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“Introduction to Poetry” and “Traveling Through the Dark,” are poems written by Billy Collins and William Stafford. The poem’s, “Introduction to Poetry”, main conflict is a teacher who tries to get his students to read and appreciate a poem, but what all the students only care about is figuring out what it means. The conflict is highlighted through the many uses of metaphors to help us understand how he wants the students to look and decipher a poem and how they only focus on finding the meaning

Kelly Simon, the writer of “Frank Sinatra’s Gum,” presents the audience with a coming of age narrative. Kelly Simon demonstrates her use of imagery, characterization, and point of view to elongate and present the allegory in the narrative. She utilizes these rhetorical strategies to contribute to the inclusive meaning and endorses the audience to see her growth in her identity and self-image while also recognizing the characterization of Frank Sinatra. Kelly Simon applies a variety of devices and

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written by Dai Sijie, focuses on the main characters; The Narrator, Luo, and The little Chinese Seamstress. Throughout the book the audience discovers new details about these three characters and the kinds of people they are. The Narrator, Luo, and The Seamstress identify their own personality traits and develop advanced characteristics that they have never had before. The passage on pages 157-158 tells of when Luo is leaving the village to go tend to his

Do you have sore feet? Do you feel like there is nothing that can stop or prevent your foot pain? MagnaSoles are new shoes inserts for people just like you who have sore feet! Did you fall for these tactics? Companies use these marketing tactics everyday to convince people just like you to buy their product. In The Onion’s press release, the author demonstrates the cohesive rhetorical triangle, bold diction and syntax, and vivid imagery to explain how Americans fall for marketing tactics companies

Written by Dai Sijie, and published in English in 2001, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a contemporary piece with a classic story. The book is about a boy, known to us as “The Narrator,” and his friend Luo. It takes place in communist China. Luo is the son of a well known dentist, while the Narrator is the son of a lung specialist and a consultant in parasitic disease. Due to their parents’ education and status, the boys are sent to a mountain village to be re-educated. While there, the

Discoveries often demand the re-evaluation of an individual’s outlook on life, a process in which reconsidering perspectives allows one to make sense of the world and come to terms with confronting realities. Two composers who’s work reflect this notion are Robert Frosts poems ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, and Lyndall Hough’s short story ‘The Shooting Kid’. Each text explores the varied emotionally and intellectually significant discoveries on individuals and their ability

In a year like 2017, there are many times when nostalgia kicks in for anyone of any age. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, nostalgia is defined as “a feeling of pleasure and sometimes slight sadness at the same time as you think about things that happened in the past” (Cambridge). Though the poems “The Summer I Was Sixteen” by Geraldine Connolly and “To My Mother” by Wendell Berry don’t seem similar in any way, they both use different poetic devices to get a nostalgic tone across the writing

Mae Knaggs ENGL 1302-346 Moseley 4 Apr 2017 Diction and Imagery in “Invictus” and “If We Must Die” It is a fact of life that at some point or another everyone will face hardship and obstacles. In two acclaimed poems “Invictus”, by William Ernest Henley, and “If We Must Die” by Claude Mckay, the power to proceed through all is sewn into the stanzas quite vibrantly. Both authors create vivid images in the reader’s head to elaborate and extend the impact of the poem to effect the reader as much

Since I read the entire book already, I want to explain the story, while connecting Symbolism, Motif, Metaphor, Imagery and Allusion. So the story is split between parallel narratives, the chapters take place in the 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland' which to me this place resembles Symbolism. Although the phrase ‘Hard-Boiled Wonderland’ is not used anywhere in the book, but only in page headers, to me personally the place and the book in general resembles Symbolism. Anyways, in the book the narrator is a

eponymous book that has been quite successful. In this way, Mutarelli can be considered as one of the most important and influential national writers of the recent years. As stated above, Lourenço Mutarelli is recognized for having an original literary style, either in the way that his work is written, such as the way he uses the text's layout. It was precisely in his plots that this project of TCC was developed as a work to investigate one of the most striking features of his writing, the way Mutarelli