The authors use a variety of literary devices in order to convey its point. ... One literary device is rhyme. ... One literary device used in most of the poem is metaphors, in order to compare history to irrelevant events. ... Another literary device is in the line "and the Enola Gay* dropped one tiny atom on Japan" this line shows imagery. ... As you can, both poets used literary devices in order to make a point as to why the adults want to preserve a child's innocence. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Good commentary must include: - Clear organization - Understanding of literary techniques - Alliteration - Metaphors - she is snow - Onomatopoeia - words that are spelt in a similar way to the sound - Allegory - narrative using symbols - Euphemism - cold slumber (death) - Similes - white as snow (figurative language as opposed to literal language) - Oxymoron - silent scream - Hyperbole - Visual imagery - Personification - the howling wind, dancing grass, smiling moon - Punctuation -Structure - paragraphs - Objectification - opposite of personification - standing like a statue ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Bedford Introduction to Literature defines irony as "a literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different that what appears to be true." ... In modern literary studies, there are at least five types of irony, but this paper will only concern four types and some select poems that utilize them. ... One of the countless literary works to use this form of irony is a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson called "Richard Cory". ... However, the final line of the poem changes all of that. ... For centuries literary techniques, such as irony, have enhanced...

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• Grade Level: High School

Irony is a significant device used by the poets in the slavery poems "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "The Dying Fugitive," and "Middle Passage." ... In this poem she uses a highly intelligent and scathing verbal irony. ... The poem also has traces of situational and cosmic irony. ... In "Middle Passage" Hayden uses standard epic conventions and devices and alters and inverts them to his liking. ... Robert Hayden uses his extensive knowledge of literature to make a new genre of slave poetry, but all of them recognized the effectiveness of irony as a literary device. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The sounds, visions, and actions of war are all elements that make a terribly wonderful topic on which many novels, short stories, and poems are based. ... Comparison and contrast of literary devices is used to show how ironic tone, graphic imagery, and heroism can create great compositions such as "War is Kind" and "A Mystery of Heroism". ... He utilizes this device to display a clearer image of the battle for his readers than they could imagine themselves. ... These elements of our language, refined into poems or stories, do have many points of similarity distinction. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" Chaudhry's words can be applied to the theme of isolation in both William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily," and Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "Richard Cory.... On the other hand, in Robinson's poem, Richard Cory is a man envied by all; yet, his loneliness from not having any contact with his community leads him to take his own life. ... In both literary works, the authors use setting to demonstrate the social separations and alienation of the characters from their communities. Situational irony is another literary device used to convey the...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although irony can be a hard concept to grasp, three powerful poems will further distinguish and clarify each type of irony and why they are such a powerful device poets use. ... Throughout the poem, we learn he was a loyal Union member who worked in the same factory until retirement. ... The poet ironically concludes the poem asking the crucial questions of: "Was he free? ... Just as an artist paints something so simple with a deeper story or meaning behind; irony can be considered a literary art form in which poets can portray one thing to creatively convey their deeper meaning. ... As...

• Word Count: 1245
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate