Repetition

There are many things that will happen in life. They will happen before you even know it. Death. Loss. Life. Love. All of the things that define life itself. So what is the meaning of life? In Wendy Mass's novel, "Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life", Jeremy Fink tries to find four keys to get the answer he has been longing for. The poem, "Where the sidewalk ends", By Shel Silverstein is a poem about a person who is leaving all the bad behind him/her and is starting a new way of thinking. He/she…

Either way, it does not concern Billy Collins since he doesn’t have a gun for one reason; to refrain from killing the barking dog next door. In the poem, “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House” the author, Billy Collins, uses hyperbole, repetition, and allusion to get his readers to understand his inner turmoil and how he copes with the unrelenting disturbance of the dog. In order to help his readers grasp the meaning of his poem, Collins used hyperbole, which is an over…

Dickinson’s poem “I felt a cleaving in my mind” represents the speaker’s indecisiveness to conform to traditionally women gender roles, resulting in a split crisis in this patriarchal society. Dickson illustrates images that represent how torn she is about her performance as a woman. The poem begins with the lines “I felt a cleaving in my mind/ As if my brain had split” (1-2) creating a strong image of an intensive division that the speaker feels. She continues to say “I tried to match it, seam…

In chapter 4 of Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. Its Grown. Here’s How, Coyle articulates a conversation he had with a teenager, John Crawford, about the concept of deep practice. Crawford described the moment that he truly began deep practicing as “clicking in.” (87). This explanation of the feeling of deep practice resonated with me because I felt that same “clicking in” feeling around mid-term of this semester. In my last paper, one of my goals was to be more conscious in…

moments in Shakespeare’s play, “Julius Caesar”. Antony uses this opportunity to sway the crowd against the conspirators of Caesar’s assassination, and undermine Brutus without directly appearing to do so. Shakespeare uses the rhetorical devices repetition, pathos, irony, and diction to achieve such a momentous effect on both characters of the play, and those actually reading it. The use of pathos in Antony’s speech is used in an assertive manner, while on the outside just looking like a…

love my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well” best describes the author’s position on the topic. He conveys his thesis to the readers through rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos and logos and literary devices such as repetition as he describes his personal experiences. Sherman Alexie wrote "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" with the purpose of informing his readers of the challenges he faced as a young Native American boy who, by society’s…

Muscular endurance is the capability to repeat a muscle movement over an extended period (Cespedes, A. 2013). Nevertheless, muscles are each unique in their own way. However, one way of testing that I have always found to be all encompassing is the 1 Repetition Max (RM) test. Muscles are made up of diverse types of fibers termed slow twitch (type 1) and fast twitch (type 2). Type 1 fibers are accountable for endurance. Type 2 can be further broken down into type A and B. Type A help you to…

behind their arguments. Furthermore, each poem conveys a similar theme that materialism is going to ruin the planet for future generations. The first poem “Spirits in the Material World,” has five stanzas and utilizes many poetic elements such as repetition and rhyme. For example, the first stanza utilizes the same syllable ending of -tion and the second and fourth stanza repeat the line “We are spirits in the material world.”…

In order to deliver a successful speech, there are countless qualities that must be present to reach the emotion and logic of the crowd. Through the use of rhetorical strategies and by having ethics, a speaker or an author can connect with their audience; getting them involved with their writing. In May of 2011, a man by the name of Denzel Washington used multiple rhetorical strategies to deliver a graduation speech at the University of Pennsylvania. While revealing all of the difficult times…

author brilliantly used the syntax to make the poem more compelling to the readers. The repetition of the line “Watercress grows here and there” in the second, fourth, and the fifth stanza gave the poem an overall melodic rhythm. Moreover, the exact repetition of “Gentle maiden, pure and fair” in line 3,7,15, and 19 emphasized the young man’s desire for the fair lady. While exact line repetition occurred, repetition with small variations was also embedded in the poem as signals for plot…