What literary devices are in this quote?
“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: ‘White, white! L-L-Love! My
God!’—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays
true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless
factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying,
‘Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain,’ and, to the very
end, lack imagination and miss the better story.”
I'm too bad to understand this type of quotes! :( I think that we can find here a Metonymy, because one thing is said but another thing can be understand, exactly when it says: "The warm light bathing him by saying..." But also, it can be a personification, because it says that the warm light is going to say something. Then, Is the warm light going to talk? It's so confusing! I don't like it. :P
ResponderEliminarHi there Angel :) I´m not so sure about the quote but i don´t think there is personification in that line you talked about...
ResponderEliminarYou said you think the warm light is going to say something, and i think (again I´m not sure) that it´s not saying anything it´s just bathing the agnostic, and this, because of the nature of his believes is explaning to himself this phenomenon by saying: ‘Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain,’
again I´m not sure I´m with you man! It´s confusing! :(
hi :) I don´t know...I think there is irony here, for what i read about irony that it is used in literature for different effects, from humour to serious comments on the unpredictable nature of life, and talking about the nature of life...this line about the atheist’s last words: ‘White, white! L-L-Love! My God!’—and the deathbed leap of faith.
ResponderEliminari found it kind of ironic dont you think? :)
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ResponderEliminarHello!. I think this is an "allusion", because it is something imagines when you are dying and when it happens people thinking in god and the end light, it could be worse when you are atheist. they do not believe and god, for them that is impossible. In the quotation, there a "description" of situation, some logical for what happens with him, may be doctors, who knows?. I do not agree with the "characterization", because this no explain the personality of the character... I think this is some kind of "Irony", as Johana said, because it has a funny side and also an inference... Do not you? I explain after.
ResponderEliminarAllusion? I'm not sure about that! If "allusion" is a reference in one work of literature to another work of literature or to an important event, person or place... Where is that reference in this quote? :s
ResponderEliminarI´m not sure about if there is allusion in this quote but...
ResponderEliminarOk both guys are dying and seeing the warming light at the end of their lives etc, but I think we could consider this not as an Allusion but as a reference to god and a symbolism about religion because neither the atheist nor the agnostic believe in god or religion… so I ask is this a symbolism?
Also when the atheist is saying white, white! L-L-Love! My God I think he´s just scared about his death and makes this exclamation or exaggeration about what he is feeling in the moment like a hyperbole…??
Very nice participation trying to analyze the fragment posted above!!! As Angel menctioned, there´s some kind of metonymy and it's also an ironical quote, as Joha said! There are more aspects that can be considered. For example: ALLITERATION: "...MIGHT TRY....LIGHT". By the use of the word WARM we can say there's IMAGERY. Those are some of the other elements we can find!
ResponderEliminarSubkey: I don't think there's allusion on this fragment! Try to analyze it well.
Now, I would like you to write a Haiku on this blog! Use your imagination! =)
CLOSED!!!
ResponderEliminar:S
ResponderEliminarit´s a sunny day
they played happy in the sand
far from everything.