Theme Of The Poem When I Was A Child

In the two forms of art, imagery is used to provide an audience with an insight to multiple senses. Carla Starrett illustrates, “Both poems and lyrics

The author uses rhetorical devices such as as strong word choice to express his opinion. For example, in the text he says, “Integration of smartphones into daily life appeals to cause a brain drain.” This example has strong vocabulary and helps communicate his opinion.

Writers often use rhetorical devices in their writing so that the reader can get a clearer, better understanding of what is being written. Rhetorical devices such as similes, metaphors, or imagery, all make a clearer picture in the reader’s head. In “Learning to Read and Write”, by Frederick Douglass, he uses imagery, diction, and syntax to get the message of with education, it makes a person much more open minded to new ideas. In “Reading to Write”, by Stephen King, he uses repetition, imagery, and syntax to explain to the reader that knowing how to read makes you a better writer, improving future skills.

a. Secondly, the author, Alfred Noyes uses imagery to effectively to communicate his message to readers. His use of metaphor, simile and personification all help convey the message of forbidden love and tragedy.

Rhetorical devices are used in essays to persuade the readers into looking at situations in a different perspective or to boil up the reader’s emotions. In other cases, rhetorical devices are used to display one’s truth. The truths displayed in the essays being discussed have to do with unjustness of the Vietnam War.

The most obvious poetic devise of this poem is the rhyming scheme. Rhyming is when there is close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of writin.

“Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims is an excellent of example of an author using many types of literary terms to emphasize his theme of a love that is imperfect yet filled with acceptance. In, this poem Nims uses assonance, metaphor, and imagery to support his theme of “Imperfect, yet realistic love”.

Love is not always an easy adventure to take part in. As a result, thousands of poems and sonnets have been written about love bonds that are either praised and happily blessed or love bonds that undergo struggle and pain to cling on to their forbidden love. Gwendolyn Brooks sonnet "A Lovely Love," explores the emotions and thoughts between two lovers who are striving for their natural human right to love while delicately revealing society 's crime in vilifying a couples right to love. Gwendolyn Brooks uses several examples of imagery and metaphors to convey a dark and hopeless mood that emphasizes the hardships that the two lovers must endure to prevail their love that society has condemned.

Opening: The key to a successful relationship includes both verbal and physical communications. John Monteire, Macnolia’s husband, has a hard time achieving this balance between communications. John relies heavily on diction to convey his feelings. Lastly, John institutes changes in the shape of the text and uses imagery to display his use of physicality.

Through the use of poetic devices such as repetition or alliteration, the author originally describes what love is not capable of providing and defines love as unnecessary but by the end of the poem, the author reveals that love has some value.

After completing the rhetorical analysis of Sherman Alexie’s essay Superman and Me, I have gained a new understanding about rhetorical devices and their application in essay writing. Prior to taking apart Alexie’s text, I had the assumption that the purpose of rhetorical devices were to engage the reader. However, the function of rhetorical devices is beyond enhancing the text: It strengthens the message for the reader. If I read the text without analyzing it I would not have been able notice the effect of rhetorical devices on the essay’s message. He wanted to show young individuals the possibility of success despite the lack of resources. Alexie’s repetition of using the phrase “I’m trying to save my life” (last paragraph) helps to emphasize

This passage helps to build the themes of power, love, and rebellion by the use of literary devices like diction, punctuation, repetition, foreshadowing, and simile.

And the only way this can happen is explained in the next couple lines: “Be with me tonight, I know it isn’t right, but be with me tonight”. When he says “I know it isn’t right”, he associates this with society’s views of what is right and what is wrong. This line really is what made me believe he was in love with someone other than what society deems as

A Cluster Criticism Analysis of “Where is the Love” By the Black Eye Peas
Michael A. Giron, AA of Communications, AA of Psychology
San Francisco State University
Author Note
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WHERE IS THE LOVE CLUSTER CRITICISM 2
A Cluster Criticism Analysis of “Where is the Love” By the Black Eye Peas
Literature Review
Kenneth Burke is a specialist in symbol-systems and symbolic action, he defines rhetoric
as: the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce action and other human
agents (Foss 63). Cluster analysis is a method developed by Kenneth Burke to help the critics
identify the motive of the rhetor. In this method, the meanings that key symbols have for the
rhetor are discovered by charting what symbols cluster around those key symbols in the rhetoric
(Burke 59). Three important components to cluster criticism our identification, consubstantial,
and persuasion. Identification is when individuals form selves or identities through various
properties for substances such as physical objects, occupations, Friends, activities, beliefs, and
values. As two entities are united in substance, through common ideas, attitudes, material,
possessions, or other properties they will exemplify consubstantial entities; “one in the same, but
separate”. Our symbolic ways for marking consubstantiality are identifications, upon which
rhetorical action is based. Kenneth Burke states “You persuade a man only insofar as you can
talk his language by

As a child, I moved around frequently. I lived many different places which meant moving schools often. I enjoyed the different places, I like to travel. I met different types of people from all over. I loved the warm weather so I have been always more favorable to the south, plus I love the food. When I was sixteen my mother and I lived in Nashville, TN. I grew fond of Nashville, many aspects of the city were favorable to me. I spent much of many time downtown enjoying the scenery, parks, and the entertainment. In November of 2010 I had went to the doctor with my mom, I found out I was having a child. So many emotions ran through my head, I was young. I was excited to have a baby girl. When I told her father, he decided he did not want to take part in her life, but that didn’t change how I felt. My daughters father was older than me he didn’t have any kids and at the time he wasn’t ready at the time. I knew the baby in my stomach was so special I could love her more than anything in this world and be both parents to her even with all odds against us. My mother made the decision to move back to Mexico. I made up my mind to stay in the city and do it by myself to start a life for my daughter. My family was disappointed that I would be a single teen parent, they would rather I have waited. I understood their opinion, although I wanted to make the best of the situation and give my daughter the family, love and support that I didn’t have growing up. While my daughter was still