Literary devices

we also see the father's indifferent tone, that conveys the strained relationship between the him and his son. While the son attempts to engage in a relaxed conversation, his father is emotionless to anything his son has to say. The author uses devices such as imagery, symbolism, metaphor, diction and point of view to convey the tense relationship between the father and son. Furthermore, we can see the difficulty of having…

Marge Piercy’s, The Secretary Chant, describes a woman feeling dehumanized by her job to the point where it consumes her and she becomes the lifeless, inanimate objects she works with. Piercy expresses the secretary’s emotions across in a somewhat humorous way using metaphors, onomatopoeia, and repetition. The whole poem is an extended metaphor comparing a secretary to the office supplies surrounding her. Her role as a human is belittled and she is reduced to functionaries, not seeing herself…

Looking around now, I see different things that affect how I feel. Seeing flowers might make me feel joyful, but when viewing old nails I don’t feel as nice inside. Walking around in the woods behind her house, Myop also has lovely feelings that inspire more adventure. The barbie doll loving narrator has many different feelings through out the short story. In the short stories “Flowers” and “Barbie-Q,” Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros both use imagery to create a specific mood. In “Flowers”…

Troy Maxson and Levee are both characters from August Wilson plays. Troy was the Character from Fences and Levee was the character from Ma Rainey’s black bottom. “Fences is a story of Troy Maxson and his family who struggle to cope with the changes” (BEŞE). In America, in the late 50s, August Wilson created these characters to reflect on how difficult things were for African American males and their families. Wilson also creates a narrative structure which dramatizes each character role in…

“The Fall of the House of Usher”, by Edgar Allan Poe incorporates a rhythmic and opulent writing style that swiftly draws the reader into its dark and horror-like atmosphere. The rhythmic style of the story may be seen in the first sentence of the story; as it says, “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day...when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone...through a singularly dreary tract of country…”. The first alliteration begins with the letter “D”…

“Mother to Son” is a poem by Langston Hughes. The poem was written in 1922. “Mother to Son” is about a mother who is telling her son that life isn’t easy; there are difficulties, but he has to keep moving forward. It tells us that sometimes life gets hard, but it’s harder if one gives up. There are bumps in the road of life. Langston Hughes uses symbolization, extended metaphor, and imagery in “Mother to Son” to illustrate that life is a difficult journey. In “Mother to Son,” symbolization…

Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, he uses many different topics and literary devices to convey to the reader social issues that are occurring in the 1930s and how they compare to the new society formed in the State World. Some of the elements that Huxley uses to describe the government control over the citizens by brainwashing and drug dependency are precise diction, vivid imagery, and figurative language. He then uses these devices to show the moral and cultural decay in the New World. The theme…

Literary Devices in “A Doll’s House” “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen is a modern drama set in a house in the suburbs of Norway during the upper eighteen hundreds. The story centers around a housewife name Nora Helmer and the difficulties Nora experiences living a life acceptable in the eyes of society. People associated with Nora that have an impactful effect on the story include: Torvald Helmer, Nora’s husband and a banker; Mrs. Kristine Linde, Nora’s longtime friend who just moved into town;…

The best chapter of any chapter in the House on Mango street is Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark. It is the perfect blend of nearly every single literary device and it shows insight into life itself.It gives us the feeling we all had as we had to be the so called parent in the situation not knowing what to do not knoing what to say. The chapter not only gives us that but it masks the true meaning of the chapter in symbolism of what our parents do for us and what we all know what will happen…

Clarity of how the poem is written helps the reader’s understanding of Dudley Randall’s “The Ballad of Birmingham,” which is based on the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. In this poem, a child asks her mother if she may go on a freedom march, which is known to be a dangerous event, and the mother says the child may not go but may, instead, go to church, a perceived safe haven. The church is then bombed and the little girl dies tragically. The reader is…