individual difference. 3- Assonance‚ Repetition of vowel sounds eg. Slow road to no ware 4- Descriptive‚ Describing. 5- Paradox‚ Contradiction seemingly false at first but is found latter to be a truth. 6- Instructive‚ Inform/enlighten/instruct. 7- Euphemism‚ Acceptable/mild expression for something not very nice eg. Instead of died- Moved on to a better place. 8- Oxymoron‚ two words placed next to each other to show contrast eg. Parting is such a sweet sorrow. 9- Personification‚ Giving human
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or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. (EX: tilting at windmills) 6. Chiasmus- a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases‚ as “flowers are lovely‚ love is flowerlike” (Coleridge). 7. Euphemism- The substitution of an inoffensive term in place of an offensive one (Pushing daisies instead of dead) 8. Hyperbole- A purposely exaggerated statement used for effect 9. Irony- The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning;
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AN ANALYSIS OF AN EXTRACT FROM MARY WROTH’S SONNETT 14 The verse in hand is essentially a love sonnet‚ but rather than cite the wonders of the stars and her lovers eyes‚ Wroth is using the sonnet form to lament the inequalities of courtship and detail the agony of unrequited or forbidden love. The opening sentence ‘Am I thus conquer’d?’ sets a disparaging tone immediately and this escalates as Wroth continues to use rhetorical interrogatives throughout the poem. Perhaps the most notable example
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Propaganda In Elections Have you ever seen a TV commercial portraying a disastrous automobile accident‚ and then you reminds you to wear your seatbealts?!?! Believe it or not‚ that’s using a technique in propaganda called the fear appeal. Propaganda is more widespread than people picture. Propaganda is being used for everything from the baby food you feed your child to the TV commercial you laughed at yesterday night. There are many techniques that a propagandist can use to seduce you. Some
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eaten away the protective covering on the nerve cells. To assert her confidence‚ Mairs initiates her essay with a strong‚ simple term to define herself: "a cripple" (37). She wants society to "wince" (37) in order to portray that candy coated euphemisms have made society weak. Mairs does not want her readers to feel sympathy‚ but to see the perspective of a person with the disease. Towards the end of the essay‚ Mairs is reflects back on society’s ways by comparing herself to other women who have
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of some divine despair 4. Antithesis Give every man thy ear‚ but few thy voice. You’re easy on the eyes‚ Hard on the heart. 5. Antonomasia Cambridge is England’s Silicon Valley. He was a horse in the running competition 6. Euphemism Lover - gentleman friend Short-sighted - visually challenged 7. Hyperbole The mountain of paperwork weighed heavily on the teacher’s desk. My dog is so ugly‚ he only has cat friends! 8. Idiom "Hat trick" - Scoring successively
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Examine the presentation of disturbed characters in Act 1 of Macbeth We are first presented with a disturbed mind in Act 1 Scene 3‚ where Macbeth’s first words echo the witches - “fair is foul and foul is fair”. If we look closely at this it tells us that things are not always what they seem which can really indicate a disturbed mind because somebody could be disturbed and we couldn’t know because we as people cannot look into somebody’s mind. Another example is when Banquo makes a note on Macbeth’s
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originally thought it was more of a dramatic monologue. Once I checked my answers and reviewed the passage once more I realized that it was an objective historical commentary. I also got question #40 incorrect because I failed to see those terms as euphemisms. I thought they were nicknames used by the locals. The questions structure was slightly hard to follow‚ but it wasn’t as hard this time around. My experience with this practice multiple choice section was a more pleasant one. Although I missed
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Unfortunately‚ when these do occur it is not always in a less harmful situation such as a classroom setting over a test or assignment. This often happens in large business and even our government. Through the use of euphemisms you take a word that is particularly disliked and exchange it with a word that has more appeal. On the news for example when there are times of war and there are casualties. The word casualties take the place of saying “four women‚ seven children
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foolish thoughts” (Paragraph 2). Over time‚ the English language has overall‚ not improved‚ Orwell points out in his essay that writers use meaningless words to evoke meaning into their pieces of writing‚ political writing now “consist largely of euphemism‚ question-begging and sheer
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