" This all pertains to the poem's theme, that despite your hardest times, you can find relief outside of yourself, like how the speaker of the poem finds comfort in nature. When writing their works, poets use literary devices to make the message of their theme stand out and be more effective. Following this, Maya Angelou also chooses to use literary devices that are present throughout this poem. ... Alliteration is the final type of literary device used in this poem. ... Using literary devices and other components help make this poem come all together. ...

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/plot (entire story/text)/theme (main ideas)/tone/ mood/feeling/atmosphere)/structure (punctuation/ etc.)... - Figurative Language/Literary Devices: Are there metaphors/similes/personification? ... How do the effect the theme/setting/plot/character development? ... Can venture into personal evaluation of effectiveness of techniques / comment on idea / theme. ... - Comma: brief pause - Semicolon: longer pause - Indentation: stop before starting again, gives importance to what is about to be said Essay Approach For the essay, approach the question by using the candy wrapper tec...

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Overall, I think that the poem, Sometimes with One I Love by Walt Whitman, theme is about love and love within someone. ... In the poem, I found a form of literary device which was alliteration, Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I, I found this in the first line of the poem. ... Another literary device that I found was metaphor which is expressed in lines five, six and seven, I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd, Yet out of that I have written these songs. ...

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The authors use a variety of literary devices in order to convey its point. ... One literary device is rhyme. ... Another literary technique is anthropomorphism in the line "who cooks for you?" ... The theme is "Words, which can make our terrors bravely clear, Can also thus domesticate a fear," this means that the thing that brings you to one extreme can also lead you down from it. ... The theme is in the first line "Trying...innocence" it tells you what the poem is about. ...

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A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... This is not meant to devalue what effect taste has to do with literature and understanding literary movements. ... Quality from my perspective has to to with how the literary piece catches my attention. ... If not that, they contain a moral lesson that guides the reader into understanding what things one should avoid to prevent the themes of dystopian fiction to become the salty favoring to the autobiography of our own lives....

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., esp. works of imagination characterized by excellence of style and expression and by themes of general or enduring interest A. ... The novel as a more realistic literary genre, is sometimes distinguished in academic literary criticism from the romance; but this distinction is not maintained by all literary critics. 3. ... A literary work meant to be performed in a theatre. If viewed from this functional angle, the definition of drama as a literary kind is non-controversial. ... Tragedy A drama in which serious themes are dramatized and the hero meets with misfortunes because of f...

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Stanza 4 • The final stanza highlights the theme of the poem and presents the speaker's happiness in taking the less used road. ... Literary Devices • The phrase "grassy and wanted wear" is very picturesque and describes that the road is not often used. ... • The universal images allow the reader to attain a better grasp of the universal theme being put across. ...

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In his poem In a Disused Graveyard, Robert Frost uses tone and irony to slowly reveal the theme of man's relationship with death. Robert Frost uses literary elements to clearly depict the theme which is revealed in the latter part of the poem. ... "It would be easy to be clever/ and tell the stones: Men hate to die," (line 14) reveals the main theme of the poem. ... Robert Frost portrays other components of the theme with subtle literary elements. Robert Frost portrays the theme of unavoidable death subconsciously with subtle literary elements such as humor, connotations, and ...

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Novelists, playwrights, and essayists have the luxury of space in which to develop their plots, themes and characters. ... The poet however, must express the theme, mood, and characters of a poem within a very limited structure. ... Each word within a poem has been chosen for a specific purpose, whether it be to convey a specific feeling or to maintain a theme. ... Since the working class would have had to work very hard for work themes to be taken seriously within the bourgeois literary world, they would need to validate their literary worth and merit. ... However, now that society has reache...

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The themes I have found in these select six poems support those methods and techniques. I would not be surprised if I read other examples of Frost's poems I would find the same themes and uses of literary methods in those poems also. ... Here he uses the literary technique known as syntax. ... He has a general theme of using nature and county living as the bases for almost all of his poems. This theme of nature is prevalent in the main ideas in all the poems of his that we read. ...

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In the first stanza Shapiro uses several different literary devices to make the scene of an accident more effective. ... In stanzas two and three is where I believe the theme of the poem lies. Lastly, in stanza four, Shapiro reinforces the theme of the poem. ... He uses literary devices as well as effective vocabulary to portray the theme to the reader. ...

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In the first stanza Shapiro uses several different literary devices to make the scene of an accident more effective. ... In stanzas two and three is where I believe the theme of the poem lies. Lastly, in stanza four, Shapiro reinforces the theme of the poem. ... He uses literary devices as well as effective vocabulary to portray the theme to the reader. ...

