Metonymy

Biblical Poetic Readers: Learning How To Know God Can you live in the world, partake of the ways of the world, and yet please God? Psalm 1 is written by an anonymous psalmist, however, the reader can see the psalmist knows God, as well as understands that life without him is bleak. The Wisdom of the psalmist has shined through this Psalm to create this illustration of a wonderful wisdom psalm, perhaps through personal experience or sometime in his life, God revealed to him the importance of the…

human. On the other hand, as earlier stated it is impossible to rule over an animal using terror only kindness which is contrary to how the Soviet Party approached their rise to power. What the dog is fed, that is what it gives back as echoed in the metonymy of the gutter when the dog with “All the words he used, in the beginning, were gutter words. He heard them and stored them in his brain.” Bulgakov ends the novella with a…

The term Mimicry underlines the gap between the norm of civility presented by European Enlightenment and its colonial imitation in distorted form. .This notion is based on Foucault‘s term that was based on Kant‘s notion. Bhabha‘s term mimicry is a part of a larger concept of visualizing the postcolonial situation as a kind of binary opposition between authority and oppression, authorization and de-authorization. He states ahead that all modes of imposition including the demand on the colonized…

products that they would usually not consider buying. In 2013, women’s fashion and lifestyle magazines, Vogue and InStyle, showcased print advertisements of Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi respectively. Both Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi successfully utilize metonymy, symbolism, and simple images to appeal to consumers and to associate their products with weight loss…

the issue about the harsh treatment and the loss of Australia’s Indigenous ethnicity. It seems even though it was written in 1970, it still occurs today, as some people today judge others and place stereotypes on them because of their ethnicity. Metonymy is used in the poem to associate the word, “Firstborn” with Aboriginals, as they were the first settlers in Australia. The poem begins with a question, “Where are my firstborn?” By the end of the poem, the question is answered: “The answer is…

Analyzing “Upon The Burning of Our House” Anne Bradstreet 's "Upon The Burning of Our House" appears to be merely a poem expressing the author 's feelings toward her house 's destruction. Upon further analysis, Bradstreet cleverly used this opportunity to simultaneously address the decline of feminine respect in the Puritan community. In the title "Upon The Burning of Our House", Bradstreet chooses to use a plural possessive in front of the word “house”. While this could just mean the house is…

Emily Dickinson personified death in the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by representing death as a person. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me;” In this poem the speaker is communicating as someone who as seen both sides of life,the real life and after life. Because she could not stop for Death—“), death stops for her, hence it does what she could not do for death.. This deep thought that Death shows when it takes time for her enables her to think and gets…

Introduction One of the vital challenges which mankind has always faced is alienation. The nineteenth century gothic novels, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1845-46), artistically demonstrate the never ending cycle of being an outcast in society and share the common point in presenting the character’s sense of disjunction and alienation. Frankenstein is the petrifying account of a brute which was given life and fabricated by Victor Frankenstein and…

The general premise of the film Metropolis relies on the duality and segregation that causes tension within the film. The duality of the films animation style can suggest a metaphorical description of the separated society. This brewing tension within the story stems from reactionary circumstances due to causations of tyrannical government, militant and radical forces within the segregated city of Metropolis. Although there is an obvious wealth and power imbalance that separates the city from…

In this metonymy the license is tangible proof of success. But that also gives the license a sense of superficiality, as if to say that the science of dentistry is tedious. It is monotonous, they are, “ a clumsy sadist whose fillings fall into the stew”, these are…