LITERARY DEVICES AND THEIR USE IN POETRY The task set out in this essay is to examine the listed devices (accentuation‚ creation of hierarchies‚ shifts of accent‚ ambiguity‚ semanticisation and creation of relationship) of syntactic foregrounding‚ using examples from poems as illustration. The word ‘foregrounding’ when used in a literary context means to ‘make strange’. In other words poets use various literary and poetic devices in order to highlight a particular unit within a poem‚ in order
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27 October 2011 Chapter 19 1. "Briefly describe the origins of modern poetry." The origins of poetry are very much like those of literature in general. It began as oral communication handed down through generations to tell a story or entertain. Most was in a simple verse or rhyming format seemingly to be remembered better. It then developed into the epic poem. Finally‚ it transformed into free verse along with a set pattern of poetry. Romanticism led to modernism‚ which led to imagism. The
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From the earliest civilizations arose an innate desire to survive in any given environment. Those that chose to fight death’s henchmen‚ famine and war‚ developed more advanced agricultural techniques and created complex social structures. The primal instinct to exist drove humanity to proliferate across the world‚ as many populations boomed‚ seemingly without bound. Throughout history‚ this fervent yearning for life was shared by the predominant masses‚ but the inevitable befell every person on earth
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in faith to the “existence” of a world in which the Brotherhood’s ideals and rhetoric apply. This is why he continues to defend the Brotherhood against the accusations of Ras the Destroyer‚ who tries to destroy his faith. Fully understanding the absurdity of his own words‚ the protagonist‚ speaking of Clifton‚ claims that the organization is “determined that his death shall be the beginning of profound and lasting changes … to create something lasting of his death takes time and careful planning”
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also important to remember that this description‚ although quite saddening‚ is probably accurate. Jim and the millions of other slaves in the South were not given or allowed any formal education‚ were never allowed any independent thought and were constantly maltreated and abused. Twain is merely portraying a very realistic slave in the South during that time period. To say that Twain is racist because of his desire for historical accuracy is
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Author Kurt Vonnegut endorses this view in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five; he shows that war can never be justified as long as innocent life is lost. Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Vonnegut explores the theme of free will in order to illustrate the absurdity of war. Vonnegut conveys this through setting‚ characters‚ structure‚ and style. Vonnegut uses setting to convey the terrors of war by juxtaposing the hell-like Dresden with the heavenly Trafalmador. After the firebombing of Dresden‚ when the soldiers
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in its place and to disparage faith" (Fear and Trembling‚ 12). To Kierkegaard‚ the whole biblical story is a paradox. "Thinking about Abraham is another matter‚ however; then I am shattered. I am constantly aware of the prodigious paradox that is the content of Abraham’s life‚ I am constantly repelled‚ and‚ despite all its passion‚ my thought cannot penetrate it‚ cannot get ahead by a hairsbreadth" (Fear and Trembling‚ 12). Faith to Kierkegaard is even paradoxical. "Precisely because resignation
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Candide Essay Voltaire uses literary techniques such as satire and critique to demonstrate the cruelty and folly of humanity. He focuses on serious topics that include sexism‚ and reduces it to absurdity so that it is comical to the audience. Despite the fact that Voltaire constantly over- exaggerates this subject‚ he does not trying to reinforce them. Some might say Voltaire portrays women as objects of desire and is capitalizing on the subject but to get his point across using satire
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change the past you must challenge it. If you don’t question it‚ then you will live in a repeated cycle of injustice and tradition. Justice is shown to be stronger since it consists of wisdom and virtue‚ whereas injustice portrays ignorance and absurdity. In the play a hypocritical unlawful man disguises himself as a manipulative holy man in order to meet his ends
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notion of absurdity. In his essays‚ Camus asserts that individual lives and human existence in general have no rational meaning or order. However‚ because people have difficulty accepting this notion‚ they constantly attempt to identify or create rational structure and meaning in their lives. The term “absurdity” describes humanity’s futile attempt to find rational order where none exists. Though Camus does not explicitly refer to the notion of absurdity in The Stranger‚ the tenets of absurdity operate
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