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• Are you familiar with the poem of Pablo Neruda, Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines? Just wanna know the elements of this poem.
• What is the difference between diction and tone?
• What is an example of theme?
• What is the definition of theme?
• What is the definition of allusion?
• What is an example of allusion?
• What are some examples of hyperbole?
• What is an analogy?
• Can someone give me an example of an analogy?
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• How can you use juxtaposition to create a sentence/clause that complements the following one?: They peered into the dark and scary alley.
• What's an example of allegory?
• Is the Harry Potter series an allegory?
• What's the difference between parables and allegory?
• How does allegory relate to the Lord of the Flies?
• What are examples of alliteration?
• What is alliteration?
• What is assonance?
• What are examples of irony in popular media, TV, or movies?
• What are some examples of irony?
• What is tragedy? I am looking for a literary definition and source.
• What is a Greek Tragedy?
• What are the elements of tragedy in Macbeth?
• What is an Elizabethan tragedy and what is the best way to describe it?
• What are some examples of tone in literature?
• What is blank verse? What is an example of a blank verse in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare?
• What does positive and negative connotation mean?
• What are some examples of antithesis?
• What is onomatopoeia?
• Is the word "blast" an onomatopoeia?
• Is "The door creaked." an example of an onomatopoeia?
• What are some examples of onomatopoeia in The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe?
• What are songs with onomatopoeia in the lyrics? The song also has to have other literary devices such as simile and metaphors.
• What are some examples of hubris?
• Can anyone give me examples of hubris in Greek/Roman mythology? All I can really think of is Arachne and Athena.
• What is imagery in literature?
• What are some examples of imagery in Macbeth?
• What is the difference between simile and metaphor?
• What is a metaphor?
• What are examples of similes?
• What is a direct metaphor?
• What is personification?
• Could you help me with these analogies?
• Can you use "circumlocution" in a sentence?
• What are examples of circumlocution?
• What is a word or phrase that is used in place of a word that has an unfavorable connotation?
• How does Dickens use satire to poke fun at funerals in Chapter 35 of Great Expectations?
• What is the meaning of circumlocution in the following sentence? I never understand her because her speech is done in circumlocution.
• Is this diction or repetition in the paragraph below? Is "prefer" diction or repetition? and what's the difference? Is it that diction is with one word and repetition is with two?
• What does "diction" mean in poetry? What does my English teacher mean when he refers to a poet's diction?
• What does it mean to have negative tone and negative diction vs. having positive tone and positive diction?
• What is the author's diction in To Kill A Mockingbird? I need to explain Harper Lee's diction in To Kill A Mockingbird, as well as provide an example of it. AND, I need a picture. How can you visualize diction?
• Can anybody think of some similes that compare soccer, tennis and hockey?
• What is hyperbole?
• What is malapropism? Is there a movie that has some sort of malapropism in it?
• What are some examples of foreshadowing?
• What are examples of foreshadowing in Romeo and Juliet, specifically act 1 scenes 1-5? Could you explain why?
• What is foreshadowing?
• What are some examples of foreshadowing in "Of mice and Men"? And quotes that support them?
• What are some examples of foreshadowing in Macbeth?
• Idioms, clichés, euphemisms, and colloquialisms - What are the differences and the similarities between these terms? I don't understand them.
• What are general and specific purposes for satire?
• What is satire?
• What is the definition of satirical comedy? I've been looking everywhere online for like an hour now, and I cannot find this definition.
• What is satirical poetry?
• What are the different types of irony?
• What is dramatic irony, specifically in Romeo and Juliet?
• What is an example of verbal irony?
• How do you teach irony to middle school students?
• What is situational irony?
• What is the difference between ‘Situational Irony’ and ‘Verbal Irony’ with examples?
• Could someone explain the use of verbal and dramatic Irony in The Crucible?
• What are examples of irony in The Cask of Amontillado?
• What are examples of irony in The Hobbit?
• What is the difference between a contradiction, a paradox, and irony? Can someone help me understand the difference between each of these words?
• What is personification and how is it used in poetry?
• What is an oxymoron?
• What are examples of oxymorons?
• What are examples of oxymorons in Romeo and Juliet?
• What is symbolism in literature?
• What are examples of stream of consciousness in books or poetry?
• What is a plot?
• What's the difference between theme and plot?
• Is a plot the same thing as a summary of the story? If not, what's the difference?
• What is the difference between subplot and main plot?
• What is the prologue of a book?
• What is an epilogue?
• What is the purpose of the prologue in Romeo and Juliet?
• What is the purpose of syntax?
• In literature, what is syntax, and how do i find examples?
• What is the difference between syntax and grammar? I know syntax is part of grammar, but the words often get used interchangeably, and I'm not grasping what the real difference is.
• Whats an example of syntax? How is it used in Huckleberry Finn?
• What is a setting of a story? How is that different from plot?
• What is the setting of Beowulf?
• How do you describe the setting of a short story including time, place, weather conditions, traditions/customs/dialect? Could you give me an example please?
• What's the difference between a theme and motif?
• In literature, what is the difference between an archetype and a motif? They seem very similar, thus I was wondering if there is any distinguishable difference between the two.
• What is an example of a motif?
• What is a motif using the following choices?
• What are some common motifs in literature?
• What is the difference between a motif and a repetition in a poem? Could you give me an example as well?
• What are examples of Deus Ex Machina?
• Can you help me understand what Deus ex Machina is and give me some examples of it from the Odyssey?
• What is an example of a portmanteau?
• What are examples of portmanteau? I need 10 portmanteau words that are verbs. Like twist + swirl = twirl. I have to write an equation like that for each one (containing the two words).
• What are examples of metonymy?
• Are these sentences synecdoche or metonymy? "Lend me your ears" and "give me a hand." Please explain why.
• Are these phrases an expression of a hyperbole? If not, then what is it?
• What is the opposite of hyperbole? In other words, what word is used to refer to the rhetorical use of understatement?
• Is there any examples of euphony in "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost?
• What are some quotes from "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" about death, living, and peace?
• Do all poems have to rhyme?
• How can I describe a rock concert in sentences using these poetic devices: euphony, cacophony, alliteration, rhyme, similes, and rhythm?
• Where can I find the following poems by Thom Gunn? "Moly" and "In Santa Maria Del Popolo"?
• What does "To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant" mean?
• What does "being made redundant" mean? Not the repetitive meaning, the employment-related meaning?
• Is, "For a long time to come," an English idiom, and what does it mean?
• Why do poets use anastrophe in their writing? Who else besides poets use anastrophe?
• What is the function of an anastrophe in literature? I'm looking for why an author would use an anastrophe in a story/poem.
• What are some examples of how anastrophe is used in literature?
• What are examples of anagrams?
