Introduction
Catch/attention grabber: Have verbal things ever made you feel an emotion?
Bridge: My excerpt is located on pages 99 through 101 in Ray Bradbury’s
Fahrenheit 451.
Thesis: Ray Bradbury uses sound devices, irony, and figure of speech in order to
Develop the mood of sadness and loneliness
I. Sound Devices
a. Rhyme
i. “Ah, love, let us be true, to one another! For the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, now certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night”
1. ABBACDDCC
a. Only 4 end sounds
ii. In the rest of the novel, use of rhyme is small. His choice to include a poem with a lot of rhymes is because he wants to cause a shift to motivate a character, Mrs. Bowles, to speak of her opinions. Her opinions lead to the theme of the......
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