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    Hour” by Kate Chopin (1894) In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard who “was afflicted with a heart trouble” goes through a lot of mixed emotions after hearing that her husband died in a railroad accident. Kate Chopin uses symbolism‚ figurative language and irony properly to describe Mrs. Mallard’s feelings and emotions through the story. Mrs. Mallard also feels that she has been trapped in a marriage where she was prisoner of her husband and realizes that it is time for her to live for herself

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    In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ Friar Lawrence is shown as honest and trustworthy. William Shakespeare has written many plays in olden day language. During some time people thought that plays and poems were not worth anything and thought it was rubbish. People now study the writing of Shakespeare because of the rich language‚ the literature and the writing style and context. The most trusted Friar Lawrence clarifies the mishaps and misunderstanding of Romeo and Juliet (5

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    In the mid 1920’s‚ the American author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ wrote The Great Gatsby. It was not out of the blue to use words to describe African American people that nowadays would be taken offensively and people would get hostile about. Mainly the whole purpose of using such these harmful and abusive words were to classify African Americans as objects‚ and not as human beings. When Nick describes the "two Bucks" and a Negro girl passing them in a horse-drawn carriage with a white chauffeur he thinks

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    Walt Whitman in ‘Leaves of Grass’‚ uses many similar techniques throughout his poem to give off and emphasize his meaning. The three techniques that further Whitman’s meaning in my opinion are repetition‚ along with the overuse of commas and lack of use of periods‚ and alliteration. Whitman’s uses common themes from transcendentalism including body and soul‚ immortality and Whitman also talks a lot about equality. Whitman uses repetition in the beginning of certain sentences to stress his message

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    Commas are a meant to separate ideas or extend a thought. This extension also represents something that is infinite. This is depicted in Symborzca’s poem Pi. Pi is an infinite number and in the poems‚ commas are used to depict that thought. The number Pi represents life. People believe it to be infinite. The commas that come in between the numbers‚ “six five three five at a glance‚ eight nine by calculation‚ seven nine or imagination‚” ‚ show how the idea is the same‚ and is extended to make it seem

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    1. allegory: a literary work that has a second meaning beneath the surface‚ often relating to a fixed‚ corresponding idea or moral principle. 2. alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds. It serves to please the ear and bind verses together‚ to make lines more memorable‚ and for humorous effect. • Already American vessels had been searched‚ seized‚ and sunk. -John F. Kennedy • I should like to hear him fly with the high fields/ And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless

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    Figurative Language Identifications 1) Simile “…How like a deer‚ strucken by many princes‚ Dost thou here lie!” -Antony (Act III‚ Scene I) 2) Setting “…Who to Philippi here consorted us.” -Cassius (Act V‚ Scene I) 3) Personification “O conspiracy‚ Sham’st thou to show thy dang’rous brow by night‚ When evils are most free? O‚ then by day Where wilt thou find

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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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    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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