SIW Module 1 Variant 2 Theme: Stylistic Devices. Analysis of the text. 1. Point out three metaphors and three epithets used by the author to characterize the main character (Stephens) and comment on them. Three metaphors : trifle embarrassed apologetic laugh forcible ring Three epithets: thick-set and stout a round red face bullet-shaped head All these stylistic devices describe the main hero as a person who is very tired of life, he is passive, but he wants
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Picariello writes as if he is trying to talk and convince the reader. He is trying to provoke the reader by using a form of argumentation that usually would be presented in a conversational debate. Throughout the text Picariello is asking some rhetorical questions such as “so what’s the deal with “living apart together”?” and “whatever happened to getting married and living happily ever after?” He asks an obvious question and responds with an obvious answer making his point more important. He uses
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Describe at least one important technique used in EACH test. Explain why this technique was important in each text. In the poem Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen, various language techniques are used, these are important because they help portray the writers key themes. The poem is in the form of a sonnet, it is split between two parts. In both stanzas, Owen focuses on two key themes. The first theme is the horror of war and the terrible conditions facing the soldiers, in contrast, the
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lines of Hamlet’s response to his mother’s concerns about his behavior, scene 2) 5. feminine rhyme / ending (Claudius presents the court with his appraisal of Fortinbras’ advance, scene 2) 6. diacritical accent (all over the place) Language / Rhetorical Devices 7. allusion (Hamlet contrasts himself with Hercules, scene 2) 8. antithesis (Claudius explains the death of his brother and his marriage to the widow, scene 2) 9. oxymoron (Claudius explains the death of his brother and his marriage
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Flag’s form, with three regular lines in each stanza, suggests the blocks of colour in many country’s flags. Alternatively it could look as if the stanzas are waving in the wind, with the slightly shorter second line. Every stanza starts with a rhetorical question, which provokes the reader to
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In this satirical article published in The Onion the author is satirizing the strategies used by companies to market products to attract its susceptible customers. Using several rhetorical devices to campaign its innovative, revolutionary product: MagnaSoles shoe inserts. Using the fictional MagnaSoles as a model, the article humorously mocks the strategies used by companies to market products. Using an exaggerated or sarcastic tone throughout, it gives the read a true taste of the tactics used in
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------------------------------------------------- 1. Provide a one-paragraph summary of each reading. You can include things like assumptions, theories, ideas, contexts, purposes, findings, methods used, implications, and/or conclusions. (Don’t include your opinions or thoughts here; just summarize.) ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- a. Gregory: [Type here] ------------------------------------------------- Many people think
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classification, and evaluation - provide a means of identifying the different sections of your paper, and showing how these sections are related to one another. Using a particular approach to establish the connections between the sections of your essay will make it easier for both you and your reader to predict what comes next and to fit the sections together. Once you have decided on an approach, you will have sections, but you may need to make a further decision about the effective arrangement
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Ishmaeal Beah quite frequently uses rhetorical questions. His intention with the use of these rhetorical questions is to coax or subtly induce the audience. It is a question asked not for the answer, but for the effect. Oftentimes, he uses a rhetorical question to accentuate a point or just to get the audience thinking. For the most part these questions are not asked for a direct answer; instead they are questions roaming his mind and are then written onto paper. For example, he says, “Why have I
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In Endless Summer, Rick Bragg uses hyperbole in a plethora of ways to help achieve his purpose of how summer continues to get shorter and shorter. His first example is “I caught a million fish, and survived a million red wasps,...(Bragg)” . He uses this to display how he used to be able to fish and be outside for days on days. Now that he has become an adult, he has become bewildered on how short summer is becoming. It is not giving kids time to enjoy nature and to explore. Another example he uses
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