In the story, The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore used Diction in his story to better explain the Bronx, and by doing this, he helped the readers get another perspective on a place that most don’t get to see. In chapter 3, the author, Wes Moore, goes to the Bronx with his friend, Justin. While there, he gets a whole explosion of descriptions to tell about how he felt about and saw the Bronx. On page 48, he says “As soon as we hit the Bronx bricks, our senses were assaulted. We walked through a fog of food smells blowing in from around the world…
The writer and teacher, Lindsay Rosasco, creates strong diction through the use of informal word choice. Her diction style relates to her audience, who are teenagers in high school. She is trying to convince them that she is not out to get them, she just wants the best for all of them. Rosasco doesn’t use a higher level of vocabulary or more grandiose style because if she did, then teenagers could turn away from the text and she is writing like how the students talk. By doing this, she lets the readers know that she understands how they live.
The form of this poem is structured in a way that enhances the readers understanding of the poem with the “echo” The “voice” can be, described as
The Things They Carried Style Analysis Essay (Revising) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, just as the truth of a story is in the mind of a reader. Tim O'Brien uses this concept of the creative truth throughout the book The Things They Carried in connection with diction that creates ethos and imagery, connotative diction, and juxtaposition. This connection enables O’Brien’s reader to imagine the tale that O’Brien tells.
Author’s commonly entice readers by using complex vocabulary and extremely detailed descriptions, also known as, diction. Readers will be more engaged if they can imagine the setting and characters. Making them put themselves in the same situation. In the short stories “The Scarlet Ibis” and “The Dangerous Game” and “Harrison Bergeron” the authors use diction to engage the readers.
The different key features also plays an important role for example the tone that is being formed by the lyrical voice that can be seen as a nephew or niece. This specific poem is also seen as an exposition of what Judith Butler will call a ‘gender trouble’ and it consist of an ABBA rhyming pattern that makes the reading of the poem better to understand. The poem emphasizes feminist, gender and queer theories that explains the life of the past and modern women and how they are made to see the world they are supposed to live in. The main theories that will be discussed in this poem will be described while analyzing the poem and this will make the poem and the theories clear to the reader. Different principals of the Feminist Theory.
In 'Sunset Water' the experience of water dividing is primal. My father is awkwardly here, then gone. Separation in the poem is palpable; the sentences are cut in half by rippling water. In 'As By Water', water also divides, but it concerns love of a partner, perhaps a less personal, more universal experience.
Imagery and tone plays a huge role for the author in this poem. It’s in every stanza and line in this poem. The tone is very passionate, joyful and tranquil.
In many ways an author uses diction, imagery, syntax, and tone to elaborate parts of the story, and to contribute to the novel as a whole. In The Blind Side, the author, Michael Lewis, tells a story of how an everyday family in Memphis comes together and takes in a homeless 16 year old, who later becomes a famous football player. Although each literary device helps convey different things, when they all come together they are able to create the emotions, tones, relevance, and the purpose of the novel. Michael Lewis uses diction to emphasise particular words that he feels are important and the reader should pay attention to. He also uses italics for certains words such as, “...maybe I am good,”(Lewis 139)
According to the text and its content the poem is carefully constructed to be formal and effective to represent the author’s strong opinion. Containing seventeen stanzas, the poem is basically a sonnet along with its ABBA format and short verses. The author’s chosen diction is also well executed thus, allowing us as readers to easily comprehend the main point. The poem could also be seen as an argument confronting the audience.
In the novel Lord of the Flies, author William Golding selectively uses diction in chapter titles to reveal main ideas throughout the novel. One such chapter is “The Sound of the Shell,” the first chapter in Lord of the Flies. Denotations of the words “sound” and “shell” are used; for example, “sound” indicates the audible vibrations that travel through the air, the emitting of sound, or to convey a warning, while “shell” means the hard, protective outer case of a mollusk, or an outer form without substance. Through the use of denotations, Golding gives the reader a literal interpretation or (a rather short) preview of possible events that could occur during the chapter.
Wordsworth also uses imagery to expresses a similar experience. In the first stanza he describes “A host, of golden daffodils; /beside the lake, beneath the trees, /Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” (Wordsworth Ln 4-6). Words such as “host”, “golden”, “Fluttering” and “dancing”, all appeals to the reader’s sense of sight, hearing, and smell. It brings us into the scene.
There are countless times within The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini where powerful diction is used to convey a certain image, or idea; in many instances Hosseini chose violent diction to control how the audience perceives a character and their actions. This is shown in the quote, “I was on the ground laughing, Assef straddling my chest, his face a mask of lunacy, framed by snarls of his hair swaying inches from my face. His free hand was locked around my throat” (Hosseini,303). The use of the word “straddling” shows the control Assef has over the situation; he is not just on top of Amir, his is completely pining him to the ground. This creates a vivid image for the readers to view the scene with.
The author utilizes multiple metaphors in the poem to create vivid imagery in readers’ mind about the poem. Additionally, John Brehm widely utilizes nautical metaphors to bring out its intentions. For instance, the poem is entitled “the sea of faith.” The term “Sea” is used to show how deep, broad, and everlasting the act of “faith” can be.
The poem was written in a time where black people and women were dehumanized where those in power abused the power to gain more and those without power were continuously affected by it. Reading the poem and had an impact on me with the dictation of lexis, however all of these feelings were heightened when I listened to the oral performance. The poem starts of in the present tense “Even tonight and I need to take a walk” (Jordan 1) which gives a setting to the scene, in the opening few lines Jordan uses the repetition of “I” and “my” which made the poem for me more personal, the use of repetition in the opening part of the poem produced a deeper connection to the poem, repetition of the words placed emphasis and clarity of the words which came after “my body posture my gender identity my age…” (Jordan
