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    Margaret Atwood : (1983) “Happy Endings” is six different story lines and alternate endings‚ with only four characters. All of the stories have different plots and motifs‚ they all have the same ending and that is with death‚ throughout the stories she is never shy to use death. Atwood uses satire through diction‚ she also uses flat characters‚ and she tricks with the different gender roles in a relationship‚ based on commitment‚ and adultery. She uses the gothic concept of inapt ability to escape

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    lu zhai 13-10-12 2:12 PM Thumbprint 批注 [1]: Alliteration  (start  with  the  same   By Eve Merriam letter  of  “w”)   In the heel of my thumb lu zhai 13-10-12 1:33 PM 批注 [2]: Symbolism:  design  probably  refers   are whorls‚ whirls‚ wheels to       in a unique design: lu zhai 13-10-12 1:59 PM mine alone. 批注 [3]: Consonance:  end  with  the  same   What a treasure to own! sound  of  “n”

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    BAHASA SEBAGAI ALAT KOMUNIKASI Menurut Felicia (2001 : 1)‚ dalam berkomunikasi sehari-hari‚ salah satu alat yang paling sering digunakan adalah bahasa‚ baik bahasa lisan maupun bahasa tulis. Begitu dekatnya kita kepada bahasa‚ terutama bahasa Indonesia‚ sehingga tidak dirasa perlu untuk mendalami dan mempelajari bahasa Indonesia secara lebih jauh. Akibatnya‚ sebagai pemakai bahasa‚ orang Indonesia tidak terampil menggunakan bahasa. Suatu kelemahan yang tidak disadari. Bahasa adalah produk masa

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    Firstly‚ both Heaney and Waterhouse have used figurative language to animate how the young boy in each of their poems admires his father or grandfather. In ‘Follower’‚ Heaney starts off by comparing his father’s ‘globed’ shoulders to a ‘full sail strung’- across some sort of boat. Other sailing imagery is also used throughout the poem. For instance‚ ‘mapping the furrow exactly’ and ‘i stumbled in his hob-nailed wake’‚ where the poet’s father is juxtaposed with a sea captain and a boat‚ respectively

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    Seamus Heaney vividly conveys his feelings about the death of this brother at the first stanza by foreshadowing the death he was about to face. He says - “Counting bells knelling classes to close” describing the ringing of the bell. I noticed that Heaney uses the word ‘knelling’ instead of ringing.This almost creates a tone and mood of suspense as the word is usually used to describe church bells knelling for a funeral mass. Another reason why he used bells as an example is to indicate the end of

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    In society‚ there is and always has been complications between Caucasians and African-Americans. In this poem‚ Sharon Olds explores this relationship using imagery‚ repetition‚ and multiple tone shifts. In the beginning of the poem‚ the author introduces a situation that contrasts a white person with a black. Correspondingly‚ she applies imagery to emphasize this difference greatly. For example‚ the shoes he is wearing at the time are black “laced with white” and compares them to “intentional scars

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    Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction           Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that

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    Rebekah Frost LAL 153: Online Summer 2015 Unit 14: Poetry Analysis Assignment Poetry Analysis Essay Due: 7-20-15 “Having a Mind to Change the World” By Howard Nemerov The poem is about daylight saving time. Daylight Saving Time (DST) is an age-old practice where people would advance time by one hour to extend daylight time into the night. In effect‚ they would sacrifice sunrise time‚ also by one hour. People in the regions affected would adjust their clocks around the start of spring. They would

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    “Africville” Poem analysis In Maxine Tynes’ poem “Africville‚” the theme addressed is despite how the community of Africville was completely destroyed‚ their pride still prospers and remains in the minds and hearts of all its citizens. Tynes uses repetition‚ tone of voice‚ symbolism and imagery to dynamically convey the theme. Throughout the poem‚ Tynes exhibits a universal tone used to evoke pain and anger‚ as well as a more contrasting tone that demonstrates pride. This contrast of the specific

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    "The Dog and the Sparrow" by Tourgenieff analysis ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Prof: Melissa Eidson 5/28/14 The poem "The Dog and the Sparrow" by Ivan Sergeevich Tourgenieff is an example of the sublime. It has the ability to cause the reader to feel deeply for the sparrow and its bravery and sacrifice. The poem is told in first-person point of view and uses figurative language and metaphors to tell the story. The theme is reverence for the sparrow‚ which like

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