Literary consonance

Onika Tanya Maraj, who is famously known as Nicki Minaj, was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to New York with her family at the age of five. Her father also lived with her who was a severe drug addict and had a very violent past. He even attempted to kill Nicki’s mother by setting fire to the family house but it failed. After all the struggle she has been through, she said in an interview, “I've always had this female empowerment thing in the back of my mind because I wanted my mother to…

lavish behavior, which revolve around the ideals of the American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby poses the themes of the American Dream such as the pursuit of happiness, prosperity, and equality through his use of rhetorical language and literary devices, which is supported and analyzed by various criticisms of his…

Since my high school Creative Writing class will be an elective class that will consist of students in tenth through twelfth grade, I will need to find ways to bring student fun into the learning as much as possible. I have found that students love to eat and socialize, so I will include food, props, and games whenever possible. Difficulty will occur as the norm for class size at my school is thirty-two to thirty-six students, and not all students want to be in the classes where they are…

Oftentimes we view our pasts with regret. We feel as though we were oblivious to different ideas and if we had known then what we know now, our lives back then would have been different. As we mature and grow older, our view of the world is changed through experience and gaining wisdom. In "Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden, the speaker is a grown man reflecting on his past self and his indifference toward his father when he was a child. Now that he is an adult, the speaker has come to…

nothing but manipulative snakes, working for the devil. Similarly, in Anthem for Doomed Youth, Owen’s use of consonance through the ‘T’ sound, which creates the illusion of a gun firing, ‘Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/ Can patter…’, increases the intensity of the poem, placing the reader into a war zone situation. This highlights Owen’s work as valuable, as he has used literary techniques to convey realistic imagery of WW1, as well as combining his own personal opinions. The reader’s…

Karl Beck son and Arthur Gang define the term “Synaethesia” as the intermingling of sensations; the sensing for example of certain sounds through colors or odors .(Beck son and Ganz,209) .Fogle , while amplifying Professor June E. Downey”s concept of synasthesia ,hints at the possibility of visual participation in some of the sensation clusters concerned : “ The function of all poetic imagery is to order ,relate, and unify desperate modes of physical, mental and emotional experience…