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    In the Holocaust memoir Night‚ Elie Wiesel communicates the horrors of his journey from Sighet as an innocent‚ passionate child to his time spent at the Auschwitz concentration camps facing a harsh reality. Through the use of diction and syntax‚ Wiesel emphasizes the deterioration of the Jewish prisoners’ emotional and physical conditions. Within the first five chapters‚ Wiesel utilizes terminology to present the Jewish background of Sighet‚ as well as his own passion towards worship. For example

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    Throughout life‚ inspirational lessons dwell at every corner with that golden opportunity to take those lessons and inspire others. Speeches are excellent ways to teach lessons and motivate listeners since the speaker has the freedom to add emotion to their voices and also add dramatic pauses that create suspense within the crowd of onlookers. However‚ stories can lack that emotion the voice of a speaker gives it. So‚ author’s use different styles of writing such as varied sentence length for the

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    Allusion To Culture

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    Shiloh Gustafson 10/28/2013 ENGL 3201 An Allusion to Culture Hypothetically‚ say time travel were invented and two writers‚ one from today and one from a time long past‚ were given the same‚ very specific prompts. The likely result would be two entirely different products. Though the topic was the same‚ the two writers came from two very different times and cultures‚ producing two works unique to each. Just as light is absorbed and reflected by everything in the Universe‚ literature – poems‚

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    uses Personification‚ Alliteration‚ and Imagery to create a picture in the readers mind‚ to show the difficulty of his decision to “take the road less traveled by” and to express the necessity of the making a choice. Frost uses personification in the poem to help the reader relate to the object (Personification the giving of a human quality to a non-human object). An Example is “Because it was grassy and wanted wear”‚ Frost is saying the road wants‚ which it cannot ‘want’. Personification also helps

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    An example of personification in the story is when Rikki says‚ “It must be the head‚” he said at last‚ “the head above the hood; and when I am once there‚ I must not let go (para 57).” This shows the use of personification because the author uses the mongoose’s natural instinct to kill cobras and combines it with the text so that it seems as if Rikki-Tikki is thinking where to bite Nag. Another time when the author used personification is when the text states‚ “Darzee’s wife

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    Poe use’s private thoughts‚ action‚ personification and symbolism to create the theme. According to paragraph number 11‚ it states "I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die!...". In other words‚ the narrator felt the agony that was being placed on him by the noises he was hearing. Another example of an indirect characterization is action. According to paragraph number 8‚ it states‚ "In an instant I dragged him to the floor‚ and pulled the heavy bed over him"

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    certain times in my life where I have felt alone. Frost uses personification and imagery to convey the solitary atmosphere of the streets at night. Frost uses personification to show his familiarity with the night. “I have been acquainted with the night” (l.1) and “I have looked down the saddest city lane” (l.4) shows that Frost knows how the night is. He has seen and felt the sadness of a still dark night. The author also uses personification in saying “One luminary clock against the sky proclaimed

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    Allusions In Hamlet

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    Hamlet written by Shakespeare during the years of 1599 – 1601. Throughout this play there are many allusions that are portrayed towards the Elizabethan audience that only people from their time period would understand. When I first read over these lines I thought nothing of it and did not understand these words thrown at me‚ which required me to do research. If a line in a play requires research for an audience t understand it then those lines need to me modernized‚ which is why I have come up with

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    Shakespeare Allusion

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    In “How to Read Literature like a Professor” he uses many literary terms like symbolism and allusion but the one literary device I’ll be focusing on in this essay will be how he used allusion throughout it. One of the allusions used is in chapter five “When in doubt… it’s from Shakespeare”. The author alludes to past Shakespeare plays and how they’re depicted later on in the 1970s and around the 1980s. Some of his plays have transformed into completely different ideas from what they originally were

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    In this section by Ellie Wiesel‚ you see personification through "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes"(Wiesel 34). This literary device impacts the meaning of what Ellie is going through‚ and if it were not in this quote‚ you wouldn’t be able to fully grasp the severity and finality of Ellie’s faith. This example of personification allows you to infer that his faith is going to go through many trials throughout his time in the camps and

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