2. Explain the rhetorical strategies used in the following line: “There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water.” (pp. 1-2) One rhetorical strategy is the repetition of the image of “the path.” If the Salinas River is established as a place of solace, the path might indicate that the men are coming from a place that is the opposite—a place that is dreary and desolate. The path is the bridge between the two worlds. The second rhetorical strategy is the use of the idiom “jungle-up.” Of Mice
The setting of 'The Red Room', 'Lorraine Castle', is extremely typical of the Gothic genre. Castles are generally large, dark place, and the reader knows the Red Room to be situated in a castle like this, as the narrator is given a rather long list of directions before he encounters the Red Room. The passageways almost seem to lead him underground, so far into isolation that even if he were to need help, it would not be available. Used in 'The Red Room', the setting creates a foundation of mystery and the possibility of ghosts, or a supernatural presence. As the initial room the narrator finds himself in is not described in great detail, much emphasis is put on the Room itself.
The house of Wuthering Heights is introduced into the novel in a storm. This pathetic fallacy gives an insight into the main feel of the Wuthering heights manor and also the darkness it will bring later on in the novel. The house itself is an old stone building that seems daunting to the reader and very uneasy, the words that are used to describe the house are of a cruel and conficting nature, “kitchen was forced to retreat altogether into another quarter”. Furthermore, Wuthering heights could be seen as having an effect on the people that live there, for example its depressing nature and desolate location could have effected that characters behaviour, making them more cruel, maybe due to their isolation. This could also be suggested through Heathcliff and Catherine as it was only when they were away from the house and roaming the moors together that they truly are able to be themselves together.
The area surrounding the mansion is the initial setting of the story and is one of the first spooky and theatrical settings Poe renders in his tale. The setting emits “a sense of insufferable gloom” emitted by the “clouds [which] hung oppressively low in the heavens” the “eyelike windows,” and the “white trunks of decayed trees.” All these different details aspects convey a sense of fear and apprehension in the reader, as they obviously indicate that the story which they are part of is not recommendable as a bed-time story. The house itself is also crafted to heighten the tension of the story. For one, the fact that Roderick Usher, one of the characters in the story, has not left the house in ages brings forth a sense of claustrophobia. When the narrator does not leave the house till the house has completely collapsed the reader also starts feeling trapped.
The ground beneath them was a bank covered with grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar." (9-10) An object which also attains much symoblic relevance as the story unfolds is the conch shell. Delicate, fragile, and white, the conch is what brings the boys together on the first day at the beach. It is used throughout the
As soon as Lockwood is gone, or so he believes, Heathcliff cannot help but release ‘into an uncontrollable passion of tears’. 3. Identify the gothic elements in this chapter. How is the suspense built up in this chapter? Suspense is immediately built up in this chapter through introducing the reader to a room at the top of the house, which Zillah confides, is both secret and forbidden.
“Most Dangerous Game Essay” In the suspenseful short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, there are many literary elements evident. The suspenseful theme throughout the story keeps the reader' s attention as imagery , foreshadowing and characterizations shape the unexpected outcomes. Richard Connell, the author, takes the reader to a dark and cruel ‘palatial chateau’, to meet a man so sinister and ‘bizarre’. The hunting game played is deadly, cruel and inhumane. Characterization is the act of creating and developing a character and they can be both direct and indirect.
"Dover Beach" illustrates how figurative language is a useful device to determine the setting and situation, literally and figuratively, in which the speaker is located. In the first stanza, the speaker illustrates to the reader, the location and the time of day. He speaks of the beach after dusk and of the emotion that he feels while at this beach. He says the bay is serene and the night air is sweet. It is so quiet that "you hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back and fling" (lines 6-10).
The Fall of The House of Usher The first sentence of the story places the narrator in what seems to be a supernatural environment starting off with describing the surroundings of the story that is being told. This sets up the tone and mood in which the rest of the story is set in right away we understand that the narrator has been placed in a gloomy environment, which in consequence leads us to understand that he has been isolated from the world around him only to be placed in unfamiliar circumstances. He then proceeds to describe the mansion in front of him which he then seems to attribute a personality too and describes it as if it were a living person for he uses words such as soul, and even goes as far as to say that the windows of the house look like eyes. We right away understand that the house is in poor condition and while its grandeur seems to be present it has been withered away over the years, which are synonymous with the fall of the family who lived inside it. Once the narrator is inside the house we are introduced to Roderick Usher, who is the narrator’s childhood friend but once again he is set up to be a complete mystery even though we are informed right away that something isn’t completely right about him.
He says “there midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, and evening full of the linnet’s wings”. In the final stanza he uses alliteration again saying “lake water lapping with low sounds” At the end of the poem Yeats turns again to reality and it is reflected in the two final verses: “While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.” The strong desire of the poet is again emphasized in the final verse, where he feels from the deep of his heart that he wants to be in a place like Innisfree. The second poem I am going to discuss is “The Daffodils”, by William Wordsworth. In stanza one Wordsworth uses a simile in the first line “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”.