FIGURES OF SPEECH 05/04/2010 AcademicWritingSkills FIGURES OF SPEECH A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways. ways 05/04/2010 AcademicWritingSkills FIGURES OF SPEECH y y A figure of speech is a use of a word that h diverges d f from its normall meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning n t based not b s d on n the th literal lit l meaning m nin of f the th words in it such as a metaphor‚ simile‚ or personification
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Montgomery Kessler (Monty) is in the middle of writing his thesis when his computer suffers hard drive failure and lost all the data stored in it. Monty was able to print a copy of his thesis making it the “sole” copy of his thesis. Afraid that something might happen to it‚ he sets out in the middle of the night with Courtney (his roommate) to make more copies. Monty trips over a bike rack‚ breaking his ankle and dropping his thesis on the boiler room of Harvard’s library. Monty then sneaks into
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synonyms include amusement‚ banter and happiness. Antonyms include drama‚ depression and seriousness. Do you know what the films Super Bad‚ Tropic Thunder‚ Anchorman‚ Animal House‚ The Hangover‚ Bridesmaids‚ Zoolander‚ Air Plane‚ Talladega Night‚ Monty Python and the Holy Grail‚ Juno‚ Team America: World Police‚ Wayne’s World and Step Brother have in common? (pause for audience answers‚ if any) They all ended up on Best comedy lists for their
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they have what it takes to take over the CEO role. To understand why CFOs are more frequently getting the top job it is important to know what the contemporary holder of the post does with his time. Article entitled “CFO to CEO” explains that the Monty Python image of an accountant sitting in a corner counting beans has disappeared‚ says Ian Graves‚ district director of continental Europe‚ at recruitment agency Robert Half International. Bluntly put‚ CFOs are now a much more exciting breed. In the 1990s
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The movie takes place in New York City where we get to follow the main character Monty Brogan. It all starts with a scene in which Monty and his companion Kostya saves an abandoned and hurt dog. The dog survives and follows him throughout the film as ”Doyle”. The film then cuts to present time where Monty meets an old friend now working as a teacher in their old school‚ at this point we hear about ”the party” when Monty invites this friend called Jacob Elinsky. Through a serie of flashbacks we get
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was named David‚ adopted a dog‚ Monty. Monty is the dog of the Claphams‚ Daivd’s neighbour. Monty was a victim of neglect and that makes it looks so ugly in the outside. This also made David dislike Monty. David’s father moved out when David was fifteen years old. He was very sad and angry because he did not understand why his father had to move out. One day‚ he found out that his neighbour moved away leaving Monty there and he adopted it. Although he adopted Monty instead of letting it sent to the
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Let’s begin with his notorious declaration that “God is dead” (first in The Gay Science‚ 1872). Secular thinking is a commonplace today‚ but in Nietzsche’s time this declaration was strikingly prophetic. The point of the claim is not so much to assert atheism: although Nietzsche was certainly an atheist‚ he was far from being a pioneer of European atheism. Rather‚ his observation is sociological‚ in a way: he means that Western culture no longer places God at the center of things. In another way
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usually don’t pay any attention to their sicknesses and try to prove their masculinity to others. However‚ the movie includes a hegemonic negotiation of emotional outbursts over the traditional image of masculinity. Therefore‚ the main character‚ Monty‚ is a famous and respected drug dealer who spends his last day of freedom. He is presented as being powerful throughout the movie because he was living the American dream‚ driving an expensive car‚ owning a fancy apartment‚ having a beautiful‚ exotic
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fragments of an They had decided to kidnap a man named Monty Hudson and his wife Liz Hudson. Not only did he kidnap them‚ but Monty Hudson was killed. Monty Hudson and his wife Liz Hudson‚ who was six months pregnant at the time‚ were kidnapped in broad daylight at gun point at the hotel‚ Holiday Inn by three men. They left in two different cars. One car Liz wastaken in and the other car‚ which just so happened to be his own car‚ Monty was taken in. Liz was released a couple days later in Nashville
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friends Sid‚ Monty‚ and Dewy One day they came in the diner and gave Chet the news paper and said there was a shark attack at the New Jersey shore a man died. But het said sharks don’t kill humans there scared as a bunny. One day Sid invited Chet to come swimming in the creek so Uncle Jerry drew a map to the creek. When Chet got to the creek he took of cloths and jumped in they all swam but Dewy went down the creek and Sid and Monty were Still swimming and Sid went down the Monty a fin was in
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