Literary devices

Theme By Kassie Rain. It's always raining. That's the problem in the story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury. In the setting, Venus, no one ever sees even a glimpse of sunlight. But, finally there is a chance! For the first time in seven years, the rain is going away. Everyone is excited and waiting. Even a frail girl named Margot. Margot is the only kid in her class that knows what the sun looks like. She is the only one that knows what it feels like, what it is like, and her classmates…

After seeing the title Slam, Dunk, & Hook I interpreted it as suspenseful remarks within the sport of basketball. Usually slam dunk has no comma to separate it. However, within this title, it is separated with a comma, which provided emphasis on what the poem was going to be about. In other words, the speaker along with his teammates conquer obstacles, regarding basketball, which gave them motivation to push themselves. Within the introduction of the poem, a connotation is made. According…

In the poem “Lineage,” the speaker alludes to the fact that her ancestors were involved in slavery by using the line, “They moved through fields sowing seed.” (Ln 3). After specifying all of the hard tasks that her grandmothers have done, the speaker ends with the rhetorical question,“Why am I not as they?” (Ln 12). The theme expressed throughout the poem is that being strong means to stay positive through tough times. In the poem, Margaret writes, “They were full of sturdiness and singing.”…

Throughout literature, authors have used multiple literary devices to convey messages about their writings to the audience. From speeches and essays to poems and stories, literary devices have been used throughout multiple works of literature to emphasize the author’s points and provoke thought and feedback from the audience concerning the piece; by helping the readers appreciate, learn, analyze and understand pieces of literature more in depth. One literary device that attributes to this is…

Literary devices are commonly used in poems and in stories to express a simple idea in a more complex and interesting manner. Patricia Smith uses theme, tone, and imagery in “Scribe” to tell her poem in the perspective of a mother speaking of her incarcerated son. In the poem the protagonist is a single black mother speaking of her son who’s gained the nickname scribe (the title of the poem) for his poems and love letters. “Scribe” writes for his inmates so they are able to send letters to…

Dransfield, develops the idea of how the careless activities of human beings mistreats the Earth’s natural resources and how the Earth still supports everything, regardless on how it is being treated. The poem “Prosperity” focuses on many different literary devices to enhance the reader’s understanding of…

Within “Sex Without Love” Sharon Olds uses questions formed within the poem and answers the questions with literary devices. The meaning behind is done with average everyday things like babies and ice skating. To start the poem Olds uses the question “How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?” The answer to the question is a simile comparing making love to ice skating, which we can think of ice skaters preforming a routine. The routine is usually very graceful and beautiful, the…

Kennedy choice of literary devices strongly transitioned his speech into a memorable set of sincere words that intended to set new standards and expectations for the country. With the election occurring these days, it is visible that our country is very divided amongst us. Looking…

Khensane Mawela MYP English 10F Mrs. Jennifer Hunter 08 December 2015 Literary Analysis of Night by Elie Wiesel Horrific events like the Holocaust need to be remembered as long as history doesn’t find a way of repeating itself. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, 12 year old Eliezer has been removed from the house he grew up in, in Transylvanian town, to ghettos and different concentration camps. Eliezer’s story takes place in Germany during the 1940s. In this autobiography, Eliezer’s character is…

To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Devices Racism is still a problem in 2017 but not as bad as it was in the 1930’s. To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper was published in the 1960’s and tells the story of bigotry in Maycomb County, Alabama, in the 1930’s. The story is told by young Scout, the daughter of attorney Atticus Finch. Scout witness’s bigotry and racism when Tom Robinson, an African- American, is accused of rape. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses the literary devices of irony, hyperbole,…