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Zora Neale Hurston Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were
Watching God, uses symbolism and metaphors, also
known as motifs, frequently throughout the novel.
Motifs are unifying ideas that are recurrent
elements in a literary work, and are used in this
novel for numerous reasons. The main reason is
that they convey the story? s themes and their
purposes. A few examples of motifs introduced in
Their Eyes Were Watching God include a blossoming
pear tree, horizon, death, and spouse abuse. The
motifs used by...
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Rhyme Scheme King Richard
1,277 words
The Vigorous Falcon BOLINGBROKE. O, let no noble
eye profane a tear For me, if I be gored with
Mowbray's spear! As confident as a falcons flight
Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight? (To John
of Gaunt) O thou, the earthly author of my blood,
Whose youthful spirit in me regenerate Doth with a
two-fold vigour lift me up To reach at victory
above my head, Add proof unto mine armour with thy
prayers, And with thy blessing steel my lances
point That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat And
furbish ne...
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Love With Juliet Fallen In Love
441 words
Commentary on Romeo and Juliet Lines 25 - 45 In
the play Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses many
different writing techniques to make his work
entertaining as well as engaging. In lines 25 - 45
of Act II, Scene II, he uses extremely skillful
writing to show how each of them feels while in
the state of love. These lines are part of the
famed balcony scene where both lovers confess
their love to each other. Romeo has fallen in love
with Juliet at first sight, and apparently so did
she. At this poin...
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King And Queen Soul Of Wit
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Polonius is an important and respected person. It
seems appropriate that he investigates and
controls the behavior of his son and daughter. He,
as the Kings advisor is no longer a private person
but a public one: what he or his children do has
important public, not just personal implications.
However, if his actions and speeches are examined
closer, it is evident that he is a limited and
vain person who is overly concerned with his
appearance and wears different masks to tune up to
different peo...
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Half An Hour Thomas Hardy
668 words
Thomas Hardy feels that Edgon Heath, the setting
of the novel The Return of the Native is a
powerful, scary, dark and dreary place. He uses
various techniques to express this attitude. Some
of the techniques he used to convey this thought
are diction, imagery, syntax, and tone. The
diction he choose was specific and concrete,
presenting an actual place that was depressing.
The words he used attempted to present a specific,
concrete perception of things. Such as when he
writes, ? approaching the ...
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Sy Kahn Crane Crosby
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Sy Kahn On Crosby and Crane Crosby's own books of
poetry and his diaries, Shadows of the Sun,
testify that he apprehended and rendered reality
in much the same way as Crane. For example, both
shared an enthusiasm for the technology of the
century and saw in the symbol of the machine a
dynamic expression of mans restlessness and
creative spirit. Crosby's interest is reflected in
the many photographs he took of machine subjects:
airplanes, dynamos, factory smoke stacks, railroad
signal towers, and...
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Epic Poem Important Element
560 words
Hero s Epic In the course of time, many heroes
have made their name and many stories have been
written to proclaim their greatness. However, none
as captivating as Beowulf. This Anglo-Saxon epic
demonstrates it s power with beautiful language,
usage of kennings, metaphors, similes, and
alliteration. Also, it gives wondrous supernatural
beings as in God, and even of powerful creatures
as Grendel. On the other hand, it has human
struggles and afflictions. The very first element
that is discovered ...
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Dame Sans Merci Knight
688 words
In? La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad, ? John
Keats, the author, relates feelings of heartache
to the reader by using metaphors of somberness and
sorrow. The poem is set around a knight? s story
of how his heart had been broken when he was left
by a woman whom he had recently fell in love with.
The woman, an apparent succubus, comes to the
knight in what seems to be some variation of a
dream, and makes love to him. A succubus is known
as a demon female evil spirit that comes to Earth
and has se...
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First Looking Into Chapman Homer First Looking Into Chapman Keats
641 words
Question: Examine various techniques a poet can
use to evoke reader response to a subject in
reference to two or more poems Answer: John Keats
uses various techniques in his compositions to
evoke a readers response to his theme. In Keats
poem, On first looking into Chapman's Homer
depicts Keats emotions and feelings after being
read Chapman's Elizabethan translation of the
Odyssey. To show the magnitude of his delight,
Keats compares his feelings to those of many
explorers, who discover the wond...
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Act Ii Scene Act I Scene
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Shakespeare s Literary Devices Shakespeare,
through his use of stylistic devices; namely, his
use of metaphors, personification, symbols,
imagery, and irony, though not necessarily limited
to them; creates rich, vivid verse that has yet to
be paralleled in writing since. There are many
excellent examples of stylistic devices throughout
Shakespeare s work, but for this paper I will only
quote from Mac Beth. I would like to quote and
reflect some of these devices in the
aforementioned order. There...
