her Casebook?
bjectively analyze and criticize her own work.Flannery O'Connor has a unique style all her own. The figures of speech used in O'Connor's writing, range from similes and metaphors to inviting imagery. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Langston Hughes' poem "Dream Deferred"
he joys and miseries of the ordinary black man in America. In Hughes' poem "Dream Deferred" he uses figures of speech, tone, and a unifying theme to show how black people's dreams were delayed.Hughes ... a unifying theme to show how black people's dreams were delayed.Hughes uses similes and metaphors--figures of speech--to portray that often times their dreams never came true. He asks if they "dry up ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died".
end of a soul's journey. The reader can recognize the poem's theme by analysing its voice, imagery, figures of speech, form, diction and especially symbolism; all of which help the reader to understan ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Compare and contrast the writing styles of William Byrd to William Bradford based on style, tone, and purpose.
le writing is the form of writing used by the Puritans. This writing style tended to stay away from figures of speech and tried to keep it plain, simple and right to the point. A great example is when ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Theodore Roethke's "I knew a Woman," Various Figures of Speach
In the Poem "I Knew a Woman," the author, Theodore Roethke, uses figures of speech, primarily hyperbole and metaphor, to reveal the wonders of a woman's body, as wel ... ernity in days" L26, instead to "Measure time by how the body sways." L28 The author uses different figures of speech from beginning to end of the poem in order to subtly depict the woman's sexuality ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Commentary on "To sleep" (John Keats)
-B-A-B structure, the author here makes a very melodic and harmonious poem. The author uses several figures of speech to address sleep in a very specific way. More over, it is possible that there was ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
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Mistress" is a lyric poem. "To His Coy Mistress" teaches much about the elements of argumentation, figures of speech, human love, time, death, and immortality. We find a set of images, metaphors, con ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Comparative study between sonnet 18 and 130
has come from the Italian sonnetto.it originated in Italy. To make a comparative study we can find figures of speech, imagery, theme etc.In sonnet 18 here the poet praise his friend's beauty and in 1 ... s beloved and friend.And also the same of the rhyme -scheme.abba and cde cde.In 18 we can find some figures of speech. The poet compares his friend's beauty with summer's day. His gold complexion is e ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Batter my Heart Imagery, Aural and Rhythm
e sonnets tightly structured form. Donne expresses spiritual transformation in passionate language, figures of speech, (visual imagery) sounds, (aural imagery) and rhythm to convey this theme.The spea ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
An Essay entitled 'Doubt and Ambiguity in Chaucer's Knight's Tale'
ologue, tells the rest of the company that he 'lerned nevere rethorik'. He does not know how to use figures of speech and that the company must forgive him for his simple, bare and plain tale. This is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Essay on the themes of ozymandias by P.B.Shelly, and how they are demonstrated to the reader.
d his efforts are vein when compared to the forces of time and nature. The subject matter, diction, figures of speech, sound devices and structure used by shelly convey the idea of permanence and impe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Essay on theme of the poem "Rising five" by Norman Nicholson
hem (the present). This theme is demonstrated by means of subject matter, carefully chosen diction, figures of speech, parallel construction and antithetical parallelism.To demonstrate the theme of im ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Sea Fever' by John Masefield.
art that brings beauty to the English language through its use of rhythm, imagery and many complex figures of speech. The meter in "Sea Fever" follows the movement of the tall ship in rough water thr ... sies. Perhaps, the most complex part of this poem is the use of personification and metaphor. These figures of speech go beyond the meter and imagery to compare life to a sea voyage and portray a stro ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
What I have learnt after reading "Twelfth Night" Act 1 by Shakespeare
towards different things that will come across during lifetime.In writing skils, I have learnt some figures of speech which can embellish my writing and the message that I am trying to explain.Firstly ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
The Creative Use of Figurative Language for Shaping The Poetic Text.
t the language they use, and even if they do, they do not seem to realize that much of it comprises figures of speech. We use figures of speech all the time, for effect and for emphasis. Here, in the ... now that's my idea of a good time(2) .This example of ordinary, everyday conversation contains many figures of speech, including metaphor and metonymy. Additionally, if the guitarist commented that hi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Emotions Of Poetry
otions of Poetry In the poem "The Slave Mother," Frances Ellen Watkins Harper uses imagery, figures of speech and voice to help the reader feel the poem. The emotion portrayed by the character ... she may carry because she brought her own child into this lifestyle and now he will be a slave.The figures of speech in, "The only wreath of household love"(23) and "Of music round her heart"(30) and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Paul Simon's Sounds Of Silence
that a vision has come to him in his sleep and planted seeds in his brain. These lines contain many figures of speech, including personification, alliteration ("seeds while I was sleeping"), assonance ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry