In her novel, Full Cicada Moon, Marilyn Hilton uses repetition to show that Mimi or someone else cares about what is repeating. Authors can use repetition to show a theme, certain topic, object, or idea that is important to the story. If a word or phrase is repeated, you hear it multiple times, resulting in the idea sticking in your head.…
In "Boys" we are immediately introduced to a recurring theme, event, or phrase, if you will, that pops up throughout the story many, many times. "Boys enter the house, boys enter the house" (Moody 579). Moody starts his story off with an action already taking place, he chooses…
Kincaid uses repetition in many instances throughout her essay. In particular, lines 38-73 demonstrate a perfect example of the rhetorical strategy. She sets up the idea of her eating an English breakfast, and eventually starts listing things individually. By naming an abundant amount of items, and following them by "Made in England," she contributes to her attitude of awe. When specifically saying each…
Mass and Henson both use repetition to convey their message. In the novel Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, the author highlights…
Another example is when they lock her up right before the sun is going to come out, “‘Hey, everyone, let’s put her up and bore her in a closet before the teacher comes back!”’(Bradbury, 1954) This shows that their jealousy takes over. Everyone thinks that she needs to be put in a closet because she already remembers it and they don’t. She is rejected on and later on they lie and say that everyone is there, “‘Are we all here?” “Yes !”’.(Bradbury, 1954). They lock her up and lie just so she couldn't see the sun. This means they are jealous and want to see for themselves what the sun is…
Additionally, Northrop uses imagery or descriptive language to convey his purpose. At one point, a helicopter flies by the school, and the narrator (Scott) describes how it circles around, then leaves. The book recalls, “It made this big sweeping turn in the air, flew a little closer, and then moved steadily away.”(Northrop 148-149) This builds suspense by making the characters and the reader think that they might get saved, before the reality that they are not sinks in. The author describes how the helicopter comes excitingly close, and almosts seems as if it has spotted the students. Next, the author uses imagery to illustrate when the emergency lights are running out of batteries. Northrop writes, “It was a huge waste, especially since…
For example, in line three, the poet states, “and there the grass grows soft and white.” This supports the theme because it shows how a child’s mind is bright and calming like the atmosphere of our ideal world. On the other hand, the poet then comments how power-seeking adults affects our present world, and states in line seven “where the smoke blows black.” This line further develops the theme because it states the negative influence that more advanced and greedy minds have on our present world. Seemingly, the poet’s use of imagery contributes to the developing the theme: “Youth’s Perspective”. When we let our imagination take over then we can live with less hate and more…
In There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury uses imagery, imagery helps create a mental image and also helps the reader procure a point. The story tells of a house that carries on after its owners are dead. The house is controlled by technology and…
Vonnegut doesn’t only repeat words, scenes, images but he also repeats stories such as the assassination of Billy Pilgrim by a gunman hired by Paul Lazzaro or the execution of Earl Derby for taking a teapot from the ruins of Dresden after the bombing. He mentions them repeatedly throughout the narrative until they become leitmotivs, recurring phrases- like the expression “So it goes”:…
Hamer uses repetition and conflict in his short story to communicate the theme. The story embarks on the repeating words “two small dark boys”. Hamer applies repetition here…
Bradbury uses his fiction worlds where materialistic views reign and technology looms over every household to warn his society from following the same path. He shows how technology provides false happiness, but in the end it can’t provide true and lasting happiness. He also shows how materialistic views distract people from where they came from and what is important, like real family. These two factors combined lead to a loss of individuality. While he warns, he also tries to show society the right path to take. He links nature and books, and then in turn masterfully links them with true and lasting happiness. He shows the people that isolation from technology and materialism help the person find their true self. He uses his stories to weave…
Steinbeck did this by using writing effects such as pathetic fallacy in the novel. Pathetic fallacy is used by Steinbeck when we first meet Curley’s Wife near the start when George and Lennie are in the Bunkhouse and she emerges almost out of nowhere. Steinbeck says “The rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off”. This is an example of pathetic fallacy; here Steinbeck uses the weather to create an atmosphere. This part of the novel could be seen to foreshadow what happens when Curley’s Wife dies, her body is in the barn and again the weather is used, “The sun streaks were high on the wall by now,” this creates a sort of good atmosphere within the text as the light shining into the barn could be perceived as a stairway to heaven and now after all she’s been through she’s at peace.…
References: to light and dark throughout the poem mirror the persona’s transition from childhood to adulthood, evident in the repetition in “Ambiguous light. Ambiguous sky”. This marks the shift from day to night, but also foreshadows the persona’s progression into adult maturity and acceptance that time is transient. Allison Hoddinott’s idea that time is the persona’s “enemy” enhances my understanding that the persona has had an ongoing conflict with the transience of time. Hoddinott’s idea is displayed through the metaphor, “stolen from me those hours of unreturning light”. The melancholy tone of the passing of time depicts the child as having a sense of ownership of time which has been irrevocably lost, highlighting that time is something which cannot be regained. Therefore, Harwood uses natural imagery in ‘The Violets’ to express an acceptance of the transience of time, and hence the persona shifts from the innocence of childhood to the maturity of adulthood.…
- STRUCTURE: This novel is cyclical: it begins and ends in the same place. Steinbeck is trying to show us that there is no hope, and no use in having a dream, because it will never be achieved. You will just end up where you started.…
To begin, Margot was isolated because of the children’s jealousy. “Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain.” (Bradbury, 1954). Margot is the only student who can remember the sun. Because of this, they isolated her and she stood alone, from the children who could never remember a world without rain. They were jealous that she got to experience something they only dreamed of seeing. The author also used author’s craft to support the theme. Bradbury used repetition to emphasize how much rain there was, and how suffocating it was to Margot. Margot’s isolation is significant because it shows how different she is to the other students. This isolation leads to further…