metaphors and repetition. Imagery is put into use by the author describing that “The tears start to stream” when she takes “The Mask” off. This shows how people may see her happy all the time and never even bother to question if she’s really happy. The girl then “Plasters on a smile” for the next day of school. She begins to go on with life as if nothing happened. She goes to school and starts the same life over again. Similes and metaphors are
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Literary Devices Used In The Things They Carried By: Tom Vennemann The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien expresses the importance of a story-truth‚ as opposed to a happening-truth by use of literary elements in his writing. The novel is about war and the guilt it leaves on everyone involved in the war. Story-truth is not exactly what happened‚ but uses part of the truth and part made up in order to express the truth of what emotion was felt‚ which an important thematic element in the novel is
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The narrator could have gone crazy from losing his loved one Lenore that he hears things about Lenore. At the end of the poem the narrator says‚ “the air grew denser‚ perfumed from an unseen censer”‚ this implies that the narrator is smelling girl perfume but there is none in his chamber beside the Raven and him which means he could be smelling
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Boys or Girls: We are all Equal Characters: Sarah: the victim Henry: the bully Sarah: ally Billy: Bystander Mr. Snodgrass: Guidance counselor Time: A school day‚ 1978 Setting: Alaska Gateway school‚ where boys thought that girls were an inconsequential part of society. Although the boys didn’t treat the girls as badly as Henry treated Sarah. After curtain: (Henry‚ wearing his extravagant cloth and his overpriced items‚ enters the class‚ squandering his money‚ followed by Sarah‚ wearing poor-quality
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know of Brother Tom Robinson’s trouble." (160 ) Flashback Consonance “”Why do you think Miss Rachel locks up so tight at night?..”(13) Alliteration Metonymy "Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time." (129) "... that boy might go the chair..." ( 195)
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represent my views. Girls Rule! On to the debate. I will focus on three main aspects: intelligence‚ physical capability‚ and contribution to society. Firstly‚ intelligence. Most people will tell you that girls are smarter than boys. A study by Dr. Paul Irving and Dr. Richard Lynn‚published by the British psychological journal‚ states that the opposite is true. Despite the fact that girls get slightly better grades‚ males‚ on average‚ have a higher IQ than girls by about 5 points
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Conrad uses devices such as anaphora‚ symbolism and imagery. “When the sun rose there was a white fog‚ very warm and clammy‚ and more blinding than the night” (Conrad 44) He mentioned‚ the fog‚ which creates imagery of literal darkness and obscurity throughout his
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We learn immediately that the girls look different from one another: one is black‚ one is white‚ although we aren’t told which is which. Despite their initially hostile feelings‚ they are drawn together because of their similar circumstances. They both like to eat chicken. The two girls turn out to be‚ in famous phrase‚ "more alike than unalike." They were both "dumped" there. They become allies against the "big girls on the second floor" (whom they call "gar-girls‚" a name they get from mishearing
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Here is what I thought of the poem after reading and studying it. It is not so much an analysis of the poem‚ but an analysis of the devices used to convey the thesis of the poem. E. E. Cummings presents his views about life and how the individual is able to create more opportunities in life by pushing boundaries than if he were to conform to the demands of society by using sequential diction in an informal sentence structure through a weary tone. The weary tone gives the impression that the
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The first time I took a step into the Boys and Girls club room during my sophomore year‚ all I saw was a vast amount of people working on school assignments‚ I was very scared to come inside because I had a fear that I was going to be judge based on my religion and my cultural identity‚ which are qualities that have always been important to me. When I first came in I sat down with my friend Carla and we were working on a math assignment‚ The club was situated in the library that day‚ it wasn’t loud
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