• What is an epilogue in a book? Why is it used?
• What are examples of flashback used in literature?
• What is the difference between alliteration, assonance, and consonance?
• What is an example of paradox in literature?
• How do you use verisimilitude in a sentence?
• What are examples of verisimilitude?
• What are examples of stanzas?
• What is a characterization essay?
• What is "characterization"? How does characterization add to the reader's understanding of the theme of the story?
• How is characterization used in the book "Of Mice and Men"?
• What do the terms direct characterization and indirect characterization mean and how are they used in literature?
• Does indirect characterization only describe a character's personality or could it also describe their physical appearance?
• Is characterization what the character does to portray a theme?
• How do you change a direct characterization into an indirect characterization?
• What is an example of a book that uses direct characterization?
• What is character interaction?
• How important is characterization, when writing a short story? How much characterization is needed?
• What are the four methods of characterization?
• What are the implications of characterization for Harry Potter's scar (his physical imperfection)? What is the reason behind the birth of the scar, its symbol throughout the entire series, and how it shapes Harry Potter into the way he is now?
• What is the characterization of Juliet Capulet, other than she was hasty?
• "He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark." Is this direct or indirect characterization, and why?
• Can an example of an indirect characterization be something a character said and us assuming something from it?
• What does internal and external characterization mean?
• How was Jesus characterized differently in each of the four gospels (Mark, John, Matthew, Luke)? Did each of the four gospels characterize him differently?
• What is a good sentence using the word characterization?
• What are the 8 methods of characterization?
• What is a type of characterization in which the writer tells the reader what a character is like?
• What is Character Development in a story? Why is this important?
• What are static and dynamic characters?
• How does the characterization of Jack Merridew in "Lord of the Flies" move the plot along?
• Are other character's thoughts about a character a form of indirect characterization? What about the character's own thoughts?
• What is characterization of a person? Is it who they are as a person like strong, lonely, and things like that?
• What is the term called when the author gives human characteristics to nonhuman things?
• My English teacher wants us to make an illustration of the word "characterization" on a piece of blank printer paper. What could I draw?
• What does "Literary canon" mean?
• How does Shakespeare characterize the witches in Macbeth? What is their thematic significance?
• What are the different types of indirect characterization?
• Where is indirect characterization about Romeo found in the story?
• What made the characterization of Sherlock Holmes so unique?
• Chaucer’s characterizations of the Prioress, the Monk, and others connected with the Church are mainly what?
• Is there a difference between a characterization and a character sketch?
• Is "tone" told in the first person point of view?
• In the short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" how is the characterization of Walter Mitty achieved?
• In a story, what are major and minor characters?
• In the passage "Rikki Tikki Tavi," what do the characters represent?
• How does characterization affect the plot?
• How does characterization affect theme?
• How does voice affect characterization?
• What are some examples of consonance?
• What does consonance mean?
• How do consonant sounds differ from vowel sounds?
• How does consonance differ from dissonance?
• How does consonance help a poem?
• How can you use consonance correctly?
• How do you pronounce the word "assonance"?
• What are some examples of consonance in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
• What are examples of overstatements?
• A person says he doesn't watch TV much at all but clearly he does watch TV a lot. Is this an example of an understatement?
• What is a "gross understatement"?
• "Chocolate is an understatement." What does this sentence mean?
• How can the word "understatement" be used in a sentence?
• Is it an understatement to call someone that thinks that you are his/her friend an acquaintance?
• There was some sort of mysterious gravity surge in the kitchen. Somehow, that picture ended up in the trash all the way across the room. Is this sentence an example of verbal irony, sarcasm, hyperbole, or understatement?
• What are examples of puns about the hands?
• What are some good horse puns?
• What are some owl puns?
• Are puns the same as one-liners?
• Does anyone know any egg puns?
• Want some bird Puns?
• What is an example of a pun in literature?
• What is an example of pun in poetry?
• When people say, "No pun intended," what does that mean?
• What is the antonym of the bolded word?
• What's the difference between capital punishment and the death penalty?
• How is lady macbeth most responsible for the terrible events that happen in the play macbeth?
• Why would macduff have been a better king directly after king duncan's death?
• Define audience and voice. How do they affect each other?
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• What does chiasmus mean? What is an example?
• Is this an example of chiasmus: "We ran quickly and abruptly stopped."?
• How did Joseph Smith know how to write a chiasmus (ancient form of poetry) when he made up the Book of Mormon?
• What is the purpose of chiasmus?
• What is any example of parallelism in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
• Is this an example of chiasmus: "If you walk to them, they will wave; if you talk to them, they will respond; they will answer if you have questions for them; they will be honest with you if you are with them."?
• “Dying is like sleeping, but then you have to think about what dreams might come when you fall asleep, and that’s the problem.” What is the exact quote and who said it?
• Can anyone come up with an original chiasmus?
• In the poem "Digging," by Seamus Heaney, where is the chiasmus?
• “When a nation is strong, it is not always just. And when justice becomes a trait, it loses some of its strength.” What is the exact quote and who said it?
• Where is chiastic structure in Psalm 51?
• What is the use/function of polyptoton?
• What are some connections between Truman Capote and "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?
• There are three oxymorons in "1984" by George Orwell. Freedom=slavery, war=love, and ignorance=strength. What do they mean?
• What is an example of polysyndeton in "Fahrenheit 451"?
• What was Abraham Lincoln's message in "The Gettysburg Address"? What point was he trying to make?
• What are some songs with irony in them?
• What is a song that uses the literary device, litotes?
• What is the difference between anaphora and parallelism?
• What is a quote from "Hamlet" that uses alliteration?
• "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country": What does this really mean? What was intended?
• What is an example of a climax in a story/movie?
• What are some examples of cacophony? What is cacophony?
• According to their origin myth, the how did Kiowa enter the world how? The phrase, "No one, not even the rain, has such small hands," illustrates what literary device?
• What is the effect of antithesis?
• What are some examples of cliches in literature?
• What is the effect of using alliteration? I know it adds emphasis,but what else?
• What are some examples of epistasis?
• What are some examples of anaphora?
• What is a concrete example?
• What is the purpose of a cliche?
• Mark Antony famously said, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." My teacher says that this is an example of a synecdoche but I don't understand. Isn't a synecdoche a part that represents a whole? someone please explain?
• What is an example of a freight-train sentence?
• In "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt are there any literary devices like allusions, irony, parallelism, or symbolism?
• Why do authors use antithesis? I know what antithesis means, but I just want to know, what's the point of using antithesis in a story?
• What are examples of a circular argument (spiritually speaking)?
• What are examples of cliches used in love songs that people hate? Is a cliche the same as a corny line?
• What are 5 examples of metonymy and how are they used in a sentence?
