Alliteration

War is brutal. War can tear countries and families apart and leave them no mercy. War sucks all of the joy out of life. But when war ends, it can bring happiness and joy to thousands and thousands of people. Celebration breaks out all across the world and people finally feel free from the endless turmoil and pain that had been the previous war. Sometimes, many people actually break out into song and sing at the top of their voices because they know they are free. This theme of war being so…

Though the description itself explains and entails the depressing scene, by using words like farm, wheat, and garden, he uses a semblance of growth to establish the framework for this withering atmosphere drenched in ashes. When paired with emphatic alliteration used throughout the passage, the valley of ashes transcends Nick’s thoughts and forms its own entity in the mind of the audience. Along with the consistently strong use of words, he uses long, carefully-constructed sentences to capture…

Dylan Thomas, he begged his father to come up with the vigor and enthusiasm of the young men, to fight with the death, rather than meet the arrival of death quietly, even death is an irreversible and inevitable thing. In the poem, the author used alliteration, assonance, metaphor, simile, and oxymoron to strongly express the hope that his father can fight with the death in the end. The first stanza of the poem points out the theme directly: the elderly should live like blazing fire during…

187 intention of the prophet seems not to provide the exact historical or social backdrop; rather, the major concern of the prophet is a theological one: the problem within the community that hinders the coming salvation of God. The prophet presents the nearness of God’s salvation (the new age), which has already been anticipated from Isaiah 40-55 (cf. 56:1). The promise of God is still valid to the community in whatever situation. The prophet intends to further develop and enrich the theme of…

Analyzing Speeches: The Use of Rhetorical Devices All around the world people are fighting different battles, for instance, half of America recently united for the women’s march on Washington in protest against their newly elect-president. The issue of inequality has a long history and even though people have stricken back in various moments throughout the years, inequality is still a concern of today’s society. For this reason, speeches that concern these problematic topics become extremely…

white children enjoying their daily lives side by side with equality and justice for all. In his famous “I Have Dream” speech, King targeted the emotions and humanism of the crowd by drawing comparisons and brotherly love from the audience. He uses alliteration to aggrandize the meaning of the word “color” in this context. Most of all, he yearns for a time when his children will no longer need to be ashamed of their skin tone and will be judged solely on who…

more conventional idea of death, coldness. This represents the fact that the narrator was unprepared for Death as she is wearing thin clothes. It shows that although she wasn’t prepared to die, Death was the one that chose for her to. The use of alliteration, such as “gossamer… gown” and “tippet…tulle” emphasises the different materials, to show that the narrator is cold, like a dead person. Furthermore, when she “could not stop for death” in the first line, she also says that Death “kindly”…

In the 1920s, America’s conservation movement was off to a grand start. Powerful individuals, such as Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Gifford Pinchot, lent their voices in the urgent call to preserve America’s natural reserves. Congress was passing legislation protecting wildlife, natural parks were springing into life, and nature-preserving commissions were being created (Conservation in the Progressive Era). In a swirl of action, America’s conservation movement and the subsequent emphasis…

been felt by his audience on that day, to my fellow peers. In my FOA, I used the speech terms taught in the first semester to help discuss what the person who wrote Donald Trump’s speech might have wanted the audience to feel. I used words such as alliteration and connotation to unpack Trump’s words as well as using the experience gained from our unit on presidential speeches. This relates to the Part 1 learning outcome of analyzing how the audience and purpose affect…

further examined in relation to novel THT by Margaret Atwood and film Gattaca by Andrew niccols. In the society of THT Atwood demonstrated the notion of restraint in social/personal freedom: “A return to traditional values. Waste not want not.” The alliteration applied highlights their societal value; Gilead’s step…