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    immature impression of – and impressionability to – his domineering personality coloured both her life and her death. Her life’s desire to find a true love was never resolved due to his early influence and interference Faulkner also utilizes onomatopoeia‚ although in an indirect‚ metaphorical manner. In this instance‚ where he describes “the ladies sibilant and macabre‚” it is left up to the reader‚ with the element of sibilance foremost in mind‚ to imagine what words the ladies might have spoken

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    Digging In the poem‚ ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney‚ the readers have been given the chance to forth come the lifestyle in which Heaney/the speaker captures the life through his generations. Leading the readers to fall into Heaney’s own spiral of memories. The poet expresses these ideas through the use of diction‚ Imagery and tone. Before the reader even looks at the first stanza they must read the title‚ this is the initial use of diction and word which sets the reader up to try and get a heads

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    How is conflict presented in “Bayonet Charge” and another poem? Introduction Conflict often has harmful effects‚ including causing death and destruction‚ so it is usually viewed negatively. However‚ conflict can also bring out positive traits in people‚ and the people involved in it may be respected. “Bayonet Charge” imagines a soldier’s experience in battle. “The Charge of The Light Brigade” recounts the story of the charge made by the Light Brigade in the Battle of Balaclava. Language One way

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    Setting In Songs of Innocence‚ Blake uses nature to show an idealised state of love‚ where the love is natural‚ harmonious and mutually beneficial. The poem Introduction imprints an image of a piper ‘piping down the valleys wild’ in the reader’s mind. Straight away there is a theme of freedom with the valleys being ‘wild’. This evokes images of nature and freedom‚ which is a common element with Romantic poets as they opposed the Industrial Revolution happening at that time‚ as the poets felt that

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    word as though they were wild rather than the midges‚ therefore‚ adding a sense of absurd humour. The group of humans are described in detail as if it were a military ambush‚ thus adding to the sense of absurdity. With the use of alliteration and onomatopoeia in “chatter” and “clatter”‚ the hard ‘c’ and ‘t’ sounds highlight the humans blundering into the scene. Their defenceless state is further revealed through clever word choice‚ “See the innocents…the clumsy ones‚ the laughing ones‚ the rolled up

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    they‚ since they were not the one dead turned to their affairs” this reflects the indifference of people towards change if they are not directly impacted by it. The foreshadowing of the repeated line “snarled and rattled” uses the language feature onomatopoeia and indicates the foreseeable future of the consequences of sending a boy in to do a man’s job; but this is tragically ignored and eventually leads to his death. Contextually this may reflect Frosts comment on WW1 and mechanisation‚ an example

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    saying goodbye to his lover as he is about to leave. Donne is trying to make his departure easier for his lover so he writes her a poem. He uses many different literary elements to enrich his poem and make it more compelling to the reader. He uses onomatopoeia‚ syntax‚ euphemism‚ and similes to inform the reader about his love. This helps the speaker compare his love to life like features to show how deeply he is in love. Donne first tells his lover that he will not be gone forever. He explains how

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    paradigmatic stylistics : phonetics - italics‚ capitalisation‚ repetition of letters‚ onomatopoeia; morphology - deprsonification; lexicology - Positive: poetic‚ official‚ professional. Neutral. Negative: colloquial‚ neologosims‚ jargon‚ slang‚ nonce-word‚ vulgar words; syntax - completeness of sentence structure: ellipsis‚ aposiopesis‚ one-member nominative sentences‚ repetition of sentence parts‚ syntactic tautology‚ polysydenton. Word order: inversion of sentence members. Communicative types

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    In the soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Henry IV‚ Part II‚ King Henry is prodigiously vexed by his inability to sleep. In addressing sleep itself‚ with the use of an apostrophe‚ he hopes to persuade it to fall upon him by asking various rhetorical questions. He pleads with sleep for it to abandon its partiality and bestow upon him some rest‚ as it does upon the commoners. At the end of the passage‚ however‚ his indignation turns into resignation‚ as he realizes that he can do little to alter his situation

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    and illustration of words‚ I have observed many examples of sound devices. Such as‚ * Alliteration – When you repeat the first letter or group of sounds in a specific part of the sentence so basically‚ so basically tongue twisters. * Onomatopoeia – Using a word that has the same action as the word * Personification – Giving an inanimate object the traits of a human. * Hyperbole – A statement that is true but an exaggeration. * Idioms – Words that are not understood when joined

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