• What type of figurative language is this: “Work all day for money, fight all night for love.”?
• Would this be a noun clause as indirect object: Hippolyta gives Diana a golden lasso that compels whoever it holds to tell the truth? Is "truth" the direct object and "whoever it holds" the indirect object?
• What is an example of pedantic, without actually using the word?
• What are some songs that have paradoxes in them?
• Is this an example of iambic pentameter in Shakespeare's "Hamlet": "O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt.”?
• Is this a chiasmus:"Degenerate filth for filthy degenerate minds."?
• What is an example of ambiguity in a piece of literature?
• What is the meaning of juxtaposition? What is an example of juxtaposition from "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot?
• Is "We are all the same; We are all different" an antimetabole?
• What are some good antimetabole quotes?
• What are two songs with examples of metonymy or paradox in the lyrics?
• What is an example of a rhetorical question?
• What is a figure of speech?
• What are some songs that have hyperbole's?
• What is charged language?
• What are the 10 figures of speech?
• Why did Joseph Smith write The Book of Mormon in Early Modern English (thee, thou)?
• Does the poem, "A Dream Within a Dream," by Edgar Allan Poe contain anastrophe, metonymy, synechdoche, or hyperbole?
• What are as many figures of speech you can think of?
• What is an example of an archetype?
• What rhetorical device is used in this quote: "A king before, but now a beaten warrior."?
• How could I use the word "cliche" in a sentence?
• What is a epimone and a rhetorical example of it?
• What effect does enjambment have on a poem?
• What are several examples of colloquialism in literature?
• What are illustrations of concrete language and abstract language?
• How do you use the word "propitious" in a sentence?
• Who wrote the Book of Mormon?
• What is a rhetorical question?
• What type of literary device is this: "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."?
• What is an original example of juxtaposition?
• What are some examples of expository devices and rhetorical devices?
• What are some examples of technology in Fahrenheit 451?
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• Who invented entertainment?
• What are some examples of books or movies that use Bildungsroman?
• What is it called when you turn to a random page in a book, pick out a random passage and go by the underlying philosophies?
• If Fire is Pyromancer, Dark is Necromancer, and Water is Hydromancer, what are Wind, Light, and Earth?
• What are some words that have the root bib? (The root "bib" meaning book)
• What are examples of words that start with the prefix "biblio"?
• What is the Biblical reference for the "Lilies of the Field" allusion in "Fahrenheit 451"?
• What does the word "random" mean?
• What are some words that start with "bi"?
• In the quote, "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof," what does "the fullness thereof" mean?
• Are there any non-fiction books written about sorcery?
• What is a good Biblical passage or devotional reading that can help my friend out who is going through a hard time?
• What is "religious dialogue"?
• What are some good Bible verses for a someone who is confused about what path to take in life?
• How does bibliomancy work?
• What are some examples of internal rhyme?
• What is external rhyme?
• What is internal rhyme?
• Is inner rhyme the same as internal rhyme?
• If I want to continue using an inter rhyme after I just used one, does it have to rhyme with the other internal rhyme? If I want to continue using a regular rhyme after the internal rhyme, does it have to rhyme with the internal rhyme?
• Are there any examples of internal rhyme in "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe?
• Are there any songs with internal rhyme in the lyrics?
• What are examples of verses from Rap songs, with the artist, that show exact rhyme, internal rhyme, end rhyme, and slant rhyme?
• What is a famous poem with internal rhyme?
• Internal rhyme occurs when?
• Why is the purpose of internal rhyming in poetry? Is there any difference between internal and external rhyming, other than its placement in a poem?
• Is "you" and "grew" a slant, end, or internal rhyme? Or are they a different type of rhyme?
• Where is Internal rhyme found in "Antigone"?
• What is the difference between end rhyme and internal rhyme?
• What is the difference between assonance and rhyme? What are some examples of each?
• Are stanzas in the same poem usually the same or different lengths?
• What is an example of an internal rhyme from the poem, "Out Out," by Robert Frost?
• What are the best examples of internal rhymes in Rap?
• What is the difference between end rhyme and perfect rhyme?
• Can symbols have more than one meaning? How can you explain this?
• Do poems have to have rhythm or rhyme?
• What is a rap rhyming scheme?
• When listing poem titles, do the commas go inside or outside the quotation marks?
• What is it called when letters form a word both forward and backward, like STOP and POTS (not a palindrome)?
• What are some words that start with the prefix hyper?
• What are 5 examples of a paradox?
• What are some ideas of information I could include in an oral report on poetic language?
• What does this mean: "What can I do you for?"
• Why are you not supposed to split the infinitive of a verb, for example: "To boldly go" should be "to go boldly." Why?
• What are 5 examples of facts and opinions?
• What are some original examples of antithesis?
• What is a satire?
• Where is an example of an alliteration in Martin Luther King's speech?
• Can you give me some examples of ellipsis (the leaving out of a word or words in a sentence, which would make it complete or correct)?
• What are some examples of diction, imagery, and symbolism in the book "Night," by Elie Wiesel?
• What is anastrophe? What are some examples?
• How do you pronounce "hyperbaton"?
• What is a good way to remember hyperbaton?
• What effect does hyperbaton have?
• What are some good examples of hyperbaton?
• Why is hyperbaton used?
• Does anybody have any example/examples of a metaphors, simile, hyperbole, alliteration or personification that i can use in my speech about malaria in Africa?
• What is a metaphor, simile, hyperbole, irony, alliteration, and imagery?
• Can someone explain to me what a hyperbole is? What are some examples?
• Can someone tell me a metaphor, simile, and hyperbole for each of fives senses: (touch, taste, smell, hear, see)?
• What is a hyperbole about school?
• Can you finish this sentence with a hyperbole: "The truck driver was so powerful..."?
• What are some examples of commonly used hyperboles?
• What is the adjective of the word "hyperbole"? Can a sentence be "hyperbolic" or is that only a science or math term?
• What is a hyperbole about the beach?
• Do you know any hyperboles in "Of Mice and Men"?
• How could I use hyperbole to describe my pets?
• Is hyperbole the same as exaggeration or is it a type of exaggeration?
• Is "you look like hell" a hyperbole?
• Is "Moving at the speed of light into eternity" a hyperbole? If not, what is it?
• How is the word "hyperbole" used in a sentence?
• What is the difference between idioms and hyperboles?
• What are some examples of hyperboles in movies?
• What are some funny hyperbole jokes?
• "We used a fire distinguisher to put out the fire in the trash can." Is this a hyperbole, malapropism, oxymoron, or a pun?
• Can someone give me a hyperbole for a snake?
• "Even the ice-hard heart of Hades melted." Is this a hyperbole?
• I understand that hyperbole is the extreme definition of exaggeration but then again what is an exaggeration and how bad does it have to be to be extreme?
