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    Danielle Harrison English 101 K. Kemp May 2‚ 2012 The short story that I had analyzed was Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling. I decided that characters‚ figurative language‚ and plot all gave a significant amount of support to the development of this story. Without these components of the story‚ I feel as if the story as a whole would not be at the level that it is at now. There were many characters with several different personalities in this short story. Rikki-Tikki‚ the mongoose‚ was

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    The use of figurative language or illustrations to represent objects‚ actions or ideas. An example of imagery. An example of imagery in this novel divergent are the factions. In the novel divergent‚ society is divided into five separate factions including‚ Amit faction ‘the peaceful’ was formed in order to have a peaceful society free from conflict and sadness caused by wars and instigation. Amity comes across as very kind and understanding. They strongly dislike war. They are truely a democratic

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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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    brought by love is a common theme in the poem and song. In the poem‚ the speaker is using life examples to show the joy that her husband brings to her life. In the song‚ the speaker is using figurative language to represent the bliss that his girlfriend delivers into his life. The song’s use of figurative language thus supports that it is more poetic and that the author is more in touch with

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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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    In “Mother to Son‚” Langston Hughes uses figurative languages like metaphors and tone to enhance the theme that you must keep going even through hard times. Hughes uses a metaphor to help show this theme by comparing two main ideas in the poem. A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another without using like or as. Hughes uses a metaphor when he compares the mother’s life in the poem to a crystal stair. The mother in this quote tells her son “Don’t you fall

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    are dead.” In the poem “Buttons” by Matvei Yankelevich‚ the writer talks about how many people die with their secrets and no one could ever know their secrets again. The writer symbolizes buttons as secrets by using imagery‚ word choice‚ and figurative language. As I delve into this analysis‚ I will get more in depth of why the recurring word‚ buttons‚ in this poem refers to people’s secrets. First‚ the writer uses imagery to emphasize that buttons symbolize secrets. In the poem‚ it says‚ “During

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    (6). This quote implies that whatever innocence this society had no longer exists because it "drowned". Usually when something or someone drowns‚ the hope that you had for them drowns too which goes back to the theme of lost hope. Another figurative language William Butler Yeats used is symbolism. Such as when he said‚ "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" (2). I don’t believe that he is actually talking about the animal or the falconer‚ a person who trains with falcons. I think that he means that

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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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