Romance languages

In the Martin Luther King’s ‘’I have a Dream’’ speech he uses the repetition of metaphors in his speech. Not only is King using metaphors, he is contrasting them as well to different concepts in his speech. This is proven to be very effective as the listener is serenaded with descriptive wordplay evoking imagery and vivid pictures. A quote of King putting contrasting words together to mean opposite ideas is, ‘’This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there…

Love, an untamable force, has been the subject of many objects of literature. It varied from the sappiest romantic stories to the most wooing of tragedies. In Romeo and Juliet, love was so much deeper. It was an ever-evolving monster that gave and took away happiness. It’s different faces varied from unrequited, pure, or youthful, foolish love. It’s the evolution, that was best performed in Romeo and Juliet, where stereotypes were set aside to create the most accurate vision of human nature and…

Love in Romeo and Juliet. Love can be an extremely powerful emotion. Love is an emotion for something or someone. Romeo and Juliet fall in love fairly quickly and their love is very strong. Love can actually effect someones life to a great extent, either very enjoyable or very terrible. I will talk more about these topics. Love is an emotion that someone has for something or someone. It can either be very small or very great. An example of love with something is when someone loves the sport of…

In literature, Shakespeare is known for many of his notorious comedies such as The Comedy of Error, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, and much more. Much Ado About Nothing is supposedly a comedy: Beatrice and Benedick trade insults for professions of love, and Claudio and Hero fall in love, out of love, and back in love again. But the play contains many darker, more tragic elements than a typical comedy. The play, Much Ado About Nothing is tragic because of when Benedick challenged…

In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet isn’t Romeo’s only love interest. The first woman that Romeo is infatuated with is Rosaline. While she is only briefly mentioned, it could lead readers to believe that Romeo’s love for Juliet isn’t as strong as hers is for him. In Rosaline's case, it is an unrequited love, while with Juliet, things move very fast and they end up getting married. “Why, such is love’s transgression. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate,…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is not only a romance story of the medieval period but also a ghost story because it grips a weird tale of thrillers and morality that expresses a quest full of tests and temptations as analyzed in this text. Sir Gawain’s impending fate that waits for him at the Green Chapel hinges on his behavior with the lady in the castle. Although there were three hunts accompanied with the three temptations, the temptations have dire consequences if Gawain succumbs to them.…

Much Ado About Nothing Trickery and deceit are central themes in Much Ado. Explain how deception is used in this story. How does this lead to love and romance? In Shakespeare's play; Much Ado About Nothing he introduces the main characters, the two star crossed lovers, known as the young Count Claudio and Hero, the daughter of Leonato whom is the Governor of Messina. With one glimpse, the two instantly fell in love with one another. Claudio cannot hide his feelings for Hero, he decides to…

body, and her thoughts. First of all, the narrator is characterized as a self-conscious person through her cultural background and status. As she thinks to herself about her secret lover, she says “I had, of course, in the great tradition of tragic romance, chosen to love a boy who was totally out of my reach. He was not Puerto Rican; he was Italian and rich” (Cofer, 181). This demonstrates how the narrator is self-conscious because she lowers herself as a person because of her…

Edgar Allan Poe is famous for captivating readers with his intense and suspenseful poems and short stories. Fiction lovers all over the world are mesmerized by the way Poe is able to capture his audience’s attention and make them feel entrapped in his world of literature with every word. Poe is able to have this impact on his readers by using a variety of literary tools. In “The Black Cat” and “The Spectacles” Edgar Allan Poe uses tone, imagery, and point-of-view to create a universal theme that…

There are many things in the world that hold a significant value, such as music. Music allows people to relate to a song by studying the elements it possesses, which creates a certain feeling that corresponds with the song and mood of the listener, therefore, making the song have a significant value. Most songs that have a significant meaning are written on a personal level by the artist. For example, the song “Wide Open Spaces” was written by Susan gibson who used her own personal experience of…