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"To a Sky-Lark" was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1820. Shelley was prime a philosopher and wrote some political texts. He was a poet of the nineteenth century‚ he was born in 1792 and was drowned at 30 in 1822. This poem is an extended metaphor of the sky-lark representing freedom of expression : a theme very close to Shelley’s philosophy. Here‚ the poet persona thinks and shows that this bird is superior to the human race. This essay will focus on how Shelley expresses this superiority. First
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1) Topic: ”Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Writer: Amy Chua‚ a professor at Yale Law School‚ USA. Reader: Parents from the Western World‚ who are also readers of The Wall Street Journal. Language: Well written text‚ with an extensive vocabulary. It is written to some extent with formal jargon. Circumstances: The writer’s home. She lives with her daughters and husband. There is a flashback into Chua’s childhood as well. Intention: She is trying to clarify the differences between Chinese parents
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SONNET 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds‚ Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark‚ Whose worth’s unknown‚ although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool‚ though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks‚ But bears it
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In “The Company Man”‚ Ellen Goodman narrates the death of her character Phil and the aftermath of the event. As a metaphor for the typical‚ non-descript “company man” of the 20th century‚ Goodman conveys her indifferent sentiments for Phil‚ who worked himself to death‚ through a variety of rhetorical devices. Throughout the piece‚ Goodman reveals details about Phil’s life in a clinical manner to reveal her heartfelt indifference towards him. When the wife answers with “I already have” to how
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Douglass uses metaphors to describe how he feels. “shutting me up in mental darkness” (Douglass 43) and “They had been shut up in mental darkness.” (Douglass 75) is how Douglass describes being denied the opportunity to learn how to read and write. The first quote‚ however is from a paragraph in which Douglass tells of Mrs. Auld’s inability to keep him from learning how to read and write and the second is when he tells of his Sabbath school and the slaves that came to learn. The metaphor is saying that
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Chesterton demonstrates his adept writing ability in using those methods as a means of appeal to convey that everything is beautiful and valuable in its own way. His piece of writing not only exemplifies the use of contradiction‚ humor‚ analogy and metaphor‚ but also succeeds in using relevant support and evidence. Initially‚ the first rhetorical technique that Chesterton uses is contradiction. We sometimes hold prejudiced views‚ along with implicitly wrong definitions‚ towards the world. The author
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those who use marijuana and drugs as morally weak and lacking self-control. A drug user‚ then‚ must change their personal values instead of relying on drug treatment centers or social change in order to quit their habit‚ Lakoff explains‚ “If the metaphor of Moral Strength has priority over other forms of explanation‚ then your poverty or your
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weaknesses of Puritanism‚ yet also highlights some of its finest strengths and values in the lives of individual characters. 3. The play uses the “trial” situation as a dominant metaphor for the action of the entire play. Discuss various “trials” dramatized in the play‚ noting the appropriateness of this metaphor to the overall work. 4. Much of the force of the play derives from irony‚ or a pointed discrepancy between appearance and reality. Identify at least three instances of irony in the
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In Emma Watson’s speech “Gender Equality is Your Issue Too‚” she uses persuasive techniques to convince the audience to participate in her program He For She and to fight against gender inequality because it is a serious issue that affects everyone. Watson is inclusive in her argument against gender inequality‚ which she highlights in paragraph 20 by recounting‚ “I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society‚ despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother’s
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