Onomatopoeia

The Secret Science Alliance: and the copycat crook The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook is a beautiful graphic novel created, written, and drawn by Eleanor Davis (inked by Drew Weing, colored by Joey Weiser and Michele Chidester, and lettered by Bryant Paul Johnson). This beautifully crafted novel tells the story of three “unlikely friends” coming together and forming strong friendships through their shared passion for science and inventing! The main character, Julian Calendar, is…

‘strangle’. Elsewhere in the poem, Duffy also uses the verb ‘stabbed’; this has obvious violent connotations, and contributes to the theme of extreme anger throughout the poem. Another technique used to create a sense of violence is the single onomatopoeia of "Bang". Similarly the repetition of the letter ‘b’ that creates the effect of stammering on the last word of the poem is powerful, suggesting both the length of time her heart has been broken and the possibility of a stabbing, violent…

INTRODUCTION T.J. Demos’s text “Zurich Dada: The Aesthetics of Exile” deals with the beginning of the Dada movement in relation to the performances of Michael Ball and Tristan Tzara, as well as the art of Jean Arp and Sophie Taeurber, and the aesthetics of their work in regards their war induced exile from their home lands. In the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Dada began, young artists and writers seeking refuge from World War I had fled to Switzerland, neutral territory, where they met people…

Picturebook Analysis The book’s title is “a combination of a name and an epithet or appellation” (Nikolajeva & Scott, 2006, p.242). The reader can expect that the protagonist is a boy. “Incredible” and “book eating” further reveal the theme of the story; the word “incredible” implies an evaluation of the main character, which may disclose the opinion and focus of the narrator. The cover also foreshadows what the story may be about. Each word is represented in different fonts and sizes on the…

SUBJECT Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is set in England during the 1900s where a group of animals, under the control of Mr. Jones, devise a plan known as the Rebellion, to take over the farm. After months of secret planning had gone by, the animals finally feel prepared to begin the Rebellion. The Rebellion started when Mr. Jones began whipping the animals after they had broken into the hay bin. The animals retaliated by kicking and butting Mr. Jones and his workers. The humans flee…

comfortably translate, for example, ‘viddy’ as watch, ‘droog’ as friend or ‘horrorshow’ meaning very good (from the Russian ‘khorosho’), the reader has formed an almost subconscious intellectual bond with Alex. His speech is full of rhythm and onomatopoeia, and so alive with melody that even Alex’s most violent and reprehensible acts are rendered, at the very least, engaging and lacking in the overt sadism one would expect from such behaviour. When Alex rapes the writer’s wife early in the…

sleep, which contrasts with the experience of Anyone and Noone who were able to “dream their sleep” once they passed away. This implies that the couple had lived life to the fullest and had died with no regrets. Furthermore in the last stanza the onomatopoeias “dong and ding” used to describe the sound of the church bells suggests the passing of time with each…

The very subject matter of war is not easy to digest, especially when you experience the gruesome, honest and heartbreaking tales from the perspectives of various eyes throughout Tony Barnstone’s Tongue of War. Throughout his collection, readers experience a raw honesty that is nothing like they have encountered before and that makes the discussion that more interesting as we course the emotions and thoughts Barnstone created within his audience page after page. However, the experience of a poem…

walls, it is personified to describe how the sun shines in the barn wall. By using personification, it gives readers a vivid image and makes people feel about the warm. 13. “There was the buzz of flies in the air, the lazy afternoon humming.” (84) Onomatopoeia is used since “buzz”, “humming” appear in this sentence. These words creates a sound effect that mimics the flies described, making the description more expressive and interesting. 14. Symbol: Candy 's dog Candy 's dog symbolizes both the…

LITERARY TERMS Word: motif Definition: A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work, unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. Quote: “I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all…