Metonymy

the time were unable to write the masterpiece without depiction of the elements of Gothic literature including the settings, dreams full of mysteries, serious cries to show the reality of the spoken time under the cover of humor, irony, sarcasm, metonymy. Especially short stories attracted the attention of majority people of the time with their powerful contents. One second lets imagine the general depiction of some Gothic elements in works: left, fearful, cold, dark, moss covered castles;…

Does People have free will to decide what they need in this lifetime or does rhetoric decide for mankind? Rhetoric for thousands of years has been the mind regulator when it comes to purchasing goods. According, to Aristotle rhetoric, is "the art of persuasion", that doesn't follow a set of rules likes other disciplines of the Arts. The definitions rhetoric opens to change when a spectator interprets the message. All things considered, the roles of mass media, subvert, and analyzing a…

Structurally, Blake composes the poem as a dramatic monologue utilizing an ABAB rhyme scheme and simple vocabulary. Much of the work uses an anapestic poetic meter, which is often characterized with childish cadence of literature. The composition therefore resembles perhaps a children’s hymn -- establishing the innocence of the boy which narrates it. Ergo, the very nature of youthful innocence is tied inextricably to the overall tone of the poem. Blake not only addresses the reader, but…

Robin Coste Lewis’ poem “From: To:” is English sonnet with 14 lines divided into quatrains and ending with two couplets. Lewis eschews the conventional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet and instead favors the use of enjambments to add nuance to the poem. The speaker of the poem is a narrator because they describe a marginalized group of people who are given temporary permission to have a voice. This is done through the use of poetic devices, imagery, and allusions to past outrages in order to…

November 21, 1898, the greatest surrealist painter to be was born in Lessines, Belgium. Rene Magritte was among the most important and well-known artists during the 20th century. He used very unique and intellectual techniques that not many understood but envied quite so. A vast majority of his paintings hold a mystery that is not the easiest to solve but is pleasing to the human eye. A painting of his that I personally saw at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas was an oil on canvas painting…

In “A Wall of Fire Rising” by Edwidge Danticat, throughout the story is rife with symbolism. Everything from the characters’ mannerisms to their actions they take throughout the story, and even the focal main character’s name to be interpreted as a form of symbolism. Even down to the name of the story could be of symbolic gesture of things to come in the story. When looking at the focal main character’s name, the one we get the best perspective from Guy. His name to be taken as several…

Growing up, Jean Toomer moved from all white to all black neighborhoods and shifted around all white and all black segregated schools. This gave Toomer a unique view of the world, fueling his ideas on racial equality. Toomer utilized his poetry as a way to express his feeling of racial equality and, became one of the most influential writers of the harlem renaissance. Jean collaborated with great reformers such as Alaine Locke, W.E.B. duBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen,…

Consequently, these western ideologies in the form of oral narratives are adopted by the tribes of the deep woods and are disseminated in the form of legends, fairy tales, bed time stories the inscription of which are found on the walls but regarded as inferior to the authenticity of Phantom’s precious library and all the relics collected by the Phantomic line down through the ages. The narrative myths, the folklores, the legends of the tribes become subservient to his narratorial authority,…

Keats and Blake alike are few in a long list of influential Romantic poets who defined a generation. Two of their poems, ‘To Autumn’ and ‘London’ respectively both share the similar quality of being ‘deceptively’ simple in structure, but strewed within their rigid and formulaic structure, are layers and layers of symbolism and allegory. Though at a first glance, there is quite a lot separating the two distinct poems, but as pieces of thought-provoking, and personal literature, how well do both…

Confirmation of “Daedalus and Icarus” by Facts from refutation Unclarity: King Midos treated Daedalus unfairly after he completed the maize for the king. Implausibility: Daedalus gathered all the materials that he needed for the construction of wings. Impossibility: Daedalus defied nature and flew upon the air. Inconsistency: Daedalus allowed his son to fly in the sky beside him. Impropriety: Icarus disobeyed his father. Inexpediency: Daedalus offered his wings to Apollo. Credit (Statement)…