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    Pencil Long ago I lived with my family and friends in a beautiful deep dark forest…Oh! what fun we had..The wind would whistle through our branches where birds built their nests.Squirrels hid their nuts in the holes in our barks‚while small animals and snakes wound in and out at the base…But in the name of civilization‚wood cutters came and began clearing the forest…They began at the outskirts..We could hear the screams of our friends and relatives..Soon it was our day..The lumbermen came and hacked

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    2141484_daimler_mbc_day_20120329_02_schmidt_sales_marketing From http://www.daimler.com/Projects/c2c/channel/documents/2141484_daimler_mbc_day_20120329_02_schmidt_sales_marketing.pdf Average Age of Mercedes Customer Drops: A Younger‚ Sportier Look for Mercedes-Benz Pays off with U.S. Customers From http://daveknowscars.com/2010/12/14/average-age-of-mercedes-customer-drops-a-younger-sportier-look-for-mercedes-benz-pays-off-with-u-s-customers/ A younger‚ sportier look for Mercedes-Benz pays off with

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    Mata Kuliah : Islamic educaTION Disusun Oleh : Kelompok 1 NURUL FAJRIANI ROFIQAH PUTRI HAUNAN YUNI ALDIANA NURUL FARATIAH FARID RANDI RAIHARD RAHMAT IDRIS SRI HARDIYANTI PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS SEMESTER V EXCELLENCE OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION BY JEREMY HENZELL-THOMAS 1. BIOGRAPHY OF JEREMY HANZELL-THOMAS Dr. Jeremy Henzell-Thomas is Executive Director of The Book Foundation‚ a registered UK charity involved in the development of Islamic education programs‚ the sponsorship of

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    RD3 Figurative Meaning Utilizing concrete detail/imagery as his leading elements‚ as well as some figurative language‚ Kipling communicates the horrific ways in which soldiers died. “A Death-Bed” portrays vivid images of the use of new developments of warfare and weapons created. These advances were unknown and unusual to those who were fortunate enough not to experience the destructive effects of the war. Kipling sought to communicate not only the event itself‚ but what it entailed and meant for

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    The figurative language used gave out a very negative and abusive vibe in the song “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem. To start right at the beginning‚ Rihanna sings‚ "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn‚” as an opener. Now we know that she is not actually on fire‚ making this a metaphor. This first line is immediately putting out there that she feels terrible‚ hence fire equals bad‚ and she knows that this other person is just standing there and letting it happen. If she was actually on fire

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    Second‚ in his essay about Hell‚ Joyce uses intensive imagery to create a scenery of Hell. Imagery is the figurative language that is most prominent in this passage. Without it‚ describing what hell looks like is useless. For example‚ in paragraph six‚ Joyce gives a description of the sensation of hellfire. He states “Every sense of the flesh is tortured eternally and every faculty of the soul therewith: the eyes with impenetrable utter darkness‚ the nose noisome odor‚ the ears with yells‚ howls

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    Woolf keeps an eye on the moth and watches as the moths go through its course of life of struggling to get through the windowpanes‚ and eventually reaches death. The figurative language and syntax in the essay efficiently conveys the matters of life and death and what it means to be nothing but life. In the short essay‚ figurative language‚ specifically metaphor‚ is used effectively to connect life and death. Woolf witnessed the comparison and connection of life and death as she saw the moth struggling

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    written by Katie Alender has rich author’s craft. This book uses descriptive languagefigurative language‚ and symbolism to express a person’s ability to see what others don’t and how it frightens her. In the book‚ Alender uses figurative language to show how frightened she becomes at those overwhelming moments. This connects to the idea that fear could lead to being overwhelmed or the other way around. Figurative language helps the reader visualize what’s going on in an over-exaggerated manner.

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    In the beginning of ‘Out‚ Out—‚’ the author personifies the saw through grammatical structure and precise language in order to reveal the control tools have over the humans who use them. To begin with‚ Frost deliberately arranges his words to show who is more accountable for the accident of boy’s hand getting cut. For instance‚ the reader notices that the saw frequently “bear[s] a load” and thus seems to hold more responsibility for a task than the boy (Frost 8). However‚ it is not until line 15

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    to it’s structure‚ and theme. Every poem is unique and one of the main factors to a poems individuality is it’s structure. Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep not only has a rhyme scheme‚ but it provides praiseworthy figurative language. One of the obvious figurative language in the poem‚ were the metaphors. For instance‚ there were the lines "I am a thousand winds that blow‚ I am the diamond glints on the snow" (lines 3-4). Not only do the metaphors create vivid images‚ but it plays a key role

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