Casey's English Journal

Simpson uses references to objects to communicate the challenge faced by climbers by describing the objects as if they are people. He uses the mountain as if it was a person and how the mountain is watching him and how… Continue Reading →

This article is in response to Isabelle Kerr and her article about how young people are speaking and how certain words are being created. I personally disagree with this article . These new words are just a new way of young people… Continue Reading →

Don’t you hate it when you are running and you stumble and your phone goes flying through the air and slides a few meters across the floor, then there is that moment in time when your heart just stops!  You… Continue Reading →

In school on the weekday it is noisy, you walk past a class room and hear lots of teachers shouting at students in their classrooms. It is very crowded, you walk through the corridor and get pushed around by the students… Continue Reading →

I left my house and I crossed the street, it was very cold so I put my jacket on. I walked down the road looking back for a bus but couldn’t see on so I turned back and kept I… Continue Reading →

Paragraph: Fate in ozymandias through iambic meter Point: fate is suggested through the iambic meter in ozymandias by referring that there is an endless breast underneath the words. Example: the hand that mocked them and the heart today fed and… Continue Reading →

How do shakespeare and the studies poets use literary techniques to communicate their ideas about fate? Literary devices – personIfication – imagery, dramatic irony, pathetic fallacy, metre: iambic pentameter

Shakespeare reveals his preoccupation with fate in Romeo and Juliet through Romeo’s premonition. Just before he goes to the capulet party where, Romeo and Juliet met and fell in love, Romeo says “For my mind misgives some consequences yet hanging… Continue Reading →

Attempts to escape fate fail Friar Lawrence stumbles Romeo’s premonition before party Metaphor “he that hath steerage…” Prologue: pre-determines events Friar John, quarantine Coincidence, meeting servant with guest list Mercutio “a plague on both you’re houses”