Essays on Alliteration

Written in a single stanza, allowing the poets stream of consciousness to run alongside the dialogue that takes place. He uses enjambment and caesura to create speech-like patterns, and includes complex language, for example “surrender pushed dumbfoundment to beg simplification. ” This use of language gives the poem an intellectual and deep insight into the…

In “Player Piano”, John Updike uses personification to give life to a unhuman’ piano. By using diction to communicate his ideas, he effectively allows the reader to explore the psyche of a “Player Piano”. In the first couple lines of the poem, assonance and consonance are present. In line one, these musical devices dominate the…

Author of Beowulf uses different syntax It is commonly known that the poem Beowulf was from the Anglo-Saxon time period. The Anglo-Saxon time period was a tribal society ruled by warrior kings. There were violent times and much fighting and conflicts. During the Anglo-Saxon time period, the people gathered in mead halls, which is a…

In his poem “Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night” Dylan Thomas mainly portrays his view through imagery, choice of words, and the constant use of metaphors. The poem uses only two rhyme sounds while repeating the first and third line end words throughout the third line of each stanza and using both words…

Throughout ‘Spies’ Mrs Hayward’s character changes as we move further into the main plot of the novel. Frayn presents Mrs Hayward at the beginning of the novel, as very calm and composed though towards chapters 8 and 9 when something sinister in the novel emerges she starts to appear scared, panicky and desperate.Chapter 2 is…

Poets use imagery to convey meaning, feelings, and emotions. The contemporary poet best know for his use of imagery is Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken, opened the eyes of poetic readers and critics to Frosts artistic creations. He uses forms of language such as diction and syntax to capture and move the reader. When…

Emphasis: special importance or stress on an idea. Italics: the use of a slanting font when we wish to emphasise an idea. Historical allusion a reference to something that has happened in history and is similar or happening again. Why do we tell stories? Look and think about the following question. Then answer them When…

Each of us imprints our own mark into the world, and no one is quite like us. In the poem, “Thumbprint” by Eve Merriam, she discusses the theme of how each of us is unique, and that no one will ever be exactly like us. She uses alliteration and metaphors to demonstrate her theme. I…

Martin Luther King is famous for his daring counter-cultural beliefs and for being a man who truly made a stand in is struggle to gain civil rights for black people. A genius of the art of persuasion, King uses tremendously effective emotional appeal by engaging his audience’s patriotism, love of family, and auditory senses. King…

A Farewell to False Love is the best poem in the world. Raleigh writes his experience with love as terrible and unbearable; it was written in 1 588 in an era where poets would typically write about the wonders of love, or write to a love. In Raleigh poem he contradicts this idea by writing…