• "The evening breeze had sprung up...the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and idle sails to rattle to and fro." Is this a simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia or hyperbole? PLEASE HELP!!?
• Can you find an example of a hyperbole in a newspaper advertisement?
• What are two examples of a hyperbole in act 3 of "Romeo and Juliet"?
• What is the difference between a hyperbole and a superlative?
• I am trying to get persuasive appeals and rhetorical devices into my essay about cyber bullying. Does anyone know of a hyperbole and personification about cyber bullying?
• Is this a hyperbole: "Reminiscing, taking a deep dive into the sea of memory."?
• What are some similes, metaphors, or hyperboles for the word "bored"?
• On an assignment, the teacher instructed that "hyperboles must be original." What does that mean?
• What is a poem with hyperbole about winter?
• What is an example of a hyperbole poem by Robert Frost?
• What is the purpose of hyperbole?
• What is a poem that uses both hyperbole and personification?
• Can a story be made using only or almost only conversation?
• What is the purpose of asyndeton?
• What are some examples of polysyndeton?
• What is an example of an asyndeton that children would enjoy?
• Why do writers use polysyndeton? What is the purpose?
• What is a simple definition of an asyndeton and diacope?
• Is there an example of polysyndeton in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
• Is this sentence: "Memories are not forgotten, but lost, lost in our hearts," an asyndeton?
• What are rhetorical appeals?
• What are examples of asyndeton in Dr. Seuss?
• How do you use anaphora in a sentence?
• What is an example of an antistrophe and what is antistrophe?
• In "Animal Farm," which character represents authorial intrusion and why?
• What is intrusion of solitude?
• Where was Montag's " destination" in Fahrenheit 451?
• What did Montag want to accomplish in Fahrenheit 451?
• What is the purpose of a caesura in poetry?
• What is the definition of caesura?
• What is the effect of Caesura?
• Whats the difference between enjambment and caesura?
• What is the difference between a masculine caesura and a feminine caesura?
• Why is caesura used in poetry?
• Is lyric poetry one of the longest kinds of poetry?
• Does Iambic pentameter consist of 5 feet of 2 syllables, each of which is an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one?
• Do enjambment and caesura fall under structure or rhythm when looking at literary devices in poetry?
• What is a poetic device used to imitate natural sound?
• I learned a poem called "The Road not Taken." Can you find alliteration, rhyme and rhythm? What is perspective of this poem?
• What is the definition & example of enjambment?
• Is "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman a free verse poem?
• Does a free verse poem have any poetic devices? What are some possible poetic devices if any in a free verse?
• What is the definition of "Cliche" in poetry? Do you have to be bizarre, complex, and uncommon to be original and genuine when writing poetry?
• What is a "sense pause"?
• What is a stressed syllable?
• What is iambic pentameter?
• What are some examples of cliches in novels? Not cliche phrases, but cliches in the plot and story?
• What are some specific examples of litotes, synecdoche, or/and metonymy in literature?
• Why is allusion used? What effect does it have on a reader?
• What is an example of caricature in literature?
• How would you write a riddle in which the answer is either a candle or a clock, containing alliteration,a caesura, and a kenning in it and has to be 4 to 8 lines long?
• What is an example of diction?
• What is the word that mean pauses in poetry?
• What does elegiac mean?
• What is another word for "gap"?
• I know in poetry that a section with more than one line is called a stanza, but what is a single line on its own in poetry called?
• What is an example of an epiphany in literature?
• What is a slight pause in a sentence? What is a form taken by a verb to indicate the time the action took place?
• What are some songs with alliteration?
• The freedom given to a poet to bend the rules of writing and reality to achieve an effect is called what?
• In a short story critical analysis essay, where is the thesis? In the beginning of the intro or end?
• Why did Julius Caesar travel to Egypt?
• How is this word pronounced: Caesura?
• How can caesura be created? How is it indicated on the page?
• How do you identify caesura?
• Is there a specific way in which to identify euphony?
• Where is there an example of euphony in "Macbeth"?
• What is another word for a trite statement?
• How do you use euphony in a sentence?
• What is a good way to remember what euphemism means?
• What is a sentence that uses the word euphonious?
• What does euphonious mean?
• What are the ten most euphonic words?
• Which occasion do you use "euphonious"?
• What are some positive words starting with the letter E?
• How can I use the word "epiphany" in a sentence?
• How can I use Eugenics in a sentence?
• What is one way Hamlet foreshadows the content of the play?
• How can the word "disdainful" be used in a sentence?
• How can I use the word "forbearance" in a sentence?
• What is a different way to spell "harmony" to make it unique?
• What is a different way to spell "harmony" to make it unique?
• What is an example of a sardonic comment?
• What is an example of an exposition?
• I have to find a song that has a story in it. It should include some sound devices like rhyme, euphony, assonance, etc. What song should I choose?
• What is the word for something that sounds nice to the ears or is aesthetically pleasing?
• What is a kid-friendly definition of metonymy?
• What is a sentence that contains the word "heresy"?
• How do you write a good essay introduction?
• What are some hypothetical or real life examples of existentialism?
• What are sentences called where all the words start with the same letter?
• When should you use dreamed vs dreamt?
• What are some words that could describe beauty? So far I have glamorous, flawless, lavish, luscious, exotic, and angelic.What are some others?
• Where did the term "kit and kaboodle" come from?
• "Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves." What is the meaning behind this quote delivered by The Duchess to Alice in the book "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll?
• What is an example of a sentence using the word "assonance"?
• Where does the expression "dead as a doornail" come from?
• Is there any difference between "to compare to" and "to compare with"?
• Which is correct: a MA thesis or an MA thesis? Is it a or an? Why?
• What rhymes with antimony?
• What are some famous onomatopoeia poems?
• What is an easy Shakespeare soliloquy to memorize that is at least 20 lines long?
• What are eponyms? What are some examples?
• How do you pronounce "euphony"?
• What is periphrasis?
• What is an example of periphrasis in any famous speech?
• What is a clever way to remember anthimeria and periphrasis?
• What are some song lyrics that use personification?
• What is an example of paralipsis in nonfiction today?
• What are epithets? What are several examples of epithets?
• What are some examples of antonomasia?
• What does "the second time around" mean?
• What has caused the English spoken today to be different from the English spoken in earlier centuries? How has English evolved and why has it evolved?
• What is an antonym for oxymoron?
• What is the definition of language style?
• What is the word that describes when someone uses the definition of a word instead of the word itself?
• What is the word that means a roundabout way of expression?
• What is an assertion and can you give me an example?
• What are some examples of synecdoche? Is "I give you my word" a synecdoche?
• What is zeugma? How is it used?
• What is "aroundabourt" way of expression?
