Literary devices

I would like to retake the LIterary Devices Quiz because I did not make the grade I would have wanted to make on the first time it was offered. I would like to retry taking this quiz to make a better grade and to boost my average in this class, I am not a good English test take in the first place which is why I think I struggled with these words and the quiz in general. I think next quiz I should start studying more in advance to make sure I will have plenty of time to study and to prepare for…

of love that you would travel around the world for. Khalid is able to express this feeling with a lot of symbolism. He really tells us about how he feels in this song. The theme of this song is done through five literary devices. Khalid mostly shows these literary devices through symbolism. First off Khalid says “At times I wonder why I fool with you/ But this is new to me, this is new to you” tells us that they are both new to this but she is messing around and he wonders why he stays…

connects this issue of drugs to society, and how we can make people feel unwanted, forcing them to turn to drugs. Using many clever literary devices, this song tells a story about a person who feels neglected by society and turns to drugs for solace. It shows the reality of the issue of drug abuse and connects to how other people treat drug addicts. Literary devices help a person to visualize a statement, as well as making them think. Writing everything literally would make things…

Paine, and Thomas Jefferson, showed their displeasure of the British through literature. Their writings influenced and convinced the people to revolt against England through use of literary and argumentative devices. To make their writings more effective, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson all use literary…

reader see how much has changed throughout the passing of time. The most alliteration in one line occurs in line fourteen to stress the important message that he is trying to get across, which is to love others while they are still alive. This literary device, along with the rhyme scheme, not only make sonnet 73 easy to follow, but also contributes to the poem’s ongoing…

by emphasizing the survival of humanity through the needs of the object, the importance of literary devices, and by revolving around the life and past experiences of the author to the connection of the figure. Throughout the two poems, the author displays his argument by displaying the spacing in each stanza, emphasizing the value and need of a figurative object, and parading the usage of literary devices. In both…

Maddie Hunt Humes (8) AP English 11 29 March 2016 Claudius’ Manipulation of the People through the Use of Literary Devices Shakespeare’s Hamlet is an original play set in the ancient kingdom of Denmark and is known today as a backbone to American literature. The play is centered around Hamlet, a young, handsome prince, seeking revenge on his newly found stepfather, who also happens to be his uncle. Hamlet’s real father, King Hamlet, dies unexpectedly, leaving his son grief stricken. Days…

named Pip. When the novel begins, Pip encounters a convict named Magwitch while visiting the graves of his family. Magwitch scares Pip into giving him some food and a file to release himself from the shackles on his leg. Dickens uses several literary devices such as imagery, style, and point of view to recreate this scene in the readers mind. One important aspect of how Dickens develops and portrays his characters is imagery. From the passage, the reader can infer that Magwitch is an escaped…

living, and Langston Hughes was one of those people. The poem talks about Langston Hughes going through hard times and wanting to give up because thing we're getting really rough for him, but he preservers and decides to keep going. This poem uses literary devices such as repetition and verbal irony. In Langston Hughes poem life is fine he highlights repetition and verbal irony to get his point across. Hughes uses repetition in a way to give us an image of what he wants us to know. He…

Expressing Communication Through Literary Devices in “Araby,” “Why I Live at the P.O,” and “Hills Like White Elephants Authors use literary devices in order to convey a certain attitude, feeling, or meaning to the story. Literary devices, when used effectively, create layers and intricacies to stories that not only make the stories more interesting, but also give the stories much more depth that can be studied. James Joyce’s “Araby,” Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and Ernest…