Essays Tagged: "vivid"

Imagery in Literature

cipher.Imagery is an important element in writing. Imagery can stimulate the imagination and create vivid pictures in the mind. Imagery can have a different effect on everybody. Some people will see t ...

(2 pages) 18457 19 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Meadow

sight, I began to think about the last time I visited the meadow. The memories of my last visit are vivid with relaxed and peaceful thoughts motivated by the images, scents, and sounds of the meadow. ...

(2 pages) 49 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Apprehensive Apparition - hallucination

ernal stimuli. There are three characteristics: thoughts or memory images, perhaps when they are as vivid and immediate as perceptions, are experienced as if they were perceptions; they are externaliz ... tion available. Like hallucination, pseudohallucination has been used to describe imagery as vivid and immediate as perception but not mistaken as such. They are more likely to be seen in respo ...

(2 pages) 38 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy: an essay that offers my own answers to 6 major questions in philosophy

to answer the same question of whether God exists. The definition of "rational" involves clear and vivid thinking, complete and accurate information, and no faulty conditioning.What is belief? Everyo ...

(8 pages) 650 0 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Theodore Roethke: This is about the basic life story and the meaning behind this dramatically influential American poet's works. It's AP English vocabulary, change as needed.

, realistic and depressing verse among writers. The son of a greenhouse owner would one day use his vivid ideas of nature and interpretations of the world in a manner that would provide the wilting wo ... , realistic and depressing verse among writers. The son of a greenhouse owner would one day use his vivid ideas of nature and interpretations of the world in a manner that would provide the wilting wo ...

(7 pages) 86 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Jack London: Call of the Wild

list and naturalist.London's love for nature is obvious in this novel. The settings are miraculouslyvivid with descriptions that could not have just been made in his head. He describesmany different a ...

(3 pages) 80 0 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Interpreting Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

ery to convey a sense brutality towards the prisoners of the cave.Plato's use of language creates a vivid picture of the prisoners in the cave. "A fire blazing at a distance." The use of the term "bla ...

(2 pages) 266 0 3.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Interpreting the first 5 lines in Plato's Allegory of the cave

ery to convey a sense brutality towards the prisoners of the cave.Plato's use of language creates a vivid picture of the prisoners in the cave. "A fire blazing at a distance." The use of the term "bla ...

(2 pages) 107 0 5.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Howard Nemerov

s much celebrity as it deserves. Nemerov's virtues are all in fact unfashionable ones for our time: vivid intelligence, an irreverent sense of humor, a mastery of formal verse, an awareness of mystery ...

(7 pages) 43 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

A comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe. For both madness exists in the world

Fear, terror and suspense are the most vivid emotions created by Poe's stories and by Hitchcock's films. Several themes are common to both: ...

(5 pages) 81 1 5.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Summary of "A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

d voices--Lenina's, Fanny Crowne's, Mustapha Mond's--that at first sound chaotic but soon give us a vivid understanding of this brave new world.The first three chapters present most of the important i ...

(5 pages) 63 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Martin Luther King. Speaks of "Letter from Birmingham jail"

(6.344). King's argumentative passages persuade the reader, and add credibility to his vehement and vivid discourse. Schemes and tropes are among the oratorical devices which King uses to communicate ...

(3 pages) 350 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"The Lord of the Flies" by Golding. An epic tale that depicts the different facets of the human spirit

depictedwell the many different aspect of human nature. The book has been described as"provacative, vivid and enthralling," but Time and Tide said it best when they wrote, "It isnot only a first-rate ...

(6 pages) 92 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

The Book Report on "The Power and The Glory" by Graham Greene

Mexico who had lived through the worst persecutions... She confessed that your descriptions were so vivid, your priest so real, that she found herself praying for him at Mass. I understand how she fel ... l literature before I finished reading the book) who wrote to Graham Greene - 'descriptions were so vivid, your priest is so real' - I felt that characters were real. I've never been in Mexico, and I ...

(7 pages) 83 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Describe the recurring use of imagery, motifs, themes and ideas in Michael Ondaatje's novel In the Skin Of A Lion. explain how multiple readings can be concluded from the book.

he audience, who are to become as involved in these relationships as the characters themselves. The vivid representation is one of entangled passion, romantic obsession and heartache surrounding Patri ...

(3 pages) 103 0 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Essay on "Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck. Examines the different ways Joads tried to keep united within the family or with others who shared the same struggles and sufferings.

d unmistakenly realistic of theJoad's culture. Without this dialogue, it would not be asintense and vivid.J. Homer Caskey, in 'Letters to the Editor' says,'Steinbeck's knowledge of the forces which ho ...

(4 pages) 92 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Animal Farm by George Orwell. A satire on the Russian Revolution through the eyes of one man and this many animals that portray the many characters of his life and or situation

speaker, he can assert himself. Snowball is a better speaker, he has a lot of ideas and he is very vivid. Together with another pig called Squealer, who is a very good speaker, they work out the theo ...

(17 pages) 491 3 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Black Boy vs Grapes of Wrath

Even though the books of Black Boy and Grapes of Wrath gave a vivid picture of the past American life to the readers regarding the socio-economic bigotry. Both bo ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.7 Jun/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Dylan Thomas/Robert Frost:

emselves. For Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost, this is the case. The lives these poets have lived and vivid styles of languages have contributed to their poems, which makes it easy to compare and contra ... as an alcoholic. "He had no capacity for strong drink, so less made him seem drunker. Also he had a vivid imagination, and was born a brilliant actor. He would play the drunken young poet to perfectio ...

(8 pages) 274 2 4.8 Jun/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Regarding the Book

n message or issue to their readers. A particularly weighty one at that. If it had not been for the vivid vernacular placed upon her southern-born characters or the use of written letter form as an al ... fact, Walker used just the right kind of vernacular to draw a picture of her characters' lives just vivid enough so that we as readers could experience what was happening and what they were thinking. ...

(5 pages) 84 0 5.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers