Onomatopoeia

Yiluo Li HWL Ms. D’Eon 5 February 2015 Poetry Presentation Script Jessie Pope is an English poet, writer, and journalist. She is famous for her patriotic motivational poems during WWI. Starting from 1914, her poems were widely printed and published on Daily Mail, encouraging men and women to go to war. Her Pro-War attitude presented in poem also attracted some criticism, such a Wilfred Owen. Title is “A Humble Appeal” So the first time when I read it, I thought that this should be something…

Through their powerful renderings of war and politics, Niccolò Machiavelli's iconoclastic 1532 political treatise The Prince and Shakespeare's 1599 historical tragedy Julius Caesar mutually seek to explore the nature of human weakness. A manifestation of Machiavelli's radically realpolitik interpretation of Renaissance humanism, The Prince subverts the traditional Christian moral zeitgeist, redefining weakness in instrumental terms - that a leader's results are superior in importance to his…

Rabindranath Tagore is a very prominent name throughout the world and it is impossible to consider India's jewels without including a marvel like him. Born in Calcutta (7 May 1861- 7 August 1941), he considered himself a poet first before everything and thus the literary beauty Gitanjali is well justified to be affirmative of his poet prophet personality. He was a Bengali polymath with his interests lying in songs composition, poetry, paintings, sketches, etc. which left an indispensable mark on…

throughout the piece of work. One example of figure of speech he uses is metaphor. Dyer stated, “If I were a cat, each of these incidents would have used up a life: three down, six to go” (Dyer). Another example of figure of speech that is used is onomatopoeia. He uses this form of figure speech when he said, “The crash of glass was unbelievable” (Dyer). He also uses personification in the essay. An example of personification that he uses is when he stated how both of their “fury turned into…

Rudyard Kipling’s “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is a short story from his The Jungle Book collection that tells the tale of a young mongoose adopted into a family of mother, father, and son Teddy. The mongoose, the titular character, is kept about the house in order to ward off or kill snakes that may harm the family. As the story develops, Rikki becomes increasingly human-like. Eventually, the denouement arrives as Rikki kills the two cobras that had become the central threat in the story. Both the…

I Learned I was a Phenomenal Woman Marguerite Johnson later known as Maya Angelou was born on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Marguerite Johnson was raised in St. Louis, Missouri as well as Stamps, Arkansas. According to her website, Stamps at the time that she was raised, was the frontier of the South during the 1930s and 1940s when Johnson was growing up, Stamps ran rampant with racial discrimination and physical brutality. Her grandmother from age 4 years old to 8 years old raised…

Wanderlust This poem primarily features a steady iambic tetrameter. It also possess several rhyming elements, such as assonance in lines 6 (“leave the phone and hit the road”) and 8 (“the sea we call routine”). The poem also uses alliteration, as in lines 9 and 10 (“gladly go across the globe, To glimpse the glory”) and slant rhyme in lines 2 and 4 (air, here) and lines 9 and 10 (globe, behold). The poem uses the repetition of “let’s” to signify the sense of urgency the narrator has Shanghai…

Splash! (☺ Onomatopoeia) After hearing this noise, Laura Blacklock (Lo) is absolutely convinced that it was a body hitting the cold, dark waves of the North Sea. She is sure that she is the witness of a murder aboard the opulent cruise ship, the Aurora Borealis, but the head of security on the ship, Johan Nilsson, has his doubts. In The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, Lo is on a mission to prove that there was a murder on the ship after she makes out a scream, hears a splash, and sees blood on…

It allows the reader to pay more attention to what is on the page. He or she can notice any special effects in the poem, if any words rhyme, detect any rhetorical devices such as repetition and onomatopoeias, and many more minute details that might be overlooked when simply reading quietly to oneself. When a poem is read out loud the tone is better understood, which helps keep the main message more on track. Reading aloud can also be done with others…

her only response was “Hm? No, that never occured to me” (Ibsen 276). Most wives would perturbed and worried if their husband was gone all night without knowledge of his well-being but not Hedda. She was unphased as her tone implies in her reply. Onomatopoeia was again employed when she said “Hm?”…