Synecdoche

Case Studies Case 1: During my visit to St. John 's Episcopal Cemetery in Valle Crucis, NC, I came across an interesting example of a laser etched image on Charles Dotson 's gravestone. Etched on Charles 's stone was an image of the USS San Diego along with the inscriptions "WWII," "Bronze Star Recipient," and "Brother Our Hero." Initially, I could figure that Charles was a member of the crew of the USS San Diego during his life, and that time was a defining factor of his personal identity.…

Three pieces in the ICA’s Transcending Material Exhibition had a recurring motif each embodied a force of contemporaneity which Terry smith outlines as “Globalization…social inequity... (and a)culture (of) image economy” in the case of the infinitely reflected glass decanters (McElheny a commentary on globalized industrial manufacturing or the the two chairs and there functional replica’s challenge to value placed on art objects in a culture questioning the value of authenticity(McMakin)to the…

If I Die in a Combat one, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home O 'Brien, Tim. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. New York, New York: Broadway Books, 1975. 209. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Bow Me Up and Ship Me Home, is a wartime novel written by Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien. This book has been described as “A beautiful, painful book” (New York Times Book Review). After completing the novel, I concur with this statement. The book is beautifully written, but the content is anything but…

Discovery Essay The process of discovery involves uncovering what is hidden and reconsidering what is known. How is this perspective on discovery explored in your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing? 
 Through the sophisticated and complex notion of emotional and spiritual discovery within Ang Lee’s riveting film Life of Pi (2012) and Robinson Jeffers poem The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (1954) which involves both explicitly and implicitly unearthing the confronting…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnet XI and XXXIV Analysis Sonnets XIV and XXXIV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are clear examples of Italian sonnets through their utilizing of Italian rhyme scheme and content breaks of octaves followed by sestets. Although heavy usage of enjambment blurs the distinctions in some cases, the shifts in subject focus assist in clarifying the octave - sestet separations. For example, Sonnet XIV is broken into clear octave - sestet structure with the beginning octave…

In the best essays, speeches, stories, and general writings, the author always strikes their reader. I do not mean this in the literal sense of striking someone, though in Berry’s essay Compromising, Hell it may feel that way at times. That being said, this an element of good writing, and Berry uses this strategy as a way to speak to his sympathetic audience. So do not become disheartened or even threatened by Berry while reading this essay, as he is simply just doing his job. Berry’s essay…

Myrna Pena-Reyes’ “Breaking Through” and William Carlos William’s “This is Just to Say” expresses the relationship of the persona with another person through the use of different figurative devices. In “Breaking Through”, we see the persona as the daughter and the “you” in the poem as her father. Meanwhile, in the poem “This is Just to Say”, the persona of the poem is the husband, while the “you” in the poem refers to his wife. These two poems present a similar conflict – the persona is…

Ballard, Kim. “Rhetoric, Power and Persuasion in Julius Caesar.” British Library, British Library Board, www.bl.uk/. Accessed 5 Oct. 2016. “Rhetoric, Power, and Persuasion in Julius Caesar” written by Kim Ballard explains the importance of these three topics in Julius Caesar, one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Although the article only focuses on a single play, it does an excellent job explaining the rhetoric used by William Shakespeare. The article explains the background of William…

Because Rochester “continued to be blind the first two years of [their] union,” the two were “knit so very close” (Brontë 479). Jane is “his vision” (Brontë 479). In this synecdoche, Jane is, in essence, reduced to a part of Rochester. While it is almost universally believed that Jane and Rochester did in fact marry for love—a point that I have no reason nor proof to argue against—her marriage to Rochester does highlight a…

Wanderlust This poem primarily features a steady iambic tetrameter. It also possess several rhyming elements, such as assonance in lines 6 (“leave the phone and hit the road”) and 8 (“the sea we call routine”). The poem also uses alliteration, as in lines 9 and 10 (“gladly go across the globe, To glimpse the glory”) and slant rhyme in lines 2 and 4 (air, here) and lines 9 and 10 (globe, behold). The poem uses the repetition of “let’s” to signify the sense of urgency the narrator has Shanghai…