Oxymoron

Growing up poor, underprivileged, undereducated and scared in the land of the free and the home of the brave is an almost perfect oxymoron. In her autobiographical book Coming of Age in Mississippi, Anne Moody proves this oxymoron to be fact. Nothing is perfect but a person should be given a chance regardless of the color of their skin. Moody sheds light on a place that is determined to keep black people enslaved although the Civil War has been fought, the African Slave freed, rights of…

Jim Westcott brings the endeavoring radio into his home to present happiness in his household. Ironically, the radio brings the oxymoron of his original idea. Irene becomes obsessed with the nature of being able to chime in on every person’s conversations. Her obsession begins to haunt her, when she finds out that not every thing going on around her is all peachy keen. She becomes distressed when finding out about everybody’s miseries in her apartment complex. Irene is overwatching everybody’s…

He introduces the poem with the buzz saw rattling, the breeze drawing across, and the sun setting and describing the five mountain ranges one behind another. The tone used here is calm, but it immediately changes when the tragic accident occurs to a depressing and sorrowful tone. The poet uses examples of figurative language like personifying the saw, "the saw leaped ... leaped out at the boy's hand" and onomatopoeia, 'snarled and rattled'. The poems use a range of literary devices to convey…

The “Bloody and invisible hand” is a literary technique called an oxymoron. For those that do not know what that is, it is a figure of speech that contradicts things. The oxymoron used in here demonstrates a contrast between appearance versus real life by comparing guilt and innocence. The imagery of blood on Macbeth’s hand is symbolizing guilt by showing the different levels…

Do not go gentle into the good night They say what goes up must come down, and just like in life it comes around full circle, knowing there is no way of avoiding the inevitable, there are solely ways to prolong it. In the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into The Good Night" by Dylan Thomas, he encourages he's readers to prolong the inevitable death, by stating if you are going to die, you might as well die fighting to stay alive, rather than letting death consume you and win. He tells you to…

The Dangers of Totalitarianism Totalitarianism embodies the idea of an all-powerful government, with no limits on its authority. This eradicates an important part of humanity: free will. Without basic freedoms, humanity loses its individuality; an essential part of a successful society. George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 creates a world consumed by a totalitarian regime, which contravenes every aspect of government today. Oceania’s government is known as the Party, led by the mystical,…

a variety of literary devices to ultimately make her novel unique and with a certain level of depth. The passage above is particularly interesting because it incorporates many of the literary devices that Morrison uses such as metaphors, similes, oxymoron, allusions, and a variety of imageries. The excerpt also reveals Macon Dead’s personality through the other characters and his role in the household. This type of narrative, where the characters are discovered mainly through the other…

because both the boy and the bee have active qualities thus making them one and the same. It also adds imagery by giving the reader an image of a bee working, thus making it easier to imagine the boy working. The next usage is oxymoron where "cold fire" is used. This is an oxymoron because the heat of the fire and cold are complete…

Gwen Harwood’s ‘Suburban Sonnet: Boxing Day’ and Sylvia Plath’s ‘Morning Song’ both explore the idea of a loss of identity due to motherhood. Harwood’s poem follows an unhappy woman oppressed by her role as a suburban mother on Boxing Day. On the other hand, Plath’s poem journey inside a mother’s mind as she rapidly beings to lose a sense of identity after the birth of her child. Both poets use structure, symbolism, language and the title to explore the idea of identity loss through motherhood.…

In Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas represents death by night and darkness. Hence, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (1) means ‘do not slip quickly into death’. Thomas is addressing an unknown listener, advising them not to die without putting up a fight; “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” (3). This “dying of the light” (3), along with “close of day” (2), represent the nearing of night and therefore the nearing of death itself. This also means “the sun in…