Valentine Make Sense Of Strange Words

‘Growing older, I remember words he taught me, Remnants of a language I inherited unknowingly'-appreciates what his father has passed on to him when describing the clerk, negative images are used ‘dancing-bear grunts'

Old school conquers new school: A personal response to “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil”

Language is a powerful ensemble of instruments that all eject different tones. How instruments are played, effect the tone that is given. The way language is used affects the feelings that are released. The power of language has different uses: it can hurt or heal, it can destroy relationships or build new ones, it can make a girl feel like nothing or make her feel as though she is on top of the world. No matter what language is used for, it can make a huge impact, how language is used determines whether the impact is positive or negative. In her essay “The Meanings of a Word”, Gloria Naylor’s effective depiction of language is revealed through syntax, diction, and imagery.

The diction being very ornate as the author uses unusual word pairings that pair well with the

But I didn't do that -- and as I wrote them to her in my phone my mind was somewhere else altogether, though fully occupied. It was fixed on the image of the row of empty journals on my shelf, wondering why the hell I hadn't written even a single

In order to give an extra “umph” in his song Watsky utilizes a stressed rhyme scheme making the last words in each line landing on a hard sound. By doing so he creates a sense of aggression within his music. That aggression is then transferred into whoever is listening adding another layer of motivation. In the third of stanza Watsky states the line “I write ‘till my fingers look like a bouquet of roses” (8) rhyming it with “you got to bring yourself your flowers now in show biz’”(9). After listening to the song once, it’s impossible for you to read these lines without putting the voice of an aggressive rapper compelling you to sing along or feel music. Then during the 8th stanza Watsky a rhymes a series of words such as “burgundy”(43) with “mahogany” and “me”(47) with “modesty”(48) these following lines almost build to a climax having almost a natural rhythm so much

Prompt : In his essay, Richard Rodriguez reveals “Language is not intimacy” though one might communicate intimacy through language. In a well-supported paragraph, or two, analyze how Rodriguez cultivates this claim in his essay. Support your analysis of his rhetoric with specific references from the text.

In line 33 of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet says "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefor art thou Romeo?", she wants to know why Romeo is a Montague and someone she cannot be with. This shows that love is complex. Love's Vocabulary also talks about how love is complex by saying that love is intangible, or difficult to fully comprehend. Everyone who has and ever will love knows that love is a very strange and confusing thing.

Diction is crucial in literature; it is what creates the mental picture on paper. “Love does Die” is a poem I wrote do to my current state of mind due to an event that happened. It is of a girl, who has been lied to countless times and is trying to reconstruct herself from the damage others have caused her. I chose to use words such as “captivated” instead of captured to give a greater effect of being caught up in something. Also, captivated connotes in this particular content because it what is associated with the meaning of capture. When something is captured, they are held captive against their will; it is what I feel like when people use words to trap me in lie. The word “snake” denotes a reptile but in my poem I have used the connotative

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the speaker is reflecting on his past with his father, but mainly the Sunday mornings he experienced during his childhood. Throughout the poem, there also happens to be a very dark and possibly even somber tone, which is shown by using several different types of literary devices. Hayden utilizes strong imagery supported by diction and substantial symbolism comprehensively. Furthermore, there are various examples of both alliteration and assonances. The poem does not rhyme and its meter has little to no order. Although the father labors diligently all day long, and he still manages to be a caring person in his son’s life. The poem’s main conflict comes from the son not realizing how good his father actually was to him until he was much older. When the speaker was a young boy, he regarded his father as a callous man due to his stern attitude and apparent lack of proper affection towards him. Now that the son is older, he discovers that even though his father did not express his love in words, he consistently did with his acts of kindness and selflessness.

A poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and that often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure. In her poem, “Variations of the Word ‘“love”’,” Margaret Atwood introduces to her audience the word “love” from many different perspectives. Google defines “love” as “an intense feeling of deep affection”, or “having a deep feeling or sexual attachment to (someone).” But “love” is not something that can easily be described. Atwood goes on to present and portray the word through different illustrations, beginning with cliché examples and ending with her own personal scenarios. The author’s tone and metaphorical language effectively conveys her perspective of “love”.

The diction in Raine’s poem A Martain Sends a Postcard Homeis somewhat simple to pronounce, which allows it to be easily read by anyone over sixth grade. The entire poem contains easy-to-understand vocabularies all of which are in English rather than mixing with other languages like some of other poems. For me, even though English is my second language yet I still find the whole poem understandable and enjoyable because of its simple diction.

“Oh snap!” I need to get a new pencil, it broke! I need to be done soon!

Doyle does not try to clean up the language. His use of the vernacular in Paula’s thoughts and speech conveys the anger and pain that an abuse victim feels. For instance:

When is the last time you used the terms, “slough” when your car has gotten stuck in some mud or “weed” when you needed to go buy some new clothes? “Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan is a story that lives on into the twenty-first century but is full of phrases such as these that veer away from the way we speak today. Norton’s anthology seems to think that the objects referenced in this story are “simple and familiar” and all of the places the protagonist visits are “homely and commonplace” (2270). Is this story really suitable for the “simplest of readers,” or has the evolution of our modern language made it too difficult to decipher this 17th-century tale (2270)?