Reflecting the guilty thoughts streaming through Pip's head, Charles Dickens creates a dreary mood through gloomy diction and figurative language. Dickens" use of gloomy diction emphasizes the dreariness of the atmosphere. ... Through Dickens" use of gloomy diction and figurative language, the reader recognizes the dreary mood of the piece as the author conveys the weak and immature mind of Pip as he is experiencing the guilt and the reality of the world around him. ...

• Word Count: 362
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The diction in these two sentences serves as corrobation to what the reader already assumes about Dorian's religious affiliation. ... Despite this concept of prayer acting a force to reckon with, the more desperate Dorian grows for a reason as to how he can retain his beauty, the more the diction interchanges between "prayer" and scientific terms such as "atoms" and "affinity". ... By creating an interweb of scientific and religious diction and also incorporating rhetorical questions in his work, Wilde distends how Dorian's need to be beautiful has resu...

• Word Count: 849
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These two lines are an irregular use of diction, suggesting that this person's soul is lost. ... In the bigger picture when an individual really tries to visualize, this is just an enchanting use of diction. ...

• Word Count: 1766
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The language features Wilfred Owen uses in Disabled moves between the raw dictions used to describe the man's present life and the cheerful words of his days as a young, promising man. These words have helped to stir the emotions of the readers as the significant contrast between the past and the p...

• Word Count: 704
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. The book itself, ha...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. The book itself, ha...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate