Watsky’s song "tiny glowing screens Pt. 2" is a great example of poetry in music. Watsky uses multiple different types of figurative language including speeding up the rhythm when the song gets more passionate. This song also has a lot of meaning‚ Watsky is talking about the scope of our world and how we can make ourselves important. Watsky starts off the song with a statistic‚ "There’s 7 billion 46 million people on this planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter." There are so
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper describes the setting in detail of the process of the slave trade. Harper illustrates‚ the separation of children and parents being pulled apart and are being sold to separate families as objects. He also uses figurative language through his choice of words to give an emotional response to the reader. In the beginning half of the poem‚ Harper uses specific and meaningful words in order to capture the reader’s attention. For instance in line 2‚ “wretchedness” and in line
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written by Katie Alender has rich author’s craft. This book uses descriptive language‚ figurative language‚ and symbolism to express a person’s ability to see what others don’t and how it frightens her. In the book‚ Alender uses figurative language to show how frightened she becomes at those overwhelming moments. This connects to the idea that fear could lead to being overwhelmed or the other way around. Figurative language helps the reader visualize what’s going on in an over-exaggerated manner.
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“the Census Bureau calculates that the median woman in the United States makes 79 cents for every buck paid to the median man.” (Paquette) Women have always been underprivileged compared to men. Zora Neal Hurston effectively used setting‚ figurative language‚ characterization‚ and the manipulation of plot in Their Eyes Were Watching God to inform the audience how feminism has always been present and plays a big role in our lives‚ whether we are aware of it or not. Hurston began her novel describing
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AP English Language Traditional Pace Segment 1 Week # Assignments Due Due by (Write in Actual Date) 1 1.01 through 1.08 Preview 1.12 and begin reading “The Crucible” Sunday‚ August 19th 2 Finish reading “The Crucible” 1.09‚ 1.10‚ 1.11 A‚ 1.11B Sunday‚ August 26th 3 1.11C‚ 1.12‚ 1.13‚ 1.14‚ 2.01 Will Be On Cruise Ship from August 26th to August 31st Will turn Assignments after September 1st and before September 9th 4 2.02A‚ 2.02B‚ 2.03A‚ 2.03B Sunday‚ September 9th 5 2.04A
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“Sonnet 83” by William Shakespeare conveys the indescribable beauty of a person using punctuation‚ imagery‚ and figurative language. The word “painting” as used in the first line of the poem is a type of poetic imagery that means praise or poetic flattery. This accompanied with “painting set” creates a much more elegant image than simply writing the word praising. Imagery and figurative language is more heavy and emphasized in the last two lines of the quatrains. The last line of stanza one for example
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Swamps are often seen as negative or even scary. They are the subject of fear or mystery. However in the poem “The Swamp”‚ the author develops a complex relationship with the swamp through language the formation of the poem and imagery. The poem is presented with a unique formation. The descension of the poems words adds a sense of panic. It begins with long lines only to taper off into short strokes. This cultivates a feeling of being trapped or close within the swamp itself. The author fears what
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A Southern Sunday Dinner Every culture has special dishes that they prepare on special days or occasions. The African American culture has a dinner that they called Sunday dinner. Sunday dinner is more than just an ordinary dinner to the African American culture. Every dish is prepared from scratch and is prepared by the loving hands of grandma. Not one dish is a quick dish to prepare‚ it takes time and love has to be put in every dish. The main course of the Sunday dinner has to the include
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Woolf keeps an eye on the moth and watches as the moths go through its course of life of struggling to get through the windowpanes‚ and eventually reaches death. The figurative language and syntax in the essay efficiently conveys the matters of life and death and what it means to be nothing but life. In the short essay‚ figurative language‚ specifically metaphor‚ is used effectively to connect life and death. Woolf witnessed the comparison and connection of life and death as she saw the moth struggling
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We Shall Meet in Imagery and Diction In all Shakespeare’s tragedies‚ Imagery and diction have an appearance. In the play Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ imagery and diction are two literary devices that are present and have a great significance to the play. Imagery is a form of a literary device to create a vivid image in the reader’s mind. As for diction‚ it is the choice of appropriate words and phrases‚ that the writer uses to make the message clear that is being said. The use of animal
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