What are stylistic devices? In literature and writing‚ a figure of speech (also called stylistic device or rhetorical device) is the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning‚ idea‚ or feeling. Sometimes a word diverges from its normal meaning‚ or a phrase has a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it. Examples are metaphor‚ simile‚ or personification. Stylistic devices often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. Alliteration
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Gerard Chretien English:Vietnam Prof: Morgan Shulz 2002 Insight to Quiet American For those who haven’t read the book‚ its both an odd love story and a metaphor for American involvement in Vietnam. The hero‚ Fowler is a washed up‚ middle aged‚ English war correspondent‚ content with his opium pipe and his Vietnamese mistress‚ Phuong. His world is gradually disrupted by the arrival of an American covert operative named Pyle who is both a zealous ideologue and naïve optimists. Things
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[pic] Queenwood Department of English Year 11 Assessment: Area of Study Task 2: Creative Response Due Date: Tuesday 13th March (Day 2‚ Week 7) 2012 Word Limit: 800-1000 words Outcomes: P3‚ P4‚ P6-8‚ P11-13 Weighting: 10% ‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ Anna Karenina‚ Leo Tolstoy Using the stimulus provided‚ compose a narrative which demonstrates your understanding of relationships. You will be
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ENGLISH English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world. It is spoken as a first language by the majority populations of several sovereign states‚ including the United Kingdom‚ the United States‚ Canada‚ Australia‚ Ireland‚ New Zealand and a number of Caribbean nations. It is the third-most-common native language in the world‚ after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish It is widely learned as a second language and
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SfN.org The Journal of Neuroscience NeurOnLine BrainFacts.org The Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience Skip to main page content HOME CURRENT ISSUE ARCHIVE CONTACT US SUBSCRIBE ALERTS HELP LOGIN Top of Form Keyword Search GO Advanced Search » Bottom of Form Expand Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive Differential Effect of Reward and Punishment on Procedural Learning 1. Tobias Wächter1‚2‚3‚ 2. Ovidiu V. Lungu1‚2‚ 3. Tao Liu1‚2‚ 4. Daniel T. Willingham4‚ and 5
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English Essay Question: In the film Christof says: “we accept the reality with which we are represented”. To what extent do you agree with him? Truman Burbank‚ an accountant that lives in Seahaven‚ is the only real thing in his fake world. But is the world that he lives in really fake? Well it is fake but is Seahaven fake to Truman? Truman has accepted the reality of his world that which he lives in. Christof‚ the director of the Truman Show‚ believes that we should accept the reality with
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English Essay - Compare Chapters 1 and 6 Steinbeck uses the opening of his novel to introduce to us the main characters of the novel and also to hint at the forthcoming events that are yet to come in the novel. In the opening Steinbeck describes the setting as a tranquil and peaceful scene‚ which is almost like the Garden of Eden this‚ is almost too good to be true this also describe George and Lennie’s dream. Everything in the setting is natural‚ ’the deep green pool of the Salinas River’
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Kiss My Ash by William Severini Kowinsky I could barely speak. I was having lunch with the young editor-publisher of the In Pittsburgh alternative weekly in the summer of ’89. As a contributing editor and a regular columnist‚ I had always written about anything I wanted‚ exactly as I wanted‚ and smoking was one of my recurring subjects‚ though by no means the dominant one. But I knew immediately I couldn’t change his mind. He was already committed. "We can’t run any more stories on smoking
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FADE IN INT. A house in a forest in a sunny and beautiful day. A pig named MARTHA is giving birth to her child with her husband ‚HENRY‚ by her side. Doctor ‚BRUCE‚ is ready to receive the child and when he does he give the child to MARTHA which makes her very happy. HENRY is also happy and excited for their first child but they don’t know that they have two more surprises to come. MARTHA (Receiving her child from the doctor) Look Henry‚ he’s beautiful. He looks exactly like you! He’s so handsome
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STUDY CASE OF LOW MORALE OF TEACHERS CAUSED BY HIGH LEVELS OF TRUANCY IN THE RURAL SCHOOL CASE: You have just been appointed as a principal in a local school located in a rural area. During the first week in the school‚ you realized that many of the teaching staffs are having low morale because of the problems with truancy and poor performance of the school. You intend to change this situation to enable the school to achieve a better level of performance and improve staff motivation. In this
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