Literary Devices Essay Examples and Topics

Freedom in Death: Wheatley’s Eulogies For a slave to write about slavery might be expected, but in using imagery of the slave trade as an overarching metaphor across her poems on death, Phillis Wheatley sets herself apart. Metaphor places both her journey to America and…

Madeleine Albright’s commencement speech was obviously directed towards the young graduates of Mount Holyoke College. Albright, in her speech, utilized certain words and phrases to motivate the graduating women to move forward with their lives. Madeleine Albright commencement speech rhetorical analysis shows how she encouraged…

Symbolism is a literary device used in a novel to represent ideas and concepts as well as convey a deeper meaning. Analyzing symbolism helps you better understand the author’s intention, like in this Fahrenheit 451 literary analysis. Ray Bradbury uses mirrors, a phoenix, and symbolic…

Romeo and Juliet Literary Analysis of Play Romeo Montague The son of Montague and Lady Montague. He is a young man about 16 years old and very impulsive. At the beginning of the play he is madly in love with a woman named Rosaline, but…

The Literary Canon has evolved and changed over the years. It has differed with time, changing from one era to another. It’s mainly influenced by society, cultural events, and history. Whatever is going on in the world, the canon relates to it. For centuries it…

In this essay I will be analyzing the poem “Mary’s Song” by Sylvia Plath, discussing the figurative dimensions of the text. “Mary’s Song” was published posthumously in 1965 in the collection Ariel. The themes of burning and sacrifice are seen throughout the poem, with Plath…

William Shakespeare uses various ways for readers to connect to his poems. Even though his style of writing is too old for our newer generations to understand. Shakespeare had a wonderful way to impact his readers by giving three strategies which are a theme, tone,…

 Robert Frost once said, ‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought found words’. Poetry speaks directly to the soul of a lot of readers and provides an emotion, a voice making it more concrete and powerful. It has the ability…

Abstract This study will discuss onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is an imitation of the natural sound of things that formed into words. Onomatopoeia is imitative of non-linguistic sounds (Langacker, 1973: 25). There are a lot of researchers who do their research on onomatopoeia, but it is still…

In the novel The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Cecily Cardew is a subject of development through the usage of antithesis and satirical juxtaposition in mirroring of another character, Gwendolen. If Gwendolen is a product of London’s excessive society, Cecily is its antithesis….

Nils Christie proposes the concept of “Conflicts as Property” in his article of the same name, where he criticizes the theft of conflict from the involved parties by their professional representatives and the legal system. Christie claims that henceforth conflict becomes the property of others…

Albert Camus’ first novel, The Stranger portrays events in the life of Meursault- from the loss of his mother to the moments before his execution for committing a murder- the nature of whom has been a topic of critical analysis and discussion for the critics…

Music has been changed and evolved over the years and be influenced from poetry; music can be viewed as poetry and categorized as well. Poetry is script of rhymes and messages that can relate to people and spread messages. All of my examples are poetic…

Good novels are a window into society which take readers to interesting places, but great novels however allow readers to experience where they need to go. Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, written in 1890 brings audience on a journey to Victorian England…

Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan was made by Liu Chunhua in 1967 CE in China. The original was made using oil on canvas but was mass produced as a colored lithograph using a style known as socialist realism. This artwork was created as a…