Apostrophe

(19) Just like a mother, she worries for her offspring to get in the wrong hands or go into the wrong place without her knowledge. Another literary form expressed in this would be the use of symbolism. Symbolism is paired with personification and apostrophe and ties in with the main theme of mother and child relations. “Who after birth didst by my side remain” (2) which symbolizes the creation of the work. This can also be referred back to how a mother, after just giving birth, will try and…

captain. Whitman wrote this poem after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln shortly after the Civil War. The poem consists of many metaphors, imagery, figurative and literal language, symbolism, personification, alliteration, repetition, rhyme scheme, apostrophe, allusion, diction, and tone. “O Captain! My Captain!” is composed of many metaphors. A metaphor is a statement that one thing is something else, which, in literal sense, it is not. President Lincoln is the captain who has “fallen cold…

their chosen profession and to avoid to spending time on the Internet to engage with the world. Brokaw looked into the challenges and possibilities for communication, information retrieval, marketing and proselytizing. In his speech, he applies apostrophe, euphemism, connotation, anaphora, simile and appositive. He used these rhetorical devices in order to inform the audience of the positive and negative circumstances during the twentieth century like World War II and the Great Depression, but…

Edwards Essay Outline I. In “Sinners in the Hands of a Angry God”, Jonathan Edwards uses creative metaphors and methods of persuasion, as well as syntax in order to persuade his audience to constantly pray and repent their sins towards God. II. Edwards uses creative metaphors and methods of persuasion to lure his audience to constantly pray to God. A. For instance, in the fourth paragraph, Edwards states “The wrath of God is like the great waters that are dammed for the present” (Edwards). a.…

coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me"( Shakespeare 44). His pause creates a manipulative tone because he gives the people time to think and react to what he previously said. Another rhetorical device Antony uses is apostrophe, which is when you talk to something that is not present. An inflammatory tone is created when Antony says, "O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts"(Shakespeare 44). Antony speaks of judgment as if it is was a person and can hear him. The…

Sonnet 130 Have you ever read a poem and did not understand it, even after reading it over and over again? Authors use things such as figurative language in order for you to have to think to figure out the poem is saying. Knowing what figurative language is may help you figure out the poem. Figurative language is “used with a meaning that is different from the basic meaning and that expresses an idea in an interesting way by using language that usually describes something else.” (Merriam…

It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.” This apostrophe helps MLK show segregation from the African American’s point of view, by explaining how segregation damages them as people and makes them feel inferior while the caucasian people feel superior. By using this apostrophe MLK is able to bring guilt out of his audience since he is using the feelings of the African Americans to justify their acts of civil disobedience…

As far as I remembered, I always wanted to leave Vietnam. While I have deep love and respect for my country, I wanted to travel to somewhere, to see new things and meet new people to learn new culture and taste exotic foods. Seeing my interest for the foreign, my parents registered me to the bilingual program since primary school. The language I learned however wasn’t English, it was French. For ten years I learned French and for ten years I dreamed of living in France, studying at a Parisian…

(plural apostrophe) Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals the major theme of his novel that being genuine to oneself allows for true freedom, through his characterization of Dimmesdale. Hawthorne describes a healthy, strong version of Dimmesdale in the first few pages of the…

Allegory- a story, poem, or picture that the author may use as a double meaning to teach a lesson or moral. Ex: The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an allegory encouraging people to never give up even when things seem impossible. Allusion- a word or expression used to bring something to the reader's mind without actually saying the word or expression. Ex: In the teacher's speech there was an allusion to the Iliad. Analogy- comparing one thing to another. Ex: In James’s paper there…