An Open Boat by Alfred Noyes See - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses,
The cloud of white faces, in the black open boat,
The literary device used in these lines is personification to give the foam a human quality.
Through the characterization of sea as humanistic, animalistic and deistic, Crane profoundly believes that the sea is indifferent to human’s plight. Narrator describes the development of sea as earlier it “snarls, hisses, and bucks like a bronco” and later it purely “paces to and fro,”. This depicts that the sea can be both hurtful and helpful, sea doesn’t change its motivation in the light of men’s struggle nor it can be understood.
Answer: c. imagery, dialogue, and characterization instead of plot and language
Explanation: when comparing themes, consider similarities and differences between the themes and how they are expresses. Similarity: poetry and fiction have the commonality of plot to reveal theme, differences: imagery&dialogue reveal a lot about theme in poetry:), but not as much in fiction
Answer:
1. "It is a great Dead Place—greater than any Dead Place we know."
2. "Everywhere there are the ruins of the high towers of the gods."
Explanation:
Background or setting is the time and place of a tale, whether it be reality or fiction. As a literary element, it's a must. The location establishes the story's major backdrop and tone.
Passage:
It is not true what some of the tales say, that the ground there burns forever, for I have been there. Here and there were the marks and stains of the Great Burning, on the ruins, that is true. But they were old marks and old stains. It is not true either, what some of our priests say, that it is an island covered with fogs and enchantments. It is not. It is a great Dead Place—greater than any Dead Place we know. Everywhere in it there are god-roads, though most are cracked and broken. Everywhere there are the ruins of the high towers of the gods.
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