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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was upset and grumbling. Why? Why they were sad? Why? Why they were grumbling? People were cutting down trees all over the place………timber! It simply wasn’t save anymore! “Why are they cutting us down anyway?” asked one little tree. “For wood‚of course‚” answered a smart tree. “To build houses and make tables!” added another. “To make paper!” said one more. But what happens when all the trees are gone? All the trees could only shake their heads sadly…hmmm If only people could hear us‚ If only we
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wings to escape the water that gets too high for its little 6in body. Their 6 in bodies keep them from being miaken as a plant or tree. They also have long tails to reach the very high objects. Three behavioral adaptions in a gribble are being able to change colors to protect its self from the birds that prey on the gribbles. They can also wrap there tail around a high tree and cuddle with it to sleep. Last but not least Gribbles pee right where they are when they get scared. The reason my critter is
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explains the theme. It reads: “There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines.” It is obvious that Robert Frost does not literally mean that apple tree can move and eat cones‚ but this imagery serves as a metaphor that the persona and his friend are different‚ perhaps in personality‚ culture or living style. Pine and apple have very distinct colour and shapes‚ and I think what the poet is trying to
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semi-hardwood. Early summer is a great time to take semi-hardwood cuttings of your spring flowering shrubs and root them. Many ornamental shrubs such as witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) and flowering quince (Chaenomeles x superba) are easy to root. Tree cuttings are often more difficult to root‚with the possible exception of birches‚ crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia spps.)‚ some elms‚ and all willows‚
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The Red Tree is another outstanding book by Australian illustrator and author Shaun Tan. The book published by Hachette Australia in 2001 leads us on one girl’s journey through a dark and confusing path of depression. Although each page contains a few words it is the images that capture the reader’s attention with new objects‚ images and meanings discovered each time the book is reopened. Shaun Tan has had an impressive illustrative career spanning over fifteen years. He has won various awards
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martens. Animals that are not so big will adapt to their surroundings‚ for example‚ the forest floor is scattered with litter‚ like dead leaves‚ so some animals can blend in very well. This is the most common and effective camouflage that moths‚ tree frogs‚ and katydids use to hide from their predators‚ like birds or monkeys. Some animals‚ like the poison arrow frog‚ use their bright colors to warn off their predators. Just the same as animals‚ the plants grow to adapt to their surroundings.
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alive with fresh flowers and swaying coconut trees. I saw myself swinging under the Poui tree and grandma bringing freshly extracted sugar cane juice for me. Even though this was just a memory I could hear the melodious singing of the birds all day. Once again‚ I could smell the frangranced sent of the large roses that bloomed near to the garden. Before I got off the swing I looked up to the tree and saw the soft‚ yellow poui petals greeting my face. Some of the tiny blossoms gracefully
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his belief system is different “Every time a child has been born in rio en medio since I took possession of that house from my mother I have planted a tree for that child .the trees in that orchard are not mine‚ senor‚ they belong to the children of the village. Every person in Rio En Medio born since the rail road came to Santa Fe owns a tree in that orchard. I did not sell the trees because I could not. They are not mine.” Within those two passages it is very clear who stays calm and collected
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first depiction of the differences between him and his neighbor comes when he says‚ “He is all pine and I am Apple orchard.” By comparing his neighbor to a pine tree the narrator is saying that his opinions are rigid and rarely ever change being unable to give birth to original opinions. The narrator by comparing himself to an apple tree is saying that his opinions are ever changing bearing new ideas and opinions all of the time. Using the two trees to compare him and his neighbor was a great use
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