Antithesis

Furthermore, Katniss’s obsession with President Snow is shown through her behavior during the initial stages of the rebel occupation of the Capital. One of the first thing Katniss does is prepare herself to assassinate Snow by searching for a white rose, the symbol of his authority. After being told she cannot enter Snow’s greenhouse, Katniss states “I just stand there patiently waiting for them [the rebel guards] to lower their guns, for them to understand, without my telling them that behind…

In the Epic of Beowulf, Beowulf’s confidence undergoes an evolution. He soon battles Grendel with firm self-confidence. Later, when he fights Grendel’s mother, this confidence enlarges and morphs into the furious aggression of pride. By the time Beowulf engages in his last battle, he exhibits arrogance, if not hubris. This excessive pride is Beowulf’s unchecked, rising confidence that leads to his ultimate downfall. In other words, his “overweening ambition” is his fatal flaw (hamartia). Yet, as…

Dylan Thomas’ “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” opens first with a description of darkness through the of antithesis. This allows the speaker to draw a clear contrast between its role in both life and death. Biblical allusions are also used to create an underlying message of religion and its role in both life and death, a key theme throughout Thomas’ poem. The idea of death as a rebirth is hinted at in implications to baptism. Rhetorical question is also used,…

IN a literary epoch when the dominant field of action was the frontier settlement, the forest, and the fort, Hawthorne fo- cussed on the world of moral imagination. His "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) is a paradigm of this particular world, and Brown's behavior on a fateful night in his life is the key to this haunting tale. Although the motives for Goodman Brown's behavior are ambiguous, the consequences of his compulsive acts are clear but frightening. It is truly an enchanted forest into…

Parallelism is used when talking about adversity, misery, and time to emphasize their importance and connect all of them, which creates a clear sentence for the reader and is easy to read. The personification of “time” and “avarice” creates a lifelike view of time and avarice, which caused the reader to understand and relate easily to the idea that time goes by and when we strive for wealth, death becomes nearer. The allusion of “David,” “Alcmena’s nights,” and “Job” connects to other ideas of…

For almost every new generation conflict arises over the ideologies of the past generation. Young people feel driven to rebel against the traditions that their elders desire to keep. This gap arises due to changes in society giving the newer generation a different mindset. For example, the technological revolution created a large generational gap between those who grew up with easy access to information and those who did not. In Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying this divide is apparent…

characters as the fat children but later changed his eating habits which in turn changed his fat content. The other literary device used is the antithesis where the author uses the fast food industry and the tobacco industry to bring out the devastating effect that the society well faces when the necessary safety percussions are not taken into considerations. Antithesis also is used to bring the vivid picture of yet another fact that the government will experience as the fast food companies…

The purpose of Cassirer’s writing of “The Myth of the State” is to clarify how myth was able to capture great significance in the political discourse and thought from Europe and particularly from Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. Needless to say, this occurrence was not an accidental one according to Cassirer. He affirms that myth is not a clump of mistakes, but a way of thinking and symbolizing which remains at the origin of human culture. Cassirer’s own conclusion on myth may…

Sports debate is a hobby that I am most passionate for. A reason I am so fond of this hobby is because it includes two of my favorite things: sports and arguing. I constantly find myself tuning into ESPN to watch ESPN first take or Fox Sports to watch Undisputed. These two sports debate shows take up most of most mornings as I would sit watching the art of oration between two well prepared candidates. Unlike sports debate, writing papers was not one of my hobbies. In fact my mindset towards…

Its most notable use was to emphasize the dichotomy between freedom, represented by the United States, and communism, represented by the Soviet Union. By using antithesis, he emphasized not only the disparity in the morals that existed between United States and the Soviet Union, but also the idea of the United States’ moral superiority. He mentions that the struggle is not only defending freedoms against tyranny…