Assonance

1 Communication changes us in many ways, it helps us resolve conflict, state our opinion, and it helps with our mental health. The way it helps us resolve conflict is by allowing us to openly talk about the issues we have with whoever/whatever is causing the conflict to occur, this allows us to find a way to resolve the issue and move forward. By stating our opinion, we can give others ideas on a task at hand, or just being openly creative. The way it helps with out mental health is it lets us…

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 burning, fighting…

Psychotic Stories and Petrifying Poems Edgar Allan Poe is a very famous author most known for his horror stories. There are many similarities and differences within his three most popular works: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Raven. Poe had a very dysfunctional childhood; his mother died and his father left him at a young age. He moved into a foster family, but he didn't get along with his dad and got kicked out. This was his motive to write such morbid and depressing…

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…

1. In this ode, Neruda includes similes. For example, “it’s as soft as woman’s hip” (Neruda 17). A simile is a comparison using the words “like” or “as”. Similes create imagery, so that the reader can better understand an object or a character. In this situation, Neruda is comparing an unidentified object he’s touching to the softness of a woman’s hip. Another poetic device he uses in this ode is repetition. For instance, “I love cups, rings, and bowls…I love all things…I love all things”…

Readers are also able to vision how Jeremy sounds with mention of his loud squawking an example of onomatopoeia and an exclamation mark placed at the end of that sentence, further emphasises how noisy the character is, an example of a hyperbole. Assonance in the repetition of the phonemes in ‘at night he liked’ (Faille, 2013, p. 12) and in ‘Jeremy’s new feathers’ (Faille, 2013, p. 16) add musicality to the words whilst lexical cohesion is evident when discussing the appearance of Jeremy,…

use different figurative language. While one strongly relies on metaphors , the other one uses simpler language to achieve its purpose. Another difference between these works is the poetic devices they use. “Bowery Blues” has a strong rhythm, uses assonance, an almost sonnet-like structure. “I too”, because of its attempt to be a universal poem, a poem all African Americans can relate to, has a more prose-like structure. These two classic works have different subject matter, use different…

John Keats has a standard of his poems: ”Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” This standard is something that he strived to accomplish throughout his life. He was born October 31, 1795 and was the oldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats four children. Keats passed away on February 23, 1821 at the age of 25, from tuberculosis. His father, who was a stable-keeper, died when Keats was 8. Soon thereafter, his mother…

instrument and began to sing songs of love. The Trouveres of Northern France influenced War poetry, allegory became a popular sub generic form, and the lyric and the Romance which started being penned brought out the best of the French rhyme and assonance which became the new mode for expression of poetic ideas. In short, the Norman Conquest replaced the sinister and melancholic psycho sphere of English with the clear blue sky of the French counter-part, decked with glamour and vitality of…

In Jane Kenyon’s poem, “Otherwise” the day is described is a mundane, yet amazing, experience. She explains the day from when she gets up in the morning until she is laid to rest in the evening. Although the day is described simplistically, the poet hones in on the fact that the day could have been far worse with the repetition of the word, “otherwise”. Kenyon uses multiple forms of symbolism and imagery in her poem to give the words vivacity. Yet, she uses language that is deliberately simple…