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    These two poets may have had two different poems‚ but they had a lot of the same things as well as different things. They are two different authors they have many of the same poetry styles even though they are different authors and they are different poems. They also‚ not surprisingly‚ have a lot different styles. “Ode to Enchanted Light” and “Sleeping in the Forest” are both poems that convey appreciation for nature using form and figurative language. Although the Authors are different they have

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    Communicating the Workplace Dovey House University of Phoenix ENG 120 Dr. Thomas February 07‚ 2011 Communicating the Workplace “Shooting an Elephant” is a short essay written by George Orwell. The occupation of the main character‚ also narrator‚ Orwell‚ is a subdivision police officer. He protects and serves a small town in Moulmein‚ Burma. He includes a great deal of details and facts throughout the essay. I will attempt to analyze how tension between the facts and the artistic

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    author makes direct applications on practical living using figures of speech to explain his message. Figures of Speech The epistle of James comprises questions and answers‚ figurative contrasting speakers‚ illustrations and dialogues and difficult statements as was common in the discourse. James uses figurative languages throughout his epistle to help him explain his teaching about the Christian life. For

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    carried out- neither a projection or contest of emotion will elicit. As does the author of this Spenserian sonnet‚ his stridency to appease succumbs to the crass nature of a woman. To which this sonnet derives such implicit diction‚ emotion‚ figurative language‚ and structure‚ we will investigate. The first of three quatrains employs the matter of the protagonist’s situation‚ laying out an analogy to characterize his actions as admirable. A dire situation‚ his audience‚ a woman‚ watches the performance

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    Mildred. Guy is a fireman. In this book firemen don’t put out fires they start them‚ mostly to burn books. When they burn the books‚ they also burn the houses and the people. The theme of dangerous censorship is effectively shown through setting‚ figurative language‚ and plot. One way dangerous censorship is displayed is through the setting of the book. This book is set in a dystopian society where all books are banned. Knowledge is power and this society doesn’t want unequal amounts of power. Books are

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    The Canterbury Tales‚ written by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ are a mixture of stories told from different characters. Chaucer used many forms of figurative language throughout these stories‚ including a multitude of different forms of irony. Each character comes with different personalities‚ appearances‚ traits‚ and actions. A lot of irony is shown through the actions of the characters and how the behave. The characters range from nobles to peasants‚ but are far from what one would expect in the roles the

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    artifices to produce news and advertisements of all kinds in a brief manner. Journalists use various Linguistic devices such as syntactic phonological‚ morphological‚ semantic‚ lexical‚ rhetorical devices‚ plenty of figurative language in taglines‚ headlines and slogans and so on. Language has a powerful dominator role in affecting readers mind and

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    of the Red Death‚” all of the main characters experience fear‚ but handle it in very different ways. Whether they use that fear to help them overcome the problem‚ or their fear results in paranoia. Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism‚ irony‚ and figurative language to portray how fear distorts the emotional state

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    why it is very important to use words in the correct grammatical order‚ correct context and exact language. The power of words affects our senses‚ thinking‚ feelings creativity and the way we think. It is imperative that we must understand the phrases and meanings of words before they can properly be used. When language is shaped properly‚ it will assimilate into a culture. Since the English language is rich and varied‚ it offers an array of choices when communicating. Here are a few of those choices

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    6) In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne employs figurative language to explain the symbolic character of Pearl before she becomes a woman. To Hester‚ her child who is often associated with sin is‚ “Her Pearl! ...she named the infant “Pearl”‚ as being of great price‚ --purchased with all she had‚ her mother’s only treasure!”(6‚1). This allusion of the Gospel of Matthew‚ the merchant man seeking goodly pearls gave up everything to get that one pearl‚ similarly connects to how Hester gave up

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