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    Imagery In Marigolds

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    The author of the story Marigolds has many different uses of literary terms to show the protagonist's voice and many other characters hardships that have happened during the great depression. Eugenia the author of Marigolds wrote “Dry September of the dirt roads,” “arid, sterile dust” (16)to show a wonderful use of imagery. This is just one of many amazing examples of how the author uses many different phrases to show images in your head. There are also many ways that the author used imagery in juxtaposition

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    The Cask Of Amontillado

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    told in a contrasting mindset other than that of Montresor, I think that the narrative would not be as intellectual and psychologically compelling. First person narration style builds more of an exclusive connection between the reader and the narrator, who in this affair is also the primary character. This type of narration style also uses “we” or I” commonly, the reader reading this type of narrative tends to picks up a distinctive perspective on the narrator. The narrator Montresor, in “The Cask

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    Diction is tone that the author sets to the literary work by the words he chooses to use. Diction is not only the choice of words that the author decides to use it is also the type of mood, or style of writing within the literary work. The use of some of the words is very significant in each of the texts. In “Jack and Jill”, it hides the true meaning of the death of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, while in “This Be The Verse” Larkin talks about how people in the late sixties hardly ever used

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    Malorie Blackman makes the aftermath of the Dundale Shopping Centre bombing very vivid for the reader by using very interesting and useful word and phrases. Malorie starts the scene by describing when the bomb blown off. She starts with a flash, which gives the readers the picture of light sparked instantly, followed by a simile ‘like the very air was alight’ to show that everything around was burnt up. Then she uses the word ‘a fraction of a second’ to tell that just immediately after the flash

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    Diction And Metaphors

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    “Before We Mothernaked Fall” Dylan Thomas Diction and Metaphor Mothernaked - naked Staked - marked or claimed Gushes - stream In “Before We Mothernaked Fall,” Dylan Thomas uses specific diction to create an earthly mood as well as metaphors to create meaning to the earthly lives of the mothernaked. Thomas gets down to the essential reason of human existence on the earth and conveys the message that through conflicts and trials, humans must struggle and gain what they can call theirs. Thomas

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    The bullfighting scenes in The Sun Also Rises are rich in typical conceivable outcomes. The numerous conceivable elucidations of these sections identify with the profundity and many-sided quality of the content. For instance, almost every scene including bulls for bullfighting parallels a scene that either has happened, or will soon happen, among Jake and his companions. The murdering of the cow by the bull toward the celebrations begin, for example, may prefigure Mike's strike on Cohn. Then again

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    “Monody” by TheFatRat is an EDM song sang by Laura Brehm. The tone of Monody is particularly nostalgic; the lyrics reference the past in many different ways throughout the song. First, the song begins with nostalgic lyrics, the speaker saying, “‘Those hazy days I do remember”(Brehm). The word Remember works as a direct sign of nostalgia in this instance, and in most instances when referring to novels, or in this instance, lyrics. After Brehm says this, she begins to describe the details of “those

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    In the short story, “The Black Cat,” by Edgar Allen Poe, the main literary elements used are imagery, 1st person narration, and unreliable narrator, which help build suspense about the outcome of the characters. Imagery is the use of words to create a specific image for the reader. This can be seen on page two of the story. Poe writes, “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body & a more than fiendish malevolence

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    The short story “Eleven” follows the story of a young girl on her eleventh birthday. The author, Sandra Cisneros, actively captures the thoughts and emotions of Rachel as she goes about her day. Contrary to the imagery in most birthday stories, Rachel’s is sad and forlorn. Sandra does an exceptional job of capturing this and putting it into words. The three key elements used in Rachel’s story are repetition, figurative language, and imagery. Repetition is the use of words or phrases over and over

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    One common emblem of duality throughout the novel has been the use of language. As a culturally diverse city, there are various forms in which English is spoken, from street slang to native accents. A particular example includes the way that Jamal spoke to Carla after his arrest. Carla mentions that he has different ways of speaking and this was the least pleasing to her. Another such instance if this emblem occurs when Oku attempts to apologize to Jackie for calling her German boyfriend, Reiner

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