Synecdoche

Since the foundation and establishment of the United States of America, Americans, either as a civilian or a politician, have sought after peace and unity. Leaders throughout our history have exploited manifold means to achieve this idealized notion, including diplomacy, appeasement, ransom, and, ironically, war. John F. Kennedy, a young, brilliant, and Catholic Democrat, delivered his inaugural speech on a frigid January 20, 1961. JFK’s inauguration became the first inaugural speech to ever be given

From reading the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke a person could take away one of two different meanings behind the poem. The two meanings that one could take are as such, it is either a fond outlook on a father coming home drunk after work and playing with his child, or it is a dark outlook of a drunk father coming home and beating his child. While how one interprets it is based on their personal schema during the first time reading the poem, it could be argued that upon further examination

An example of symbolism in The Dust Bowl is in the poem “On The Road With Arley” when Billy Joe Said “And every little crowd is grateful to hear a rag or two played on the piano by a long-legged, red-haired girl, even when the piano has a few keys soured by dust.” This is symbolic for the struggle that the family has to deal with because of the drought, dust storms, and their way of life. In this poem, when Billy Joe says “At first Ma crossed her arms against her chest and stared me down, hard-jawed

focuses on figurative languages, such as similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophes, synecdoches, and metonymies. Although I already knew what a simile, metaphor, and personification, I did not know what an apostrophe and metonymy was. An apostrophe addresses someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing is present and alive and could reply to what is being said. And a synecdoche is the use or the part for the whole and metonymy is the use of something closely related

1. Michel Foucault writes in his essay about the carceral nature of modern life. Write a short essay in which you illustrate and explain this concept, using the film Synecdoche, New York as a case study. In modern society, we are always being watched and documented by a certain power or institution, an authoritative one in certain cases. This creates a sense of carcerality in these societies. The powers or institutions that are always observing the individuals in a population and analyzing them

Chapter seven of Policy Paradox by Deborah Stone is about symbols in politics. The main components of this chapter include a description of what symbols are, symbolic devices, and ambiguity. Chapter two of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is about how the War on Drugs and how the War on Drugs has no limit. The main components of the chapter include how the police have little constraints when it comes to the War on Drugs, being labeled, and how people cannot defend themselves from the War on

Macbeth is indirectly characterized as guilt ridden from committing regicide and the nonessential murders that followed afterwards. In Lady Macbeth’s character developement, Shakespeare displays an extensive use of symbolism, hyperbole, and both synecdoche and metonymy throughout the passage to characterize her new conscience-stricken character. And all while keeping a regretful, yet condemned,

Jasper John’s 1983 artwork of Racing Thoughts and Byron Kim’s 1991 Synecdoche are both in the exhibited as part of the Whitney Museum’s: Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney Collection. Applying encaustic process, which is known as a hot wax painting, Jasper John created this screen-print with wax crayon on collaged cotton and linen. Jasper John describes this piece as a series of images that ran through his mind while he was lying in the bathtub. He included items he saw around the room

Iraq, Chris Kyle published “American Sniper,” a patriotic, regretful memoir showcases pride in protecting others. While Tim O’Brien uses Point of View and Imagery to express how both sides of the war, has good people with lives. Chris Kyle uses synecdoche and metaphor to demonstrate that the enemy is just the enemy. It is evident that

“For the Sake of the Song” and “Song of Myself” share several key similarities, including a strong use of figurative language, making a connection with humanity, and both are considered romantic poems. Walt Whitman’s poetry contains much figurative language and connections between individuals and how they relate to the whole of society. Walt Whitman and Townes Van Zandt both seem pretty okay with death, as they talk about dying in their writings a lot and they both seem pretty nonchalant about it