than stated directly. Examples: He is a half witch. 3. Personification-A trope or figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. Examples: The wind stood up and gave a shout. The road isn’t built that can make it breathe hard. 4. Litotes- Is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an Affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. Litotes uses a negative and an opposite
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In "Auto Wreck"‚ as the title insinuates it‚ is a situation that describes a car accident that takes place in a city‚ which means‚ that an ambulance‚ a hospital‚ the police‚ and the crowd are the main actors when death is about to strike. In the development of the poem‚ Shapiro describes the atmosphere that surrounds a city at night when there is a car accident; Blood all over the streets and gutters‚ the police covering the situation and the crowd observing the tragic accident‚ recalling death as
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him to crawl beneath a sack of rice” and “… risked the rain again‚” which brings about a contradiction as this line shows that the scorpion is not at all the villain‚ it is simply scared. Among the many figures of speech used in this poem onomatopoeia is one of them. He has used this figure of speech efficiently‚ enabling us to hear the constant noises that were made. The poet write that the
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between things compared; inconsistency Apostrophe A figure of speech in which a person‚ thing‚ or abstract quality is addressed as if present; for example‚ the invocation to the muses usually found in epic poetry. Oxymoron A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements‚ as in "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence." Allusion —A figure of speech which makes brief‚ even casual reference to a historical or literary figure‚ event‚ or object to create a resonance in the reader
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itself. This made his listeners agree with his cause. 7. Patrick Henry’s most famous quote‚ “give me liberty or give me death‚” contains parallel structure. He was willing to die for his cause. If he did not get the freedom‚ then he would rather die. 8. Patrick Henry used allusions in his speech. One of his allusions comes from the Greek story of “The Odyssey.” In the story‚ the sirens are creatures that lure man away from their course. Henry compares the sires to the habits of men that try to close
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maintain their appearance by purchasing new clothes. Society wishes to be on top of social hierarchy‚ which they believe is possible if they follow celebrities. People are so intrigued in the appearance of celebrities that they have become significant figures. Clothes are important to people because they are necessities. Many people want the glamorous life of having the latest fashion trends whenever they please. Celebrities start fashion trends that influence the way people dress and accessorize themselves
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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA WORKING PAPER SERIES WPS No. 677/ August 2011 JUGAAD- Not just “Making do” but a Low Cost Survival & Coping Strategy at the Bottom of the Pyramids. by Ramendra Singh Assistant Professor‚ Indian Institute of Management Calcutta‚ Joka‚ Kolkata 700104 Vaibhav Gupta B.Tech Student‚ Department of Applied physics‚ Delhi Technological University‚ Delhi‚ India & Akash Mondal B.Tech Student‚ Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
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containing molecules. Theory The vibrational energy of a diatomic molecule using the harmonic oscillator approximation is: Eυ = hνo ( υ + 1/2) (1) where νo is the fundamental vibration frequency in s-1 and υ is the quantum number for the vibration‚ Figure 1. The rotational energy for a diatomic molecule using the rigid-rotor approximation is: ~ EJ = Bo hc
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tutorial 2 question 2. Present all values of an ‚ bn and pn in full precision‚ and values of f (pn ) and the relative error bounds to 4 significant figures. For questions 2 and 3‚ tabulate all your workings as in the answer to tutorial 2 question 3. Give the values of all fixed-point iterates to 8 decimal places‚ and values of |pn − pn−1 | to 4 significant figures. 2. Consider f (x) = x2 − 5 sin(x). (i) Sketch the graph of f (x) to locate the roots of f (x) = 0. Write down an interval [a‚ b]‚ with b −
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INTRODUCTION A sonnet of fourteen lines divided between three quatrains and an ending couplet‚ "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "fallen country‚" India. The poem was published before Derozio’s untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti rhyme scheme Introduction to the Poem • To
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