• What is an adjective that describes both happy and sad?
• How do you pronounce "periphrasis"?
• How do you use periphrasis in a sentence?
• Why is periphrasis used?
• What are examples of personification of love?
• What are some examples of personification used in Disney movies?
• What is a personification of wind?
• What are examples of personification using the words rock, house, and snowstorm?
• What is an example of a poem that uses personification, metaphors and similes?
• What is the animal form of personification? For example, the phrase "the car purred" gives an animalistic quality to an inanimate object?
• What is a personification for the sea, or the waves that means it is quite loud?
• What is the difference between a metaphor, personification and a simile?
• What is an example of personification for the color red; one that describes love or happiness?
• What are some good examples of personification for wavy hair?
• What is the purpose of personification? Is personification imagery?
• Is personification a rhetorical device?
• What is the opposite of personification?
• What's the difference between pathetic fallacy and personification?
• Is death an example of personification? What is an example of personification that I can illustrate?
• What are some examples of personification about the apple tree and apples?
• Is this sentence: "The students stampeded into the classroom." a simile, metaphor or personification?
• What are some good personifications of a cell phone?
• What does the word crevice mean?
• In Grendel, what poetic device is used in the phrase "deeds of dead kings"?
• When Grendel says Unferth's "beard and hair straight down like seaweed" (86), what literary device is being used?
• A hiker is attacked by a bear. What is this an example of?
• What is the character who opposes the main character in a story called?
• What is a story in which character development is more important than the plot called?
• What is the process by which a writer reveals a character to the reader called?
• When a reader takes on the struggles and emotions of a character in a work of fiction, what is this called?
• How is the word "paradox" used in a sentence?
• How do paradoxes relate to skepticism?
• How does a paradox effect the reader?
• How is paradox used in "Macbeth"?
• Why is paradox effective in literature?
• Why is paradox important in "Macbeth"?
• Why is paradox used in literature?
• What is a litote? Where did litotes originate?
• What are some examples (classic or original) of litotes?
• Is "litotes" a singular or plural noun? How is the word used in a sentence?
• What is the correct pronunciation of "litotes"?
• What is a poem of at least 10 lines whose theme is death that has an example of litotes?
• What is the purpose of litotes in the English language?
• Are there any litotes in the film, "Pride and Prejudice"?
• Is litote the singular form of litotes?
• What is a funny example for litotes?
• What song lyrics have understatement (litotes)?
• What is the meaning of the phrase, "not the least"?
• What literary elements are found in the book, "Animal Farm"?
• What is a double entendre?
• What does this quote mean: "Life's not a paragraph and death, I think, is no parenthesis."?
• What is the figure of speech used in this passage:"The fog comes on little cat feet."?
• What are some examples of rhetorical questions from the Bible?
• Can someone explain what antithesis is in simple terms?
• What is the antithesis of love? Is it selfishness, indifference, hatred, or something else?
• What is an acronym for litotes?
• Is "of no moderate depth or scope" a litote, hyperbole, synecdoche, allusion, or metaphor?
• Is "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," satire or comedy, and why?
• What are the definitions of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos? What is an easy way to remember them?
• What is minstrelization?
• What does "a paradox wrapped in an oxymoron smothered in contradictions in terms" mean?
• What are some examples of anadiplosis in song lyrics?
• Why do authors put archetypes in stories?
• What does it mean when someone says that a person is "not half-bad"? Does it mean they are half bad and half good?
• What are some good/funny examples of double entendres?
• What is an example of a malapropism in "Macbeth"?
• What is the purpose of juxtaposition in English?
• How is the quote, "lend me your ears" an example of a synecdoche?
• How can i use the word "rhetorical" in a sentence?
• What are some oxymorons about love?
• What is an example of irony within a song?
• What is literary license?
• How do you pronounce "litotes"?
• How can I easily identify litotes?
• How can I remember what litotes are?
• Why are litotes used?
• When reading a poem orally, what does the commas signify to the reader?
• Would Jane Eyre submit to anything for a salary?
• What innovative technique did Mary Shelley use in Frankenstein?
• What genre do authors generally use to depict historical events?
• How is the structure of the haiku and the tanka similar?
• The way a text looks or is designed is called?
• What does genre refer to?
• What are the first and last words of a diamante?
• What part of speech does the diamante usually begin with ?
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• In which point of view does the author commonly use the pronouns "we," us," and "me?
• What is the difference between a quotation, a paraphrase, and a summary.?
• What view is an autobiography written in?
• In order for a fictionalized story to be based on real events, what should the author include?
• What is a metaphor?
• In a myth, a blind man tells the hero how to solve a problem. What archetype does this fit?
• What is the name for beginning a story in the middle of the action?
• What is a descriptive essay meant to do?
• What term is used for a line that includes several words that begin with the same letter?
• What is in the active voice?
• How did geography play a role in Jane Eyre?
• What is an example of synecdoche in "Lord of the Flies"?
• Is "Kleenex" (when talking about tissues) an example of metonymy or synecdoche?
• A synecdoche is a figure of speech where a part is used for the whole or where the whole represents a part. Why would someone want to use this figure of speech?
• What is the plural form of the word "synecdoche"?
• How is the word "New York" a synecdoche?
• If the heart refers to a person's conscience or inner self, is that using synecdoche or symbolism?
• Is synecdoche a type of irony?
• Are there any examples of metonymy in the "I Have a Dream Speech"?
• How is this a synecdoche: "Take thy face hence."? What does this quote mean: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought..."?
• Is this sentence a simile, personification, metonymy, or synecdoche: "He sat as still as a stone."?
• Is synecdoche a form of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole?
• How does synecdoche affect the outcome or understanding of a poem?
• Is this a metonymy or synecdoche: "His ears were long."?
• Is synechdoche the same as synecdoche without the"h"? Do they mean the same thing or what is the difference? Are the words used in different countries?
• Can you explain to me what this quote means: “So the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process of my death rankly abused.”? Can you translate it into everyday English?
• Is the use of "men" or "man" as a term or representative for "mankind" synecdoche?
• How can I use synecdoche in a sentence about someone's reflection in the mirror?
• In "Recuerdo" by Edna St. Vincent Millay) there is a line, "We hailed, "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head." What does the "shawl-covered head" refer to?
• Is this the correct use of the word synecdoche: "Beer, brats, and cheese are pretty much synecdoche of the entire state of Wisconsin."?
• "The kitchen is a mess; the bathroom is a mess; goodness gracious me, even the living room is a mess!" Does this passage contain alliteration, parallelism, symbolism, or synecdoche?
• Is dust a metonymy for death?
• Is metonymy a part of something representing the whole, similar structure of words or phrases in a work, substituting an attribute for the whole, or exaggerating for greater effect?
