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    Clare Yue Mr. Messer RWV 3 May 5th‚ 2013 Setting and Mood Analysis “The Grass Eaters”‚ written by Krishnan Varma was about how Swapna and her husband Ajit Babu finally found their stable home---a pipe. The setting of the story was during wartime which made the general mood anxious and worrisome‚ plus the mood changed rapidly according to different places in the story. The general setting of the story was during wartime‚ and the place changed a lot during the story which made the mood anxious

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    The pros and cons of using a mobile phone at work. As a source of communication‚ mobile phones have become a very important part of life. Employers and employees rarely turn off the mobile phone during working hours. Mobiles phones are another form of communication which has advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that it can facilitate communication with the family when the employee has to work many hours. In this way‚ workers can stay informed about what happens at home. In

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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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    of three lines)‚ contains figurative language (language that contains or uses figures of speech) such as similes (a figure of speech that makes a comparison) and metaphors (comparisons of one thing to another without the use of like or as). “The currents pull like weeds”‚ a simile located in the third stanza‚ gives the reader extra detail so we can further understand the struggle the speaker is experiencing. Robert Robertson also includes a small metaphor in his second stanza’s first and

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    24:42-44‚ we find that the scriptures speak of the predictions and preparing for Christ’s second coming. To better understand how each event correlates with each other‚ I will give my interpretations of each central message and summarize what the events all had in common. Episode 1 In Matthew 24: 1-35‚ the central message is the signs of the end times. We see specific and broad signs as the time of the second coming of Christ draws near. Jesus shows his love for his disciples by warning them of these

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    back to the “holy fools”; the story of Lazarus symbolizes Sonia and Lizaveta’s beliefs that religion will compensate them for their sacrifice and servitude (they hope to be resurrected by God‚ like Lazarus was); bible is obviously religion 2. Language • Hyperbole/Allusion-

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    In "Their Eyes Are Watching God"‚ Zora Neale Hurston uses figurative language in the passage on pages 158-159 to foreshadow events to come as well as add life to the story. Metaphors‚ similes‚ and personification are used together collaboratively to create a specific mood and image to represent the theme of this passage with still leaving room for the true meaning which is to be revealed later on in the story. Hurston’s use of personification and metaphors together create a mysterious gloomy mood

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    destroyed because of conflict in the political world of Rome and the war they were facing against the Barbarians. Both Things Fall Apart and "The Second Coming" suggest that conflict can bring on an end of an era in a society. "The Second Coming" and Things Fall Apart express how conflict from within can ruin a society. The first line of "The Second Coming" states‚ "The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world‚" (Yeats). In

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    There is a plethora of figurative language that is used in “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell to reveal the seductive nature of the unidentified man to his coy mistress. He uses his tools of words with figurative language to woo this women into haveing sex with him. There is an abundance of hyperbole and personification that the speaker uses to express his love and need to perform coitus right at that instant to “control time.” “I would love you ten years before the Flood..Till the conversion

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    feeling.  Then can I grieve at grievances foregone and heavily from woe to woe tell o’er."  This second statement really jumped off the page at me. because he is telling how he has coped with feelings from the past as if they were still actively present. The author is passing this feeling of woe telling how it can stack upon a person in dealing with this.  The author uses this next piece of figurative language‚"but if the while i think on thee‚ dear friend all losses are restored and sorrows end."  To

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