Southern Literary Messenger

Through the literary techniques of personification, paradox and imagery of simple experiences or objects, Jane Hirshfield manages to simplify the complex emotions and ideas within society by utilizing symbolisms of everyday items and experiences to convey her perceptions about solitude and regrets in life as well as analyze the complexity of one’s identity. Hirshfield’s Zen Buddhist affiliations contribute to the philosophical tone of her poems in their abstract conceptualization of life…

to live but if you didn't do the work you would die. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses Symbolism, Irony, and foreshadowing to show the cruel and awful treatment the Jews will face in the concentration camps. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel uses many Literary devices such as Symbolism, Irony, and Foreshadowing. One example of how he uses symbolism is when he saw “a truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children babies! Yes, I did see this, children thrown into the flames(pg.32).” This shows…

the message that David Wagoner tries to get across in his poem, The Silence Of The Stars, using metaphors, allusion and abnormal sentence construction to try and get us to stop, think and maybe look up once in awhile. One of the most prominent literary devices that Wagoner uses is allusion. Wagoner saw value in referencing…

They was foreshadowing, irony, allusion, and similes. The first literary device was dramatic irony/foreshadowing. In chapter 23, Aunt Alexandra is extremely worried that Mr. Ewell will try to harm Atticus, or the Finch household, Atticus says, “‘We don’t have anything to fear from Bob Ewell, he got it all out of his system…

literature, despite an individual reader’s personal beliefs • Since culture is greatly influenced by its dominant religious system, even if a writer does not necessarily adhere to the beliefs, the key values of that religious system will affect the literary work • Despite a reader’s religious affiliation, generally a reader will recognize some Christ-like features in characters, such as being crucified, tempted, or having disciples • Christ figures do not have to exhibit every single Christ-like…

Throughout literature, authors have used multiple literary devices to convey messages about their writings to the audience. From speeches and essays to poems and stories, literary devices have been used throughout multiple works of literature to emphasize the author’s points and provoke thought and feedback from the audience concerning the piece; by helping the readers appreciate, learn, analyze and understand pieces of literature more in depth. One literary device that attributes to this is…

Problem statement Description of literature in theUK, and the authors’ development throughout history primarily focusing on William Shakespeare and Joanne K. Rowling With focus on these two authors, we will analyze each of their literary accomplishments, based on the time periods they were written in. To asses the newfound knowledge, we will evaluate the two authors impact on modern day society, distinguishing between similarities and differences. Table of contents - Introduction to the…

is an approach that is used to analyze the utilization of language in literary texts in order to occupy a better understanding of the text. Stylistic approach enforces the power and penetration of speech by examining the expressive and suggestive devices. The elements of stylistic approach such as the lexical features, the poetic point of view and the construction of characters are used to scrutinize the content of a literary work. The utilization of these elements is reflected in The Necklace…

Poisonwood Bible there are so many symbols analyzing the book. Symbols are a person, place, or thing helped to represent a bigger picture. These symbols are made to help create meanings within stories, to help represent something, or create a metaphor in literary pieces. However symbols can have various meanings whether it vivid or deep. For example black is usually use to symbolize something bad such as death or evil. To find out these symbols you have to analyze the story, and what the others…

Many novels are open to various interpretations, The Plague by Albert Camus is an example of a novel through which different levels of meaning are created within its pages. The book represents many interesting and contrasting levels of literary works containing both fiction and non-fiction, literal and figurative as well as concrete and metaphysical. Different readers of the novel have various understanding of the text depending on their viewpoints and believes. ‘The Plague is neither deeply…