Maius X 98 BCE Today brought a hard and trying battle. I fought a strong but predictable secutor‚ or “chaser”. Being a retiarius or “net-man” I was equipped with a rete‚ a weighted net hemp net; a pugio‚ a dagger; and a fuscina or tridens‚ a three pronged spear. I also have a piece of armour called a galerus that protected my head and neck but did not limit my head movements. The secutor I challenged was armed with a long shield and shortsword. He wore a helmet with a visor‚ but I could see his bloodthirsty
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An example of this is the text is referring to the murder of King Duncan as the ’deed’. Lady Macbeth describes the action of murdering King Duncan through the words ’to catch the nearest way’. The use of this euphemism to describe the action of killing Duncan can be seen as though she is trying to hide the harsh imagery of blood and violence in the action of murder. This is an example of Lady Macbeth’s diminishing sense of conscientiousness. The composer also uses
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Shoshi Bicky November 2014 Ms. Bloch English Comparing “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Chaser” Revised Throughout the short stories “The Chaser” by John Collier and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs‚ there are similarities‚ like the interference of fate and the concept of consequences that stands out when comparing the two. In “The Chaser‚” Alan Austen comes to the Old Man with hope that he can buy a potion to give his love‚ Diana. Alan intends to give Diana a love potion causing
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there‚ and her husband’s body now lies incinerated in the swamps or the pines or the palmetto grass‚ "burned beyond recognition‚" which anyone who had been around an air base for very long (fortunately Jane had not) realized was quite an artful euphemism to describe a human body that now looked like an enormous fowl that has burned up in a stove‚ burned a blackish brown all over‚ greasy and blistered‚ fried‚ in a word‚ with not only the entire face and all the hair and the ears burned off‚ not to
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time. It must have been a frightening time too‚ “of coming to terms with same-sex sexuality‚ to invent language for its designation‚ control‚ and prosecution”‚ no wonder James choose to write a novella with “suggestive yet sheltering language of euphemism and denotative‚ confessional discourse that would expose ‘monstrous’ secrets.” (Matheson). In the beginning of The Turn of the Screw there is a Prologue‚ which is told by an unnamed narrator‚ where a character that we meet named Douglass‚ who has
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Carson claims how there has been a growing trend in the unnecessary application of parathion and how farmers are trying to “control” the concentration of birds. By putting quotes around a euphemism meant to curtail the severity of the killings‚ Carson actually emphasizes her argument against the farmers. She stresses the delusion in the farmers’ argument‚ as they are clearly annihilating the birds instead of controlling them. This word choice
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In“The Chaser”‚ a short story by John Collier‚ a theme seen is that people will do absurd things when they are in love. This is shown in the beginning of the story while Alan Austen walks into a spooky building. He enters the apartment and is greeted by an old man on a rocking chair that seems to have been expecting him. First‚ Alan asks “You really sell love potions?” This shows what Alan originally comes to the old man for. It also means he is interested in buying a love potion to possibly give
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While many turn to religion for explanations to help‚ people tend to push death as far from them as they can. Even in “Joyas Voldoras‚” Doyle retains the idea and thought of death to a minimum‚ employing euphemisms to discuss death. This fear leads to disillusion‚ and people thinking that death will not effect them until it becomes too close to ignore‚ whether with the death of a close family member‚ or the rapidly failing health of their own self. With Doyle’s
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John Collier’s short story "The Chaser" takes place over a period of about five to ten minutes. It took place some time in the 1900s‚ probably early to mid 1900s. The story takes place in a small Building on Pell Street‚ probably in the United States of America. This story is told by a limited narrator‚ in a third person point of view. The protagonist in the story goes by the name of Alan Austin. Alan’s main trait is a young man seeking deep love. The one‚ and only incidental character in the story
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Term Paper Application of Euphemism: Reflection of Cultures Introduction Euphemism is “example of the use of pleasant‚ mild or indirect words‚ or phrases in place of more accurate or direct ones” (Oxford for Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese dictionary page 491). It is also defined as “a kind of expressing method which aims at making people feel less embarrassed by using some words with vague and ambiguous meaning instead of those which may make people feel unpleasant and not respected” in Dictionary
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