Literary devices in Wuthering Heights The novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte relates a story of passionate love which ends in despair and melancholy for both Catherine and Heathcliff who are the main characters of the novel. ... The author employs literary devices such as using the tone to enhance the meaning of the events that happen and she uses literary devices such as irony, simile and personification to give a depth to the events and dialogues of the characters that make up the story. ... Emily Bronte employs a number of literary techniques in her novel to heighten the attitude ...

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The Reflection of Style Through Literary Devices " as Death Comes for the Arch Bishop reflects a way of life achieved by the author after she had gone through a nadir of despair over her failure in human life" (Stouk 107). ... Such a book known as a bildungsroman, a novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of the main character, is one of the many literary devices used by Cather throughout the novel. By looking at these literary devices, and also the change of religious emphasis the author's style is reflected. In the book Death Comes f...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and he was one of the greatest American writer of the 20th century. He was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He wrote many notable novels in his career, and one of them is Great Gatsby. It was published in April 20, 1925. Great G...

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Shahriari skillfully uses vivid diction, awakening tone and the use of rhetorical devices in his poem to showcase his immigrant voice and feelings through his literary work, showing the struggle he had to endure and how it made him the man he is today. ... The tone in this passage is exaggerated by the use of Shahriari's use of persuasive devices through using rhetorical devices. Thirdly, throughout the passage Shahriari subtly uses rhetorical devices to show a persuasive feel throughout the literary work. ... Lastly, the time has to be considered in the piece of literary work. ... All ...

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This background, together with a believable plot, convincing characterization, and important literary devices enable Flannery O'Connor in "Revelation" to develop the theme that sometimes people must look farther than the surface in order to understand the actions of others. ... O'Connor's use of important literary devices such as symbolism and foreshadowing allow her to reinforce the theme. ... Symbolism and foreshadowing are two of the most important literary devices used by O'Connor in "Revelation." After analyzing how the author's background, the plot, and the lit...

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In this poem, the literary devices of tone, allusion, and trope, all build on each other to express the frustration and anger that a woman's relationship with god is dependent on her marital status. ... A literary trope uses language to give off the recurrent theme of the poem. ... by Emily Dickinson has many literary devices working together in order to explain the meaning of the poem. ... This is the significance of any literary device. Through close reading of this poem, and intently analyzing the way the literary devices work together, the poem was able to relay the frustration of ...

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Both poems are well written love poems that have similar subjects (love) but differ dramatically because of their structures, meaning, and literary devices. ... Another literary device in On My First Son is words. ... After comparing both poems one can see that though their subjects are similar each poem's structure, meaning and literary devices are not the same. ...

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In this essay I will examine how Poe utilizes plot elements, style, narration, setting, theme, symbolization, and literary devices in order to create such a horrific and suspenseful masterpiece. ... "The Cask of Amontillado" had extensive usage of many literary devices. ... Another literary device Poe used many times in this story was foreshadowing. ...

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There are a lot of literary devices used in this poem. ... This poem doesn't have a lot of literary devices. ... Angelou uses literary devises like similes in the phrase, "He's so much like his daddy when he cries" (Angelou 18). ...

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Her negative, constricting idea of marriage is the central theme of which all her literary devices -- setting, plot, characterization, irony and metaphor -- revolve around. ... Mallard as one who masks her feelings well to others, which is a character choice that also works well when combining the theme with her other literary devices. ... The literary device of irony works perfectly with her theme of marriage as a prison. ...

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The wars affected people and their everyday lives because many of their loved ones were fighting and dying .In three different literary works and by three different authors the topic of war is presented in a variety of styles. ... Owen uses other literary device such as smile to describe the soldiers for instance when he describes them struggling to put on their gas masks. ... The use of literary devices by authors in "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner","Dulce et Decorum Est" and "The Things they carried" is instrumental in emphasizing their points. Through different methods...

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After his graduation in 1837, he started attending meetings with Transcendentalist's, whose ideologies most significantly influenced Thoreau's literary work. ... He employed a variety of literary styles and devices such as an easy pace, metaphor, imagery, mysticism. Other literary style's he employs are analogy, first person point of view, aphorism, repetition or "chiasmus", conflict, setting, and figurative language. ... Here Thoreau uses an effective device called "chiasmus", a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, when wrote &q...

