Anaphora

his people and encourage them to take action. He adopts a confident tone in order to empower the citizens of the United States. Obama effectively evokes feelings of pride and determination in his audience through use of parallelism, metaphor, and anaphora. Obama begins his speech by describing the various plights the country was in at the time he was sworn in. He maintains, however, that the United States as a country has survived plenty of adversity before, and will continue to do so. Obama…

uncertainty (“…goin in the dark/ where there ain’t been no light”) (12-13) she encountered . She further offered her wisdom by insisting “Boy, don’t you turn back/ don’t you sit down on the steps/ cause you find it kinder hard/don’t you fall down”. The anaphora in the lines mentioned above is ‘ don’t’ which conveys that he is not allowed to have the struggles of life defeat him, rather he is to exude resiliency and courage she same way she…

” is written in the first person in which it illustrates the horrible events and tragic effects of the concentration camps where Elie Wiesel and his family were forced upon to. Wiesel employs various literary devices such as imagery, metaphor and anaphora and repetition to amplify on the tone and the meaning of the poem, “Never Shall I Forget.” One of the most important literary devices that Wiesel used is…

you ever kill anybody?" And I can say, honestly, "Of course not." Or I can say, honestly, "Yes." The author uses irony to confuse the reader and make them question what is the author’s real meaning. The final strategy used in the short chapter is anaphora. O’Brien uses the repetition of the word “I can” to explain how stories can make things present making him go back to that time in his…

Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” anaphora and asyndeton are utilized in order to depict how the poverty in France was driven into the minds and lives of the peasants due to the negligence of the rich, conceiving a revolution lead by the people. Dickens renders the situation for the peasants in France to be extremely impoverished, such that while describing the peasants’ lifestyles, he inserts the word “Hunger” at the beginning of each sentence. This use of anaphora exemplifies the situation of…

“I Have A Dream…” by Martin Luther King “I Have A Dream…” is a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. who spoke about the equality in America and how it is not being guaranteed. There are several themes presented in this speech, one being quite obvious, is the theme of dreams. Others include equality and civil rights. The theme of this speech is presented in the title and in the ending of the speech where he begins to list hopes he has for the future of racial equality. Which then leads to the theme…

between races. To contribute that King is a reliable source he demonstrates how dedicated he is towards this topic that he states “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free” (Paragraph 3). He connects this in with the literary device anaphora. The more he repeats himself, it is seen that this is the initial reason why he wrote, and is presenting this speech. As his continues with his speech, he shifts into current American issues and dramatically tells them they must take action.…

be Great Again, Langston Hughes utilizes a nostalgic tone, first person narration, and literary devices such as metaphors and anaphoras to discuss a system of institutionalized oppression in America. This poem underscores a theme of the unfulfilled promises and broken dreams that accompany the cycle of oppression. Throughout Let America be Great Again, Hughes uses anaphoras and metaphors to create a sense of unity amongst dividing social lines of race and income. Hughes says “I am the poor…

Obama used this rhetorical device many times. He also used (alliteration) which is the recurrence of initial consonant sounds. In “President Trump’s Remarks on Las Vegas Shootings” he used many rhetorical devices. One rhetorical device he used was (anaphora) which is when the speaker repeats a word or phrase in successive phrases. He also used (enumeratio) which is when you make a point with…

Memories can help one go back into the past, maybe as a child, a rebellious teenager, or as a maturing adult. The two texts “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White, and “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins explores this topic in their writing, developing a common theme that memories are an important part of every person. For instance, Collins writes about how people tend to forget many memories over time without realizing it, such as books they had once read, or math that they haven’t used in a while.…