roads show different signs‚ they are the same. Through diction and imagery‚ Frost explains that despite the uncertainty of the future‚ one has to choose a path without looking back. Frost uses diction to demonstrate the similarities and differences between the two roads. Phrases such as “long I stood” and “looked down one as far as I could” show the hesitation and curiosity one has when anticipating the future. In the second stanza‚ the diction changes to show the equality of the two roads; by using
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continues on. In the poem “Annabel Lee‚” Edgar Allan Poe writes of this kind of love‚ a love so strong “the angles not so happy in heaven went envying her and me” (lines 21-22). Poe utilizes a combination of poetic shifts and imagery‚ along with diction to express this everlasting love. On the literal level the poem starts off with Poe’s persona remembering his love‚ Annabel Lee. Many years ago the persona and Annabel Lee were both children who lived in a kingdom by the sea. Even though
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English 10 H 19 October 2011 Kennedy and the King Both Martin Luther King’s and John F. Kennedy’s speeches helped the fight for civil rights for African Americans and are both remembered today‚ though their tones and diction were completely different. Along with their tones and diction‚ the audiences that these speeches were read to were different. John F. Kennedy presented is speech to the entire American audience on live television. Martin Luther King presented his in the shadow of the great Abraham
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then it would still just be a maybe. While both “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” use the same writing style‚ “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” uses different poetic elements such as tone‚ imagery and diction to spoof “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” Imagery is used in literature in order to describe or enhance sensory experiences to the text. The imagery in both “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” and “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is
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Sarah Kowal John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech: Essay In the years leading up to the Presidential election of 1960‚ America was embroiled in tension both at home and overseas. The relationship between the United States and Russia was growing more and more strained with every passing day and the civil rights movement left the American people divided. John F. Kennedy‚ widely regarded as a savior of sorts‚ brought greater stability to the United States and encouraged the American people to join together
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Mark Twain’s use of picturesque diction‚ symbolic punctuation‚ composed sentence formation‚ and fluent organization in this particular passage are overflowing. He uses these literary techniques to help him create the movement of the raft and time as Huck is describing it. Twain’s description makes the journey seem like a peaceful experience. The colorful diction in this passage portrays the continuous‚ elegant motion of the raft while Huck and Jim travel down the river. "Two or three days and nights
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to right the Aristocrat’s wrongs. Throughout A Tale of Two Cities‚ Charles Dickens emphasizes the theme vengeance vs justice by employing negative diction and incorporating the motifs blood‚ wine‚ and the color red‚ and duality in order to illustrate how french society masks revenge as justice during the revolution. Dickens’ use of negative diction while talking about the court emphasizes
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factor to society in order to maintain equality. He creates multiple tones such as‚ sarcasm disappointment and disbelief to the eight clergymen. King convinces his audience to support his argument using rhetorical devices like emotional appeal and diction. When King uses emotional appeal he is able to manipulate the reader to believe what he wants to believe. It makes the clergymen feel upset and convinced to what he’s saying. “When you ... to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t
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Dooryard Bloom’d” which is a literary masterpiece that showcases sincere and genuine feeling through his facility of words. Whitman utilizes certain words to enhance his diction to create a somber yet hopeful tone and parallelism to create a more melodious elegy that has lasted through the centuries. Whitman uses his diction to create a dark melancholy aura. Early in the poem‚ Whitman says‚ “…shades of night…moody…‚ tearful night…. Black murk that hides the star…” (Whitman 8-9). The dark description
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A Comparative Analysis The Whipping by Robert Hayden‚ unlike My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke‚ effectively encourages feelings of empathy in the reader through its explicit theme‚ diction and shifts. The Whipping has an explicit theme of abuse. This is recognized immediately because of the title itself. The reader can infer that this poem is a negative piece with abusive actions. However‚ My Papa’s Waltz does not have an obvious theme. The title may sound pleasant to the reader for it does
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