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    culture and journey as a whole in order to portray to world that female students deserve an education through the use of fictive figurative language‚ egalitarian and religious ethos‚ and abstract symbolism. She adopts a defiant tone in order to educate the Western world of the opportunity that is taken for granted‚ yet deprived of

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    D. Schmidt‚ the character‚ Holling‚ experiences a dull depressing time period of his life‚ his seventh grade year. The author then uses descriptive language‚ repetition‚ and symbolism to create a dreary‚ sorrowful mood. He makes Holling’s world look like there is no hope and there was no room for improvement. The author uses descriptive language to describe the dull and depressing mood of the story. For example‚ he uses a simile to illustrate the dullness of the story‚” This look came over her

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    traditional folk tales and intersperse their conversations with Igbo words‚ sayings‚ proverbs‚ and phrases. The author’s choices in terms of diction and structure contribute to this piece‚ with the use of language conveying a sense of the Igbo culture. Throughout the novel‚ figurative language such as proverbs and metaphors are greatly used when the characters tell stories to one another as a way to teach morals‚ entertain the audience‚ or pass down tales from previous generations. For example‚ personification

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    Thoughts on a section of Ethan Frome… (p.33 -34) Edith Wharton quite deliberately brings together human emotion and the environment in her novella Ethan Frome. The characters are circumscribed by the environment in which they exist and the impossibility of escape from the environmental forces of nature‚ heredity and place shape the characters of the text. A moment of hope arises as Mattie and Ethan walk home together from the dance and a more romantic sense of possibility emerges. The reader

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    Is it possible that in this literal‚ close-minded‚ needy world that a grace of Santa Ana wind can over power our body with distress and depression? Joan Didion’s masterfully composed essay‚ Los Angeles Notebook‚ conveys her view on the Santa Ana winds. Didion argues that a gentle touch of the wind will rapidly have one fall into a coma of distress and despair. Entering the season of Santa Ana winds‚ local residents brace themselves. Citizens become cautious and fearful with their lives when facing

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    After reading the two sonnets‚ I am trying hard to compare them in terms of the mindset of the poet‚ the object‚ and the way he uses language to describe beauty. It is so paradoxical that it appeared to the reader that the poems are written by different people. However‚ there is an idea that may explain this conflict. In sonnet 106‚ keeping in mind that the addressee is a male‚ the poet is (I could say) exaggerating in explaining the beauty of the object to an extent that even the predecessors barely

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    Draft Essay- Madie James Maloney’s novel A Bridge to Wiseman’s Cove is beautifully crafted and achingly honest exploration of the transformative power of love. Maloney uses language techniques‚ such as imagery‚ characterisation‚ symbolism‚ themes and figurative language. This entices the reader into‚ positions them to feel and think ways about the characters and is given to inform the reader about the character. In ABTWC Maloney has used unconditional love to express the characters inner thoughts

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    Stephany Vielman March 12‚ 2013 Prophets and Figurative Language Jeremiah was a prophet called upon by God at a very young age to do His work. Jeremiah spoke against those who disobeyed God and spoke on the consequences of sin. He had a very hard job of trying to get the people of God to obey Him once again and to get them to stop sinning against Him. Jeremiah used figurative language to tell stories and to explain to the people what was going to happen if they continued to sin

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    than not‚ people impose their morality on others and expect them to act in the way they find fit. They believe that the idea of right and wrong is universal. In her essay “On Morality”‚ Didion contradicts this theory and believes that everyone can have different ideas of morality based on their own perception. To make her point‚ Didion uses the examples of Klaus Fuchs and Alfred Rosenberg. Fuchs was a British traitor who leaked nuclear secrets to the Soviets‚ and Rosenberg was the Nazi administrator

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    “Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun‚” William Shakespeare uses the literary devices of imagery and figurative language to show that people should be judged based on who they are‚ not on their looks or what society says one should be like. To begin with‚ the text states‚ “If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head.” (I.iv) The author uses figurative language to show how his mistress’ hair looks like. He compares her hair to wires which aren’t typically compared to hair. It shows

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