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    April 21‚ 2010 at 6:10 am In the beginning of the book Claudia wakes up in her bedroom with a man that she has just spent the night with and her room is filled messy and is filled with things like empty bottles of alcohol and ash trays.
Her room also didn’t comply with typical feminine ideas at the time because it was described as messy and also had an empty bottle of alcohol and a full ashtray. This didn’t go along with the typical roles of women because they were expected to be clean and sensible

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    ALLITERATION is the repetition of consonant sounds in a series of words. If the consonants are the same but the sounds are different they do not alliterate. eg. "...the grease that kisses the onions with a hiss." from WILLIAM STREET by Kenneth Slessor ALLUSION is the reference to well-known figures and/or other texts eg. "And thrice I heard the Cock crow thinking I knew it’s meaning well." from COCK CROW by Rosemary Dobson The reference here is to the denial of Jesus after his arrest by

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    Ukrainian. 20. Referential vs functional approach to meaning. 21. The notion of polysemy. 22. Systemic organization of lexicon. 23. Semantic change: metaphor. 24. Semantic change: metonymy. 25. Semantic change: hyperbole‚ litotes‚ irony. 26. Euphemisms and politically correct terms. 27. Types of varieties of a language. 28. Stylistically marked classes of words. 29. Types of literary-bookish words. 30. Neologisms: problems of defining and classification. 31. Non-literary colloquialisms.

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    In the short story ‘The loaded dog’ the plot concerns 3 gold miners and their dog‚ and the farcical consequences of leaving a bomb cartridge unattended. Henry Lawson shows language features such as adjectives‚ verbs‚ and dialogue‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ humour and graphic descriptions. This story is written in third person. The language used is colloquial and idiomatic‚ for example when he uses the line ‘your dorg’s run orf inter the srub’. Some examples of adjectives he uses in the short story are

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    BARRIERS • Sender-oriented • Receiver-oriented Sender oriented barriers: It can be either voluntary or involuntary. At any cost‚ efforts should be made on the part of the sender to identify and remove them. Some of the barriers that are sender oriented are: ? Badly expressed message: concrete ideas and well structures message ? Loss in transmission: correct choice of medium or channel ? Semantic problem: simple words and accurate understanding of intension ? Over/under communication: quantum

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    accept any violation of its rigid code of decorum‚ especially when it comes to women. The two teenage girls who were shot dead last week by a cousin in Noida for daring to run away to meet their boyfriends are the latest victims of honor killings‚ a euphemism for doing away with anyone seen as spoiling the family’s reputation. Many such killings are happening with regularity in Punjab‚ Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. These are socially sanctioned by caste panchayats and carried out by mobs with the

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    Humans have created disturbance in the fields. The plainness of wheat contrasts with the gorgeous flowers and grass. The repletion of “wheels” emphasises the number of vehicles non-stop coming in and out. There are two spots where the poet uses euphemism for death. Flowers “lie low” and the buffaloes “left us”. This suggests the passing of this way of life saddens him. He ends the poem by mentioning two tribes‚ “Blackfeet”

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    Public touching‚ especially by strangers‚ is unacceptable. Handshaking upon meeting or leaving is acceptable. Be mindful to obtain permission to touch the patient for the physical exam. Euphemisms should be used to discuss sensitive information‚ especially in the health care setting. Avoid unprofessional communication while interacting with the patient. Nonverbal communication is highly regarded‚ so health care professionals need to be aware

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    Poe was the poet. His poems were about horror‚ mystery‚ death and even misery. At the age of three‚ Poe was separated from his parents being that his mother died from tuberculosis and his father just abandoned him. Being stripped away from his brother William and his sister Rosalie‚ Poe went through a lifetime of tragedy and hurt. Throughout this essay‚ I will explain how Poe uses the figures of speech in his poems to bring them more alive. I will also be determining whether or not Poe’s work has

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    astonishing work examines an endless cycle of war and violence. I really loved hearing the poem where she had lifted the words and phrases she had lifted from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. She exposes the euphemisms spoken in that book in order to sugar coat the language‚ control its effects on people‚ and justify their actions. My eyes were tearing up when resided her poem on what if she wrote a letter to the prisoner held at Guantanamo bay. It was so powerful

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