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    aforementioned play‚ the titular king has just discharged his advisor‚ Cardinal Wolsey. Wolsey’s subsequent soliloquy served to reveal his resentment and despair over his dismissal. Shakespeare’s skilled use of religious allusions‚ strong diction‚ and figurative language reveal the extent of Wolsey’s lamentation. Shocked at his misfortune‚ Wolsey initially bemoans his demoted status and bitterly mocks his downfall as “a long farewell to all my greatness!” In his anger Wolsey belittles the world as “vain” and

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    Sonnets Shakespeare`s sonnets have dramatic elements and each poem is about personal theme. No one knows if in these poems’s he talks about his own experience or not‚ because no one knows enough about his life. The sonnet 116 attempts to define love. Speaker tries to explain what love is and what it is not. In the first line he says that love is perfect – “the marriage of true minds”- and it can be true and it cannot. This is ideal‚ because people want to have perfect love‚ but it`s never work

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    eyes. A place where laughter is the only rule and lessons are learned in paradox school. Author notes Sonnet Sonnets are formal poems and consist of 14 lines (3 quatrains and a couplet) ‚ traditionally written in iambic pentameter - that is‚ in lines ten syllables long‚ with accents falling on every second syllable Desperation Guppie Stokes What will I write about in this sonnet?  Of who’s existence I really don’t care... Why‚ just the thought of doing it Makes me feel the need for fresh

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    Read Act I of the play‚ then go to the assignment and list at least two examples for each of the language patterns you have found in Act I. Give the scene and line number where you find each example. 1. Unusual word arrangement I could a tale unfold (I‚ v) In my mind’s eye (I‚ ii) It cannot come to good (I‚ ii) It started like a guilty thing (I‚ i) Leave her to heaven (I‚ v) More honoured in the breach than the observance (I‚ iv) More in sorrow than in anger (I‚ ii) Neither a borrower‚ nor

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    the story of a man‚ Meursault‚ who is a moralist. Nothing seems to matter to him and his or anybody else’s actions makes no difference. Camus’s use of language allows readers to discover the mood and meaning being conveyed through diction and word choice. His use of figurative language can be seen throughout. Such an example of figurative language is imagery. From reading The Stranger‚ one can clearly picture whats happening as Camus beautifully describes every action of Meursault. In the first

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    high school or has graduated knows William Shakespeare as one of the most dreadful playmakers they are forced to read. Living in the heat of the Black Death that plagued England‚ he made his rise in the fine arts industry‚ and witnessed his own fall for many reasons. From the troubles he had with his family being torn apart by his work in London‚ to the accusations from another writer‚ the impacts can be clearly seen within his writing. Shakespeare’s sonnets have made dramatic changes of their contents

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    twenty-five‚ I’ll do it for twenty. No‚ me‚ I’m hungry. I’ll work for fifteen. I’ll work for food. The kids. You ought to see them..." Steinbeck is a sure fan of figurative language‚ his books wouldn’t be as great with out them. In The Grapes of Wrath there are several examples of such figurative language. Here are a few examples of such language: (1) Steinbeck compares a willow tree "....its load of leaves tattered and scraggly as a molting chicken." (2) He described a man driving a tractor as "..

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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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    Sonnet 55 Name- Ishita Trivedi Grade – 10M Subject – English Mar’s favourite Rhyme Written by William Shakespeare the renowned “Sonnet 55” is a lyrical poem that effectively states his idea of immortality. Throughout the three quatrains Shakespeare portrays the subject and certain aspects of the theme as stated in the couplet. The profound theme that the poet explores is the mightiness of words over time. The persona addresses his beloved‚ recounting how her beauty shall live on till

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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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