Literary devices

William Shakespeare uses a lot of literary devices throughout the text to generate the tone of the soliloquy in act 1, scene 7. In this scene, a lot of thoughts are going through Macbeth’s mind as he is trying to look at both sides of the deed he is going to perform. He wants to be the the king, but is afraid of the punishment of the crime. Shakespeare makes the audience aware of Macbeth’s struggle and confusion by using a lot of metaphors and similes. In the metaphor, “if assassination could…

person that is saying the quote here is Macbeth and he is talking to Angus and Ross. As Macbeth still thinks that the current Thane of Cawdor at the time was alive, he asks Angus and Ross why he was named the Thane of Cawdor. There are numerous literary devices associated with this quote with the obvious being the use of metaphor; however, more specifically, metonymy is used since the “robes” can be related with the Thane. Alliteration is also used with the first words “The” and “Thane”. There…

these lines.“Feel like hoppin’ on a flight(on a flight)/Back to my hometown tonight (town tonight)/Something stops me every time (every time)/The DJ plays my song and I feel alright”. The theme of the song is revealed through countless different literary devices.The first few lines, Miley Cyrus write ¨I hopped off the plane at L.A.X/ With my dream and a Cardigan/ Welcome to the land of fame excess/Am I gonna fit in?¨. In these first few lines it explains how even though…

This scene illustrates to us just how safe he feels at home and that he requires exceptional bravado, wiliness and courage to overcome his greatest fears. Silvey has used the literary devices symbolism, diction, metaphor and awed tone. The quote that shows Charlies character development is pg. 2 “"Something invisible tugs at my legs. This is the first time I 've ever dared to sneak away from home". This quote is the first part in…

The literary devices that are used in the poet are tone, imagery, and theme. The mother is talking to her son about the situation of him joining the army, where the son may have read a book about recruitment on young boys for the army. But, what the son does not know is that maybe the mother has experienced a war environment. She does not want to see her son go through what she went through. After all the reading he had done, he finally puts down the book and announced with pride that he will…

skillful manipulation of the Roman plebeians to believe that he had good and noble reasons to assassinated Caesar by using persuasive appeals such as the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Brutus precisely crafted his speech using a plethora amount of literary devices such as parallelism and rhetorical questions in order to reinforce his credibility in front…

inevitable to beat death. That is why we are told to live life to the fullest because we never know when our time is up. Our Town is a play in three acts by Thornton Wilder that portrays this way of life. Wilder expertly utilizes the setting and literary devices to show that humans should appreciate the beautiful transient life one is given. The whole play is basically structured in three days. Thornton begins the play at the crack of dawn when everyone is waking up and concludes it with the…

creatures such as the rhino by blood thirsty poachers. There are grave consequences to manipulating nature in a selfish way as opposed to working with her. Shelley reinforces this Romantic idea of nature over man in the above passage through the literary elements of diction, enjambment and the technique of irony. The diction Shelley employs contributes immensely to the atmosphere of the passage, specifically through the word choice in line 12, alliteration in line 13, and…

air is taken for granted and how we must change our ways if we want to continue to have this precious “substance” (Suzuki pg. 54). Suzuki creates a compelling piece about air by using a very influential writing strategy. He uses three common literary devices to make his factual article sound poetic; Suzuki uses many moving metaphors, alliterations and personifications within his work and it has various advantages, as well as teachings. Suzuki creates poetic images and phrases by using…

his life and take the throne back. In act 5, scene 5, Macbeth is starting to realize that the end of his life is about to come. Shakespeare uses a Soliloquy to explain some of the final thought of Macbeth. ”Soliloquy, the speech by a character in a literary composition, usually a play, delivered while the speaker is either alone addressing…