The Groundhog In "The Groundhog," Richard Eberhart uses eloquent diction to reflect the changing perceptions and emotions the speaker has towards the decaying groundhog. ... He conveys this anguish with his strong diction, "Trying to control, to be still, to quell the the passion of the blood," and "praying for joy in the sight of decay." ... Richard Enberhart uses strong diction and pictorial images to allow the reader greater insight on the speakers emotional state as well as the changing state of the decaying groundhog. ...

• Word Count: 452
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Callaghan uses strong diction to help the reader further understand the point he is trying to make. ... His usage of literary language is very well imputed throughout, specifically his usage of diction and imagery. Through his usage of intense diction, he brought the reader to become centered on those words and made them contemplate the usage of them. ...

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The speaker uses imagery, tone, and diction to give the reader that sense of nostalgia and then snaps the speaker back into reality where everything is not all fine and dandy. ... The speaker's diction seems very youthful and innocent. ... The diction itself in the poem is fun. ...

• Word Count: 894
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Through metaphorical diction, the background of the story's plot is conveyed through the in-congruencies between the physical and emotional atmospheres. ... The metaphors and descriptive diction widens the in-congruencies between the two atmospheres, which in return creates two highly different worlds. ...

• Word Count: 619
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Using tone and diction and imagery/symbols, the poems "Mending Wall", "A Hundred Collars", and "Home Burial" (among all the other poems) convey a unified theme of the book. ... Frost uses tone and diction to show that the narrator has a much more playful personality than his neighbor who seems fairly traditional. ... The poem "A Hundred Collars" also displays the theme through tone and diction, imagery and symbols. ... Using tone and diction, Frost displays the husband and wife's fear and misunderstanding. ...

• Word Count: 2189
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

A superficial reading of this memoir concludes that the work is beautifully, emotionally, and honestly written; even so, Didion's hollow tone in the memoir and the ornate and subdued dictions make the work looks rather like a reference book about grief rather than a memoir. ... Didion's ornate diction in The Year of Magical Thinking does not evoke the reader's empathy. ... As a final point, Didion strives to explain and understand grief as a thing and not an emotion, it shows in her style and diction in writing The Year of Magical Thinking. ...

• Word Count: 912
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

GB used this diction to show the reader the mood a funeral usually gives. ... He effectively did so by the use of his choice of diction, line sketching, and coloring to implant the emotion into the reader his father had. ...

• Word Count: 907
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A perfect tragedy contains the six elements of drama: plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle, and song. ... A perfect tragedy contains the six elements of drama: plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle, and song. ...

• Word Count: 795
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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare's sonnet 23 embodies the speaker's intense but also restrained love due to his timidity and tizzy. By using metonymy, repetition and choosing effective diction, Shakespeare expresses his deep but silent love to the young man in the poem which make readers resonate with such a complex emo...

• Word Count: 654
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"Mirror" by Sylvia Plath shows the shallowness and superficial concerns of women through the personification and the description of a mirror reflecting a woman's life and her character. The poem is narrated by the mirror, which doesn't provide an unbiased and impartial view on its character contrar...

• Word Count: 717
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• Grade Level: High School

Love is not a commodity. Love cannot stabilize on empty values with ecstatic pleasures. In a predominant relationship, the superior can cause the inferior resentment and empty passion. One can offer complete delectation, yet an interconnection cannot form without mutual feeling. A mutual relationshi...

• Word Count: 768
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Year in and year out, millions of school aged kids across America read through their school's required reading list with the anticipation of agonizing essays and treacherous tests. While some of the selections on the reading list will make kids cringe, others will immediately win the hearts of thes...

• Word Count: 901
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• Grade Level: High School

In Wordsworth's autobiographical poem, The Prelude, the author presents a variety of contradictory emotions. In fact, he goes through a cycle of various moods in response to the different scenes and situations he encounters. Such transition of feeling are transmitted through the use of diction, im...

• Word Count: 797
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Camus" use of diction allows the reader to feel the overwhelming effect the environment has on an Algerian beach, and the inert feeling Meursault experiences immediately after forever changing his life. ...

• Word Count: 673
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• Grade Level: High School

Dear Editor, After analyzing Radley Balko's article, "What You Eat Is Your Business," I would like to give my explanation of why this article should be posted in the next edition of "The Shorthorn." Considering the rhetorical appeals of Balko's article, I believe that most readers of "The Shorthorn"...

• Word Count: 1196
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Diction PEEL A Fabulous quote by Barbara Kingsolver, in "High Tide in Tucson" referring to how art is forgotten around the world, while centuries into the past art was the way of communication and living. ...

• Word Count: 1106
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Romantic Poets William Wordsworth writes in his "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" that "if the views, with which they [the poems] were composed, were indeed realized, a class of poetry would be produced, well adapted to interest mankind permanently, and not unimportant in the multiplicity and in the q...

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Analyzing elements of poetic style is generally accepted as one method of exploring a poet's ideas and beliefs. How someone perceives the world is revealed in the way they speak. A poet's attitudes toward what poetry can and should be attempting to communicate are exhibited in style. In other wor...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Essence of Man In William Wordsworth's sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us," the author's techniques enhance a feeling of not only hopeless despondency, but also forlorn dejection. Wordsworth presents first humankind's existing botched relationship to nature and quickly follows with his nosta...

• Word Count: 1163
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After her walk through San Narcisco and the constant appearance of Trystero's post horn, Pynchon uses personification and diction to illustrate how the overbearing puzzle and the pressure to solve it mentally paralyzes Oedipa: But the private eye sooner or later has to be beat up on. ...

• Word Count: 3055
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Depression, melancholy, disillusionment, and disconnectedness are the burning emotions churning in young Hamlet's soul as he attempts to come to terms with his father's death and his mother's incestuous, illicit marriage. While Hamlet tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered idealism, he conscio...

• Word Count: 4821
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School