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    uses quite a bit of figurative and descriptive language‚ which for a melodramatic teenager is truly the land of milk and honey. Rich creates vivid pictures with her words‚ and you can actually feel the sentiments expressed in her works. From poems about her exploration of her own sexuality and the deep blue sea‚ this Sapphic woman created groundbreaking literature that still makes a splash today. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is one that is especially high in the figurative language charts. Insinuation

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    Gjystina Vukaj Comparative essay The Differences and Similarities between the Book “Hatchet” and its Movie “A Cry in the Wild” In this essay I will compare the differences and similarities of events in the book “Hatchet” and the movie “A Cry in the Wild”. Our class read a book called “Hatchet” and saw the movie “A Cry in the Wild” (based on Hatchet). I realized that the book and movie had many differences and also some similarities. In my essay I will compare some events that happened to

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    Oliver utilizes several literary techniques‚ like figurative language and structure‚ to further develop the strong connection between nature and life. Oliver writes: Figurative language can give shape to the difficult and the painful. It can make visible and ‘felt’ that which is invisible and ‘unfeelable.’ Imagery‚ more than anything else‚ can take us out of our own existence and let us stand in the condition of another instance‚ or another life. It can make the subject of the poem‚ whatever it

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    invoke a sense of unity in the American people in order to attain a lasting peace because of the current national and international turmoil. While the speech’s respectful eloquence is appropriate for the occasion of an inauguration‚ his usage of figurative language‚ emphasis on peace‚ and appeal to pathos motivates the people of America to work for a prospective future.

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    According to Shakespeare’s portrayal of figurative language in the balcony scene‚ fourteen year olds cannot truly fall in love. Juliet was very curious about how the mischievous and witty Romeo got past her well-surrounded balcony with high walls and her “kinsmen”. When questioned about this‚ Romeo answers‚ “I would adventure for such merchandise” (2/2/87-89). In this metaphor‚ Romeo compares Juliet to a merchandise. Merchandise are goods that are meant to be bought or sold. People always see the

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    HATCHET By Brittany Fountain. In Gary Paulsen’s novel hatchet the protagonist Brian Robenson develops many new skills after his plane crashes into the Canadian wilderness. It is his ability to make a fire‚ build a shelter and make new tools that enable him to survive. During one of the nights when he was stuck in the Canadian wilderness a porcupine went into his shelter and he felt it he through the hatchet as a reaction which hit the rock and made a spark he woke up the next morning

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    Like the saying‚" Time heals the wounds‚" we as humans‚ tend to find ways to disguise the anguish we truly feel. In sonnet 30 Shakespeare shows how the speaker is suffering and his/her time of despair. The speakers sorrowful remembrance of dead friends are quelled only by thoughts of his friend‚ this shows how the speaker is dependent of this lost friend to console him at the time of loss. Through alliteration‚ legalistic vocabulary and emotions of his friend the speaker

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    As mentioned‚ the stream of consciousness continues throughout this story. Sometimes the protagonist inserts her deep‚ sharp thoughts in the middle of a paragraph that has little to do with the original conversation. And sometimes she inserts a word that is off-putting‚ a word that does not match the rest. Although some may argue that this takes readers away from the fictional dream‚ the case‚ it seems‚ is that it corresponds just as well with her random outbursts of thought. The word is often placed

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    Ahab‚ hoping to unite his crew under his desire to hunt Moby Dick‚ uses repetition‚ comparisons‚ and emotional appeals‚ along with other strategies‚ to convince the shipmates to pursue the white whale. Ahab knows that he needs his entire crew to be on board with chasing Moby Dick in order for it to happen. He starts by asking callback questions that relates to the single thing that the crew shares: their interest in whaling. For example‚ when Ahab asks “what do ye do when ye see a whale‚ men?” the

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    William Shakespeare‚ in his sonnet‚ “Sonnet 97” laments about how being separated from his lover feels like winter‚ no matter what season it may be. First‚ to reveal the feeling of loss caused by the separation from his lover‚ Shakespeare employs simile: “How like a winter hath my absence been/ From thee”; second‚ Shakespeare uses visual and tactile imagery to reiterate the sense of winter already established by stating‚ “what freezings have I felt‚ what dark days seen!”; third‚ Shakespeare compares

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