Language poets

Connotation 1. Imagery- “ Her Brain, all those coils and thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes.”(3) This is how Nick Dunne describes his wife’s mind. 2. Imagery- “the awakening was mechanical. A spooky ventriloquist dummy click of the lids.”(3) This is imagery, because it is a comparison. Between a physically movement of a character, and an inanimate object. 3. Personification- “The sun was still an angry eye in the sky.”(9) Nonliving things cannot be emotional, but

The Use of Conceit In The Things They Carried, conceit is used by taking two totally unrelated ideas or symbols and making them relate to each other. Throughout the entirety of this novel, conceit is a way for the readers to come to appreciate each character and story in a new light. The chapters, “In the Field,” and “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong,” use this literary device to truly paint a better picture of the over-all feeling of the book. These extended metaphors help the audience feel

Martin Espada is a brilliant poet who writes poetry about deep real life situation. I choose this poet because I came across a short simple poem called Why I Went to College. I like the poem because of the sense of humor of how his dad reacts if he didn’t go to college. I can relate to this poem because that how my parents would react if I didn’t go to college. Martin Espada wrote endless poetry. Not every poem that he ever wrote has humor but some are very deep. He wrote about poem that inspired

opportunity to use language, however for some dogs, specifically Prince, a mutt, the gift of language is not completely useful in all cases. In Prince’s situation, language has great benefits, yet it also has its disadvantages. Language is ineffective for Prince in many ways, he is disliked among his pack due to his use of language, nobody understands his poems, he cannot communicate with others, and his greediness of his language brought him great grief. With the use of language, Prince becomes encompassed

Figurative language can be used to enhance a literary piece in an instant. It is a tool used by many authors and poets, including the poet Henry Kemp. There are around 10 different types of figurative language. 2 examples of figurative language are personification and onomatopoeia, which is used in Kemp’s poem, “I Sing the Battle”. In his poem, the theme of pain in war is clearly shown through the use of figurative language such as personification and onomatopoeia. Henry Kemp uses personification

the site for an intersection of numberless other texts, and existing only through its relation to others.’ (Abrams 317) But Bakhtin’s primary focus is on language or discourse as used in the text. Language used in a novel is a combination of echoes from many languages – literary, religious, commercial, formal, colloquial, legal and from the languages related to the spheres of human activity that the author chooses to draw upon. Bakhtin’s own observation in ‘Discourse in the Novel’ is very much pertinent

least ONE memorable use of language in the text(s) Explain how this use of language helped you understand one or more key ideas in the text(s). In the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ and ‘The Send-Off’ by Wilfred Owen, he uses a variety of language techniques including metaphor, personification and emotive expressive language to create a huge impact on readers evoking feelings such as horror and pity of the soldiers and of war. Owen’s intention of using these effective language techniques was to convey

since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars." Aristotle in Poetics. Poetry is language that says more than ordinary language. It uses figures of speech. Each figure of speech may suggest several meanings with minimal words. It uses words with strong connotations and these words appeal to the reader's emotions. The language in poetry is strong. The Oxford English Dictionary defines figure of speech as "a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense

“COMING INTO LANGUAGE” by Jimmy Santiago Baca portrays how literacy can bring light into life and forever changed a person’s world. Baca, a ninth-grade dropout, before his 18th birthday Baca was arrested for refusing to explain the wound on his forearm. This unfortunate event exposed how powerless he was. In prison, the reading of the prisoners enlightens Baca. The words of different writers influenced his original thought toward reading. Two years later, as Baca was arrested again, he fell deeper

Transformational Writing "In the piece, Coming into language, Jimmy Santiago Baca reflects his time spent in prison, where he battled illiteracy and experimented with personal writing. Orphaned at the age of two, Baca spent most of his life in the barrio and on the streets. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade and became a felon at the age of seventeen. Completely illiterate, Baca discovered his heritage in a picture book of Chicano history. A Chicano, Baca identified with the