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    Macbeth Literary Devices

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    Macbeth - Act 5 Scenes 1-3 Literary Devices: Scene 1: Scene 2: Scene 3: Metonymous Macbeth asks the doctor‚ "Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff/Which weights upon the heart?" (heart represents the soul) Alliteration Macbeth says‚ "And with some sweet oblivous antitdote..." (repetition of /s/) "Thou lily-livered boy..." (repetition of /l/) "Then fly‚ false thanes‚" Personification Macbeth: "Curses not loud but deep‚ mouth-honor‚ breath‚/Which the poor heart would fain deny‚ and

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    Buckminster Fuller) this quote shows how in “The Pedestrian” and “A Sound Of Thunder” technology is not used right. Many people in this generation are using technology for rich and fame and not caring how it could affect many other people. The story “The Pedestrian” tells you the danger of technology when a police car approached Mr.Mead‚ a man walking out at night. Mr.Mead wasn’t inside watching TV like everyone else. The story “A Sound of Thunder” tells you the danger of technology when Eckles and all the

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    Ray Bradbury’s ‘A sound of Thunder” and the Gloris Skurzynskis’s ‘Nethergrave’ are both science fiction short stories that its main characters with the help of very advanced technology are able to traverse hand of time and manage to live in a different world‚ ‘the other world”. In A sound of thunder Eckels with a couple of his friends by using time traveler machine travel to Jurassic period to hunt Dinosaurs and are able to live in that time and experience real time events. . In the ‘Nethergrave’

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    In studying and looking at the sophistication of literary terms in “The Lottery” there are many different literary devices we can figure out in the specific storyline of the lottery ad especially in its themes. The story “The Lottery” focuses on an extremely heavy amount of suspicion between different social classes in the story. This suspense is a literary device that can be heavily seen through the story. The celebration of the lottery can be seen as a vital tradition in their old-style neighborhood

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    its literal or visible meaning. -This word origins in Middle English allegorie‚ from Latin allegoria‚ from Greek allegoria‚ from allegorein to speak figuratively‚ from allos ‘other’ + egorein ‘to speak publicly’. -A short example of this literary device can be the poem ‘Epigram’ by Langston Hughes: Oh‚ God of dust and rainbow‚ help us see That without dust the rainbow would not be. in which ‘dust’ and ‘rainbow’ stand for something else rather than their superficial meaning in this poem

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    chosen ‘The Raven’ written by Edgar Allen Poe because this poem manifests quite a selection of figurative language. Through his writing style and illustration of words‚ I have observed many examples of sound devices. Such as‚ * Alliteration – When you repeat the first letter or group of sounds in a specific part of the sentence so basically‚ so basically tongue twisters. * Onomatopoeia – Using a word that has the same action as the word * Personification – Giving an inanimate object

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    How Shakespeare Uses Literary Devices to Achieve the Moral in Macbeth In William Shakespeare’s play‚ “Macbeth”‚ one dominant moral is made clear to the audience‚ do not tempt fate‚ let nature take its course. Some of the ways that Shakespeare achieves this is through the development of conflicts in the plot and also through dialogue‚ vivid imagery and metaphors created by the atmosphere in the play. The characters develop in the early acts to identify the protagonist and antagonists to the audience

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    Literary Devices Essay Literary Devices Used in “The Crucible.” “The Crucible‚” by Arthur Miller is a politically charged play. It was written in 1953 and made into a movie in 1996. He uses literary devices such as themes‚ tone‚ and ironic devices to show the politically strict and crazy ways of society. Arthur Miller shows the theme of hysteria throughout the play in the characters and actions mostly of Abigail. She accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witch craft and gets her sent to jail. Abigail

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    Stupid Literary Devices

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    This theme can be found through the several literary devices scattered among the song lyrics‚ such as the verse “You have invented a new kind of stupid/A damage you can never undo kind of stupid/An open all the cages in the zoo kind of stupid/Truly‚ you didn’t think this through? Kind of stupid.” This verse not only uses multiple metaphors‚ but uses repetition to emphasize the “kind of stupid.”This verse helps you understand that Alexander has done something wrong. Towards the end of the song there

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    have entirely different identities which are often conveyed by their writing in pieces Fish Cheeks and Evacuation Orders. Abu Lughod’s identity theory is inadvertently evidenced by the work of Tan and Gruenewald‚ especially through their use of literary devices. It can be argued that Abu-Lughod’s views are merely opinion; however‚ they are supported by factual evidence. One of her main points was that people tend to stereotype based on one aspect of a person’s identity. For example‚ Middle Eastern

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