Assonance

LANGUAGE AND ITS ROLE IN FANTASY LITERATURE The fantasy genre is distinctive due to its freedom of expression – the entirely independent framework of story and its style of writing. It has the ability to take people into an alternate universe via a portal or immerse them in a completely different world. These worlds are characterised as unique and separate from us due to the unfamiliar lands, mystical culture and history of the characters in the story which is brought to us by the use of a…

4. Roger McGough (9th November 1937) Roger McGough is the second of the three authors featured in The Mersey Sound. Described by Carol Ann Duffy as "the patron saint of poetry", he is arguably the most famous of the Liverpool poets. His unpretentious yet subtle poems characteristically address everyday concerns through supple rhyme and dextrous wordplay. 4.1. Biographical notes and main works4 Born on the outskirts of Liverpool in 1937, Roger McGough studied Geography and French at the…

“The poetry of The Tower period is rich because of the fullness of Yeats's life, because his style was reaching maturity at the same time as his life.”(p.193) This is how A. Norman Jeffares describes the poetry of The Tower in his book W.B. Yeats, Man and Poet. William Butler Yeats, an Anglo-Irish poet wrote the poems from The Tower between 1912 and 1927 and the collection was published in 1928. Most of these poems have a common theme: violence. Indeed, they were written during a difficult and…

content of the book. It is language features for any complete story. Vocabulary is one of the major issues in language. It is the recurring word or the types of words used in the book. A writer may choose words for the way they sound which is a use of assonance. Beverly Hills one night passed together with his wife walking like a dog. It is the combination of smooth, calm sounds or words to create a conducive effect which will make sense in the sentence. Writers usually apply verbs in very many…

Written in the first person from the standpoint of one of the soldiers, the first stanza expresses the idea that the two men who fought would, had they in other circumstances met each other outside a pub, have enjoyed a few drinks ('right many a nipperkin') together. Yet it becomes clear in the second stanza that they in fact met as foot soldiers on opposing sides in a battle, and being confronted with each other, one had to die. The two men shot at each other, and the narrator's shot fatally…

Texas Poetry in the High School Classroom This semester, I had the unique opportunity to implement the Texas Poet Laureate Series into the English curriculum at Lone Oak High School. I teach 10th grade English, and a portion of the objectives call for the students to be exposed to poetic devices and figurative language. So, I thought that introducing the Texas Poet Laurette series would not only cover those objectives, but will capture the attention of my students. Lone Oak ISD is a…

Hughes’ work has drawn up the old battle lines of poetic engagement between those who trust fictions of the everyday world and those who have been visited by truths unavailable to ordinary, jaded senses. It is important to analyze the poet’s own subjective relationship to his writing and the problems this presents to the reader. The dramatic relationship between two narrative voices1 – self and senses, body and spirit- which is typical of Hughes’ work, rests upon existential questions. The…

1. Upton Sinclair was called a "muckraker." How did Sinclair "muckrake" for social reform? Upton Sinclair “muckrake” for social reform, by reporting the horrible conditions women, men, and children were working in, he dedicated himself to uncovering the ill conditions of the meat industries. 2. Sinclair was convinced ".... through art one could cause change." What was established as a direct result of the public outcry from this novel? Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” which opened the public eyes…

269-74]; Näsif [14, p. 21]; Ibn Qutaybah [15, p. 10]; Ibn Färis [16, pp. 177-8]; Al-Jubouri [12, pp. 99-117]; Koch [17]; and Tytler [18]. According to Al-Mulla [19, p. 232] quoted from Al-Maydani, pp. 99-108 on Ibn Qayyim, pp. 159-167: “Ibn Qayyim identifies three types of Repetition in the Qur’an: Repetition with similarity of meaning e.g. Q74:19-20. Repetition with difference of meaning e.g. Q3:7. Repetition of meaning with different wording e.g. Q55:68.” (2) Ibn Qutaybah [15, p. 183]; and Abu…