In John Updikes excerpt of The First Kiss‚ Updike uses metaphors and other rhetorical devices to convey the audiences attitude of the opening season baseball game. The audiences clearly have great interest of the environment around them as they optimistically keep their eyes glued to the players. The way that Updike combines sentences along with the sentence structure is also support as Updike shows the audiences point of view towards the game. The use of metaphor‚ syntax and diction show the attitude
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Winter. Cold. Freezing cold. Kiev is one of the oldest cities in Ukraine - the capital city. It is huge‚ like a microcosm ic world for its citizens. This winter turned out extremely cold. It was snowing continually. As the streets filled up‚ everyone became scared. What if it never stopped snowing? Pushkin’s College. It is one of the most famous colleges in the whole city. It had many students. The classes finished for the day and everyone was making their way to the exit. They looked like small
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It’s a fact‚ when talking on the subject of war‚ we presume that if the generals and country leaders didn’t start them‚ they would by no means occur. In a book like Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger‚ though‚ there seems to be one more requirement‚ ready and enthusiastic soldiers. Junger would have probably preferred themselves "warriors" or barbarians. It’s within this book that Ernst Junger tells the story of a man who describes and most likely believed that the battlefront of World War I was not a
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One place that I will never forget is the ranch my uncle (my grandmother’s brother‚ in Mexican culture we refer to them as uncles) built and owns. It lays on a thousand acres of land‚ just outside Toluca‚ the capital of the state of Mexico. Rancho Feshi‚ which means “singing waterfall”‚ is a trout farm. There are many different deep-water‚ man-made rectangular ponds where thousands of trout are bred for later dining. The ranch is famous for its trout and many people come from all over Mexico either
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character Ellen is feeling very stuck in where she is living and also feeling trapped in a life she no longer wants to live in. Ellen is also feeling entrapped by her husband Paul in a way too‚ he traps her by moving to this place with constant dust storms and land that cannot be farmed‚ yet he refuses to give up and move back to the city‚ which infuriates Ellen. The author uses a lot of symbolism and foreshadowing to depict her being caged and later on her attempt at an escape. Ross uses dust as a
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As a resident of the northeast of the United States‚ we experience every season; snowstorms during the winter months‚ rain showers sprinkled throughout the spring‚ hot and humid summers‚ and cool breezes while leaves fall in Autumn. However‚ imagine this‚ every time it rains the rivers by houses overflow causing blocked streets. Category three hurricanes that shake houses and knock down trees turn into category five hurricanes that destroy entire communities. Heat waves that last for three or four
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It’s typical for a winter morning. The clouds hang heavily in the sombre skies. Shadows of the barren trees fall upon the blanket of crisp‚ drifting‚ white snow that covers every inch of the frozen ground. icicles cling to the eves‚ sparkling in the silver rays of light that shine through the clouds. Everything is shrouded in mist and silence. There’s no sound‚ save for the occasional bird’s chirp or trill. I feel the wind gnawing at my cheeks and tug the fraying end of my chunky knit scarf. Snowflakes
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Have you ever had a dream that you were running from something terrifying and no matter what you did‚ you couldn’t escape it? The dreams I have experienced about tornadoes have left me with the feelings of desperation‚ because I know that they are a force beyond my control. I could not imagine the immense pain people endure after having their lives destroyed by this vicious catastrophe. In my opinion‚ tornadoes are the most frightening natural disasters for both their mental and physical destruction
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FRQ #2 : The Street In this excerpt from Ann Petry’s novel‚ “The Street”‚‚ Petry utilizes asyndeton‚ personification‚ imagery and selection of detail to establish Lutie Johnson’s relationship to the urban setting and their enemy and antagonist‚ “the cold November wind”. In this opening excerpt‚ the readers will discover on how aggravating and uncooperative the urban life would be during spring‚ in addition‚ decipher on how effective the wind are to Lutie Johnson and its people. Throughout this
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More than 8‚500 firefighters were battling wildfires across the West yesterday‚ according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise‚ Idaho. The fire center went to Level Four status Monday for the first time this year after 37 new blazes burned across more than 300‚000 acres. Also Monday‚ the Western Governors’ Association and the Bush administration agreed to a 10-year national plan to prevent and suppress wildfires. It calls for the aggressive removal of brush‚ trees and debris
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