Onomatopoeia

The metaphor “the coast was only a long green line..." is used to give the reader a more vivid description. An onomatopoeia is present in describing how fish "left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away." This onomatopoeia helps make the description more alive and easier to imagine. "The clouds over the land now rose like mountains." This simile helps the reader visualize the movement of the clouds…

This technique is used by the author ‘Allan Baillie’ to evoke a mental picture of the scene using various literary devices such as the metaphors, allusions, descriptive language and onomatopoeia. The imagery makes a piece of work more realistic and helps the reader to visualise and experience the authors writing in depth. An example of imagery is when Baillie writes “The main scar, a bloodless seam, ran from his right shoulder to his left…

the particular word and it has been acknowledged that there are certain mechanisms where words originate through, some of which are: • Borrowing, i.e. adoption of loans from other languages; • Word formation such as derivation and compounding • Onomatopoeia and sound…

stand out from all the others. Onomatopoeia is a word that mimics the sound that it is describing (Source F). In The Raven, several times onomatopoeia was used. Words such as “rapping” and “tapping” are used to create the onomatopoeia effect. Those words are sounds which make them a part of the onomatopoeia rhetorical device. Edgar Allan Poe uses onomatopoeia in his poem The Raven to help the audience picture what is happening and what the narrator is hearing. Onomatopoeia makes the poem come to…

The story entitled Prisoner B-3087, Alan Gratz, starts off in Krakow, Poland. The main character Yanek and his family are Jewish and have a great life in their that cozily fit the three members of the family. Then one day everything changed. The nazi’s decieded to make there town that they lived in into a ghetto. Soon, there were three other families that lived with them. To get food they had to wait in long lines and have rations cards, Every time they went outside, they risked getting caught…

will continue to be seen as one with or without change. Although this detail is small, it gives readers a glimpse of the reality of racial profiling. The power of this rhetorical device was met with analogies that surround the authors use of an onomatopoeia, and gave reason for it. The author is believed to use analogies in order to get his message across. For example, in Staples novel, he not only depicted his own emotions, but also the emotions of his “victims” in a compare and contrast…

In his poem, “Out, Out--,” Robert Frost uses a variety of figurative language in order to give power and lifelike characteristics to an inanimate object. Frost uses techniques, such as onomatopoeias, in order to add humanlike aspects to a lifeless saw. By constantly mentioning how, “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard…” (1), Frost gives the inanimate saw the ability to make sounds. By giving the saw this ability, the author is giving it more character traits and allowing it to be…

When writing a poem a poet can twist a subject into whatever perspective they see fit. While Kilee Greethurst wrote her poems based on her experiences she opened up her thoughts and feelings to give the readers a wall of emotion and imagery. In order to portray these feelings of happiness and romance, she used the concept of bliss as her overall theme. All of Greethurst’s poems revolve around the idea of a blissful state of mind, creating a theme of happiness and love. Throughout…

meaning of the text. In “Slaughterhouse-Five,” Vonnegut uses the symbolism of the peaceful tweeting of birds, the execution of Edgar Derby, and the phrase “so it goes,” to show how misunderstood and appalling war actually is. Poo-tee-weet is an onomatopoeia that…

God precedes the laws of nature. The Laws of Nature focuses on how God sets the laws of nature in rhythm. This article was written by the scholarly C.S. Lewis, who was a professor and unforgettable writer. Lewis tells a story about a man who is saved by inches from a bullet. (5) When Lewis ponders this, he is faced with the question of whether it was by chance or was it the soldier’s mother’s prayers that saved him. Lewis then states that God affects the will and nature. Lewis then says that the…