• In the quote, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" is the use of "old age" instead of "old people" an example of synecdoche, or is it something else?
• In a poem, each line includes four metrical feet. This creates what kind of meter?
• Why is this quote metonymy? "Her voice is full of money."?
• What is the purpose of metonymy?
• Is the sentence, "The grave's a fine and private place…" from Andrew Marvell's “To His Coy Mistress,” an example of overstatement?
• What is a song that contains at least 15 different poetic devices?
• What is the definition of imagery?
• Is this metonymy: a "set of wheels" to represent a car?
• How do you pronounce "synecdoche"?
• What is it called when an author makes reference to something without to explicitly stating it?
• What is free verse style of poetry?
• What is the difference between a metaphor and a symbol?
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• Question #ba9b9
• Question #1e039
• What is spoonerism? How was this word coined?
• What are some amusing spoonerisms?
• Is spoonerism similar to dyslexia or is dyslexic in nature?
• What is spoonerism and where can I find stories written in this way?
• What is the difference between bowdlerised, spoonerisms, and malapropisms?
• What are examples of acronyms?
• Do you know any famous writer who uses spoonerism?
• What is it called when you mix up the sounds of words?
• What is it called when you say words in the wrong order?
• What is the difference between malapropism, a pun, and paronomasia?
• In which category does personification belong? Is it a sound pattern, a literary device, a type of narrative, or a part of a narrative?
• What is the word to describe the deliberate use of the wrong word for humour, for example, inflammable instead of infallible?
• What category does the word prologue belong to? Is it a sound pattern, a literary device, a type of narrative, or a part of a narrative?
• What is a word in which letters are interchanged called?
• What does the quote, "To the vector belong the spoils" mean?
• Where did the phrase "bee's knees" originate?
• How do you use the word "spoonerism" in a sentence?
• How is the word "spoonerism" pronounced?
• How is the word "antithesis" pronounced?
• What is antithesis?
• How is antithesis different from paradox?
• Why is antithesis persuasive?
• What are some examples where Hegel's theory of thesis>antithesis>synthesis>ultimate truth works in practice?
• What is parallel syntax?
• What is a "parallel antithesis" sentence?
• What is the antonym for antithesis?
• What is the difference between an oxymoron and antithesis?
• What is Hegel's concept of thesis, antithesis and synthesis, in simple terms?
• What are thesis, antithesis, synthesis? In what ways are they related to Marx?
• Can anybody find a mnemonic device for the word "antithesis"?
• Is this an example of antithesis: "Every night, I close my eyes to see you."?
• What is the opposite of the word "quality"?
• Difference between antonyms and antithesis?
• What is the difference between parallel structure and an anaphora?
• What is the opposite of epitome?
• When someone writes their own life story, it falls into what genre?
• How do you write an ekphrastic poem? Do you just create a story for the work of art?
• What is an example of an ekphrastic poem?
• I'm writing ekphrastic poetry about a holiday I took to China. Is there a Chinese equivalent of the saying "like moths to a flame"?
• How do you describe a painting in paragraph form?
• What is it called when we give inanimate objects human qualities or characteristics? For example, in cartoons where animals or things talk and act like humans?
• Is “ekphrastic” poetry composed from the Greek words ek (out) and phrazein (tell, declare, pronounce), ekphrasis, originally meant "telling in full"?
• What does "emulation" mean in literary terms?
• What is the technical name for a poem based upon a work of art such as a sculpture or a painting?
• What does Picasso's painting, "The Old Guitarist" mean or represent?
• I'm planning to enter this poetry contest so I can get some extra credit for honors English. I wanted to do a poem about an (anime) character and his perspective. Am I allowed to do this, or would this be plagiarism?
• What is fragmentation in poetry?
• Should I italicize poetry titles, put them in quotes, or do nothing when including them in an essay?
• I want to write the sound of a painting by Dali. How do I do this?
• Is poetry the most compressed form of literature?
• What is “prosody”?
• Who is the current poet laureate for the United States?
• How do you pronounce "ekphrastic"?
• What does "ekphrastic" mean?
• Why is ekphrasis important?
• What does oligarchy mean?
• What does hedonistic mean?
• What is a famous example of anadiplosis?
• Is "on and on and on" an example of polysyndeton?
• The following sentence is an example of which stylistic sentence pattern: “Within six hours, the computer virus had spread worldwide, infecting mail servers and Web servers and home users and business networks.”?
• The following sentence is an example of which stylistic sentence pattern: ”The dog was old, but it was his loyal friend, his constant companion, his eager helper.”?
• Is this an asyndeton? “…as my bleeding patient drooped, moaned, sickened…"?
• Is this quote from "The Kite Runner" an example of an asyndeton: "Faces poke through the haze, linger, fade away."?
• In “The Great Gatsby,” what purpose does the character of Jordan Baker fulfill?
• In "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, how does fire (being a symbol) evolve/change?
• Is "now" a conjunction? Can I say that a series of successive sentences beginning with "now" are examples of polysyndeton?
• What is the word for repeating sentence structure?
• What is verisimilitude, and how is it used in literature?
• What is an ellipses in rhetorical terms? What is an example?
• What is an example of understatement in "Night" by Elie Wiesel?
• What are 3 examples of irony from "Romeo and Juliet"?
• What is an example of parallelism?
• What does "parenthesis" mean? Could you please give some examples of showing parenthesis?
• What is an example of a parody in literature?
• What is the definition of parallel sentence?
• Is this an example of apposition: "Soldiers, in his day, did what they had to do and didn't speak of it once they came home."?
• What does "establish credibility" mean in a research paper?
• What does it mean to "strike while iron is hot"?
• What figure of speech does the phrase "She is such a clever fox." represent?
• What is an implied metaphor?
• "There is no mother but loves her child." In this sentence, what type of part of speech is 'but'? Could you please explain your answer?
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• Is anyone willing to provide comments/feedback on my essay?
• Is this an example of assonance: How now, brown cow?
• What is the effect of assonance on the reader?
• How do authors use assonance?
• How do you find assonance in a poem?
• How do you create assonance in a poem?
• How is assonance used in "The Raven" by Poe?
• What are some examples of assonance in popular songs?
• What is the difference between assonance and consonance?
• Why do authors use consonance?
• Does assonance deal with consonant sounds and alliteration deals with vowel sounds or does alliteration deal with consonants and assonance deals with vowel sounds?
• Is the phrase "radiant maiden" consonance or assonance?
• Is the quote, "Paper has more patience than people," from the Diary of Anne Frank an example of assonance, alliteration, or metaphor?
• I'm writing a poem for homework about music, specifically the drumline. What is a line that would relate to music that uses assonance?
• Is this assonance: "I was excited, delighted, and filled with glee."?