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Lord Of The Flies Interesting And Fun Book
378 words
Critique Lord of the Flies written by Willam
Golding, is a 208 page novel, written in 1954.
Lord of the Flies is about a group of of young
english boys who? s planes crashes onto a remote
island. Throught the novel the boys gradually
changed from civilized english boys to to small
savages that need to sure. The author used many
metaphors and Imagery to describe the situations
and places on the island. All the places in the
island where described very well for example when
Ralph first used the co...
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Waters Of Lifes Home Of Dr Sea
675 words
Lucy Stowe's Journey When Lucy Stowe boards a ship
to travel to Villette, she is asked Are you fond
of a sea-voyage by (the yet to be known) Ms.
Fanshaw. Since this was Lucy's first trip abroad,
she answers that her fondness is yet to be
experienced. Nonetheless, Lucy's partiality for
the sea is evident throughout the novel. She
illustrates her past with a myriad of nautical
metaphors and image ries of water that suggests a
spiritual connection to the sea. This connection
appears to derive from ...
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Chicken Hawk Floats William Duffy Farm Life
572 words
Lying In A Hammock At William Duffys Lying In A
Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island,
Minnesota Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's
Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly, Asleep
on the black trunk, Blowing like a leaf in green
shadow. Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another Into the distances
of the afternoon. To my right, In a field of
sunlight between two pines, The droppings of last
years horses Blaz...
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Salem Witch Trials Wanted To Show
715 words
History Repeated It is hard to believe how one
single person can gain so much power. Enough power
to falsely accuse many people of something they
are not. Through the fear of a society one person
can control everyone and everything. Senator
Joseph Mccarthy had that power for four years.
McCarthy was not well-liked but he learned how to
be feared through his accusations of communism
against many U. S. government officials. Abigail
Williams was feared by the town of Salem,
Massachusetts through he...
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Life Individual Narcissus
418 words
Throughout this book Hesse continuously explores
the idea of the conflict individuals experience
when searching for their true identity. Narcissus
and Goldmund, two medieval men whose characters
are metaphors for the underlying theme of mans
individual search for self and the human
experience. Narcissus is a monk firm in his
religious and intellectual beliefs or so he
thinks, and Goldmund a youth hungry for knowledge
and life experience. Narcissus the intellect
living a purely academic life yet ...
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Contort Your Body Lord To My Soul Yoga
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Yoga The four Yoga John 1 Yoga The four paths of
yoga are used in different ethnic backgrounds. In
my understanding of yoga which in today? s society
many believe the same. I believed that yoga was a
form of exercise which you contort your body in
different angles. I was sadly mistaken by what I
believed was right was not right at all. As a
matter of fact Yoga is actually a form of
religion. In Yoga religion they have different
paths. One path is the Jnana or better known as?
Way of Knowledge? ....
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William Shakespeare Act 2
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Act 2; Scene 2; Lines 36 - 39 and 41 - 52 36 O
Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? 37 Deny thy
father and refuse thy name, 38 Or, if thou wilt
not, be but sworn my love, 39 And I ll no longer
be a Capulet. 41 Tis but thy name that is my
enemy. 42 Thou art thyself, thou not a Montague.
43 What s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, 44
Nor arm, nor face, [nor any other part] 45
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! 46 What
s in a name? That which we call a rose 47 By any
other word would sm...
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Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
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No name typifies science fiction to the American
public more than the name Ray Bradbury. For over
forty years, he has been writing novels, short
stories, poems, plays, and movie scripts that have
long since kept him in the forefront of American
literature. His stories become standard reading
for many high school and college students. His
literary style can best be described as
enchantment; the way he captivates his readers
with charm, bewitchment, and stunning verbal
evocations. His visions of t...
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Road Less Traveled Frosts Poems
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Robert Frost, perhaps the greatest American poet
of the twentieth century, has brought himself
great recognition. Many critics have tried to find
a faulty side to his writing, but they have had a
difficult time because his writing romanticizes
the rural simplicity that he loved while probing
into the mysteries of the universe (Estep 2).
Three areas of criticism covered are: a speakers
decision in choosing, a poem broken down into
three sections, and Frosts use of metaphors and
style in his writi...
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Splitting Into Cellular Atoms Splitting Into Cellular People
368 words
Spoon River Thomas Rhodes talks about how the
people in Spoon River could have prevented their
hard times. He compared people in Spoon River to
navigators and sailors because they found with all
their boasted wisdom how hard at the last it is to
keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms.
He also says that seekers of earths treasures are
self-contained and harmonized even to the end. In
this poem you are not told what Thomas does for a
living, but it is implied that Thomas is a bank
owner ...
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