Metonymy

Thatcher effectively persuades her audience of former president Ronald Reagan's impressive legacy. Through the use of numerous literary devices, an anecdote and a convincing tone, Thatcher brings forth the impactful events that Reagan caused and instills an atmosphere of unity within the American people. Within her eulogy, Thatcher utilizes a plethora of literary devices to conclude the success of Reagan’s presidency. The first sentence includes an anaphora, as Thatcher repeats “great” to…

Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”: Marry to the Death Death is the eternal theme of a poem which is the coexistence of love. It is the outcome of the life that everybody can 't get rid of. People the "death" to give the imagination, all kinds of stories about ghosts and legends is also due to the fear of dead, and most of the poems of the description of "death" is the awful fear and ghastly, but Emily Dickinson is different. Dickinson is the United States in…

Appreciation is predominantly given to poets before the 20th century because more research and analysis has been conducted on their poetry. One exception to this is Theodore Roethke; a poet who lived from 1908 to 1968. Growing up, Roethke had a fascination with nature which would lead to his excessive use of nature as a means of communicating his ideas on human experience and existence in his poetry. When Roethke was 14, his father died of cancer and his uncle committed suicide; this contributed…

Child labor, seen today as frighteningly atrocious, was prevalent during the early 20th century, and the lack of empathy among the people at the time are exemplified throughout Kelley’s piece. Fueled by humankind’s innate greed for money, and thus, the recruitment of these children and it’s obvious selfish needs was illuminated by Kelley as she exposed the wrong-doings of the everyday people through her use of first person point of view. Moreover, the aforementioned lack of empathy associated…

deception and to revive the original spirit of the Socialist movement” (132). Animal Farm when viewed through the discourse of mimicry, a liberated society appears to succumb to those leaders and their strategic invention of a copy of ideological metonymy of the same liberation that helped them imagine the very reality of animal farm in the first…

ideal of the certainty in the world. Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is about starting a coal furnace on a cold morning and shining a pair of shoes, but the son’s regret that he never took the time to thank his father. Hayden used metonymy as a substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant. It details the father’s tireless efforts at providing for his family with little regard for himself. Hayden presented the memories of how his father helped…

Expertly Scaring the Readers:Hhow James and Jackson Make Hauntings Scary If The Babadook took place in a lively, brightly-colored house over several sunny afternoons, the effect would not have been scary - humorous or ironic, but not terrifying. Hauntings and other supernatural phenomenon depend on the environment they take place in just as much as they depend on the actual horrific event happening. In addition, the presence of other characters during the haunting can determine how…

The Coen Brother’s, Inside Llewyn Davis presents a new perspective of the American Nightmare for Llewyn after the death his parter informs his new perspective of his personal American Dream. Through the use of visual techniques the Coen Brothers reveal how Llewyn’s past is corrupting his future. The brothers strove to create an image with limited contrast and a wide palette of gray tones whilst maintaining firm grasp on contrast ratios in interiors and exteriors. Ethan stated that the goal was…

the “5 percenters”, which originated from the U.S. (Nation of Islam). Essentially, these rhymes convey the “black bodies” and how they endure significant hardship, while committing sins such as stealing, killing, or drug dealing. Line 4 contains a metonymy: ‘some are sitting in San Quentin’ stands for the friends he’s lost in prison, as ‘San Quentin’ is referred to as the state prison in California. Line 6 contains personification: ‘schweppervescent street ghetto essence inside us’ stands…

However, in the poem written by Judith Wright and the song by Ed Sheeran both convincingly use figurative language to depict the meaning and emotions of the poem and song. The lyric “Metho Drinker” uses a variety of personification, metaphor and metonymy. In stanza 1, the poet uses personification writing that the homeless man ‘cried to Nothing.’ The poet personifies ‘Nothing’ showing that it is a person which is also indicated by using a capital ‘N.’ This further creates the idea of how real…