or object. This resolution is often contrived, improbable, or artificial and does not arise organically from the story. The term originates from ancient Greek theater, where a god would be lowered onto the stage by a machine to resolve the conflicts of the play. Deus ex machina is often co...
Each year, you’ll celebrate the love that you declared in front of your friends, your family, the state, and God. Each year you’ll have the opportunity to fortify that love, and there’s no better way to do so than with a bible verse for the wedding – and a great gift of course!
As I observed my friends more intently in repertoire class, I felt the pain of the grief-stricken white swan from Swan Lake, the sass of the flirtatious Kitri from Don Quijote, and I gradually saw what I had overlooked before. My definition of talent had been molded by crowd-pleasing ...
Godblessyou. (I wish that "God bless you".) Godsavethe Queen. (I wish that "God save the Queen".) May The Forcebewith you. (Star Wars) The real scientist is ready to bear hardship and, if needsbe, starvation rather than let anyone dictate which direction his work must take. (Bio...
Connotation: the feeling a writer creates through their word choice. It’s the idea a specific word or set of words evokes. Euphony:a literary device that refers to the musical, or pleasing, qualities of words. Other Resources Read:Common Homophones List ...
Chiasmus gives the lines a compact and pleasing pattern, as well as a lilting cadence. Adam, first of men, To first of women, Eve The excerpt from Paradise Lost below also has a pleasing sense of unity. Love and grace are related concepts, while "Without end" and "without measure" ...
Born in a hotel room and—goddamn it—died in a hotel room. Other rhetorical devices that make use of repetition include parallelism, epizeuxis, and anaphora. It's important to keep in mind that the use of these devices is not mutually exclusive. In fact, the use of one of these ...
Example: The first line in T.S. Eilot’s “The Waste Land” is an example of enjambment: “April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing.” Related terms:end-stop 62. Euphony Euphonyis the acoustic effect of a combination of words that’s pleasing to the...
This audio example from Godsized demonstrates the mirrored EQ principle. Here, to gain the necessary vocal clarity when being set against huge, down-tuned rhythm guitar tones, mirrored EQ has been used, so the pleasing vocal characteristics around 3.79kHz have been accentuated, while the same reg...
Connotation: the feeling a writer creates through their word choice. It’s the idea a specific word or set of words evokes. Euphony:a literary device that refers to the musical, or pleasing, qualities of words. Other Resources Read:Common Homophones List ...