Assonance

The Major Effect of Literary Devices “God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia.” ( Lauren F. Winner ) as did William Golding with maximum effectiveness in his classic novel Lord of The Flies . Golding exhibited symbolism effectively with the use of the society of the boys and relating that to the real world and again when he relates savagery and inner demons to ‘the beast’. Golding displayed a vibrant use of imagery when,…

experiences like isolation. The fact that he is trying to make friends with a snowman shows his severe desperateness and also the fact that he can relate with the snowman is just sad. There is an internal rhyme in the quote, “slice of ice”. The assonance in the quote creates a gradual melodic sound because of the way you say it, this adds to the sinister comparison. The comparison of him and the snowman displays his lack of compassion but also his intense loneliness. The snowman also reflects…

brutality of abusive relationships. Use of onomatopoeia with the words, “jammed”, “smashed” and “slashed”, contrasts with Wright’s typified amorous relationships. In Woman to Man, Wright highlights a couple’s passionate and reciprocated love through the assonance of words, such as “chase” and “embrace”, to generate a gentle and romantic sound. Contrary to Wright, Goodfellow shocks the audience through black humour. The line, “while friends got diamond rings/ … she got black ones”,…

After reading, “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God,” by Jonathan Edwards and “The Minister’s Black Veil,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne it is shown that these stories share a common theme. Although the stories share a common theme they also have contrasting themes as well. Authors can make a story more effective by their style. Edwards style makes his story more effective than Hawthorne by using various types of rhetorical devices to elaborate on tone and create a visual of what is happening. Compare…

The tone right here is desperate pleading because the speaker urges his father no longer "to move gently into that appropriate night" however to "rage, rage towards the demise of the light." We recognize that up to this point the speaker has been giving examples of numerous varieties of guys--smart guys, top guys, grave men, wild men--all of whom refuse to believe that their lives have reached achievement and finishing touch. Those examples are all used to persuade the speaker 's father that…

of the poem depicts the frenzied nature of warfare, evidenced by the lack of a linear feature to the poem. Nevertheless, this poem does contain meaningful cadences. The author utilizes the metrical elements of partial and full rhyme, as well as assonance, in order to add a deeper meaning to the imagery within and create a natural cadence which draws readers in as in the case of “black/flak, hose/froze, and nightmare/fighters” (2-5). These elements emphasize the distinct aspects of the gunner’s…

questioning life itself. His lack of powerful imagery by the use of words, only serves to highlight his patients plight, which is being put across as a lack of hope and a quiet resignation towards life itself. In the first stanza, Owens use of assonance such as 'whispering' and 'sleep' demonstrates sounds that give the poem a quiet tone as if the reader is whispering; there are no pleas to the lord or anyone else for that matter. Also, the lack of physical and horrific visualisation…

Frank O 'Hara 's "The Day Lady Died" is an elegy centering around the day of O 'Hara, leading up to his discovery of the death of singer Billie Holiday. This poem is unlike most in that it lacks figurative language throughout. O’Hara’s poem uses what seems almost like a bulletin, with every one of his actions being listed. He includes every detail of his day from the time he completed an action up to the people he interacted with along the way. On the surface, all of these things seem to be…

multiple times such as ‘someone rapping, rapping at my chamber door.’ There is also an amount of personification throughout the story such as ‘The rustling of the curtains sounds sad’ as if the curtains themselves share the misery of the narrator. The Assonance, which is the repetition of a sound of a vowel across multiple words like terrors never felt before. Lastly there is Figurative Language such as when ‘…my soul grew stronger…’ doesn’t mean that his soul became beefy it just means that he…

Throughout the poem “Alone” by Maya Angelou, the speaker implies that no one can last long in the world with no one on his or her side. The poem starts off as the speaker yearns for a home where she can quench her thirst and where food is always offered, then soon realises that she and everyone who is on their own cannot live with joy for long, since time will soon leave that joy behind. Even the rich, who have all the wealth in the world, cannot survive alone, as happiness is an emotion…