The Tyger Rhetorical Devices

Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle, being a persuasive novel in nature, is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone, use of periodic sentencing, descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric, Upton Sinclair constructs a moving novel that makes his message, and the reasoning behind it, clear.Sinclair’s use of periodic sentences allows him to cram details and supporting evidence into his sentence before revealing his interpretation of the evidence. Take for example, “Here

Within Twenge’s argument she consistently uses pathos, ethos, and logos. When talking to Athena, a 13-year-old girl who lives in Houston, Texas, about how smartphones have affected her life directly Twenge consistently employs pathos. They discuss her favorite songs, TV shows, and what activities she enjoys with her friends. Relating back to emotion, Twenge remembers from her own days where she would “enjoy a few parents- free hours shopping with her [my] her friends.” Athena admits “ It kind of hurts” when she is with her friends “and they don’t actually look at my [her] face.” Even with no parental supervision, technology still takes away from interactions of friends. Twenge’s research on the iGeneration has shown that this generation is

times in the poem, by doing so, Blake is able to let the reader take

In Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”, Swift makes use of a prominent poetic device, paradox. The rhetorical device that Taylor Swift has used again and again in the song is ‘paradox’ and it is considered as her weapon of choice in writing the entire song. For example in the first line “Nice to meet you/ Where you’ve been.” (Swift), it is contradictory. You do not care for where a person has been if you do not met him/her before, unless you knew all along that you will be meeting him or waiting for him even though you did not know who he was. The ‘nice to meet you’ line implies that she has just met him. That is just a first example of a number of paradoxes used in the entire song.

A contrast is made throughout the poem between good and evil; beauty and horror. It is seen that the tiger possesses both types of traits. Blake exchanges a word in the last stanza to make it different from the first. In the original verse, Blake asks, “[who] Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” However, a word is changed in the final line when the stanza is repeated. The new verse is, “[who] Dare frame thy fearful symmetry. The poem leaves the reader in astonishment and wondering .

The first stanza consists of Blake posing a question, which sets the tone for the entirety of the poem. It is easy to identify that the question is directly referring

Although “The Tyger” is a rather short poem, Blake is trying to convey the theme of the beauty in chaos.

In both “The Lamb” and the Tyger” by William Blake, a child questions the existence of who made them. “Who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?” from “The Lamb” versus “What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry” from “The Tyger”. Both represent the child’s innocence and total curiosity.

The poem is composed of six quatrains, and each of these has two rhyming couplets. Each couplet represents a new idea and concept: they are short and blunt, and Blake utilizes unflinching diction to declare his point. The poem does not have many enjambed lines, and most of the lines are end-stopped. Because of the word choice, the couplets, and the end-stopped lines, the poem has a decidedly cynical and bitter feeling -- in Blake’s mind, this poem is the way humanity is. There is no arguing his points away, because he speaks the truth: “The Human

Blake writes about what he saw and how he saw it within this poem. He presents a negative view of the city of London. The poem is divided into four quatrains, in iambic tetrameter, and ABAB rhyme scheme. Repetition and the senses of sight and hearing become important to understanding the language and form of the poem. Repetition enters the poem at the beginning lines of the first quatrain: “I wander thro’ each charter’d street/Near where the charter’d Thames does flow” (1-2). Charters are written out contracts that give rights or authority. The use of “charter’d” referring to both the streets and the main river of

Northrop Frye argues that these lines, in conjunction with the manuscript evidence remaining of the original editions of Blake's books, mean that Blake intended for the engraved poems to constitute a sort of canon of poems which

Even the poem in its “innocent” counterpart is one of mellifluous rhythm which nonetheless casts up enormous questions about what Blake means by “innocence” His Little Black Boy serves to teach humanity an education of compassion or pity, evident in the way he strokes his “silver hair” as if realising that whiteness cannot withstand the scorching force of God’s heat. His immortal words in Fly

The third stanza goes on with those inquiries about the creator of the tiger. Blake asks what shoulder, which is a metaphor for power or work, could create the tiger; he asks what art could make such a thing. The use of the word ‘art’ points to beauty, which shows mixed feelings about the tiger: both horrible and beautiful, and perhaps somewhat allegorical. Blake’s interest in the tiger continues for two more lines, only this time he looks at the horror, and after that stanza number four delves into the making of the tiger. This looks like blacksmith imagery, for a hammer, chain, anvil, and furnace are all the tools of someone who forges things out of iron. This metaphorical stanza indicates two things: first, the tiger is made of tough steel, not out of delicate silver, gold, and gems; now no longer can one find symbols of the tiger’s beauty in the poem, just of its terror. Second, “In what furnace was thy brain” points to the tiger’s aggressive nature, and thereafter Blake indicates that such a nature is not one from a good place, but from a nasty hellish place, filled with fire and brimstone: from a

This was my first encounter with this particular poem. I usually do not read any poems in my spare time nor do I find it to be entertaining. But when I first read Blake´s poem aloud it captured my interest. The deep meaning behind the simple words caught my attention. Because of the simplicity of his use of words, made it easier for me to hear and comprehend its beauty but also other darker factors that lie´s in humanity. The fact that the poem itself is easy to understand, makes the content within the dramatic rhymes more powerful.

Despite the poem’s incredible deep message, Blake tells it using extremely simple language. Due to the rhyme scheme and meter, the poem sounds as it