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    Use of Literary Devices throughout Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” Ray Bradbury’s personal life encounters and his use of universal literary devices throughout “The Veldt” accentuate his frequent themes involving fear and harmful innovation. Bradbury’s life experiences, such as living during World War II, also played a major roll in his fearful theme decisions and sadistic writing style. Bradbury incorporates multiple literary techniques into “The Veldt” including: metaphors, foreshadowing, irony, imagery

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    How do the Literary Devices construct meaning in “The Visit”? The book “The Visit” is a play which is composed by literary devices. All of the messages and ideas that this play contains are expressed through literary devices, thus giving life to the major themes. Literary devices give meaning to “The Visit” because they construct the main theme, which is money can corrupt anything. To begin, there are many literary devices in “The Visit”, and they are continuously used with the purpose

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    the Twain, by Thomas Hardy, is about the sinking of the Titanic. The title alone describes the ship and the iceberg meeting as one. By choosing this title, the author automatically conveys a seriousness of the poem. The author uses various literary techniques to convey his mockery and careless attitude towards the sinking of the ship. In the first five stanzas, the author discusses the already submerged ship. ?Stilly couches she,? describes the ship resting on the bottom of the ocean. The lines

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    How are the effects of Divergent and Allegiant’s speculation on individuals / groups discussed by the author? What if people divided society into groups based on what their personal virtues were, which they are made to work on throughout their whole lives? What if you had to stay with this group your whole life, leaving your friends and family behind forever? This is the case for the dystopian books Divergent and Allegiant, written by Veronica Roth. There is a lot of speculation in these books

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    create a horror movie. Hitchcock and Poe developed their pieces with suspense to build terror in similar and deferent ways by using literary devices and mise-en-scene. Within Poe's writings he uses a vast amount of imagery to symbolize main concepts, as well as, to explain what is happening in depth to the reader or audience. Hitchcock demonstrates the same technique except he uses the lighting when making his films. In Poe's story "The Masque

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    As a child your morale can be greatly affected due to occurrences that you may have experienced, whether it had been pleasurable or displeasing. It is very common for a child to entrust their guardians with the responsibility of providing for them, but it becomes incredibly difficult for a child to disregard experiences of immense adversity and affliction, as incidents are subliminally embedded into a person's subconsciousness. In “The Farmers Children,” the stepmother seems to abstain from doing

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    Henry’s coming of age story through a strand of events and choices. The fashion in which Crane develops Henry’s story, is by using distinctive literary techniques to establish the theme of courage throughout the novel. Henry, as the main character, would not have developed over the course of the novel without Crane’s use of courage. One literary technique Crane has used in the novel is irony. In particular when Crane writes that “at times he (Henry) regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way

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    Ted hughes uses literary techniques in the most vivid way, to illustrate what his idea of a water lily painting looked like. In all of his works, the goal is to describe a task or a thing, but make the reader understand it by using nature as the key. The task in this poem is presented by the title “How To Paint A Water Lily”. The reason he wrote this poem, was to describe nature by decorating the spirit of the environment around the lily. The two literary techniques that will be discussed in this

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    Comparative Essay – Riya Mackellar and AD Hope use literary devices like imagery, personification and tone to convey their perspective of Australia. The Poem Australia by AD Hope describes his negative opinion of Australia as he looks down on the Australian landscape. Contrastingly, the poem My Country was written by Dorothea Mackellar at age 19 in 1904. She wrote while she was homesick in England and she expresses her deep passion and love for Australia as she compares the natural beauty of Australia

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    Ted Hughes uses literary techniques in the most vivid way, to illustrate what his idea of a water lily painting looked like. In all of his work, the goal is to describe a task or a thing, but make the reader understand it by using nature as the key. The task in this poem is presented by the title “How To Paint A Water Lily”. The reason he wrote this poem, was to describe nature by decorating the spirit of the environment around the lily. The two literary techniques that will be discussed in this

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