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    similar topics and use similar themes.These poems use figurative and literal language‚ talk about hope and how it gets us by‚ and talk about the songs that birds sing. Both are beautiful works and the similarities and differences are very complementary to each other. Both poems talk about birds‚ however one uses figurative language and the other uses literal language. “Hope” is The Thing With Feathers uses a lot of complex‚ figurative language. For example‚ the stanza‚ “Hope” is the thing with

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    methods of figurative language. “Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs‚ Broken apart like a woman’s heart‚ abused in a marriage‚ the brink of holy war‚ bottled up‚ like a miscarriage” This line is layered with symbolism and similes. He cleverly uses biblical stories with emotional tragedy to describe the splitting of a nation with foreshadows of war. As a listener it’s hard not to feel emotion with this imagery. Throughout most of the song you hear eccentric figurative language

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    Forman used a lot of figurative language and imagery. One time he used figurative language was when he was describing Vergland‚ “Everything looked brown and dead‚ like open fields after a long winter (Forman‚ p. 81).” This was a good way to describe this part of the story because it gives you a clear description of what it looked like where they were traveling through and why they needed all the supplies that they had. Another example of figurative language is allusion. This is used in the

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    We cry "scapegoat" to stigmatize all the phenomena of discrimination – political‚ ethnic‚ religious‚ social‚ racial‚ etc. – that we observe about us. We are right. We easily see now that scapegoats multiply wherever human groups seek to lock themselves into a given identity – communal‚ local‚ national‚ ideological‚ racial‚ religious‚ and so on’ (160). Fear and frustrations As seen with Fisher’s notion that there is a lack of central exchange‚ Girard notes that: ‘the real source of victim

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    1. The first example is on line 17. It reads: “Reason burns a brighter fire‚ which the bones”. The next example is on line 21. It reads: “It is the light at the center of every cell.” The last example is on line 22. It reads: “It is what sent the snake coiling and flowing forward” 2. A) The first example is on line 20. It reads: “But this morning the shoe-box house on the back porch is empty.”

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    unreasonable volume‚ the question we must ask ourselves is does it have poetic merit? Poetic merit is essentially the reason that makes a song a lyric poem without the instrumental behind it. Therefore‚ the type of this poem normally has symbolism‚ figurative language‚ metaphors‚ and so forth. In addition to songs having poet merit‚ “Chaos and Clothes” is no different. “Chaos and Clothes” is a song written by Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit‚ and explores the idea of letting go. In this song‚ it’s poetic merit

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    The Prioress‚ the Friar‚ and the Miller in the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales provide exceptional examples of what H.S. Bennett meant when he asserted that ‘no detail was too small” for Chaucer to see. ➢ Chaucer is a careful and astute observer. o Detailed descriptions of each characters • Exposes character’s flaws/weaknesses • Social/political ➢ Uses satire to deliver a message o Prioress and friar: Criticizes the church – revealing the corruption of the actions of some characters ➢ Chaucer uses

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    Throughout the poem Neruda uses repetition to emphasize the meaning of the surrounding words or phrases. In the beginning‚ the poem almost repeats the poem’s title indistinguishably‚ the only difference between the first line and the title is the replacement of the word “A” to the word “My”. This is not an exaggerated change‚ however allows the reader to see Neruda’s relationship to the dog which has died. My showing that it is his dog which has died‚ the reader is able to analyze the poem as not

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    Literary Analysis: Narrator Directions: The narrator of a story is the character or voice that tells the story to the reader. The narrator often reveals his or her own personality through the telling of the story. In her tale‚ the Wife of Bath offers her views on certain topics. Summarize each plot event in the chart then explain what each reveals about the narrator’s beliefs. Plot Event Narrator’s Beliefs About… (Lines 10-15): Wife of Bath discourages Pardoner from getting married because of

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    Alfred’s project to increase learning and attempt to break the language barrier for those that only read Latin. Asser‚ being

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