life of Mother Medea‚ a woman whose house burnt down and no one would help her rebuild the ruin. The poem‚ Aftermath‚ is structured in the form of a Sonnet‚ a form that neither Owen nor Lowell use in their poems‚ and contains the use of elongated consonants and vowel sounds‚ "Of charred shoes‚ and sodden upholstery". Through the broad use of metaphors‚ "Mother Medea Hunters"‚ Plath portrays her times of needs when they were not met when she made a cry for help‚ through a suicide attempt‚ which no
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* allegory: Extended metaphor in which a story is told to illustrate an important attribute of the subject * alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase. * allusion: Indirect reference to another work of literature or art * anacoenosis: Posing a question to an audience‚ often with the implication that it shares a common interest with the speaker * antanaclasis: A form of pun in which a word is repeated in two different senses * anthimeria: Substitution
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solitariness to that of a cloud (line 1). Personification: Comparison of the cloud to a lonely human. (line 1) Alliteration: high o’er vales and Hills (line 2). Alliteration: When all at once (line 3). (Note that the w and o have the same consonant sound.) Personification/Metaphor: Comparison of daffodils to a crowd of people (lines 3-4). Alliteration: golden Daffodils (line 4). Alliteration: Beside the Lake‚ beneath the trees‚ Personification/Metaphor: Comparison of daffodils to dancing
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Similes: figures of speech that compares two unlike things‚ using the words like or as. "His feet were as big as boats." Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Metaphor: a figure of speech that compares two unlike things directly‚ without the use of like or as. "Her hair is silk." Personification: assigning human qualities to non-human things. "The tropical storm slept for two days." Onomatopoeia: words
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Abstract The principal objective of this paper is to demonstrate how an area of a Japanese English language learner’s pronunciation differs from a native English speaker and could impede his intelligibility. Schwa (/ə/ and /əʳ/) is the most frequently used reduced vowel in North American English and it helps to regulate the rhythm of spoken English. The absence of schwa in the Japanese language makes it difficult for a Japanese English language learner to pronounce some words properly and learn
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Multiphonics and the Oboe supplementary notes Paul Archbold & Christopher Redgate 2 Multiphonics and the Oboe: supplementary notes 1. What is a multiphonic? 2. Different types of multiphonics 2.1 Spectrogram of a consonant multiphonic and a dissonant multiphonic 2.2 Spectrogram of a beating multiphonic 2.3 Spectrogram of an emerging multiphonic 2.4 Spectrogram of five multiphonics‚ created with a modification to the top b key 3. Different instruments‚ different multiphonics
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Jose Garcia Villa (August 5‚ 1908 – February 7‚ 1997) was a Filipino poet‚ literary critic‚ short story writer‚ and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973‚ as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. He is known to have introduced the "reversed consonance rime scheme" in writing poetry‚ as well as the extensive use of punctuation marks—especially commas‚ which made him known as the Comma Poet. He used the penname Doveglion (derived
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did not get any guides‚ so they had to do “UBD-sounding” lesson plans on their own. 9. Many schools say they do not know what textbooks to use since current books are not “UBDized.” 10. UBD’s process was not fine-tuned with consonant to
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Poetic Devices 1. Alliteration- The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Ex: She sells sea shells by the sea shore. 2. Assonance- The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds. Ex: The blue moon rose too soon. 3. Enjambment- The continuation of a sentence from one line to the next line. When you are reading poetry‚ do not stop at the end of a line. Read through until you hit punctuation that tells you to stop. Ex: “The setting sun/ slithers into
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literary works in Old Tamil include Thirukural‚ Silappatikaram and Maṇimēkalai‚ and a number of ethical and didactic texts‚ written between the 5th and 8th centuries. Old Tamil preserved many features of Proto-Dravidian‚ including the inventory of consonants‚ the syllable structure‚ and various grammatical features. Amongst these was the absence of a distinct present tense – like Proto-Dravidian‚ Old Tamil only had two tenses‚ the past and the "non-past". Old Tamil verbs also had a distinct negative
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