Diction In The Dragon's Path By Daniel Abraham

After reading Machiavelli’s The Prince and watching Shakespeare’s Henry V in class, one begins to notice similarities between the authors’ idea of what a “perfect king” should be. The patterns between the ideal ruler of Shakespeare and the ideal ruler of Machiavelli can be seen in numerous instances throughout this story. For the duration of this essay, I will compare the similarities in both pieces to give the reader a better understanding of how Shakespeare devised his view of what a “perfect king” should be.

In this part of the passage, Ray Bradbury (the author) uses imagery, diction, and figurative language to foreshadow the ending of “The Veldt.” He uses these to foreshadow the ending of the story by showing that something had been killed recently and that everything had seemed a bit too real because of all the odors.

Throughout Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, there are many details that help give the reader a deeper, more profound, meaning of the book's intended purpose. Krakauer is one of the most renowned American writers, publishing many books focused specifically focused on nature, and people’s struggles in nature. Through much of the book, Krakauer incorporates many examples of diction and imagery to help the reader grasp the essence of the book. By using a wide range of literary techniques, Krakauer is able to communicate the events that transpired throughout the book.

In every religion, the holy text or the preachers ask that their worshippers believe in some form of God. Most people can blindly pursue and believe in God without question, without inquisition. Then there are those who cannot aimlessly worship a possibly fictional God. The struggle comes when there is no validation, no confirmation, of God or anything that He ever did. During the Holocaust, an estimated six million Jews struggle with their faith in every concentration camp, including Elie Wiesel. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, diction, and characterization to expose his internal battle with believing in his faith and seeing the others battle with their faith as well.

To begin the second stanza, Henry questions sleep asking why it will visit those “in smoky cribs” but not him in the “perfum’d chambers” of his castle. With this classic struggle between classes, Henry highlights how the nobles felt entitled to more than what everyone else had. Ironically, Henry address sleep as a “dull god” in the second sentence of the stanza. Just some lines before Henry was questioning sleep as if sleep was unaware of the special treatment that Henry thought he deserved. Moreover, Henry’s mind continues to fall into chaos and change the role of sleep from a gift-giving person to a god who grants his followers tranquility. Henry tempts the “god of sleep” by offering him a place “under the canopies of costly state.” At this moment, Shakespeare parallels a scene from the bible where the devil tempts Jesus (God), but Jesus never cowered. The last sentence consisting of eight lines and conclude with a period shows the kings panic and stress as he loses control. The structure of the sentence shows how sleep “rock[s] his brains” causing a “rude imperious surge” of emotion. The kings’ mind degrades from his sleep deprivation. What once was a mind of authority becomes a mind of “clamor in the slippery clouds” of his brain. The final convoluted sentence attempts to establish structure, but loses focus until after the last comma when Shakespeare

Louie Zamperini: Olympian, War Hero, Role Model Author, Laura Hillenbrand, in the biography Unbroken, narrates Louie Zamperini’s thrilling journey through World War II. Hillenbrand’s storyline goes into heart wrenching detail of the excruciating experiences Zamperini endured. Throughout, and particularly, when Louie’s war plane Green Hornet crashes, the author portrays the ideals of never giving up and self-determination through diction, imagery, and pathos. Throughout Unbroken, Hillenbrand continuously uses a variety of diction to keep the readers attached. Specifically, when Louie’s plane has engine failure and plunges into the Pacific, the author uses very tense and powerful word choice in order to show uncertainty and to create suspense.

In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Hotspur, the most talented young warrior in England, leads a rebellion against King Henry IV while, Hal, the king’s seemingly lazy, indifferent son and heir to the throne, fights against Hotspur for the throne. Hal and Hotspur have a similar ideology as seen in their common metaphors; however, Hal speaks with various extended metaphors, biblical allusions, and strategically places his use of verse and prose while Hotspur speaks with simpler metaphors, war imagery, and mainly speaks in verse. Shakespeare emphasizes these speech patterns to demonstrate Hal’s ability to manipulate the world to his benefit and Hotspur’s extremely volatile sensibility, and thus, proves Hal to be more qualified to rule than Hotspur.

