This commonplace simile, combined with the diction of 'black shoe; and 'poor and white' contributes to sense of suffocation in the poems opening stanza. ... Finally, Plath uses aggressive diction to analogise Hughes to 'a vampire', a fairy tale character likely familiar to her audience. ... The German diction of Herr, meaning Mister, is significant in portraying the nonchalant, everyday nature of oppression which forms an inescapable challenge to feminine identity. ... In this opening, Hughes makes use of the religious diction of Plath's worship to suggest an a...

• Word Count: 2183
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As both poets have different opinions about war, in fact, almost opposite opinions, each poet uses different types of diction, figurative language, imagery, sounds, and tones to achieve his purpose. ... The tone and atmosphere used and created by the two poets are also different, with each of them using diction and poetic devices, thus creating a tone and atmosphere to put across their point. ... The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but calming and peaceful, for example, "washed by rivers", "blest by suns of home", "dreams happy as her day" and "he...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A Modest Proposal can be considered an extraordinary example of an ironic parody through Swift's tone, diction, and the shear absurdity contained in his proposition. ... Swift's master use of diction in A Modest Proposal certainly aides in the development of his satire and social statement. ... Beyond the carefully articulated tone and diction, the sheer absurdity of the argument presented illustrates Swift's employment of an ironic parody in exceptional form. ...

• Word Count: 1418
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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 diction employed suggests that the author is projecting a different concern through the melancholic voice of his character, that the public life of England and the modern world mirrors the isolation of the Wilcox's 'outer life'. ... Here we see a direct acceptance from Margaret that the world needs its Wilcox's; through her diction Henry becomes part of England's history. ... The image is striking; within the diction we see that England is attributed a female persona, and therefore we can determine that the nation is fertile, and ready to give birth to new possibil...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the diction in the word "torrent" evokes a sense of a flood or storm, connoting the danger and hypocrisy of Victor's undertaking. ... In another instance, Shelley uses diction to detail Victor's lust for power, such as when Victor states that "a new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me" (33). ...

• Word Count: 1308
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the opening scene of Gloucester talking to Kent on the matter of Edmund, Shakespeare's use of diction in "yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making" highlights the inappropriateness of the statement he had endured to his son. ... Thus, the turmoil which is to follow through Goneril and Regan's actions is captured through Shakespeare's use of imagery and diction in "This tempest in my mindfilial ingratitude," symbolising the breaking of family ties. ...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The blissful, enthusiastic tone of this poem derives from the diction of words such as "sweet joy" and "pretty joy". ... Not only do the two poems have different perspectives and diction, they are also constructed differently. ... The first lines of the first stanza and the first couplet of the second stanza are identical in each poem; however, the way the poems develop is in sharp contrast due to the different use in diction and imagery in each poem. ...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Poe successfully developed a mysterious atmosphere by using such literary crafts as diction, foreshadowing and so forth, and evoked readers' terror by providing few details over the narration. ... "The setting is essentially traditional Gothic: a desolate scene and an isolated castle, and along with the oppressive diction they animate and intensify readers' curiosity and terror simultaneously. ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The diction used to describe the labor conditions that these citizens and immigrant workers had to work in were bold, and did not seem true because of how exaggerated the disgust was. ... Sinclair's use of diction drastically became more and more extreme throughout the story and it gave the audience a significant amount of imagery to what these factories were like. ...

• Word Count: 1823
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. ... They believe that this publication marked the maturity of the 20th century poetic revolution, as the reformation of verse rhythms and poetic diction at large really started to take off. ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This corruption of chivalry stretches even to the language of the text itself; we see a distinct corruption of courtly diction within the novel; "using double entendres to reveal the ambiguities and duplicities concealed in words themselves," (Alstad 158). For example, he parodies courtly diction in letter 47 which includes the words "la situation où je suis en vous écrivant me fait connaitre, plus que jamais, a puissance irrésistible de l'amour," a point of dramatic irony, as it is also revealed that the naked courtesan Emilie's body has served as ...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Perhaps the structure and diction of the poem, which Duffy retains incredibly succinct, can be equated to represent the unusual mechanism of time in a dream, and how it seems to lose its normal gist of fluidity in the context of a dream. Duffy's distinctive spacing, meticulous diction and intermittent phrasing can be perceived to represent the intricate concept of time in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The question of whether Macbeth is a tragedy is a highly debatable issue, because many things can constitue a tragedy "for example, Aristotle's teaching that a tragedy must consist of six parts: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and sons. ...

• Word Count: 1270
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I think that Sheldon Grebstein explained Hemingway's style depth best with this criticism "first, short and simple sentence constructions, with heavy use of parallelism, which convey the effect of control, terseness, and blunt honesty; second, purged diction which above all eschews the use of bookish, latinate, or abstract words and thus achieves the effect of being heard or spoken or transcribed from reality rather than appearing as a construct of the imagination (in brief, verisimilitude); and third, skillful use of repetition and a kind of verbal counterpoint, which operate either by p...

• Word Count: 1450
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gerard Manley Hopkins - To what extent do you agree with Robert Bridges view that his poetry is "some of the most musical ever written" Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the greatest 19th-century poets of religion, of nature, and of inner anguish. In his view of nature, the world is like a book ...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Is been proven that colleges are not fastidious on who gets admitted to their campus. Although, students are still petrified to apply for college, because they feel like they do not have the right factors to get accepted. Where most of the time, colleges not only "seek for 'high quality studen...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ironically the black entertainers made themselves up in black face, unperfected their diction and speech and played the characters that denigrated their own image in the real world (Ethnic Notions). ...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, are two novels that deal with the tragic culmination of the American Dream, personified through respective protagonists. However, these protagonists are perceived very differently as a result of the different narrative pe...

• Word Count: 2039
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hardy unfolds the idea that a woman pays through the constraints of Victorian moral values, male superiority and the influence of aristocracy. This is further illuminated by Du Mauriers Rebecca where male dominance and misogyny mean only the woman will pay. As a woman in the midst of an undeniably p...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract Colonialism is present in the text in many different forms, it represents the clash between the modern and eastern world. Naguib Mahfouz uses the setting as a way to create a contrast between the modern westernized world, and the ancient eastern culture, in order to clarify how colonialism ...

• Word Count: 1576
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Captivity narratives were popular with readers in both American and the European communities. Captivity narratives of Americans relate the experiences of whites enslaved by Native Americans and Africans enslaved by Americans. Two widely read captivity narratives are The Interesting Narrative of the ...

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Shakespeare has come to be known as arguably the finest sculptor of language through his plays and poems. Many of his plays are so remarkable, not necessarily because of the complex issues they raise, but rather the ideals they "challenge-. Shakespeare's tragedies are notorious for startin...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Hobbit was a fantasy novel written for children in 1937 by JR Tolkien and beloved by many to this day. Recently Peter Jackson adapted the book for the big screen and successfully created an award winning, multi-million dollar trilogy. The final film, The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies success...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The diction she uses surrounding the spoken language such as, "disguised," "render the suffering," and, "glamorized," really shows how politicians exploit linguistics and mold them into blindfolds for everyday citizens. ...

• Word Count: 1711
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate