Wayson Choy was born in Vancouver‚ British Columbia in 1939. As a Chinese-Canadian he grew up and lived in Chinatown. He attended Gladstone secondary school‚ and then went on to attend the University of British Columbia studying creative writing. He was the first writer of Chinese ancestry to study in creative writing. He studied under Earle Birney. He moved to Toronto‚ Ontario in 1962‚ he began teaching at Humber College in 1967 and ended in 2004. He currently continues to teach at the Humber
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Rhetorical Devices Schemes Term Definition Example Alliteration頭韻 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August. Anadiplosis反覆法 repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause The crime was common‚ common be the pain. Anaphora首語（句）重複法 regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses We shall fight in the trenches
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“I could tell she don’t understand why a colored woman can’t raise no white-skin baby in Mississippi. It be a hard lonely life‚ not belonging here nor there.” Skeeter is having trouble understanding why Constantine gave her daughter Lulabelle up for adoption. Lulabelle’s father was black‚ but she inherits Constantine’s father’s light skin. As a result‚ she just won’t fit into the closed-minded Jackson society. The Help shows us the inner workings of a segregated society against the backdrop of the
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Zitlaly Hernandez Honors English 4 Ms. Howe Period 1 27 February 2013 Rhetorical Devices Seven score and ten years ago‚ Abraham Lincoln used his powerful words to persuade his audience to take the first step in their obligation of taking action. Uniting the people is the only way to start uniting the country for the people during the hard times of the Civil War. In Abraham Lincoln’s “The Gettysburg Address”‚ Lincoln uses rhetoric to convince his audience to come together. To effectively
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sound that they are describing (Bang‚ splash‚ pop‚ whoosh‚ etc). …and remember to also look for: Elements of Voice: Volume‚ pitch‚ tone‚ pace‚ pause‚ clarity. Non-Verbal Techniques: Stance‚ gesture‚ facial expression‚ eye contact. Punctuation Examples: A woman; without her‚ man is nothing. A woman‚ without her man‚ is nothing. (Nice Gloria) Dear John‚ I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous‚ kind‚ and thoughtful. People‚ who are not like you admit to being useless
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Literary Analysis Stephanie Butler ENG 125 Introduction to Literature 1-12-15 There are many types of prejudice in our world‚ but in the two literary works “Country Lovers” by Nadine Gordimer and “What it’s like to be a black girl” by Patricia Smith‚ racism is the prejudice that the characters are battling with. Unfortunately racism is a global problem‚ but these stories discuss racism in America. These writers have used their ability to write to discuss these problems by short story and
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Poetic Devices and Forms Line - equates a spatial measure or words or sounds‚ a fundamental conceptual unit. Stanza - a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length‚ metrical form‚ or rhyme scheme. Figurative language - Expressions or statements that are intentionally not literally true. Metaphor - A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving deeper meaning to the second. Forms of the "to be" verb are often used; "is" or "was". All the world’s a stage And men
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In each novel there are characters that have to accomplish quests in order to reach self realization and to show the development of this particular character. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston makes good uses of literary devices like personification‚ figurative language‚ and tone to help enhance the development of Janie’s character to reach self realization. In Their Eyes Were Watching God it took a while for Janie get close to self realization and she learned it after
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Literary Analysis of The Things They Carried: Metafiction Tim O’Brien brings the characters and stories to life in The Things They Carried. He uses a writing style that brings stories to life by posing questions between the relationship of reality and fiction (Calloway 249). This is called metafiction and it exposes the truth through the literary experience. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction to make the characters and stories in The Things They Carried realistically evocative of the Vietnam
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A literary convention is a specific pattern like a repetition of a word or phrase. Throughout The Tell Tale Heart the author‚ Poe‚ uses a repetition convention. For example‚ in the very first sentence Poe writes‚ “True! –nervous –very‚ very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses –not destroyed –not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell
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