Burgess and Crevecoeur Essay Anthony Burgess’s piece “Is America Falling Apart?” and Hector St. Jean Crevecoeur’s piece‚ “What is an American?” from Letters from an American Farmer both have unique tones in them discovered through their use or rhetorical devises. Burgess’s piece has a negative tone and‚ this can be identified by his use of tri-colons‚ anaphora‚ and his use of ethos. Crevecoeur’s piece has a positive tone and‚ this can be identified by his use of hypophora‚ anaphora‚ and his use
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Foreshadowing “When he was nearly thirteen‚ my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”(3) Parallelism Simile “…his head was like a skull lookin’ at her.”(13) “By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of Catawba worms.” (18) "...Popped me like a cork onto pavement." (50) Metaphor “I wanted you to see what real courage is‚ instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand”. (149)
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A2 Latin Propertius Elegies 3 A question of style (and who’s got it……) transeat hic sine nube dies‚ stent aere venti‚ ponat et in sicco molliter unda minax. aspiciam nullos hodierna luce dolentis‚ et Niobae lacrimas supprimat ipse lapis; alcyonum positis requiescant ora querelis; increpet absumptum nec sua mater Ityn. tuque‚ o cara mihi‚ felicibus edita pennis‚ surge et poscentis iusta precare deos. at primum pura somnum tibi discute lympha‚ et nitidas presso pollice
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If you give anything time it can change‚ especially identity. There are two types of identities individual and group‚ individual identity are oneself’s characteristics it is what distinguishes and separates us from other people and group identity is a primary human behaviour to form groups around any observed or imagined difference on both physical and mental characteristics. Good afternoon/morning fellow citizens of Australia‚ today I am going to discuss how time changes someones sense of identity
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Feliks Skrzynecki Belonging presupposes inclusion and an acceptance of self‚ satisfying a yearning to be something larger than ourselves. The subjective nature of belonging‚ however‚ suggest it is often far more ambiguous and complex. Belonging as a potentially positive force is recognised in the poet’s representation of his father’s connection to his Polis past. The metaphor ‘where his father kept pace only with the Joneses of his minds making’‚ coupled with the simile‚ ‘loved his garden like
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Christina McGrath Redgum – I was only 19‚ Notes This is a very powerful song about what all Vietnam veterans went through in the Vietnam war and all the emotions and experiences they have gone through This song has so many language techniques and powerful lines It emphasizes the fact that composer of this song was only 19 and he was so young and frightened to go to war The power illustrated in this song is War The use of repetition is used almost after ever verse‚ “God help me‚ I was only nineteen”
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How does Malorie Blackman create a vivid picture of the bomb and its aftermath in this passage? A shocked atmosphere concludes this chapter with a bombing of Dundale shopping centre in the book noughts and crosses‚ Malorie Blackman makes the aftermath and bombing of the Dundale shopping centre very vivid for the reader by using very interesting and useful word and phases. Firstly‚ Malorie Blackman uses many ominous hints and foreshadowing to create a vivid picture of what was about to happen in
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In Ray Bradbury’s novel " Dandelion Wine’ the author uses an array of figurative language to reiterate his novel. At the rudiment of the novel the author uses personification through lines 4-5 and similes through lines 15-17. Lines 4-5 explain that ‚ " the berating of the world was long and warm and slow." When the author explains ‚ " the breathing of the world " and "long and worm‚" in the same sentence its insinuating that the earth has life. In the midst of the passage the author asserts
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The Joys of Traveling By Air With the various methods of travel nowadays‚ traveling by air is by far the most convenient and enjoyable method (Irony). The hours spent in the airport‚ waiting to get on board‚ are totally worth the gourmet plane food‚ the lazy-boy quality seats‚ and the spacious setting (Alliteration). On the day of your flight‚ it is highly recommended to arrive hours in advance for security purposes. This is entirely understandable because the heightened security is necessary to
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Nadya Lytvynenko 42; 403 Text Analysis The extract under analysis comes from “The Apple Tree” by J. Galsworthy. John Galsworthy was an English novelist and a playwright of the beginning of the XXth century. He is most famous for “The Forsyte Saga” and its sequels “A Modern Comedy” and “End of the Chapter”‚ all of them were filmed several times. What’s more‚ the writer won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1932. The extract deals with the description of the setting for of events in the story. This
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