My Fear By Lawrence Rab Literary Devices

Which again leads back to Alexie wanting his readers to feel some sense of darkness and sadness out of this

I chose to respond to the poem titled “My Fear” and the theme is personification. This person refers to their fear as a person, within the text they state, “He follows us, he keeps track. Each day his lists are longer.” The author gave his fear and human characteristic in order to convey the significance of this crippling fear that haunts them. This person has grown to expect the negative aspects of this concept of fear, they hope that next time it strikes it won’t be as decimating or draining.

The man knows this and feels bad for not liking the man’s eye, but believes his reason makes it okay. “It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.” Poe. The beating of the heart began to make him angry.

In this rivalry, the character feels horror and/or large amounts of fear. By showing these emotions and actions in his story, the author is emphasizing how much the society 's indifference affected him. When present with fear,

The works of Dittmann and Golding imply that people will be more violent in a survival situations that are difficult to exit because they provide the person with an ideology to justify their actions so that they will not be held accountable. In the article “What makes good people do bad things?” the author states that situations can foster evil by “Providing people with an ideology to justify beliefs for actions”(Dittmann) and by making “exiting the situation difficult”(Dittmann). Golding examines these points in his novel through his character Jack, one of the older boys who fills a

There is always something that bothers us in life, whether it’s others or even our own conscious. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator has a difficult time following through with his cruel acts because a part of him knows it’s truly wrong. Throughout the story, his crimes bring more tension between him and the old man. Suspense is created with his every move, leaving readers hanging on the edge of their seats. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe builds suspense by using symbolism, inner thinking, and revealing information to the reader that a character doesn’t know about.

Edgar Allan Poe’s use of literary devices to show the how fear of the characters in his stories are both helpful and harmful to them. Poe shows how the fears and obsessions of the narrators in his tales either lead to their inevitable death, or their miraculous survival. Edgar Allan Poe uses many literary devices in his texts, such as symbols, ironies, and figurative language, to show the strange and distorted ways of the characters, and the repercussion of their fears and obsessions. In Poe’s stories, a literary device he uses frequently throughout his stories, are symbols.

They Were making a mockery of my horror”. In the begin of the story the narrator use long length sentence to sound educate to the reader. But now he using short sentence to show his panic to the reader. As the reader reads this part of the text they begin to read it at a quicker pace given them a sense of his fear also. In the Poem the Raven the narrator use reption to affect how the reader sees the world of Poe.

Poe uses the aid of the literary repetition to slow down the speed of the story and to increase the level of anticipation. For an example, Poe uses this technique in the first sentence of his story to get the readers hooked to the story when the narrator opens the story with ‘‘TRUE! —Nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am’. The phrase ‘very, very dreadfully nervous’ creates the suspense that something bad is bound to happen due to the narrator’s nervousness. The adverb ‘dreadful’ in the phrase proves it as it carries out the meaning of something that causes fear, dread or terror.

It should be noted though that these intense feelings occur due to some stimulus that is either internal or external to the person. A man, for instance, who sees himself, about to be attacked, would feel surprised at first then would either feel anger or fear afterwards. This feeling will determine how he would react to such situation; whether he will fight or whether he would flee. In communication, a person’s emotion also determines the nature of his interaction with others. When a person is upset, it would either show in his or her physical reaction as well as in her use of verbal

A word is an interesting object. Words have a clear cut meaning, sometimes not just one meaning either possibly three or four. Even after having these clear cut meanings words are also up to interpretation, where one person could see the word vagina as a disgusting, vile term someone else could see it merely as a medical term. Walker understands this concept and writes about fear in his “Black 101.” By using repetition, Walker is able to mold the audience’s interpretation of fear in a way that aligns with what he wants them to understand it as, which is this strong, negative connotation.

In his book, The Culture of Fear, Barry Glassner covers the methods and shortcomings of the television and print media and their motives when reporting crimes. Glassner respects our basic understanding that specific crimes are often sensationalized. He explains how the murder of a young Gulf War combat veteran upon returning home was used to turn the public’s attention towards violent crime in America. Unfortunately the young veterans’ death was actually a planned murder for insurance money, which the media neglected to mention. Glassner indicates that workplace violence and murders are portrayed as something akin to a disgruntled worker syndrome, but the reality is that 90% of workplace murders are committed by those intending to rob (Glassner

Fear and Change in Ray Bradbury’s “Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed” In an interview with The Paris Review in 2010, Ray Bradbury once stated that “science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going…”, showcasing Bradbury’s passion for science fiction, which is further exhibited through the fact that he has written nearly 600 short stories. Although Ray Bradbury is known for his popular novel, Farenheit 451, many tend to overlook these numerous short stories, one of which is a personal favorite of mine—“Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed”.

George Orwell’s novel, 1984 and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, both share fear as a common theme. Fear as a tool can control, change, and force people to do things that do not seem acceptable, such as make people turn on others, become violent, and forgo their belief system. Fear can be used in many different ways, such as controlling a population of people to gain power or wealth. In The Time Machine, a group of people called the Eloi, had direct power over another group called the Morlocks. In 1984, one small group of people called the “brother hood” had complete control of society.