Connotation

Few films have replicated the controversy of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971). Created during the ‘Golden age of American Film violence’ between the 1960s and early 1970s and based on the Anthony Burgess novella of the same name. The Orwellian, science-fiction film, catalogues the life and crimes of antagonist Alex Delarge; a young, violent and hedonistic deliquent with an enthusiastic appreciation for music, specifically German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. Alex’s ‘droogs’, Dim,…

fair, the “cab drivers cursed and gentled their horses” (17). Larson’s word choice creates a contrast about the city life. The word “cursed” establishes a negative connotation making the cab drivers seem like they are aggressive and bitter. On the other hand, Larson uses juxtaposition with the word “gentle” to show a positive connotation making the cab drivers seem sympathetic and caring. The author uses these two words to give the reader an idea and to show a display of contrasting…

your thesis): Richard Cory is somewhat the typical rich guy like a King may be but he is still not happy. Conclusion (do not write anything here): Restatement of Thesis (not in the same words): Robinson uses a lot of literary elements including connotation, imagery and allusions to show us that wealth and status does not make people…

The speaker’s reason for this is their inability to bear with the feeling of unconscious. An immediate association that can be made with a funeral is death and makes an applicable connotation. If the reader decides go to a longer extent they can also take note of the formal type of event a funerals tend to be, which in turn expresses common rules and procedures that are followed; however that suggestion of control and order is what…

In this passage from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Twain uses dramatic irony to show that what the King and Duke are doing is very wrong because they are just trying to get money and property from Peter Wilks, a man who just died, and they don’t belong with this family that just experienced a death. By the use of dramatic irony in this passage it is shown that the audience knows more than the characters in the book. So, this man named Peter Wilks just passed away, and his…

Rothke incorporates the words “countenance” and “unfrown” to emphasize and support the frightened/ disappointed tone and the speaker’s remorse for the negative effect his father’s addiction had on his childhood homelife. Rothke uses the negative connotation of “countenance” to illustrate the mother’s disapproving facial expressions that “could not be unfrowned” because of the father’s harsh actions. As Rothke continues to reveal the speaker’s experiences with his father, the tone shifts from…

The short story, “Araby” by James Joyce illustrates a young boys’ unfortunate experience with first love. Throughout “Araby”, Joyce uses many terms which invoke sexual and religious connotations in order to portray the setting and illustrate the boy’s sexual affection for the girl. In addition, religion is a large part of the boy’s way of life but as sexual needs come into play, the boy realizes that his religious form of affection is much different from the normal way of life. Thus, showing him…

The general consensus among lexicographers is that word typology is etymologically derived from the Greek word typos or tupos (in plural tupoi), the archaic meaning of the word is blow. In course of semantic change tupos acquired the meaning of visible impression created by pressure of a blow, as a seal on wax or a die on metal or a copy, pattern, image, and example of something. The general significance of the term was form, probably a hollow form. or mold . Later diachronic development saw…

Olympia is a painting by Édouard Manet, first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon Manet depicts a nude woman positioned in a similar pose to Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” (1538) – however, instead of painting a goddess, he shows a high class prostitute, making it a mockery. The model, Victorine Meurent, was working at the time the painting was first exhibited, which may have led to a few blushes since a few of the men had likely met her before. The painting depicts a nude white woman lying on a bed…

We do not see things we are; we see things as we are. In Richard Wilbur’s poem, “Boy at the Window,” this take on point-of-view is an essential literary device. The application of perspective change develops the work in its completion. Therefore, in a sense making this writing “two poems in one” by the use point-of-view. To begin, a boy narrates the poem. He perches at the window”…seeing the snowman standing all alone…” in the midst of a winter storm. “The small boy weeps to hear the wind…