Essays on Literary Devices

Rhetoric; or communication skills, both written and verbal, form the foundation of classical education. In ancient Greece and civilized Rome, rhetorical rituals, critical appreciations, and judicious discourses in public relations before the courts, diplomatic and cultural, and political debates are disciplined in all normal learning…

Jonathan Edwards is a great author that uses literary devices that has a majorly good effect on how we read and comprehend books today, in this story I will show you the literary devices that he uses. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”…

Irony as a literary device has been used in order to achieve a sense of reality within works of fiction. It can be seen a sort of contrast between the surface meaning of something that is said or done and the actual, underlying meaning of…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a science-fiction parody novel by Douglas Adams. It can be classified as an absurdist story where the protagonist searches a meaning to life. Throughout this character’s journey, he’s faced with multiple obstacles which are totally absurd events that…

The Interactive Oral session held in class helped me develop a deep understanding of the play and its themes. Themes such as ‘absurdity of existence’ and ‘purposelessness of life’ were also discussed along with the cultural context of the play. In this reflective statement, I…

“A stiff apology is a second insult … The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt” Gilbert K. Chesterton. The art of the apology is an extremely difficult art…

Introduction In the poem “We Real Cool”, Gwendolyn Brooks uses specific literary devices, such as assonance, alliteration, enjambment, and rhythm to create a dramatic effect. The poem is told from an adolescent point of view which suggests the meaning that even in your adolescence, your…

In the novel “in cold blood” a family of four is murdered horrifically in a small town named Holcomb, Kansas that has the whole town in shock and fearful. Truman Capote wrote this to argue the controversial topic of capital punishment. Capote throughout the book…

Jonathan Swift, author of “A Modest Proposal”, utilizes his mastery of satire, outrageous claims, and rhetorical devices; Satire is the use of irony and exaggeration to expose or criticize people’s stupidity, vices, and faults. Swift succeeds in discretely criticizing the contemporary politics and policies of…

Introduction Personification shapes the readers’ perception of Buck’s emotional state because it informs, compares, and reveals his development in Jack Londons’ The Call of the Wild. Buck grows and changes over the course of the novel, and his emotional state is displayed to the reader….