Synecdoche

The process of discovery is a profoundly meaningful experience which involves moving into unknown realms, causing a re-evaluation of the known. Discoveries occur in a multifaceted fashion as part of a re-consideration of experiences and values, generating new perspectives of ourselves and our world. Rosemary Dobson’s poetry and Fitzgerald’s The Ice Palace position us to recognise the significance of time, change and its confronting challenges. The persona’s desire for creative freedom within…

Rather than using metaphors that extend the characters beyond the limits of the plot, he sticks to simple synecdoche and foreshadowing such as the never ending stream of references to hands.. This causes the play to become topical and shallow. Even when Shakespeare does venture to use linguistic flourishes it is done in a way mocking his contemporaries. An example…

Byron uses the image of the gondola as a synecdoche for the city of Venice. No other symbol fully encapsulates the fluidity and restlessness of the city, nor the pervasive intermixing of life and death that characterises Venice so fully. This is particularly true of Beppo, in which the gondola functions as a demonstration of the thin boundaries between the two seemingly antithetical states of life and death in Venice. The connection between the gondola and Venice is established in the opening…

Have you ever read a piece of literature and it reminds you of another piece of work? Did you notice the similarities? I have read two piece of literature that have big similarities. Those works are A Jury of Her Peers and Proof. Susan Glaspell's short story, A Jury of Her Peers and Lynn Nottage's play, Proof have a lot of things in common. Both works use rich verbal, dramatic irony, symbolism, and conflict to show that women's intuitive powers can be superior to men's skills. The theme for…

J. F. Peirce’s “Stephen Crane’s use of Figurative Language in ‘The Blue Hotel’” argues that despite its faults in the story, Crane’s use of imaginative and figurative language trumps the negative aspects. To defend his assertion, Peirce compiles all of Crane’s best writing qualities and analyzes them. Peirce begins by prefacing with Crane’s financial struggle as an American writer. Crane spent most of his life in debt and used writing literature to survive. With pressure to produce works, Crane…

He uses numerous examples to describe cinematographic metaphor under ten subtypes, which are less wide ranging than those by Kennedy, but they still study metaphor in the narrow sense, including for instance metonymy and synecdoche. Carroll (1994) criticizes Whittock for failing to take into account what the latter considers the most typical variety of visual or cinematographic metaphor, the visual hybrid (see also Carroll 1996). Carroll, unlike Kennedy and Whittock, moreover…

Literary Terms Metaphor: It is a literary device which compares one thing with another that seems not related apparently, but indicates the similarity of the underlying meanings for creating literature effects. In the novel The Count of Mount Cristo which is written by Alexandre Dumas, he uses a metaphor to show the desperate life that Edmond underwent when he lived in the prison.“At this instant a bright light shot through the mind of Dantes, and cleared up all that had been dark and…

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is, at its core, a call to awareness for pressing social injustices, as well as a criticism on how various communities combat those injustices. Through the use of clever symbolism and equivocal character names, Morrison explores central themes of societal and emotional neglect, the needs of minority groups, and violence as a means of resistance. The characters of Hagar and Guitar are both representative of those themes. Though their justifications and actions may…

In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the two characters, Brutus, and Antony, have to go against each other. They each attempt win over the angry plebeians with their speeches at Caesars funeral. Brutus tries to justify the killing of Caesar while Antony disapproves of the killing of Caesar. Antony and Brutus where both wonderful speakers but only one speech won over the people in the end, which was Antony’s speech. Brutus’s speech starts off with a greeting. “Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me…

To the Navajo people, hozho is the idea of remaining in balance with the entire cosmos. It is more than just a word to traditional Navajo people. They strive to maintain their inherent bond with nature in everything they do. It is seen in their ceremonies and gatherings, but also in every aspect of their day to day life. It can be seen in their work, harvesting methods, and eating habits. The idea of hozho is the foundation of what might be thought of as religion in Navajo culture. However…