In "Churning Day", Heaney uses a lot of onomatopoeia, even the title is onomatopoeia, "Churning". "Plumping" (Line 7) is also using onomatopoeia to give you a sort of snug feeling. ... In contrast, "Mid-Term Break" contains only one usage of onomatopoeia, "the baby cooed and laughed", and this is to convey the baby's ignorance, the onomatopoeia makes it seem more immediate. ... In "An Advancement of Learning", Heaney uses onomatopoeia to describe the rat in much deeper detail. ... Whenever Heaney wants to make sounds clearer to us he uses onomatopoeia. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

What was Daphne Du Maurier attempting in "The Birds" and does she succeed? In the short story "The Birds", Daphne Du Maurier tells us about how humans have a false superiority. They think that they are the most intelligent race in the world but by the end of the story we realize just how small and useless we actually are against nature. This makes me feel genuinely frightened because Du Maurier makes the prospect of nature being able to wipe out mankind, very realistic. This apocalyptic story contains many techniques used by Du Maurier to highlight the themes and ideas behind it. ...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

In the short story "The Birds", Daphne Du Maurier tells us about how humans have a false superiority. They think that they are the most intelligent race in the world but by the end of the story we realize just how small and useless we actually are against nature. This makes me feel genuinely frightened because Du Maurier makes the prospect of nature being able to wipe out mankind, very realistic. This apocalyptic story contains many techniques used by Du Maurier to highlight the themes and ideas behind it. Nature causes the destruction of mankind by attacking people in a way that they th...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School