(Shelly) belongs to … style: metonymy (The Times)” belongs to…style: antonomasia …(Dickens)” belongs to…style: pun a penny in one’s pocket” belongs to…style: irony belong to…style: oxymoron belongs to the....style. : belles-lettres cake‚ and called Summit‚ of course" is: simile The sentence "I would give you the whole world to know " contains: hyperbole; The sentence "I’m writing in connection with your account" is typical of.... *business letter The sentence "In the quietness
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Tribes of the Sydney Related Text Analysis “Tribes of the Sydney” is a feature article from the newspaper Sydney Morning Herald and is written by Sacha Molitorisz. This text was written in January 2010 and speaks about the changes in Sydney’s youth culture and emphasises on the different type of teenage groups that are around Sydney and reasons why youths do have groups. This text’s main theme is about belonging and how youths in Sydney feel the need to belong in a group. Molitorisz cleverly writes
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Slaughterhouse Five Essay Herbert Hoover once said‚” Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” This disapproving view of war parallels with Vonnegut’s view of war‚ evident in Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut uses a number of rhetorical devices in this novel in order to denounce war such as imagery‚ personification‚ and allusions. Slaughterhouse Five is a novel with a plethora of rhetorical devices‚ one being imagery. Whereas Slaughterhouse Five is a rather somber novel;
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Edexcel – Social Networking Childnet International leaflet activity cards Match the examples to these language techniques used in the text. Can you then sort them into two types of technique: those which are biased and those which are unbiased? Comment on their impact once you have matched them up. Fact Negative language An interpretation of a law for social networking sites Positive language Warnings about social networking sites Rhetorical question Reassurances for the
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Ben Sheldahl Pogreba AP Language 1/3/14 Meere Men? Or be we Bird-Gods? “A-well-a‚ bird‚ bird‚ bird‚ b-bird’s the word A-well-a‚ don’t you know about the bird Well‚ everybody’s talking about the bird A-well-a‚ bird‚ bird‚ b-bird’s the word A-well-a‚ bird” These sage words from “The Trashmen” hint at the fragility of the bird species‚ as well as emphasizing the necessity of birds in not just our physical lives‚ but our pop culture. In this excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ Rachel Carson
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The poem ‘Siren Song’ may be believed to indicate an alluring woman who has no morals. This could be alluded to‚ as the term ‘siren’ might be highlighting a feigning and insincere female trying to manipulate a man. On one hand‚ the poem could be interpreted as one‚ which subtly complains about women in general‚ as Atwood claims that the song ‘forces men to leap’. Through generalizing ‘men’‚ the poet naturally separates the two genders in order to convey that no one man is individual‚ similarly to
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Out of Time By Kieren Hovasapian Out of Time is a poem written by Kenneth Slessor and is one of his personally favorite poems to date he has written. Time is personified in this poem‚ but also associated with the natural phenomenon of water‚ or vessels such as yachts seen on Slessor’s favorite location‚ Sydney Harbor (which is itself personified). Personification gives immediacy to an abstraction such as time‚ and elicits evaluative responses which are more arresting than an address to an abstraction
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Pyatachev E.G. Text Three From W.S. Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972)‚ the son of a solicitor‚ was educated at Harrow and Balliol College‚ Oxford and for more than twenty years from 1932 was a fiction reviewer for such periodicals as the Spectator; Sketch‚ Observer and Time and Tide. He published his first book‚ a collection of short stories entitled "Night Fears" in 1924. His novel "Eustace and Hilda" (1947) was recognized immediately as a major contribution to English fiction; "The Go-Between"
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LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES 1- Onomatopoeia‚ Sounds like what it refers to eg. Pop‚ Bang etc. 2- Generalization‚ Doesn’t allow for individual difference. 3- Assonance‚ Repetition of vowel sounds eg. Slow road to no ware 4- Descriptive‚ Describing. 5- Paradox‚ Contradiction seemingly false at first but is found latter to be a truth. 6- Instructive‚ Inform/enlighten/instruct. 7- Euphemism‚ Acceptable/mild expression for something not very nice eg. Instead of died- Moved on to a better place. 8-
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The poem entitled ’’Abiku’’ is a foreign word that suggest a spiritual child‚who is coming and going from the world(reincarnating).From the title the title we get to know that ’Abi’ means to be born and ’Ku’ means to die‚this butresses that we are all born to die and it also shows the inevitability of death. In the first stanza we hear a(that of Abiku)boasting that no one can stop him from coming and going from the world.From the tone of d Abiku‚we get to know that he is addressing his suppose parent
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