Figures of speech

most beautiful combinations, to me, are the use of imagery and metaphors. With the use of these two figures of speech the reader is able to paint a complete, detail picture in their from the piece they are reading. In “Elegy for Jane”, the speaker is standing over the grave of a student, Jane, of his who fell of a horse to her death. Roethke uses imagery and diction, among other figures of speech, to help the reader picture the young Jane that he loved and knew by using nature to make the connection

love herself for who she is. Hoagland’s poem stresses the importance that beauty goes deeper than the surface. Throughout his poem, Tony Hoagland uses many literary devices to perfect his poem. These devices include the message, tone, imagery, figures of speech, and personification. Tony Hoagland was born November 19, 1953 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina (“Poet- Tony Hoagland”). Hoagland attended school at the University of Iowa and the University of Arizona. The New York Times reviewer

When John F. Kennedy delivered his Inaugural Speech in January of 1961, it had been a large accomplishment. His speech reached a worldwide audience. Kennedy sought to inspire the nation and to send a message to it, signaling the challenges of the old times and his hope for a newfound peace. In order to display his purpose of coming together, Kennedy used many different rhetorical devices throughout his speech. Kennedy used anaphoras, chiasmus and metaphors to display his purpose in a conversational

memoir "a Long Way Gone" is a true story about his early life and his experience in the war in Sierra Leone as a child soldier. There are many symbols, figures of speech and images used in Beah's memoir. Interchangeably, there are relationships between all three of these terms in the book. In "a Long Way Gone" Symbolism, Images and figures of speech convey a very moody message to the reader, based upon what they are reading. These literary building blocks helped shape the memoir and keep the reader

“Slavery in the south was brutal as anybody could imagine” an idea expressed by Jean Toomer through his poem called “November Cotton Flower”. The poem is fourteen lines of rhyming verse describing the harsh, sudden and questionable bloom of a cotton flower in the month of November. It is composed of heroic couplets, with a regular rhyme scheme, which is as follows: A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D, E, E, F, G, H, H, but the poem reads like Shakespearian sonnet - three quatrains developing a certain tone and

clarify and get across his personal debt to the country. He is emphasizing he will serve the nation appropriately. Ed Milliband also has multiple lists of threes’s in his speech such as “this is what I am, this is what I believe in, this is my faith” as well as “we’ve heard it , we’ve seen it, we’ve felt it. “ This power speech

Maycomb, which depicts goodness and pleasantness in life. D. Irony- A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. Ex.- Shakespeare employs this verbal irony in Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II: CASSIUS: ” ‘Tis true this god did shake.” Cassius, despite knowing the mortal flaws of Caesar, calls him “this god”. E. Metonymy- A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Metaphors are one of the most common figures of speech found in literature. Not to be confused with similes; metaphors differ by not using words such as “like” or “as” in the comparing process. If you use them correctly, they can make visualizing and understanding a cake-walk for readers. Metaphors aren’t just used sentence by sentence. Sometimes whole paragraphs

an audience. In the Inauguration Speech of 1961 given by President John F. Kennedy, he was able to really connect with his audience that day by using lots of different rhetorical devices. By using chiasmus, anaphoras, and metaphors, JFK was able to effectively reach and persuade people to have faith in him despite his age and religion. Perhaps the most important line of JFK's entire inaugural address was a utilization of chiasmus, which is a figure of speech by which

with something far more unsettling. Perhaps it was a newfound perspective: the perspective of an American slave on Independence Day - a day that was, according to Douglass, not a celebration applicable to a person of color. The purpose of Douglass’s speech, “The Hypocrisy of the Nation Must Be Exposed”, is exactly that: to evoke a response that makes people uncomfortable, a response that makes people reconsider. In this piece, he criticizes the nation’s blatant disregard for its own founding principles