Seafarer" written by an unknown author and "You Found Me" written by The Fray. The two works portray a common theme that finding God helps change the emotion of lonliness and disappointment by using the similar elements of rhetorical questions‚ repitition‚ motifs‚ and mood shifts. Rhetorical questions‚ used in both peices‚ help to develop a feeling of disappointment. "The Seafarer" questions "Who could understand / in ignorant ease‚ what we others suffer / As the paths of exile stretch endlessly on?" (Unknown
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A lamb is a gentle and meek creature that is both daring and submissive. A lamb is very much like a child. In “The Lamb‚” William Blake creates a childlike tone through a very songlike form and structure. What this does is give the poem an innocent view‚ more in the first stanza than in the second. Through the use of apostrophe‚ the entire poem being an apostrophe‚ William Blake attributes human qualities to a lamb‚ the lamb being the listener‚ the child being the speaker. Throughout the entire poem
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The ongoing growth of alcohol fuelled violence and causalities has sparked interest in the media recently‚ particularly after the death of ‘one punch’ victim Daniel Christie. Over many years there have been deaths as a result of alcohol fuelled violence but due to the increasingly rapid pace of fatalities it has dominated today’s media. Found to be more common in boys the Australia wide epidemic‚ including the brutal and often fatal “king hit”‚ has now been branded as ‘cowardly’ as it is more suiting
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psychology behind it Poetic Devices Contrast- The persona uses rhetorical questions and then answers them. She further changes her punctuation in stanza 2. The contrast from asking to answering and short broken sentence to long fluent ones shows not only the change in her behavior and form when she becomes the socouyant but also emphasizes to the contrast between the ‘ol higue’ and that what keeps her alive‚ a baby. Rhetorical Question The persona asks ‘And who to blame- for the murder inside
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"Futility" Futility means that something is destined to fail. The quality of producing no valuable effect‚ or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The structure of the poem is in balanced stanzas - the tenderness and hopefulness at the beginning; the growing bitterness of the second‚ with its climax. Owen is telling the persona’s story of the death of a comrade as a balance. This has to happen as so many of them died that there still has to be a degree of sanity left in them. "Futility" mourns the
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Cynics This essay will critically analyse Chris Mann’s Cynics‚ it will discuss the poem’s subject matter and message‚ and pay close attention to the relationship between the poem’s content and form‚ how Mann’s language‚ imagery‚ tone use of rhetorical questions contribute to the poem’s effectiveness. This essay will also explore how an awareness of the political context out of which the poem arises‚ helps the reader appreciate its significance‚ meaning and power as a ‘critique’ and how the features
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affair. With the use of figurative language the images are seen‚ smelled and heard. An authoritative voice is created to advise and command attention‚ through the use of instructive language throughout the six stanzas. Personification‚ analogy‚ rhetorical question and the way a word sounds‚ are also used to express advice. Each stanza effectively develops in showing the growth of revulsion the speaker feels towards the addressee‚ through the use of figurative language. "Think‚ now:" (line 1)
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refer to. | ‘tok-tok-tok’ – a knock on the door‘tik-ti-la-ok!’ – a sound that cocks make every morning | 6. METONYMY - A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also‚ the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. | Nagdiwang ang Malacañang sanhi ng pagpapalaya ng mga Pilipinong bihag ng mga pirata sa Somalia.(Malacañang – Pangulo at kanyang mga opisyal) | 7. SYNECDOCHE – a
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skillful syntax to reveal conflict‚ Hamlet attacks his mother with witty statements‚ belittles her with rhetorical questions (“what’s the matter now?”)‚ wishes he were not her son with exclamation (line 15)‚ and finishes with a command to sit that he may “set us a glass where you may see the inmost part of you.” In summary‚ the syntax utilizes parallelism‚ repetition‚ sarcastic and rhetorical questions‚ exclamations‚ and commands in order to highlight the tone of rising emotion and
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“The Trashmen” hint at the fragility of the bird species‚ as well as emphasizing the necessity of birds in not just our physical lives‚ but our pop culture. In this excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ Rachel Carson racks up her score in the using rhetorical devices game in an attempt to convey her heartfelt message of the bird holocaust of 1959‚ where the farmers (or basically bird Hitlers)‚ sprayed gas and poison all over the innocent woodland creatures. Carson gives background info (paragraph 1)
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