Literary Techniques: Poetry Analysis 1 Diction and Imagery Literary Techniques • The meaning of a poem (i.e its focus‚ mood and the speaker’s attitude) is enhanced by four main types of literary techniques: • Diction • Imagery • Sound devices • Rhythm‚ Rhyme and Repetition Diction • Diction is the choice of words a poet uses to bring meaning across. In working through a poem‚ it is useful to question why a certain word is used‚ and what kind of effect is achieved with the choice and placement
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Writing in the Discipline: Relationship to the Ways of Knowing and Doing Writing in the discipline is founded on a relationship between knowing‚ doing‚ and writing. It is important that we understand the two categories creating disciplines: domains of knowledge and the ways of knowing. The domains of knowledge suggest declarative or conceptual knowledge and the knowing infers procedural or process knowledge. Michael Carter addresses this relationship in his article Ways of Doing‚ Knowing‚ and
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Have you ever written an essay and felt as though it wasn’t good enough‚ not up to the teachers standards? or maybe there was more you could have added to make it better.. to make an essay more effective what you need are rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices are techniques that are used to convey and persuade the reader or listener to consider a topic from another perspective. using rhetorical devices is a style of speaking or writing that trys to create a particular effect or bring out a particular
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Passage one and Passage two are both about Florida’s Okefenokee Swamp‚ however they both have contrasting points of view. The author of Passage one is writing about the swamp as it is overall- in a disconnected sort of way- which is drastically different from Passage two which takes the reader right inside the swamp and shows the struggle of life that exists there. Thus‚ the authors of Passage one and Passage two‚ accomplish this task by an informative tone and formal diction in Passage one‚ versus
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Critical Summary Regan argues that there is a difference between moral disagreements and personal preference disagreements. He believes that disagreements in preferences do exist between people. Someone likes or prefers something and another person may not like it or may be preferring something else. Judging morality as in what is morally right and wrong is different from when judging personal preferences. A person does not need justification to what his/her personal preferences are‚ because there
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Exam One 1. a. Kohlberg’s six stages of moral development are complex yet very applicable ideas in moral development. The whole point of his six stages is to set the foundation for one’s ethical behavior with a psychological approach. The first stage of moral development is the “punishment/obedience orientation”‚ which refers to how people will only focus on the consequences of certain actions. For example‚ when a student in elementary school brings a toy weapon to school after being told not
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In the story The Veldt‚ Ray Bradbury uses imagery and personification to better illustrate the effects of neglecting children have. During the story‚ Bradbury uses imagery to better help the reader understand what lifestyle the children don’t want to leave. Even though houses like the “Happylife Home” don’t really exist yet‚ the imagery helps the reader picture what it would be like to live in a house like that. Others say that a craft more used during the story would be similes and metaphors. While
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Prom Night in Mississippi In a small Mississippi town‚ racial discrimination was taking place in the year of 2008. The black and white high schoolers had separate proms‚ although they all went to the same school. So‚ why would they have segregated proms‚ if they did not have segregated schools? This might be partially due to the fact that segregation was illegal at that time‚ however‚ the members in power of that society seemed to unethically slither by the law. As many white parents of that society
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Ethics and Moral Reasoning Katrina Pride Instructor: Thomas MacCarty December 10‚ 2012 In Peter Singer’s article “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality‚ he gives what seems to be a devastating outline of our normal way of thinking concerning the relief of the famine‚ charity and morality in general. Only a small number of people accepted‚ or even acted upon the conclusions that he shared. The enlightenment of these facts someone may make the statement or argument such as Hume did in the likeness
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The Language Used to Connect With Nature Willa Cather‚ Emily Dickinson‚ and Walt Whitman all utilize different forms of language to make themes in their writings. Through personification‚ symbolism‚ and various rhetorical devices‚ we can connect to nature through O Pioneers!‚ “There’s a Certain Slant of Light‚” and “Song of Myself.” These languages are used in these pieces to connect us with nature. Cather uses personification to connect us to nature. By personifying nature‚ she makes it seem
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