Recommended: Devices of grammar in poetry
Bethany Haehn Due Date: Friday 25th Journal 1 I am reading “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” by W. D. Wetherell. This story ia about a boy who has a crush on Sheila Mant, so he takes her on a date in a boat and catches the biggest bass he has ever caught. He now has to decide on Sheila or the bass. I will be questioning and connecting As I am reading this story, I am wondering if he is going to pick Sheila Mant or the bass. The narrator might pick the bass.
Metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a line or verse in a poem. In Jessica Jopp’s poem, “Why poetry cannot be skimmed” these word manipulation tools are used to convey the importance and seriousness of poetry. Jopp opens the poems saying, “The barn was in the Netherlands, in a field where fierce night wind caught the straw as if to fuse the winter stars to their coldness.” Jopp paints a vivid picture of the setting of the poem; the realism creates a scene that doesn’t seem so foreign. “A farmer, woken by the sound, knowing his animals would be
Chains, a novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson follows a young enslaved girl named Isabel at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Isabel is sold to Elihu and Ann Lockton, along with her five year old sister Ruth, after her original owner dies. The girls are shipped to the house and Ann Lockton, who demands to be called Madam Lockton, is terrible to them. She beats the girls and constantly yells at them. After this, Madam Lockton sells Ruth, making Isabel mad.
The poem is composed of eighteen stanzas, each containing six lines and employing the rhyme scheme AABB. This structure creates a feeling of monotony and builds tension as the narrator descends into madness. The repetition of the word "nevermore" at the end of each stanza emphasizes the narrator's despair and creates a sense of foreboding. Furthermore, the use of symbolism, such as the raven, contributes to the poem's sense of mystery and uncertainty. The bird's ominous presence and the narrator's reference to "Lenore" leave readers to interpret their significance, adding to the poem's overall effect of suspense.
In the memoir Night , Ellie Wiesel describes his horrific experiences as a young 15 year old Jewish boy during the Holocaust under the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitter. At the young age of thirteen, Ellie and his family were transported to numerous ghettos and concentration camps in which he witnessed and experienced the worst type of inhuman cruelty and torture ever Recorded. During Wiesel's time at Auschwitz it affected him physically ,mentally and spiritually, which he records in his memoir. While Ellie demonstrates weakness, he also displays moments of perseverance under the extreme circumstances of prosecution under the Nazi regime. Many lives were permanently altered by the Holocaust, impacting individuals physically, mentally, and spiritually
Despite some people being in such drastic situations they still manage to show humanity in their actions. In the book “night” by Ellie Weisel. It talks about his life during the holocaust and what he had to go through while he was put in a concentration camp. Many of the inmates that Ellie Wiesel was in camp with had shown humanity in their own ways and actions despite being in such dangerous situations. And many of those actions could have impacted their survival.
During the poem “The Highwayman” author Alfred Noyes uses alliteration and foreshadowing to create suspense. “Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard” Noyes wrote[Noyes 1]. The author uses the hard C sound to make it bold and harsh. “ She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood” the author wrote[2].
It seems as if Americans must learn a hard lesson when one is able to find two separate works,decades apart, yet united with similar purpose. In the year of 1852 a former slave by the name of Frederick Douglas gave a speech on the Fourth of July titled “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery”. Years later in 1965, after a violent incident in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson gave a speech titled “We Shall Overcome” to a full congress. Both speeches, convey the same concept of equality, and are infused with the same persuasive techniques to develop the argument that all men are created equal. Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.
Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel is the author of widely read Nobel Peace Prize novel, Night. The novel is not only a widely read Nobel Peace Prize But also widely taught because of the extensive amount of subtext that helps create the meaning of this novel. There are several types of rhetoric that Elie uses to create this subtext, including tone, organization, and repetition. With these rhetorical devices, repetition is the most effective to create his meaning in two of his speeches called “Elie Wiesel's Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize,” and “A God Who Remembers.” Elie Wiesel gives the audience a certain tone to manipulate the audience emotions.
“The melting west is striped like ice-cream.” (TV.1.3). As the poem progresses, the communication of the contrasts into a more desolate, melancholy way of vocalisation. The merging into the more ambiguous section of the text, the narrator changes vocal tone, but remains to narrator from a
Dillard implements imagery all throughout her essay, which gives the reader a clear picture of the events occurring. For instance, she describes her husband “gesturing inside a circle of darkness” as a result of him gradually travelling farther away from her (Dillard). Ultimately, the use of imagery in this case represents the loneliness the narrator begins to feel. The author also utilizes metaphors to get her message across. Dillard compares “grammar and lexicon” to a “decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel” because without the other, they will not be able to fulfill their purpose (Dillard).
Could you imagine what it would be like to live during the time of the Holocaust? Could you imagine being sent to a concentration camp? Having your family and friends be murdered for no reason? While many are scared to think of living during this horrific time, some people had to live through this. Eve Bunting and Fred Gross educate readers on the importance of the Holocaust and why we need to learn about it.
In T.S. Eliot’s work “The LoveSong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, he uses diction to give an underlying meaning and tone to his poem in order to express the downfall of a man. The author uses his diction to give this poem Its tone as if he regrets what he did in life. He also shows great tone changes in this work, giving this poem a dramatic, almost tragic outlook. Many of his word choices also give his work an underlying meaning and adds to his theme and messages. A large part of his poem is also using metaphors to add to this underlying meaning and give more force to this tone he is trying to create.
ot wet pillows, a poem by Josh Cullen invites readers to believe that nobody cares about issues faced by many young people. Cullen highlights the difficulties of relationship between youth and teacher, which often represents youth as isolated and misunderstood. Poetic techniques such as poetic form and tone, imagery, sound devices combined with careful language choices are used to shape this representation of youth. Form and tone are used to portray the issues faced by many young people. Hot wet pillows is a free verse poem, with irregular rhythm.
The poet dispenses a change in the poem with occasional moments of rhyme in lines such as ‘lying by myself quietly' which employs an ‘I' sound and the uses assonance in the line ‘the nurses pass and pass'. These phrases are soft which give the poem a peaceful rhythm, highlighting the calmness the speaker feels. The poet's use of free verse is very common in her work, as it allows her to express her strong emotions. An example of this is Plath's poem ‘Daddy', in which she is conveying her powerful emotions towards her father and his
