Alliteration:The main reason to use alliteration in poetry is that it sounds pleasing. It’s a means to get the attention of readers or listeners. Hyperbole:Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. Personification:Giving an object or animal-human characteristics to create interesting imagery. Simile:A simile is a figure of speech that directly […]
Language Connotations: Is the associated meaning. e.g run – to move very fast. But the connotation is feeling very tired. Unique spin to yourself. Positive connotation:The rays of sunshine gleams on the smiling heard of faces. Birds chirping and dancing around in the newly blossomed trees. The scent of freshly cut flowers lingers around them […]
Using human characteristics to non human things. As though in challenge, the diving board scowled at me. i paced my hands on the rungs and began to climb. Happy, beautiful, loving, kind, cheerful. bubbly small, cottage, warm, baking, comfy. The fire lit house appeared stress-free as she walked in. It is a friend that protects […]
Amir: The central character of the story as well as its narrator, Amir has a privileged upbringing. The only thing he feels deprived of is a deep emotional connection with Baba, which he blames on himself. The change in Amir’s character we see in the novel centers on his growth from a selfish child to […]
The novel opens with Amir as a grown man reflecting on his childhood. Provide a detailed description of the opening scene of the novel. “I became what i am today at the age of 12, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975” Amir is reflecting on his past which is soon revealed further […]
Antihero: main character that lacks heroic attributes. Homer Simpson: People like him because he is humorous but is not someone you would look up too. He puts himself first and gets angry at anyone that sticks up for him. He has an immature personality, is lazy and has explosive anger.
Describe a character in the text and how they change throughout The tragedy of Macbeth is a play written in the seventieth century by William Shakespeare shows how the main character Macbeth changes throughout the play. Macbeth was first introduced to the audience as a hero due to his loyalty towards the King in the […]
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair” – Three WitchesIs a summary of what is to come in the tale. It is represented by what is considered a bad thing is actually good, and what seems bad is actually good. “Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires” -MacbethMacbeth wants […]
Andre Agassi showed ambition in the tennis world. Agassi was the first male to win all four grand slams in the three different surfaces (hard, grass and clay court.) Agassi was the last American male to win both the French Open (in 1999) and the Australian Open (in 2003). He was part of the winning Davis […]