Shakespeare’s use of imagery, diction, and syntax within Henry IV, Part II aids in portraying King Henry’s state of mind due to his inability to sleep. By personifying sleep within the soliloquy, a great impact is created which creates the illusion that sleep is purposely ignoring King Henry while bestowing its gift on his subjects.

The diction Rossi uses in the novel Riders is very informal and casual, so the reader might relate to the main characters. Rossi chooses the diction in Riders very deliberately to create an accurate portrayal of an eighteen year old boy in the military that has just died, come back to life, and found out he was a horseman of the apocalypse. An example of the laid-back diction style Rossi choose to use in the novel is when Gideon is retelling and reliving the memory of when he found how he truly was a horsemen; moreover, Gideon is also having to cope with his reality of being detained and drugged by the U.S. government, so Gideon will remain calm in his retelling of his memories.

He uses a powerful metaphor to slavery throughout the speech, referring to their “chains”. This creates a feeling of distaste, as slaves were the lowest members of the unofficial social caste system of colonial times. The comparison to such an undesirable position creates a strongly negative emotional reaction in the reader. Beyond that, Henry uses strong diction to get the reader riled up. Words such as “treason” and “insidious” along with his listed account of the increasingly humiliating ways they have “prostrated themselves before the throne” stirs the reader to sympathy towards their suffering at the “tyrannical hands of the ministry”. He couples this with allusions, using two to describe the kind treatment that Britain had been giving them presently. He cites the “song of the siren” and betrayal “with a kiss”, alluding to Greek mythology and the Bible,

Diction: In Night Elie Wiesel using diction to show the effects the Holocaust had on him and his fellow prisoners. Through the story Elie uses imagery to help the reader experience what is going on. The author uses strong language, but short sentences to move the reader. The book uses dialogue in almost every chapter in the book to help reader understand the characters.

The dragon yelped as the sword pierced his heart. The knight, unaware, celebrated as if he had saved the day. Unfortunately, he only made matters worse. He had killed the princess’ dragon. Through my poem, I wanted to show the reader that help can do more harm than good. This is justified because those who come to help see a need to help. This means that they may not know the full side of the story and understand the different perspectives. My poem, “You only cause more harm, grief, sorrow, and anger.”, demonstrated this theme through literary devices and visual devices. To begin with, I wrote the simile, “like a dog spotting a bone” to draw parallels between the knight and the dragon (4). The simile relates to the theme by showing that people are drawn to areas,

The diction of Brave New World contains numerous of complex words that contain at least 4 syllables. However, this later changes between the conversations or dialogue of characters because of the informality. Nevertheless, the difficult words which contain more than two syllables fits into the overall setting of Brave New World since it takes place in an advanced and future world that more of an adaption to technology, “The abnormal endocrine coordination causing the slow growth was postulated to be a germinal mutation.” In addition to matching the setting, these words can show the intelligence of the characters because of the complex scientific words, "A man so conventional, so scrupulously correct as the Director - and to commit so gross a solecism (Huxley 136)!" As stated earlier, Huxley uses informal diction for specific dialogues between characters. For instance, even though Lenina works as a nurse, her dialogue is mostly often written informally. Because of this change of diction, Huxley portrays Lenina as more of a simpler character than the rest of those who work in the factory, such as Henry.

William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, composed during the last years of the 16th century, is as much as character study as it is a retelling of a moment in history. Though the play is titled for one king, it truly seems to revolve around the actions of the titular character's successor. Indeed, Henry IV is a story of the coming-of-age of Prince Hal and of the opposition that he must face in this evolution. This process gives narrative velocity to what is essentially a conflagration between two personality types. In Prince Hal, the audience is given a flawed but thoughtful individual. Equally flawed but more given over to action than thought is his former ally and now-nemesis, Hotspur. In the latter, Shakespeare offers a warrior and a man of action and in the former, the playwright shows a politician in his nascent stages of development. The contrast between them will drive the play's action.

Proverbs 16:25 There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.?