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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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    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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    thousand one the nation was in desperate need of guidance to help them get through the difficult road to recovery. There on the eve of that day president at that time president George Bush gave america what they needed.Hope.In his speech Bush used figurative language to get the points he was trying to make across ands help them get them to sink into the reader or listeners and grab their attentions emotionally.He was successful at doing so but in this case he relied on mostly of pathos and ethos but struggled

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    surviving or for any other reason. For example‚ Jack made fun of piggy and the other boys laughed‚ that is a sign of inhumanity or when in chapter 9 the boys killed Simon thinking he was the beast. This passage has three literary elements. Figurative Language was the most obvious one‚ due to the fact that Simon was having a conversation

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    As a supportive literature device to figurative language‚ irony also played a crucial role in making “counting stars” become a literature work. Irony can be defined as the disparity between what it shows to be true and what is legit true. Irony provides the meaning of words or phrases‚ which usually have a different meaning from the actual meaning of those words or phrases ( “Irony- Examples and…”)This is also really interesting because the audiences can interpret this literature work in different

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    Sonnet 130 Shakespeare put a twist on how similes and metaphors are used to compare the girl the narrator loves to other girls and/or things that represent beauty. Instead of using similes and metaphors to compare things that are alike‚ Shakespeare used them to contrast the girl with different things that she is not. In other words‚ he used them to show everything that the girl is different in‚ doesn’t have‚ and is flawed in. Shakespeare does this to show that the narrator truly loves the girl

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    English Parts of speech 2 The Simile A simile is an direct comparison that always contains the words “as” or “like” A simile compares one thing with another and in the process suggests some degree of similarly between things that are not the same. Example: The carpet felt like sandpaper under her feet (Here the carpet‚ which is usually soft‚ is being compared to sandpaper‚ which suggests that either there is something wrong with this carpet or it is uncomfortable to walk on. Identifying

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