fact that the bird has got a brain - something which is normally more related to human being. Furthermore‚ the sky-lark is seen as a teacher - which is actually related to human being - and the poets places himself as a pupil through these two apostrophes : "Teach us‚ Sprite or Bird‚ what sweet thoughts are thine" (l.61 to 62) ; and at the end "Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know" (l.101 to 102). The quaesitio (l.71 to 75) is the proof of human’s inferiority : the poet admits he doesn’t
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SAMPLE ANALYSIS OF A POEM “Lament” by Edna St. Vincent Millay Listen‚ children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I’ll make you little jackets; I’ll make you little trousers From his old pants. There’ll be in his pockets Things he used to put there‚ Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on‚ And the dead be forgotten; Life must go on‚ Though good men die;
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In his poem‚ "The Sun Rising‚" Donne immerses the reader into his transmuted reality with an apostrophe to the "busy old fool‚ unruly sun" that "through curtains" calls upon him‚ seizing him from the bliss which "no season knows." This bliss‚ a passionate love‚ stimulates him to reinvent reality within the confines of his own mind‚ a wishful thinking from which he does not readily depart‚ much like a sleepy child clings to the consequences of a dream. In his address to the sun‚ he bids "the saucy
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1. Apostrophe- the superscript sign used to indicate omission of a letter or letters from a word‚ possessive‚ case‚ or the plurals of numbers‚ letters‚ and abbreviations. “Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there‚ ungratefulness?” Sir Philip Sidney‚ “Sonnet 31” 2. Conceit- an elaborate‚ fanciful metaphor. “Our two souls therefore‚ which are one‚ though I must go‚ endure not yet a breach‚ but an expansion
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poverty what is the main reason why the poor people gets poorer and the rich people gets even more richer? the answer for that on simple question is‚ Corruption. Yes‚ you all heard it all right. The government people may may look like some goody-two shoes kind of people in front of the society buthis page intentionally left blank CORRECTNESS RESEARCH G Grammatical Sentences Subject-verb agreement Verb forms‚ tenses‚ and moods Pronouns Adjectives and adverbs Sentence fragments Run-on
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beauty and innocence and to reaffirm the speaker’s grief and sorrow. The poem also includes many instances of repetition especially the recurrence of the refrain "in a kingdom by the sea" to give the story a methological and universal dimension. Apostrophe is also employed to show the speaker’s feeling of nostalgia and to stress his strong and immortal love in words like
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desperate souls‚ they can choose between the suffering of this earthly experience or choose the easy way out which is the rest that death offers. Even that can be achieved better by “charms” (line 11) so death has no superior power over us. Donne uses apostrophe to address “poor death” (Line 3) which is probably pretty embarrassing since death thinks so much of itself as a Tough‚ mighty figure‚ metaphor is also used when he calls rest and sleep “pictures” in line #5‚ since they had no pictures in the poets
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America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States (from: Obama at 2004 Democratic National Convention.)) 3. Apostrophe- The direct address of an absent or imaginary person (EX: Clint Eastwood at the Republican Convention) 4. Antithesis- Sharply contrasting ideas (hope is the antithesis of despair) 5. Assonance- Identity or similarity in sound between internal
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father and son are referred to as the man and the boy. McCarthy’s style of writing also is unique. Throughout the story‚ McCarthy does not used quotation marks to separate the fact that the man or the boy are speaking. He also refrains from using apostrophes in some of the words. One may interpret the lack of proper grammar in this story as a symbol of the world they are living in. the man Most of the story consists of the man
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things using the words "like" or "as" Personification Figure of speech in which inanimate or nonhuman things are given human characteristics or abilities Metaphor Figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using any comparison words Apostrophe Figure of speech that directly addresses an abstract quality‚ a nonhuman‚ or an individual that is not present Hyperbole Figure of speech that uses exaggeration for effect Onomatopoeia Figure of speech in which the sound of the word corresponds
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