Sonnet 2 Figurative Language

In the scene “Anger Management”, the author, Tyler Perry, uses mocking, clever wordplay, and sarcasm to create humor, and convey a universal truth of everyone relishes revenge. To point out the universal truth of everyone relishes revenge, Tyler Perry uses mocking to show how everyone likes to get even. For example, when Dr.Phil asks madea, let 's talk about your childhood.” and Madea responds back,“Let 's talk about your childhood,” shows how Madea mocks

The use of theme in “The Scarlet Ibis” stresses the duality of pride. In “A and P,” Updike uses theme to remind us of the feelings of stepping away from society, and just how hard that can be. Finally, in “The Cold Equations,” Goodwin uses theme to show the balance we all must have in our lives between who we are and things we cannot

Steve Cutts’ Happiness delivers the idea of our consumerism-driven society being led to a constant and futile search for happiness through the suppressed depth of its fast-paced storyline, prioritising meaning over matter. Tadmor and Nattiv’s Strangers, through built-up tension between cultural groups, focuses on the detail in confrontational interactions following the overcoming of an embedded racial divide. Therefore both texts capture the versatile scope with which the short film medium, in its comparative brevity and succinct meaning, can deliver to society a greatly valuable perspective on pertinent

It is often said that an anti-climax work is more admired than its counterparts. For reasons, the struggle of humans, the ultimate failure of a hero, and the corruption of mortal spirit have always hold its ground against classic comedy. From the ages of Oedipus Rex, a tragedy carries the irony of an egoistic giant trapped in predestined downfall. Oedipus was almost certain that he had escaped the arranged destiny. This confidence led him to pursue the murderer of Thebes until, at the end, he made the horrible discovery that his wife was his mother, and that his daughters were instead, his sisters.

In “The Indispensable Opposition”, Walter Lippmann writes that respecting others freedom of speech is difficult, but it must be done. He informs the readers that freedom of opinion is of the utmost importance in society, and that the freedom of others is our own vital necessity. He persuades readers by using powerful diction to set the tone, periodic sentences, and juxtaposition. Lippmann uses diction to emphasize his point, in that he uses multiple words to draw the reader's attention.

The descriptive language in the poem described certain mood for the reader to appeal the reader. The poet start the poem with the phrase ‘Do not go gentle’, it creates a strong emotion from the poet and is repeated throughout the poem. The repetition of the phrase seems to show the poet speaker’s stubbornness towards the subject of giving up and yielding to the impending death. It impose the meaning that the poet speaker does not want people to just give up

“I Too am America,” is about an immigrant who has arrived to USA to get a better life, but once he/she gets a job all they do is work and they don’t get paid fairly! In this poem “I Too am America,” Chris McMahon, the author, conveys the theme that it is important to never give up on who you are through his use of the speaker, figurative language, and attitude/tone. One way that McMahon demonstrates the theme that never giving up on who you are is through his use of the speaker, because the speaker allows the author to give the reader a more powerful way of connecting with the reader. Which allows the reader to be more engaged in the poem. For example, when the reader starts reading the poem you can feel that the reader has had a very rough life by just reading the poem.

Self Control is Essential Self control is a very important trait for a person to have. Having the ability to restrain your emotions and impulses will keep oneself away from unnecessary conflict and strengthen one’s mind. For example, in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Odysseus displays his aptness to keep his composure and do what is needed to be done even in difficult situations. His men, on the other hand, failed to constrain themselves and allowed their emotions cloud their judgement.

They convey this theme by carefully choosing their diction, using vivid

Lastly, he builds his credentials from the stories and family history. In the text, Stein’s diction, tone, and ethos effectively conveys his point. An element Stein exercises to convey his point is the use of diction. He uses a specific diction at different parts in the letter to spark a reaction or thoughts from the audience.

Kennedy had a vision; Catch-22 had legs. The state of the world conspired to keep it in play.” In conclusion, Dickstein’s claims are well supported and extremely thorough, which lends this article to be exceedingly useful and

The author uses several exclamation marks such as after “Heart!” , “tonight!”, Haste!”, and “remember him!”. This ads emphasis and is used so that the reader focuses greatly in those lines as they are the most important concepts to the author. The author, also uses personification and apostrophes like in the word “Heart”. A heart does not think or feel or forget.

Continuing on to speak of how “your improvement should bear some proportion to your advantages,” showing how important and beneficial these experiences are building up character and turning John Quincey Adams into a man. Concluding her letter, Abigail Adams places a slight pressure on her son to feel guilty about not wanting to embrace this opportunity. Achieveing this through her deliberate wording and her strong emphasis on pathos. Nevertheless, she uses picturesque diction, a supportive tone, and allusions to encourage John Quincey Adams to persevere through the struggles that he is faced with in

Junior’s power is shown through Alexie’s use of figurative language. When Junior’s basketball team were doing very well he uses a hyperbole to express how he feels about it. “We just killed people, winning by double figures every time” (181). “Killing people” in this sense means that Junior’s team were winning many games and were much better than opposing teams. By using this hyperbolic statement, it expresses how confident and proud Junior is of being a winner.

The concept of time changes with traumatic events. The duration of these stretches an intermediate length, allowing one to remember former fallacies and lament on what led to this dire situation. In his short story, The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce illustrates an execution and its effect on the mental processing of the victim.