Literary devices

would be a lot different than it is today. In “Human Family” by Maya Angelou and “Remember” by Joy Harjo, both poets use personification, hyperboles, and repetition, to show that everything is related in some way. Personification is one major poetic device both poets used in their poems. In “Human Family”, by Maya Angelou, she exhibits that “The variety of our skin tones/can confuse, bemuse, delight” (Angelou 9-10). When she expressed that, she was referring to how every skin tone is different,…

definitivo’ by Juan Ramón Jiménez and ‘En que da moral censura a una Rosa y en ella a sus semejantes’ by Juana Inés de la Cruz, communicate the poets cynical feelings towards the brevity of life. Whilst both poets share one theme, they do not share literary intention, and each poem is able to communicate a different message and meaning. Nature is used in each poem in order to further display their pessimistic views, as well as an interesting choice of language and structure in order to take the…

the rug. With all of this coming to a close, with the savage white folks beating and humiliating the young black schoolboys they are told to leave with the money collected. Finally the moment he has been waiting for, he is giving the opportunity to give his speech, with his face black and blue and the blood filling his throat he is able to put it all away and deliver his speech but in giving it the men all are laughing and carrying on in conversation among themselves. They mock him at…

apparent rhyme schemes or rhythm. There are two characters in this poem, a mother and her son. The vernacular makes it seem like the mother is uneducated and is/was apart of the lower class based upon the information given. The depiction of the rhetoric device, anaphora, is shown with the word “And” at the beginning of several of the lines. The tone of the poem is very heartening, encouraging, and positive. The poem is about a mother giving advice to her son about not giving up and to keep…

The tale of a lost poet Dickinson tells a story in stanzas of a world too big for her, a world to complicated and chaotic. The choice to have her herself locked up in her own and made world of darkness and simplicity. One that goes with her personality. For her way of explaining this is through poems. That tell darkness as home and the light that is seen as a living nightmare that she experienced for herself. Emily Dickinson tells that she likes to experience the world through her eyes and that…

Gender, age, and status were just a few of the things that played a role in the tough life of Abigail Williams; a life that though unknowingly, fostered a continued growth of hatred and anger inside of her. And it was Abigail 's ascension to power that put her in a position to act on that anger. What may have started as a small lover 's quarrel between her, Proctor, and Elizabeth quickly grew to massive proportions with the witch trials. And Abigail, being as perceptive as she was, did not…

A former sergeant in the army and a writer, Tim O’Brien, in his short story, “The Things They Carried,” examines the experiences of Vietnam soldiers in combat and how tangible --but most importantly, intangible – burdens affect them. O’Brien seeks to inform people who have not participated in a war about physical and mental difficulties that can affect humans in their journey during battle, and how these distractions create chaos. O’Brien’s piece is not narrated chronologically from the…

person only cares about his or her own wants. Although sometimes one makes decisions for their family for their own good, taking it too far can end up with someone being killed. This is shown in the short story Button, Button through the conflict devices man vs. man, man vs. self, and man vs. technology. A person being selfish hurts the people they love. A person in the story being selfish hurt the people they loved. Norma continued to argue with Arthur about the button, causing a rift in their…

Six million Jews were murdered in the genocide by the Nazis during WWII. This was known as the Holocaust, and it is considered so horrible that it is unspeakable. But how would one portray this to future generations to prevent it from happening again if it is unspeakable, how does one describe something to people who can't ever imagine it? You can describe it through three techniques; pictures, repetition, and the need of new words. Although pictures can do so much, it can say the unspeakable…

edge of their seat with the use of foreshadowing and by using effective literary devices used to make the story more engaging author Louise Erdrich has written a stunning story…