• Are there any examples of assonance in William Wordsworth's poem, "The Daffodils"?
• What are some rock songs with alliteration, assonance, simile, or onomatopoeia?
• What kind of rhyme scheme is used in the following couplet:“When you have done, pray tell me, That I may straight begin!”?
• Which of the following phrases contains alliteration: eerie eels, loud shout, or long march?
• I know that assonance is when vowel sounds are repeated and alliterations are with consonants, but with vowel sounds, the vowel isn't at the start of a word. So would, "an alligator ate an apple" be alliteration or assonance?
• Is the only difference between alliteration and consonance the placement of the vowel sound, or is there something more?
• What are 5 assonance quotes from "The Great Gatsby"?
• What are some examples of assonance and consonance that have to do with Christmas?
• Is "pickled ginger" alliteration?
• Are there any examples of assonance in "The Cat in the Hat," by Dr. Seuss?
• Which of these is an example of assonance: sleep/beak, meet/feet, mind/bound, or shirk/shore?
• How is the word "archetype" pronounced?
• How is the archetype of the fall developed in "Macbeth"?
• How can you use the word "archetype" in a sentence?
• How do archetypes create meaning?
• How do archetypes function in literary works?
• How do archetypes help a story?
• How does an archetype differ from a stereotype?
• How does the archetype of the mentor relate to the Arthurian legend?
• How do you identify archetypes in a story?
• What archetype is Zeus?
• Why is Grendel an archetype?
• Why is Odysseus an archetype?
• Why do modern poets use sound techniques like alliteration and assonance?
• What is tautology and redundancy in English grammar?
• What literary device does this sentence use: "The walls were beating like a heart on steroids."?
• What makes "Invisible Man," the novel by Ralph Ellison a bildungsroman?
• How is "To Kill a Mockingbird" considered a bildungsroman in terms of Scout?
• Why is "To Kill a Mockingbird" truly the story of Jem maturing more so than Scout?
• Should we capitalize the word "Bildungsroman" in a sentence?
• I wanted to use the word "bildungsroman" to express the transition of childhood to adulthood, of one of my characters in an essay. How do I use the word in a sentence? Is it a noun, a verb, or what?
• How would I use bildungsroman in a sentence to describe the genre of a text? Should I say it's a bildungsroman novel, or say it's a novel of the bildungsroman genre? I dont know what sounds better. And how do you pronounce Bildungsroman?
• What makes "Great Expectations," the novel, a bildungsroman?
• What is "Lord of the Flies" about? How is the title related to the events in the movie?
• In the novel, "Night," by Elie Wiesel, does Elie lose his identity by the end of the novel, or does he hold on to it? Can you explain your answer?
• What is a good thesis statement for the story "A&P" by John Updike? Is there more to the conflict than Sammy just sticking up for the girls?
• Do I have to both capitalize and italicize the term "bildungsroman" in a sentence?
• Is there a quote in "To Kill a Mockingbird" that proves it is a bildungsroman?
• How is Pip, from "Great Expectations," a dynamic, or changing in attitude, character?
• What does "bildungsroman" mean?
• Could Sydney Carton of "A Tale of Two Cities" be described as a dynamic character or a bildungsroman?
• What is a "coming of age" novel? What does "coming of age" mean?
• What is the genre of the book, "The Awakening," by Kate Chopin?
• My thesis statement for "A Separate Peace" is this: "The relationship between Gene and Phineas drastically changes as the story progresses." The girl who corrected my paper said this is not a thesis statement, but I think it is. Who is correct?
• How do you write an aphorism?
• How is the word "aphorism" pronounced?
• How are aphorisms used?
• What are aphorisms used for?
• What are examples of aphorism?
• What are 5 aphorisms from the Bible?
• What is the difference between aphorisms, cliches, and idioms?
• What does this aphorism mean: "A good example is the best sermon."?
• "Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes." Of what other aphorism does this remind you?
• Does anyone have ideas for a collage that goes with an aphorism?
• What is a sentence I could use for the word "aphorisms"?
• Is "too many cooks spoil the broth" an aphorism?
• Can you help me find an aphorism in "Hamlet"?
• What is a famous aphorism from a book, movie, or TV show?
• "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" What does this aphorism mean?
• What are some modern day aphorisms about our time (like about our technology and stuff)?
• What are the antonyms for anecdote, antagonist, aphorism, autobiography, biography, and ballad?
• What is a verb for "aphorism" or "sententious"?
• What does this aphorism by Emerson mean: "nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind"?
• What are three aphorisms in "Antigone"?
• What does this aphorism mean "Read much, but not too many books."?
• What is the purpose of Benjamin Franklin's aphorisms? What were they for?
• The ancient Greek aphorism - "know thyself"; what does it actually mean?
• Emerson's aphorism: “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” What does he mean? What is he trying to say?
• What does this aphorism mean: "the doors of wisdom are never shut."? It is by Benjamin Franklin. What message was Franklin trying to send to the 18th century Americans when he wrote it?
• What does this Ralph Waldo Emerson aphorism mean: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."?
• What are examples of aphorism related to sharing?
• What are some circumlocution communication strategies?
• What is an antonym for circumlocution?
• Is the phrase "re-heated leftover Mahi-Mahi" considered a redundant pleonasm or a plethoric circumlocution?
• How can I use the word "effusive" in a sentence?
• What is the difference between paraphrase and rephrase?
• What is a "root word"?
• What does the word "pejorative" mean?
• What is an antonym for the word "dictator"?
• When you have a conversation that never seems to stay on the same topic and is always changing around, what is it called?
• What is a word that means a person who uses big words unnecessarily?
• What is a roundabout way of expression, in only one word?
• What is the implied meaning of a word based on its context?
• Does anyone know any examples of a bombast?
• What is the meaning of "it is safe to say"?
• What is an example of tautology?
• What does it mean to have a dry sense of humor?
• What are the root words of circumference and beneficent?
• What is the importance of clear and concise writing?
• What is it called when you say things backwards?
• What words start with the roots: loqu-, locut-, and gest-?
• What is a synonym for "blurts out"?
• What is the difference between a writer and an author?
• Where did the word "gobbledygook" originate?
• I'm currently studying the novel "Great Expectations"- analysing Mr Jaggers' character. Dickens was very tough on lawyers in his novels; he doesn't show them in a favourable light. Why do you think that may be?
• Is the phrase "living embodiment" redundant? Aren't all embodiments already alive?
• What is the meaning of the idiom, "a grain of salt"?
• What is internal conflict and what is external conflict?
• Is there a term for when you don't really answer a question, but it seems like it?
• How do you pronounce "circumlocution"?
• Why do authors use circumlocution?
• What is conflict in literature?
• What is the conflict of a story?
