When writing an effective comparison and contrast paper involves the following steps; pair two poems with much in common, point to further unsuspected resemblances, show noteworthy differences, and carefully consider your essay’s organization. It also mentions how to quote a poem; in quoting a poem if you quote fewer than four lines of poetry, transform the passage into prose form. If quoting four or more lines, set them off from your text, and arrange them just as they occur on the page, white space and all. When omitting words from the lines you quote, indicate the omission with
The essay presents a thesis in the introductory paragraph and ends with a concluding paragraph that summarizes the main points or restates the thesis of the essay. The body of the essay contains paragraphs that support the essay's thesis. The essay consistently follows one or an appropriate combination of the four major organizational plans (chronological order, spatial order, logical order, order of importance). Transitions are well placed and make meaningful connections between ideas and paragraphs. The essay identifies the name of the poem and the author at the beginning.
Both Shakespeare and Carol Ann Duffy have structural differences in their texts to show the emotional change in the characters of Othello and Miss Havisham. In Othello Shakespeare shifts from blank verse to prose to show his breakdown in emotion. In Act 1 Scene 3 Othello speaks in unrhymed iambic pentameter which shows that it is written in blank verse however in Act 4 Scene 1 Othello starts to speak in prose and from the context of his speech we could infer that he is angry. This change in from verse to prose suggests that he cannot control his emotions very well and it is easy to see what he is feeling. Shakespeare tends to write in blank verse when the character is calm and then switches to prose when there is a spin of emotion.
Unit 4 : Developing Reading and Writing Skills. TAQ1 Why is imagery so important in Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’? Line 2- “Knock – kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge.” Alliteration,rhyming, sibilance and Onomatopoeia which uses sound. Sound makes us feel like we are in the scene. Line 3 –“Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs” Alliteration and rhyming is used here , the “t” sound is repeated.
In Unsettling America the poetry contained in the book uses many various types of elements of poetry. There are many different elements of poetry, some of which are diction, imagery and metaphor. These poems use these elements to help elicit a type of feeling, visual picture, or understanding of what is trying to be described. The poems paint a picture of an historical event or talks about issues such as classism, racism and sexism, whether through personal experience or as a whole. One of these elements of poetry is very apparent while reading some of these poems and that is element is metaphor.
These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper. When reading Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, it is more easily understood as a figurative text rather than a literal text. A literal reading of this story would make it very difficult to understand the details. By taking this story literally it is not easy to understand the entire meaning and representation of the story. In the beginning of the story, the narrator describes the old man’s eye.
The occasional, but very deliberate, use of two unstressed syllables within some lines quicken the pace, emphasizing the message to the reader. In a letter to John Bartlett in 1914, Frost wrote “You listen for sentence sounds.” (Geddes, 47). The mournful feeling of the poem is lightened by the use of alternating masculine end rhymes, which gives the poem an almost playful cadence. Frost’s connotative use of imagery describing “The people along the sand” (line 1) who “… turn their back on the land” (line 3) even though “The land may vary more;” (line 9) suggests that, as a whole, the human race are disinclined to face reality and “… turn and look one way.” This detached, impersonal view is continued throughout the poem with the repeated use of the third person
Literary Terms Figures of speech are words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. They always involve some sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things. Not meant to be taken literally, figurative language is used to produce images in a reader’s mind and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways. The most common examples of figurative language, or figures of speech, used in both prose and poetry, are simile, metaphor, and personification. Flashback is a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.
Sammie Burks Period. 1 Honors English 11 September 11th, 2013 Literary Term Handbook Diction Formal: Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words Own: the way a person speaks or writes by the words they choose to use Examples: 1. “That laid my goods now in the dust. Yes, so it was, and so ‘twas just” (Bradstreet 29). 2.
After finishing Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, I can honestly say this is my favorite collection of short stories I have read thus far. It took me a quite a bit of time to reach this point, though. Towards the beginning of reading this anthology, I found myself being far too analytical typically expected of an English course, often times looking for notable events, themes and other elements of writing. I quickly realized the nature of Carver’s writing: simplistic, stark and candid. On the surface, Carver’s stories may come across as lacking and dull.