Device Quote Function Imagery/Simile/Hyperbole “Where Tjaden puts it all is a mystery‚ for he is and always will be as thin as a rake.” When the author compares Tjaden to a rake‚ it makes the readers realize how thin he really is. This quote makes the reader imagine a rake and how it relates to the character. Conflict (external; man vs. man) “Eighty men can’t have what is meant for a hundred and fifty... I don’t care about the stew‚ but I can only issue rations for eighty men.” The men are starving
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by day with friends and a fiancée who attends dinner events and party but by night he takes joy in taking the lives of other human in New York and engaging in sexual activates with multiple women. In the American Psycho‚ Bret Easton Ellis uses Literary devices such as foreshadowing and allusions all while leaving readers with the theme that thing are not always what they seem. Ellis continuously gives readers clues throughout the first half of the story as to what Patrick Bateman does by night
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One of the things that makes Shakespeare’s writing so famous is all of the literary devices he adds in. One of the many devices found is found Act 2 scene 2. At this point in the play‚ Macbeth has just killed King Duncan and is talking to his wife‚ Lady Macbeth about it. Macbeth is very paranoid and freaking out because he suddenly hears a strange knocking‚ but his hands are still covered in blood. This is where a hyperbole comes in and Macbeth says “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
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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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What can be said of the menacing literary masterpiece that is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is that the gender issues Joyce so surreptitiously weaves into Stephan Dedalus’s character create sizable obstacles for the reader to overcome. Joyce expertly composes a feminine backdrop in which he can mold Stephan to inexplicably become innately homosexual. As Laurie Teal points out “… Joyce plays with gender inversion as a uniquely powerful tool of characterization.”(63) Stephan’s constant conflict
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Literary Devices in “The Great Gatsby” Personification- where inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human self-awareness; where human thoughts‚ actions‚ perceptions and emotions are directly attributed to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. Fitzgerald uses personification to set a sense of allure and mister y in the book‚ giving it a more mysterious tone. He also uses personification to enhance the qualities of a character and give them more depth‚ and in this
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have. Most lyrics are entertaining and it attracts various people to listen to it. Songs have multiple literary devices that make the connections to others. Songs like “Like i’m gonna lose you‚” by Meghan Trainor‚ is filled with multiple literary devices. This song was one of many others on the top hits in 2015. The song “Like i’m gonna lose you is filled with mostly three main literary devices which is similies‚ metaphors‚and personifications. This song is about how they felt that their love wasn’t
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For my imitation paper‚ the homeric style elements used are simile‚ imagery‚ delay‚ dialogue‚ and patronymics. The first element I used is simile and according to The Odyssey‚ there’s a quote "and as four yoked stallions spring all together‚ beneath the lash‚ leaping high‚ and then eat up the dusty road on the plain" (Homer‚ 194). A simile that I included in my imitation is "With the song of "tale as old as time‚" Considering that tune is compared to the age of the song‚ Comparing the certainty of
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throne. Set in colonial England‚ it’s a powerful story that is still relevant today of betrayal‚ honor‚ and the nature of man. It is also masterfully written‚ as Shakespeare uses language to depict imagery and provoke thoughts. Shakespeare uses literary devices to illustrate Richard’s tyrannous character in act 4 when Elizabeth and Margaret are grieving over their losses that Richard is responsible for and when he sends Tyrell to kill the princes in the tower. In scene 4‚ Shakespeare uses an animal
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LITERARY DEVICES AND THEIR USE IN POETRY The task set out in this essay is to examine the listed devices (accentuation‚ creation of hierarchies‚ shifts of accent‚ ambiguity‚ semanticisation and creation of relationship) of syntactic foregrounding‚ using examples from poems as illustration. The word ‘foregrounding’ when used in a literary context means to ‘make strange’. In other words poets use various literary and poetic devices in order to highlight a particular unit within a poem‚ in order
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