fleeting nature of beauty‚ as well as the transience of life. The speaker’s comparing his thought to “blackening clouds in a stormy sky” also confirms his pessimistic vision of life. This deep sense of void and despair is also expressed by means of synecdoches. In this respect‚ the sorrowful old man is relegated to a heavy “heart that bears deep sorrow’s
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A Black Man Talks of Reaping Figure of Speech In Arna Bontemps’ poem‚ “A Black Man Talks of Reaping”‚ he uses many figures of speech like metaphor‚ personification‚ overstatement and synecdoche. Metaphor is the tool Bontemps uses in his poem. For instance‚ “Wind or fowl” (line 3) metaphorically refers to white race who are every where and can take the profit of African American race away like a wind blows grains away or like a bird intends to steal seeds of a farmer by pecking them away. Therefore
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Lines 1-2 The first order of business in a poem is to establish situation and mood‚ and Roethke selects the father’s drinking as the foremost fact to be conveyed. The tone is slightly comic‚ as the speaker suggests that there was enough alcohol on the father’s breath to inebriate a child. This observation implies that the father had consumed a substantial amount of whiskey‚ since the smell of it was very potent. These lines also establish a closeness between the two figures. The poem is a direct
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Rhetorical Devices: Parallelism‚ Juxtaposition‚ Synecdoche I HAVE A DREAM by Martin Luther King Jr: Evidence: Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr “I have a dream” Occasion: The day when Abraham Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation “Five years ago a great America in whose symbolic shadow we stand
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The ‘Tyger’ analysis Symbol Analysis The symbol of the Tyger is one of the two central mysteries of the poem (the other being the Tyger’s creator). It is unclear what it exactly symbolizes‚ the Tyger could be inspiration‚ the divine‚ artistic creation‚ history‚ the sublime (the big‚ mysterious‚ powerful and sometimes scary‚ or vision itself. Really‚ the list is almost infinite. The point is‚ the Tyger is important‚ and Blake’s poem barely limits the possibilities. Line 7:
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Barn owlBarn Owl ESSAY Gwen Harwood’s‚ ‘Father and child’‚ is a two-part poem that tempers a child’s naivety to her matured‚ grown up attitude. Barn Owl presents a threshold in which the responder is able to witness the initiation of Gwen’s transition. The transformation is achieved through her didactical quest for wisdom‚ lead by her childhood naivety and is complimented through ‘nightfall’‚ where we see her fully maturate state. The importance of familial relationship and parental guidance is
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Need to know: 5 conditions necessary in a thesis statement Tropes: Metonymy‚ simile‚ synecdoche‚ paradox Extemporaneous speech format (Quiz) Rhetorical public speaking Resources for persuasion (1st canon) Signposts‚ transitions‚ internal summaries‚ internal previews Components of delivery (pg. 44-45) Introductory speech (Quiz) Speeches of Solicitation (Quiz) Speeches of Commemoration Contingency Rhetorical Situation (Quiz) Rhetorical background Identification of a rhetor Practical
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Literary Devices – Poetry Allusion: An event or fact from an external context assumed to be known by the reader (e.g. historical‚ biblical‚ etc.). An allusion can increase one’s understanding of the poem in question by drawing parallels with other subjects. Anthropomorphism: The showing or treating of animals‚ gods and objects as if they are human in appearance‚ character or behaviour. Apostrophe: Something that addresses an object‚ abstract idea‚ or person who is dead as though it could
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stuffed men represent the deteriorating state of humanity as people become more concerned about materialistic wealth and superficiality. Society has become hollow like the hollow men. In the second part of the poem‚ the use of high modality and synecdoche in ‘Eyes I dare not meet in dreams/ In death’s dream kingdom’. The eyes represent the heavenly souls that the hollow men are frightened of. The heavenly souls represent truth and the hollow men‚ who are cowardly‚ are afraid of confronting truth
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REFLECTION 2 ON THE OUTSIDE The “I “character was along with two university students‚ a prosperous – looking businessman and the boy who was a thin little fellow‚ looked to be under twelve. The businessman and two university students talked about their political point of view. Moreover‚ the boy looked at the businessman‚ stared at him‚ without once blinking his eyes or shifting his stare. The businessman knew about that so he struck up a conversation with the young boy and asked him that who he
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