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    “Sonnet 83” by William Shakespeare conveys the indescribable beauty of a person using punctuation‚ imagery‚ and figurative language. The word “painting” as used in the first line of the poem is a type of poetic imagery that means praise or poetic flattery. This accompanied with “painting set” creates a much more elegant image than simply writing the word praising. Imagery and figurative language is more heavy and emphasized in the last two lines of the quatrains. The last line of stanza one for example

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    Satire in Gulliver’s Travels Satire is a literary genre of Greek origin (satyr)‚ in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn‚ derision‚ or ridicule. Although satire is usually meant to be funny‚ its purpose is often irony or sarcasm‚ ideally with the intent of shaming individuals‚ religion‚ and communities themselves‚ into improvement. In Gulliver’s Travels‚ satire is shown through narration‚ setting‚ character‚ and plot. Jonathan Swift uses utopia and dystopia as elements of setting‚ and

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    Gulliver’s Travels When I first started reading the book I thought its only purpose was to talk about the political system in England. But after some pages I found that there could be a deeper message concealed‚ between the lines somewhere. The book is divided into four minor novels. The first is about the Lilliputian’s the second about Gulliver visits the giants‚ the third about the flying island and last about Gullivers travels to the land of Houyhnhmland. In the first book Gulliver gets shipwrecked

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    The Seventh Man In the story “The seventh man” Murakami primarily employs techniques such as figurative language through the use of flashbacks and a feeling of foreboding to characterize the deadly wave. After several attempts to get K to make a last second escape‚ the wave finally makes its first appearance with a bang being depicted as “a wave like a huge snake with its head held high‚ poised to strike‚ was racing towards the shore” (Murakami‚ 178). Through the use of simile and personification

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    Higher Colleges of Technology Fujairah Women’s College Group Members: * Maryam Ali H00204121 * Fatima Abdullah Rashid H00205893 * Marwa Ali H00203336

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    Gulliver’s Travels Novel Analysis 1. The Author and His Times Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin‚ Ireland on November 30‚ 1667. Swift was raised by his uncle and graduated from Trinity College. Swift would later become the secretary for an influential member of the Whig party which began to influence his political views to lie on the Whig side. A few years later he became a parson for the Irish Church. As he worked as a chaplain‚ he began to write the satires that he would later become famous

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    Robert Appelmann Gulliver’s Travels - Notes Jonathan Swift: * Irony – What could Swift be pointing out with this work? * Eating Babies‚ Ladies Dressing Room‚ Death of a Late Famous General‚ etc. * Anglo-Irish of late 1600’s to middle 1700’s * Classical Period‚ Enlightenment Gulliver’s Travels General: * Gulliver: * Third of Five Sons * Never mentions his brothers or any family aside from his Wife and Children * Very unemotional‚ proper

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    In the story Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Emerson uses aspects of figurative language that are compelling. This language is established when Emerson compares roses to the present. In the text it says‚ “These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.” People are obsessed with the past that they typically neglect the present. Society is referenced because we compare the past to the present‚ even when

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    Figurative Devices

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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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