• What are some good examples of conflict?
• What is a song that deals with conflict and what language techniques does it use?
• Why conflict is important for the meaning of the story?
• What is the meaning of the expression "time conflict"?
• What are the four types of conflict?
• What is the main conflict in "The Giver"? What is the problem Jonas has to solve?
• What is the main conflict in "Insurgent," by Veronica Roth? What type of plot is it, character or action?
• I'm writing a story, and one of the main characters is a reserved guy who I think should have some sort of mysterious background. What are some good ideas for conflict in this person's life?
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• Is the single effect of Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven" repetitious boredom; hypnotic, eerie gloom; exciting adventure; or quiet and profound understanding?
• Why do authors use apostrophe in literature?
• What are examples of aposiopesis in literature that emphasize what the speaker is trying to say, and makes it more dramatic?
• What is an example of personification in George Orwell's "1984"?
• Where are examples of sentence inversion from "Romeo And Juliet"?
• What is the purpose of anaphora? I know what it is, but what does it do to a book/novel/play?
• What is a "grotesque" character? What is an example of a grotesque character from a movie or book?
• What would be a good rhetorical question on the novel "Fahrenheit 451"?
• Are there any citable examples of asyndetons in literature?
• What are 2 rhetorical devices used in "Frankenstein"?
• Does anyone know where I might find a poem containing apostrophe?
• What is the difference is between apostrophes of possession and contraction?
• What are two examples of litotes from "A Tale of Two Cities"?
• What is an anadiplosis?
• What is an example of a figure of speech?
• What examples can you give for empathy?
• What is the meaning of "figures of speech"?
• What is the literary term where the plot goes ahead in time? It is not foreshadowing or flashforward. It is the opposite of flashback?
• What is the purpose of oxymorons in literature?
• What are some examples of didactic writing?
• What is the purpose of antanaclasis?
• Is there ambiguity in "Animal Farm," by George Orwell?
• What are iambic feet?
• What are some examples of bathos?
• What is an example of a metonymy in "Fahrenheit 451"?
• What are some examples of parallelism (parallel structure) in a novel?
• My teacher put S.F. next to one of the last sentences in my paragraph that was part of my essay. My sentence was "A remarkable man he was for being so caring." What does S.F. mean?
• I need to write an essay about Mark Twain being the best American author, and an antithesis about how Huck Finn classified Mark Twain NOT being a good author. I have the race stuff, but are some more ideas?
• What are some emotion-arousing words that can affect the listening competence of a person?
• Can someone give me an example of transferred epithet?
• What is an example of a denouement?
• How does anastrophe affect meaning?
• How do you pronounce "anastrophe"?
• What is a good way to remember the meaning of anastrophe?
• What is anastrophe in literature?
• Why is anastrophe effective?
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• Besides satire, what are other types of humour in literature?
• What is the difference between irony and satire, and parody and sarcasm?
• How do I go about finding satire in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"?
• What is an example of a satire song?
• What is the difference between humour and satire? Or are they just the same thing but different words?
• Might a reader misunderstand satire if he interprets the author’s satirical statement as literal, humorous, sarcastic, or ironic?
• Can irony be described as a pointed contrast between reality and fantasy or as a pointed contrast between reality and expectations?
• Satirists use all of the following except: exaggeration, understatement, lecturing, or hyperbole?
• Is Swift's "A Modest Proposal" an example of Horatian or Juvenalian Satire?
• What is the difference between good satire and bad satire? Where is the line that some satire crosses that makes it just offensive instead of effective?
• What is true of satire: The intent is to convince the masses to trust their leaders; Rooted in the hope for reform; Based in ancient folk wisdom; It's intent is to provide light-hearted entertainment?
• What is the difference between farce and satire?
• How is "The Great Gatsby" a satire?
• What is a satirical solution to a modern day problem?
• What are examples of social satire?
• What are the similarities/differences between allegory, fable, and satire?
• What is racial satire?
• What are some examples of satire in "Huckleberry Finn"? What did Mark Twain choose to discuss seriously?
• How do writers in the 18th century use satire?
• What are some examples of Juvenalian satire?
• What are three ways in which "Brave New World" is a satire?
• What is a satirical solution for drinking and driving laws?
• What is the primary purpose of satire and why was satire a favoured genre for eighteenth century writers and illustrators?
• In a satire, the author highlights a failure of society or of human nature. What institution does George Orwell satirize in "Animal Farm"?
• Is "Animal Farm" a satire or an allegory?
• What is the difference between lampoon and satire?
• Why is satire an effective device for social critique and social change?
• Does satire have to be funny? Satire had always been treated as humorous criticism at my middle school, but now at high school, they say it is just criticism hidden within a story. Which is correct?
• What are the main features of satirical writing?
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• Why does Prospero let Ferdinand be with Miranda?
• What is the purpose of tragic flaws in literature?? Please help. I really don't understand
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• Entice or Incite ? Are they same or different?
• Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
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• When a story is told in the order in which the events occurred, this type of organization is called what?
• What is a grammar ?
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• Mark Twain said the following: "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." What did he mean when he said this? This is just for my personal curiosity as I was reading about Twain.
• A political advertisement shows a picture of the politician holding a baby while petting a puppy. What persuasive technique is used?
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• What are some examples of literary devices and how might they be used?
• How many scenes should be in each act of a play, and how many acts should a play have?
• Saying your house is "neat as a pin," or that running a marathon is "a piece of cake" are examples of what?
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• Is 'Kudos' an informal word?
• I need some help understanding this passage?
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• "Military intelligence" and "jumbo shrimp" are examples of what?
• How does allusion give authority to one's own ideas?
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• Is this a metaphor: "Human beings are ends, not means"?
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• Why should Phil be blamed for the commotion in NBTT?
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• What does this sentence in my chapter book mean?
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• What does "Of Mice and Men" reveal about dreams and aspirations? Give an example with a specific character.
• How do I prepare role as an Actor?
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• What is the difference between mood and tone in a story?
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• Which literary device is used in the sentence: "And I will love thee still, my Dear, till all the seas gang dry."?
• Why is it important to avoid the overuse of the word I in an autobiographical piece?
• What is a narrative mode?
• What is the art of carefully descriptive hand lettering or handwriting called?
• What is lyric poetry?
• What are some examples of mnemonic?
• Emerson says, "For, nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today" To what senses does this imagery appeal?
• "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they can't become conscious". Why this is a paradox?
• What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
• Is "the village reminded me of an old wasps nest", a simile or a metaphor?
• What is the difference between factual report and descriptive text?
• What kind of logical fallacy is "Only a radical socialist would propose raising the minimum wage" ?
• What kind of logical fallacy is "The candidates are justified in taking certain liberties with the truth, because liberty is precious to all Americans" ?