Metonymy

how it was cut at random. Frost also uses alliteration of the s sound suggests a snakelike quality, which indicates that danger was lurking throughout the poem. Frost used the symbol of dark ether to signify that death was imminent. He also used metonymy “The life from spilling” being a substitution for bleeding out, “Leaped out at the boy’s hand” for the action that took the boy’s hand, and “child at heart” meaning a person with childlike qualities. Frost also enjoyed referencing Shakespeare…

INTRODUCTION Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. - Noam Chomsky Chomsky’s quote designates language, but it can also be redirected towards the use of Stylistic Devices, otherwise known as figurative language. These “devices”, have some fixed rules or one may say formulae by the means…

Ophelia’s death, Laertes says, Quote “And therefore I forbid my tears. But yet/ It is our trick; nature her custom holds,/ Let shame say what it will. When these are gone,/ The woman will be out” (IV. vii. 100). Analysis Here, through using a metonymy appropriate to his own views, Laertes suggests that crying for a loved one is a sign of weakness; therefore, it is a feminine trait. He says after he is done crying “the woman will be out,” substituting the phrase “weakness” or “frailty,” with…

Death As Inevitability In ‘Totem’ Plath once described this poem as “a pile of interconnected images like a totem pole” (Padel, 2013). Even the title resounds a spiritual significance. A totem is kinship related, and the interconnected images that compose the poetic totem explore an almost ritual, visceral blood relationship to death in which all life forms are implicated. Life, thus, is adopted as an emblem for death. Plath’s Totem is in fact a culmination of her fatalistic attitude, the…

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is, at its core, a call to awareness for pressing social injustices, as well as a criticism on how various communities combat those injustices. Through the use of clever symbolism and equivocal character names, Morrison explores central themes of societal and emotional neglect, the needs of minority groups, and violence as a means of resistance. The characters of Hagar and Guitar are both representative of those themes. Though their justifications and actions may…

The depth of the unconscious are an unexplored area of the mind that much is not known of. Freud attempted to crack the puzzle with this theory on the Id and its control over the majority of the unconscious mind. In Freud’s eyes, the Id is an incredible, sophisticated line of thinking riddled with complexity and unique abilities such as dream equating. Hall describes Freud’s idea of the id as a “demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, and pleasure-loving [character]”, which “retains…

In the poem, “The Battle of Maldon,” an anonymous poet describes a fearsome battle between the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons. Told entirely from the English perspective, the poem sings countless praises of the Anglo-Saxons, depicting them as heroes commanding their souls to God and sacrificing themselves to advance a greater cause. The speaker depicts war as a heroic endeavor, begetting camaraderie, bravery, loyalty, and perseverance. Soldiers are passionate about the cause, fighting for romantic…

not go like a gentleman, look foolish and ungentlemanly if you would, by do not accept it. This message is contrary to the common association of a peaceful death. The phrase ‘old age’ is also a personification that could also be interpreted as a metonymy for his father. “Burn and rave” are intense expressions of life, light and brightness, which insinuates that old men should be…

Enter. look at mirror and touch your face and pull your skin. I have been looking at myself in this small silver mirror, so much that I think it is a part of me. I sit in front of it in the powder room every day, gazing into a blank expression. I stare and see this woman, this woman who once held beauty and eyes full of mystery and secrets. But every single day it is fading, the beauty is fading, the eyes, which were once so full of emotion, are fading. I am becoming dull and lifeless, day by…

Analysis of: “Their Finest Hour” by Winston Churchill A. 10 forms of rhetoric in the speech i) Metonymy: “We have under arms at the present time in this Island over a million and a quarter men.” Winston Churchill substitutes the Island of Great Britain with the word Island, acting as a figure of speech that means the same thing. ii) Connotation: “If Hitler can bring under his despotic control the industries of the countries he has conquered...” By referring to Hitler's control as being…