Synecdoche

classicist era. Eliot illustrates his contempt for the modern society by illustrating fragmentation with synecdoche, characterization of Prufrock, and allusions to literary traditions throughout the narrative. In his poem, Eliot clings to the idea of a classical society in which he is witnessing fall apart. Throughout “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot illustrates fragmentation by using synecdoche to illustrate his fear of a societal breakdown. The fragmentation represents Eliot’s view on the

It is year 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, and Puritan Pastor Jonathan Edwards gives one of his best sermons- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Reverend Edwards was a religious leader during “The Great Awakening”, a time of spiritual revival, and desperately wanted all of his congregation to have faith, and be saved in the Heavenly Father. As a result, Edwards crafted a sermon rich in figurative language. By constructing a sermon that relied heavily on imagery and repetition Edwards created an

Throughout Hamlets soliloquy Hamlet uses multiple Stylistic Devices. Such as similes, double negative, enumeration, personification, assonance, capitalization, enjambment…ext. From start to finish I will be commenting on the stylistic devices used by Hamlet. We will start the commentary by talking about the uses of Similes in Hamlet’s soliloquy. An example that explains how he uses similes is “My father’s brother, but no more like my father; Than I to Hercules”(II 152-152). In this example Hamlet

The Salem Witch Trials was a devastating event in which 19 people and dogs were killed due to the cry of witchcraft. The outburst of these events could be blamed on several things. Certain things like economics, medicines and culture have to be taken into account when trying to understand the events of the Salem Witch Trials. People like Franklin Jr. Mixon, Linnda R. Caporael, Dr. Allan Woolf, Elaine G. Brewslaw, and Isaac Ariail Reed take into account one of the three: economics, medicines and culture

This poem was written by John Clare, an English poet. This poem is about love and he used the nature to describe love because many poems of John Clare was about rural life and scenery. This poem will present the love that is secret love. There are three stanzas, twenty – four lines and eight lines in each stanza. In the first stanza, in the line 1 – 2, when the speaker was young, he fell in love with a woman and he kept his love all along. He never told her. The word “buzzing of fly” was like

"War Photographer" by Carol Ann Duffy and "The War Drags On" by Donovan are two poems that are quiet similar and Different at the same time.They both have similarities and Differences in the focus of the poem,the speaker and his role,the literary devices,and the main purpose and message of the poet in the poem.Those Similarities and differences can be found in the poem directly and indirectly meaning that we can find obvious similarities or differences between them and at the same time we can need

appreciation for philosophical laziness, that is a beneficial factor to being a happy man. To further verify his explanation and to convince those that people who rush are not achieving anything, the author adopts a persuasive tone by using similes and synecdoches. By relating and comparing the familiar topic of the Germans in the World War I to the Allies, it triggered the reader's thoughts of, what if the Germans were indolent? Morley mentioned, “If the Germans had been as lazy, as indifferent, and as righteously

David Hacker Mrs. Sanford English 11AP 10 February 2016 Rhetorical Terms 14-26 Metonymy Definition: A word that represents or conveys the idea of another thing Example #1: The blue collar workers labored day and night in construction of the new road. Example #2: California made the decision to pass a right to die law in September of 2015. Effect: Metonymy is often seen in colloquialism because the speaker or writer can assume that the reader draws inherent parallels between the word and what it stands

poem in terms of its formatting, “The Tyger” otherwise remains consistent with common Romantic themes such as nature and symbolism. Aside from the Romantic commonalities, the poem also contains a smorgasbord of poetic devices, including allusions, synecdoche, and dichotomies which greatly aid in the effectiveness of Blake’s poem. Generally, a poem in the Romantic Era would demonstrate an experimental form, meaning it would not rhyme and it was not bound to traditional forms or meters. And while “Tyger

who were close to the deceased. In “The Bustle in a House,” Dickinson uses the “house” as a metaphorical residence, rather than a literal home. This “house” has the ability to represent a myriad of items. The first is that Dickinson is using a synecdoche to make the word “house” represent a household or a family. This would make sense because Dickinson