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Some of the satiric devices are humor, irony, invective, mock-enconium, grotesque, comic- juxtaposition, mock epic/heroic etc. ... Moreover, the use of alliteration in this sentence shows Dryden's attempt to proclaim himself to be a better writer, who not only knew how to use poetic devices in the correct manner but be witty as well. ... With the help of the use of the device of Irish bard, Dryden explicitly states the true nature of Shadwell. ... 'From its old Ruins Brothel-houses rise,/Scenes of lewd loves, and of polluted joys.' by setting his throne in such a place Dryden ha...

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Sometimes society does not allow people to express their feelings and wants; this situation is clearly shown in Gilbert Sorrentino's literary work "The Moon in Its Flight ". Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 " May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic and editor. His short literary work "The Moon in Its Flight,"" may be defined as a self-reflexive fictional work, in which two parallel stories are narrated through the use of peculiar techniques and devices: one story tells the summer romance between Rebecca and a young boy, who are immersed in...

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The first theme recognizable in the three stories is chivalry. The three stories all have to do with knights of King Arthur's court. Three easily recognized themes are love, loyalty and adventure. In all three stories these themes appear in one way or another. In the story Erec and Enide, Erec i...

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Metaphors are one of the more important literary devices Frost uses to support the main theme of the poem, which is making a choice. ... Secondly, metaphors are one of the more important literary devices Frost uses to support the main theme of the poem, which is making a choice. ...

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The two authors have employed some literary such as symbolism, foreshadowing, and point of view, in developing their similar themes. ... Another device that the author has employed is the use of foreshadowing. ... Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" has also employed quite a number of literary elements to bring out its message. The main literary element used in the story is the Southern Gothic, which employs grotesque and bizarre elements not for frightening the reader but for uncovering the human psyche especially the underlying and dark motives. ... Even though "The Lottery&...

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Cummings uses such literary devices as symbolism, imagery, allusion, and syntax to show that the speaker of the poem has just experienced a rebirth.The speaker is thanking God for allowing him to see life in a new light and to be reborn again for a fresh start.By using these various literary devices, Cummings is able to show the extreme gratefulness the speaker in the poem feels because he has found a new outlook on life. ...

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A Norwegian painter named Edvard Munch, a very competent man he was and known as one of arts histories great and an American writer named Edgar Allan Poe which always has been a paradox in American literary history. ... Edvard Munch lived a longer life then Edgar Allan Poe, but both men were still became a big part of Art and American Literary history. ... Edgar Allan Poe has always been a paradox in American literary history. ... His stories, once dismissed as kind of gothic thrillers are now being analyzed for their self-conscious manipulation of narrative devices and their darkly view o...

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What are the major literary features and technical elements? Most of the literary devices are used throughout this particular Psalm. ... The use of allegories is a very poetic device used very efficiently throughout this Psalm. ...

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Every author has a personal style of writing, which is generally carried out in every literary piece composed by that author. ... In "The Fall of the House of Usher- Edgar Allan Poe uses many different literary devices to convey his single effect of dullness and gloom. Above all of these devices centers Poe's use of diction throughout the short story. ...

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Bronte's narrative techniques are the use of literary symbolism and dreams, both of which are used to convey a Gothic and supernatural setting. Through the use of these literary devices, Jane Eyre becomes both cabbalistic and prophetic. Bronte's character Grace Poole is surrounded by a obscure haze from the reader's first introduction to her, an effective device used in order to create a mysterious atmosphere in the novel. ... Bronte's use of literary symbolism is a highly effective means by which she is able to subtly warn and inform her readers of impending events...

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Jorge Luis Borges once stated that his first encounter with John Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life (This Craft...). ... Keats leaves a legacy to future generations by teaching though his poetry, literary devices, sensual imagery, and great knowledge....

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Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. ... There, in 1925, his literary skills were discovered after he left three of his poems beside the plate of American poet Vachel Lindsay, who recognized Hughes's abilities and subsequently helped publicize Hughe...

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During the time that Frankenstein was written (1818), Romanticism was the dominant literary period, and much of the Romantic philosophy can be seen in Mary Shelley's novel. ... Thérese Raquin (1868) was written by Émile Zola during the Naturalist literary period. ... The main point of writing a novel by using a frame device is in order to see the differences among the characters and to see the differing viewpoints. ... There are fewer literary allusions in this work because it was written for less educated people. ...

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