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Paul Dunbar's main theme through out the poem is the agony of captivity. ... Paul Laurence Dunbar also uses diction to link back to his theme. He uses a particular structure to link it to the theme of his poem. ... Paul Laurence Dunbar uses many literary devices to express to the reader how he felt as an African American. ... The literary devices all help to show the apparent theme of the agony of captivity since the bird harmed itself trying to gain freedom. ...

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During the nineteenth century there was a literary transformation going on in America that changed many writers" approach and mind-set to writing. ... A theme that is used in nearly every literary piece is nature, which Romantic poets utilize to convey their overall message to their readers. ...

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Some performances must conform to a specified theme, genre, or formal constraint which are called "Theme Slam. " These themes may include Nerd, Erotica, Queer, Improv, or other limitations. In theme slams, poets can sometimes be allowed to break the "traditional " slam rules. ... The growing history and influence of the poetry slam, especially on the younger generation of writers, suggest that the practice is not just a passing "fad. " The serious critic must cease treating the slam as a literary novelty and recognize it for what it is: a movement which combines the literary, the social potent...

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Lucinda Matlock' - In "Lucinda Matlock,"" Edgar Lee Masters demonstrates the literary devices of the realism and frontier era. ... He later started a practice always writing literary works on the side under pseudonyms. ... The moral and theme that Masters put to this piece of work was that even though peoples lives may have been simple they were always content with them. ... This quote expresses the theme of the poem. ...

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Reader Response is a literary criticism technique that helps the reader better understand the text and the world around them. ... The reader gets the chance to articulate their identity theme through the reading of this text. Identity theme is how we view the world. Identity is passed from mother to child in birth, and as the child grows, they develop their own identity theme, or lens through which they perceive things. ... The Reader Response literary criticism technique lives by this. ...

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The central theme in the poem "Mirror," by Sylvia Plath, is self-reflection and appearance. The author uses imagery, diction, and poetic devices to convey this theme. ... This reinforces the theme of appearance because with the clarity of a mirror, one can view oneself with ease. ... Also, the poet often restates how unbiased and honest the mirror is, which stresses further the theme of self-reflection. ... These literary devices revealed the theme of self-observation, and appearance in the poem, and helped the reader relate to it....

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He co-founded the Mid-Atlantic review in 1975 with Michael Shannon, but this was not the start of his literary fame. ... Three years later he produced his next collection of poems called "The Best Cigarette," in which the poems became bestsellers in the literary world. ... He wrote the "The History Teacher" during this time period in 2002 and it is just another example of his literary ingenuity. ... The theme then is youth innocence. ... Not only did Billy Collins create a delightful poem that cheers one up, but he also succeeded in creating a theme of innocence that makes ...

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The young man expresses thought on a variety of themes, ranging from his appearance to classic literature to death. ... However, the theme of this poem is that finding a point of joint concern might not always transpire in a fresh relationship. ... Alfred Prufrock" is a classic literary piece that will not soon be forgotten....

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Toru dutt actually inherited the literary genius that was inherent in her family. ... She herself acknowledge her father's role in determining the course of her life-without papa, I should never have known good poetry from bad, but he used to take such pains with us Toru Dutt's poetic out-put was brief for her literary career and it was limited by her untimely sad demise. ... She also fused the romantic and classical elements both in her diction and theme. ... A renowned Critic has remarked aptly that- the most significant aspect of Dutt's literary career was her use of the ...

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Emily Dickinson is known for her unique form of writing and vivid imaginative themes. ... The idea of Emily's work has baffled and intrigued literary researchers for years. ... Literary researchers say that it's hard to "confirm or deny the nature of her relations ships with them- (Poetry 3). ... Literary researchers say that Emily had her own unique form of writing. ...

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Despite the differences in texts, however, Nash creates humor in his mundane-themed poetry by using literary features which gives a playful aspect and entertainment for the audience. ... In the poems, "Complaint to Four Angels" and "Man Bites Dog-Days," Ogden Nash have created humor in order to draw the audience's attention to the underlying theme of American daily life and domestic routines. This is done by using a variety of literary techniques including rhythm, diction, and imagery in his banal-topic poetry. ... He gives exemplary knowledge of old poetry and high li...

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One of the most relevant and important themes that reoccur throughout the Al-Mu'allaqat is that of love, specifically love personified through nature. All of the poets in this literary collection seem to personify their love through animals and objects such as through their camels, horses, waterfalls, and several others. ... The common theme of love forms a bridge between these four poems and throughout the rest of Mu'allaqat. ... (84.29-32) These descriptions of Tarafa's she-camel are used as a literary vehicle to express love and bring power to the poem. ... This is c...

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Brathwaite used these tools to express two separate tones and themes within his poem. In the first part of Ogun, the common theme between stanzas was the work that the carpenter performs. ... These literary tools were used in Ogun to describe the carpenter=s difference between his normal routine and his special Sunday shop. ...

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