Oxymoron

it is too late. The audience will learn the entire lifecycle of an athlete and how age is a big factor in this. The theme is mortality and natural transitions throughout life. The speaker of the poem uses extended metaphor, personification, and an oxymoron to show that the athlete should die young so that he will be remembered as a youthful and successful human. In the poem, the extended…

In the opening lines of the prologue, the audience is told the basic plot of the play along with the tragic ending. What purpose does the prologue serve? Why tell the audience up front how the play will end? When the two lovers are professing to each other their love and their hopes for a long life together later in the play, how might the knowledge of the ending events affect the audience’s reaction (mood)? The prologue catches the viewer’s attention by giving exciting plot events and by…

could understand. She used professional diction to add an informational and serious tone to her speech, to set the mood for the audience who was listening to prove that what they have those people and children doing, was horrific. She also uses an oxymoron to show how unappealing a situation is. She does this all to help and to bring attention to the situation, to bring about change and…

In OneRepublic’s song, “Ordinary Human” the narrator sings about if you are an ordinary human, you can create meaningful changes in the world. It gives you the message that ordinary is everywhere, but doing something different will cause you to stand out. Everyone is capable of doing the extraordinary, and that is what people will be recognized for. People are always following the crowd, making them ordinary, however, that’s your choice to stay with them. Anyone has the possibility of…

adopt human abilities, like mending. The literary techniques used are metaphors, an alliteration, and an oxymoron. Like many poems this narrative contains various metaphors, the main metaphor of this piece is the narrator’s blue eyes. The change in them, from blue to red, represents the change and internal conflict within the narrator. The alliteration is seen in “baby blues”. Finally the oxymoron in this piece represents the conflict we see develop within the narrator, “I destroyed our spirits…

Act I,Scene v At the ball, Romeo meets Juliet and they fall in love at first sight. Tybalt bitterly complains about Romeo to Capulet but Capulet orders him not to take revenge. The scene ends with Romeo and Juliet discovering they are from rival families. Questions: 1. When Romeo first sees Juliet he is astounded by her beauty. In line 9 he exclaims, "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" What do you think he means by this? It means Romeo is talking about how beautiful she is,…

The oxymoron “violent delights” shows what will happen to Romeo and Juliet’s love in the end (2.6.9). Friar Laurence uses the oxymoron to show that their love is reckless, and in the meantime characterizes himself as a smart, wise person by trying to help them. Although he would love to see them get married, he is scared…

Literary Elements (plot, setting, characterization, conflict, theme, point of view, tone/mood) Literary Techniques (flashback, foreshadow, imagery, symbol, allusion, figurative language [personification, metaphor, simile], dialect, irony, epiphany, oxymoron, allusion, suspense) Poetic Device (rhyme, rhythm, stanza, alliteration, assonance, consonance, refrain, onomatopoeia) Other: idiom, pun, hyperbole satire, motif, archetype, foil, comic relief, allegory ● #2 Writing Process (12.2.1, 12.2.2) ●…

characteristics about the character directly while indirect characterization makes the reader think more in depth. All characters have indirect and direct characterization, such as Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses juxtaposition, oxymoron, and paradox to increase the complexity of indirect characterization. Romeo goes from this shallow character to loving Juliet so much that he dies for her. Romeo completely forgets about Rosaline when he lays his eyes on Juliet for the…

magnetism of his homeland, implying connotations of death and prior existence. This infers that the persona’s memory and connection to is homeland is eroded and fragile. Skrzynecki galvanises the aspect of cultural disjointment in the rhetorical oxymoron, ‘What…