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    SUMMARY Telephone conversation is about an African man who wishes to rent an apartment and so has phoned the landlady to inquire. Once the landlady answers the man decides he must confess‚ as if he has committed a crime‚ about his nationality as the persona in the poem is well aware of the wide spread prejudice against people of African descent and feels he must get the fact out of the way. However‚ unaware of the extent of the landlady’s ignorance‚ he is shocked and annoyed by her cold‚ impersonal

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    Candace Sims English 200 November 24‚ 2010 Poetry can be compared and contrasted in many ways. I have chosen to compare and contrast two poems by Siegfried Sassoon. “His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches‚ and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who‚ in Sassoon’s view‚ were responsible for the pointless deaths of millions” (Wikipedia). His poems contains a deep meaning and an important message‚ his poetry has a passionate expression of outrage at the horrors of war and

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    In the article “Two’s company‚ Three’s a Conversation: A Study of Dialogue Among a Professor‚ a Peer-Writing Fellow‚ and Undergraduates Around Feedback and Writing” by Alyssa-Rae Hug‚ the biggest point I pulled out was that students benefit from having more than one reader. As a writer‚ this is something I know quite well in practice‚ but it was interesting to see research behind that idea. One voice responding to your work feels overwhelming‚ and you can feel like you must listen to that voice

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    a complex sentence‚ a Senate committee is believed to have found. (The Age‚ 13 September 2007) Nothing unites a country more than its common language because from a language comes a history and a culture. (John Howard quoted in Migrants to sit English test‚ ABC Online‚ 11 December 2006) Linguists suggest that some people deliberately choose a low status accent as a way of invoking prestige‚ although this is less common amongst women than men. The Australian-born children of migrants from Europe

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    Sara Garcia Mrs. Ap English Per. 1 Agust‚2013 Questions on Meaning 1. Ericsson’s thesis is when she says‚ "We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions." These thesis has several ways people lie in one sentence which foreshadows that Ericsson will talk about certain types of lies aand examples. 2. Ericsson does not think we could eliminate lies from our life

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    What are stylistic devices? In literature and writing‚ a figure of speech (also called stylistic device or rhetorical device) is the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning‚ idea‚ or feeling. Sometimes a word diverges from its normal meaning‚ or a phrase has a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it. Examples are metaphor‚ simile‚ or personification. Stylistic devices often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. Alliteration

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    Jissell Navarrete Professor M. Harris English 111 16 November‚ 2016 Sex‚ Lies and Conversations What is the importance of communication? Communication is an important life skill that helps to people connect by building respect and trust; it can resolve differences in the environment. In Deborah Tannen’s essay “Sex‚ Lies and Conversations” she highlights the different styles of communication of man and woman. Tannen

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    Module 3: Activity 1 Hamlet: Act I Suggested activity duration : 3 hours William Shakespeare is recognized in much of the world as the greatest dramatist ever known. Shakespeare wrote a total of 37 plays. His plays can be divided into three categories: tragedies‚ histories and comedies. "The Tragedy of Hamlet is considered to be Shakespeare’s finest tragedy. Its characters are very complex‚ specifically Hamlet. Hamlet can be analyzed on a number of levels because it contains so many themes.

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    disdain of the kindly and virtuous Brobdingnagian rulers when his gunpowder display‚ intended to impress his hosts as an exemplary product of European civilization‚ proves disastrous. An address Gulliver delivers to the Brobdingnagians describing English political practices of

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    Best of the Web How to Read a Poem Summary Summary Chapter Summaries Stanza I (Lines 1-11) Stanza II (Lines 12-30) Stanza III (Lines 31-54) ADVERTISEMENT Table of Contents Stanza II (Lines 12-30) Summary The Poem Summary AP English Language AP English Literature SAT Test Prep ACT Exam Prep ADVERTISEMENT Stanza I (Lines 1-11) Summary Get out the microscope‚ because we’re going through this poem line-by-line. Lines 1-2 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome

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