Litotes

A. Juxtaposition- A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. Ex.- “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear;” B. Imagery- To use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. Ex.- “Brookfield

Using ironic understatements, also known as litotes, heightens the readers’ fear by adding a suspenseful tone in Beowulf. When a situation is deemphasized the reader/listener can further understand the severity of it because it allows their interpretation to be more terrifying than what the situation is. Litotes are frequently used in Beowulf, in lines 138-139, “It was easy then to meet with a man shifting himself to a safer distance”, downplays the fear and simplicity to move when paralyzed with

important than the ideas themselves. Poetic devices he uses are called litotes, which express a positive statement by using its opposite negatives. To say “the ice cream was not bad” would be an intentional understatement, when instead one could say the ice cream was “good.” Litotes are used for irony, which is “using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.”1 Also commonly found throughout the novel, litotes are used for emphatic effect to benefit setting, plot, and character

It was reported to Marion Lee Kempner’s family that “On 11 November 1966, Marion Lee (Sandy) Kempner was killed by shrapnel from a mine explosion. He was 24 years old” (Kempner 30). Marion Lee Kempner, more commonly known as Sandy Kempner, was a 1960s soldier skirmishing in the Vietnam War. On September 2, 1966, Kempner wrote a letter to his family in which he addressed the perils of the war, varying from the lethal tasks the soldiers perform to the meager food they are given. Throughout the entirety

Through his use of rhetorical devices such as tone and litotes he is able to emphasize his points, while at the same time he throws in a hefty amount of irony to keep the reader from thinking the piece is truthful and serious. In order for the audience to not completely disregard the story, the author needs to put some realism into his writing. A way in which he achieves this is through an under exaggerated tone. Swift constant use of litotes builds this tone and helps make everything stay real

Question 8 Thesis Thesis is a short statement that recaps the main point of a piece of writing. The thesis statement is developed in the text by use of examples and evidence. This presets the main idea, and states the authors opinion. It is a guide for the rest of the paper, and it keeps the topic focused. Thesis creates a more general idea by condensing the passage into a single sentence. Example: Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God and Idgy from Fries Green Tomatoes are very similar in many

was mainly in the form of alliterative verse (Greenblatt). When comparing to other forms of poetry, there are 6 key characteristics that define alliterative verse: four-beat lines, medial caesuras, enjambments, half-line alliteration, kennings and litotes. In addition to Beowulf and “Caedmon’s Hymn”, examples will also be taken from my alliterative verse translation of the nursery rhyme “Little Jack Horner”. Jack the Horner By Student Jack the Horner, not gigantic was he.

Double negatives are seen as bad or evil nowadays in our advancing society —as generally, they should. We’ve all been taught to avoid phrases like “She didn’t like no one,” or “He said nothing,” because they are unwieldy and confusing and in fact mean the opposite (“She likes everyone,” “He said something”) of what they appear to. “It’s not impossible,” I said thoughtfully, of stacking her plasticware on top of her cookware on top of her cabinets. “I don’t disagree,” I said amiably, about her suggestion

answers this with a recollection of her, to say the least, unique childhood. In writing The Glass Castle, Walls is forced to reflect on her life and family and realize how both have affected her as an individual; quotes of her mother are filled with litotes, descriptions and interactions with her father are surrounded with motifs of “being tough”, and the effects of being raised by these two characters

as diction, litotes, and imagery.     James’ use of litotes exemplifies how much he objected to the actor, as well as that he would not recommend viewing a play with Mr. Irving performing in it. For example, Mr. Irving is described as “...not a little disappointment,” and “...not of a kind to provoke enthusiasm.” James is saying that Mr. irving was not a small disgrace, but rather a large one, and that the actor is not enthusiastic enough to being playing as Macbeth. The use of litotes by James has