Dat Tran Professor: Ashley Becker February 21, 2016 ENC 1102 Literary Devices in “The Fish” The poem "The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop is one of the masterpieces to study. It is written in free verse, that is, it does not have any consistent rhyme or form. However the poem shows control of the poet over the verses as the lines are of equal length and kept short and trim. The poem is a colorful epiphany of several literary devices used by the poet to describe a fish and why
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The Ballad based from the Mexican folk tale of Gregorio Cortez called, “With His Pistol in His Hand” The ballad was written by an Mexican American Poet, and musician, and folklorist Americo Paredez. (1915-1999) Paredez was from Brownsville Texas, and is known as a respected Mexican American scholar from the 20th century. Americo wrote the ballad in January of 1958. During the time around the time around 1915 in which Paredez was born. there were tensions and often violent events around the Texas
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At a glance: Author: Emily Dickinson First Published:1890 Author: Emily Dickinson First Published: 1890 Type of Work: Poem Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry Subjects: Immortality, Death or dying, Life and death, Time, Cemeteries, Eternity The Work Death appears personified in this poem as a courtly beau who gently insists that the speaker put aside both “labor” and “leisure.” He arrives in his carriage, having stopped for her because she could not have stopped for him, and he even submits
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Honors Poetry Terms: MEMORIZE! 1. Allegory- A story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts 2. Alliteration- The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another at beginning of words. 3. Allusion- Reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, history 4. Anapestic- A foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual
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Arellano University College of Arts and Sciences 2600 Legarda st. Sampaloc Manila Library Research Submitted to: Mrs. Acibo Submitted by: Dalia B. Sabucor I. Introduction II. Presentation of Data III. Conclusion IV. Insights Gained V. References I. Introduction Drama Throughout the middle ages, drama and theater only dealt with sacred subjects, such as biblical stories. Profane drama was either unheard of
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Meggin Hughes Professor Miller English 102 7 December 2013 A quiet street Snow falling silently Bright lights shine through steamed glass windows A hooded figure slowly walks alone Though the weather is cold And the snow is wet Let us not forget A hooded figure slowly walks alone A twinkle of lights on trees Look mystical in the fading daylight The laughter of kids from houses A hooded figure slowly walks alone A full moon rises Snow shimmers in the air A door opens to
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4. WHAT LITERARY DEVICES ARE USED BY SHAKESPEARE TO PUT FORTH HIS IDEAS IN SONNET-130? IS HE COMPLETELY ANTI-PETRARCHAN? [16] 1st part The language spoken and written of great romances is often poetic, passionate, and filled with metaphors of beauty and devotion. In short, the language of love is the language of exaggeration. William Shakespeare ‘s most powerful description of love is when he satirizes this method of writing and in so doing instead claims that honesty and sincerity
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The opening line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 is a surprising simile: 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'. We might normally expect poets, especially those of Shakespeare's time, to praise the women they love by telling us that their eyes do shine like the sun. But a writer of Shakespeare's calibre is not going to follow the herd and make exaggerated comparisons; here he is describing reality. Over the next few lines Shakespeare continues to describe his mistress in terms of the senses of
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his sonnet contains the 14 lines that are significant of all Shakespeare's sonnets and it retains his style of having 3 quatrains with 4 lines in each and a couplet at the end of the sonnet. The quatrains all have the basic underlying theme of the passing of human life from childhood to old age. It has been mentioned that this sonnet and earlier sonnets were written for the love of a young man but the theme of the sonnet is applicable in all human scenarios quite easily. Like as the waves make
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Name _______________________ Date: ___________ Julius Caesar--Act I Reading and Study Guide--English II Honors I. LITERARY TERMS: Be able to define each term and apply each term to the play. ▪ blank verse ___________________________________________________________________ List characters who speak in verse ________________________________________________ ▪ prose _______________________________________________________________________ List characters who speak in prose
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