Literary Terms and Rhetorical Devices Allusion An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference Generally a figure of speech making reference to a known place‚ event‚ literary work Example: an allusion to Shakespeare‚ “He was a real Romeo with the ladies.” Synonyms: hint‚ reference‚ innuendo‚ insinuation Cliché A worn out expression that takes place of an original thought; a phrase or expression that is overused or
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The Sniper The sniper is a story about a civil war taken place in Dublin. It tells of a republican sniper sitting on a rooftop of a building near to O’Connell bridge. The war is between Republicans and the free states. the sniper is one of the fellow of republican‚ when a free state sniper shows himself on an opposite roof. they were waiting each other to see who would end up the better. Eventually the republican sniper gains the upper hand and after taking a bullet in the arm
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Kimberly Armogan Professor Hamm Eng. 200 F2 03/07/12 Literary Terms in “The Bean Eaters” Did you know Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American‚ male or female‚ to win the Pulitzer Prize (eNotes.com)? Brooks was born on June 7‚ 1917 and began to have an interest in poem early in her life. Her first poem was published at the age of thirteen in the American Childhood Magazine in 1930. Today she is known for having more than twenty books of poems published like “The Children Coming Home”
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Allegory: Prose or verse in which the objects‚ events or people are presented symbolically‚ so that the story conveys a meaning other than and deeper than the actual incident or characters described. Often‚ the form is used to teach a moral lesson. Alliteration: An alliteration is a repetition of sounds (consonants) at the beginning of neighbouring words or of stressed syllables within such words‚ e.g. “fingers the small size of small spades.” Purpose: rhythm and stress. Anaphora: The anaphora
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juvenile crime 4. felony 5. cyber crime 6. sex crime 7. juvenile crimes 8. finger pointing 9. public outrage 10. drug abuse 11. halfway houses 12. young minds are corrupted 13. lack of awareness 14. prison term 15. enforce rules HUMAN TRAFFICKING 1. traffickers 2. abducted 3. kidnapped 4. drugged with sleeping pills 5. agents 6. raid 7. victims are deceived... 8. recruited 9. women experience sexual violence /
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three main literary devices to portray the animal that Jack‚ a once disciplined boy‚ has befallen. Using a simile at the beginning of the chapter‚ Golding forces the reader to envision Jack in such a creature-like state. “Then dog-like‚ uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort‚ he stole forward five yards and stopped” (Golding 48). During this adrenaline-filled moment for Jack‚ hunting is not a priority‚ but an obsessive activity. Over the short time span on the remote island‚ Jack quickly
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Examples of Key Literary Terms ENG 125 Week 1 Discussion 2 Farce – A comedy; a short play‚ in which both subtle humor and hilarity are developed through impossible situations‚ exaggeration and (often) ridiculous antics. Example: Shakespeare used this structure in most of his comedies‚ sometimes introducing miraculous or supernatural incidents to order to end the play harmoniously in marriage festivities. Genre – A genre can be broken down in many categories of literature-prose‚ poetry‚ and drama-and
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Writing stories with dark twist and unlucky characters is how Jackson set the mood and tone of the story‚ however she does this with a couple of literary tools such as repeating phrases over and over again. In the story “The Tooth” an example of this is when Clara keeps telling her husband “I feel so funny” [Jackson 207]. By having Clara repeat this throughout the story it is foreshadowing that something bad is going to happen to her. Along with foreshadowing her inevitable bad luck coming her way
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Is New Journalism a literary genre? Analyse with reference to the literary techniques used in two examples of New Journalism. Word Count - 2231 I suppose the most common sense point at which to start is by defining New Journalism‚ or Literary Journalism‚ as Eisenhuth and McDonald (2007‚ p. 38) say it is called at the “upper end of the spectrum.” The Collins Concise Dictionary (1999‚ p. 995) defines New Journalism as “a style of journalism‚ using techniques borrowed from fiction to portray
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MAIN THEMES IN ANIMAL FARM Totalitarianism George Orwell once wrote: "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been … against totalitarianism." Animal Farm is no exception. Totalitarianism is a form of government in which the state seeks to control every facet of life‚ from economics and politics to the each individual’s ideas and beliefs. Different totalitarian states have different justifications for their rule. For instance‚ Mr. Jones runs Manor Farm based on the idea that
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