Lexical Stylistic Devices

Body movement and posture – the way in which people walk, move their hands or even cross their legs can send a message about how they are feeling. When people sit with their arms crossed can mean that they are not taking any notice or that they disagree with you. Leaning back or to the side can show people that they are relaxed or even bored. If you are leaning forward, that can show people that you are interested or that you are showing sympathy or concern. When being face to face with someone that can send the message of being angry.

In your essay, it is mandatory to know that the paragraphs are important. Every essay has a main idea, which is also known as a topic sentence. In an essay a paragraph is united and it avoids using excessive information that is not needed. A decent paragraph progresses its main idea. Paragraphs use various rhetorical tactics such as – approaches like organization, comparison, difference, and reason and result. In an essay, numerous writers find it beneficial toward viewing a small and solid paragraph. The main idea is always specified in the start of a topic sentence. Additional sentences in an essay support the main idea through examples. In an essay a paragraph should usually be 50 – 250 words, but it doesn’t matter how many sentences you

In the short stories “Stones” and “To Every Thing There is a Season” the authors Sandra Birdsell and Alistair MacLeod both use literary devices in a similar manner in order to achieve their thematic objectives. This essay will compare the way the authors use three literary devices such as imagery, metaphor and similes in their short stories to portray the thematic objective of loss of innocence.

Facial Expression: The facial expression such as happiness, sadness, anger and fear helps a lot in conveying a message. These facial expressions are similar all over the world but non- verbal communication and behaviour varies hugely between the cultures in the world.Since the look on a person’s face is noticed , before we hear ,facial expression contributes a lot in a successfully non-verbal communication .

“Mother Tongue” is an essay by Amy Tan that examines the ways in which people treat those who do not speak or act like them. Simply, how people perceive those that are different . The main purpose of “Mother Tongue” is to inform the readers of the ways they might intentionally or unintentionally be treating people who speak broken english as Tan’s mother does. This essay highlights the extreme importance of language and how it connects with everyone’s day to day lives.

“My heart almost burst with expectation. I looked again into the hall mirror, seeking Shirley Temple with her dimpled smile and perfect white-skin features. Bluntly reflected back at me was a helmet of black hair. I looked down. Jutting out from a too-large taffeta dress were two spindly legs matched by pair of bony arms. Something cold clutched at my stomach, made me swallow.”(Choy 41).

Gestures. This can communicate feelings and helps people to be understood. Arms and hands are moved to accompany what people say and add emphasis to what is being said. Gestures can be emphatic or descriptive.

Has it ever occurred to you that this generation tries to search for the next best thing? Is it like a business man try to look for the next best thing that everyone is buying? I mean if other people do it and there perfectly fine doing it we assume that we could do it and we think we will be just fine as well. Take those examples and try to use it with music. Do you think that what we listen to can affect us in any way or not? Maybe and maybe not, but some of us tend to get influenced by what they put into their heads. Not everything that we see or do can import negative thought or feelings, but listening is a part of that category as well. Therefore, what these artists are trying to do is trying to use a rhetorical device to tell us that

Throughout the year I have not only come to have a further understanding of literature and writing, but I have also gained the skill of analyzing works of literature and my own Essays while considering devices. Later in the year we focused on a short story by Mark Twain called The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; after reading it, we were challenged to analyze the text through our understanding of literary and rhetorical devices.

Leaving soldiers as a shell of a human being, the torment of war is everlasting. Despite being off the battlefield, soldiers suffer from mental and physical distress long after the war is over. Soldiers have to relearn how to participate in society, and for some the impact of war destroys the concept of normal life altogether. The pain and sorrow of soldiers can be put into words through rhetorical devices. These devices, through the use of specific language, describe in detail the ways in which war physically and mentally changed soldiers. Further stressing this change, rhetorical devices reveal that once a soldier is deployed the concept of normalcy is destroyed. The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien perfectly demonstrates through

Obama sings the same old song written by Cal Thomas for the Washington Times is a criticism on President Obama’s approach to welfare. Cal’s main audiences with this writing are readers of the Washington times and Republicans. Cal Thomas disagrees with President Obama’s approach to poverty, he believes that it has already not worked for long enough and we should try a new approach. He uses many rhetorical tools throughout this piece such as: statistics and facts, personal experience, and selective information.

The use of rhetorical devices is to give a better idea as to what is being told but also we constantly suing them already to express ourselves. Within the essay I used a metaphor which was, “ I stuck to my belief of honesty and eventually I made it through the thick mud I seemed to be crawling through” which used to emphasize the situation and express a struggle. I expresses the difficult I conquered in a different view. The statement, “Memories are like the seeds left behind from a fruitful moment” is a simile which I used to provide a clearer idea as to the perspective on memories and why they hold value. In the middle of the essay I wrote, “to learn more about the focus of the experiment, to understand the purpose, to focus on the function

Communication changes us by giving us a way to understand each other. Communication bringsus closer to people by being able to tell them our interests, wants, needs, and beliefs. Being able to understand whoever you are around is very important, without communication we would not be able to do that. The way we communicate makes a big difference in our lives. Metaphor: Poem: “Dream Deferred, Harlem” By Langston Hughes Quote: “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” Meaning: The quote from this poem is asking if dreams can just start to fade away. Poem: “Dreams” By langston Hughes Quote: “Life is a broken winged bird” Meaning: The quote in this poem is using a metaphor by comparing life to a bird with broken wings.Simile: Poem: “Dream Deferred, Harlem” By Langston Hughes Quote: “Or fester like a sore” Meaning: The quote from this poem is comparing a desire to

In this passage, the author describes a boxing match between Griffith and Paret in which Parent is killed in the ring, he relates himself through the use of images, syntax and diction. Each of these aid in showing objective and subjective parts about the entire passage as a whole. The objective side of things is when the author uses facts from his point of view as a reporter sitting a little outside the ring. The subjective shows how images, syntax and diction show the feelings toward a subject. The author uses many different subjective and objective images, syntax and diction to help show the feeling of the passage.

Throughout my essay, I make use of a few rhetorical and literary devices to make my arguments more profound and interesting to the readers. On the second paragraph I state, “with enough persistence and dedication, those harsh obstacles will fly by like a breeze” which is an example of an analogy. This analogy is present as a simile in which it explains that after working hard to overcome an obstacle, when another comes along, I will be able to get over it as if I were walking through a breeze. This sets a better image to the reader on the situation. The fourth paragraph uses an allusion when referring to “Hogwarts” which is a fictional wizardry school from the book “Harry Potter”. The buildings in the school look as if they were an ancient