Essays on Literary Devices

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….

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” demonstrates the absurdity of trying to make an impeccable being, and thusly, meddling with the domain of the awesome. Hawthorne passes on this message through the tale of the researcher Aylmer and his lovely spouse, Georgiana, who has a…

The Fables that were inserted in the epic, along with ballads and legends and another form of Folk-Tales, in fact, constituted the beliefs, customs and traditions of the common people. Every popular similes and analogy played an important role in the development of fables. During…

I chose this author because she has made one of my favorite poems of all time. She truly writes from the soul and I can feel exactly where she is coming from through her writing. She is not a big-name poet like Shakespeare or Dickinson…

Bias is something that every writer fears of and constantly threads the needle with it. Often times writers unbeknownst to them become biased in their written pieces. There are a couple of ways biases can occur in writing, the first way is that the writer…

Advertisements are a form of argument that attempt to prove a point. This point is usually to persuade their audience that they need a certain product to act a certain way, to feel a certain way or to live a certain lifestyle. Honestly if we…

“Ame Allusions are very common in literature. Many authors use them in their books for various reasons. But what exactly are they? How to define them and what are the most famous examples in Gaiman’s work? Is he truly the “Master of allusions”? This essay…