chosen ‘The Raven’ written by Edgar Allen Poe because this poem manifests quite a selection of figurative language. Through his writing style and illustration of words‚ I have observed many examples of sound devices. Such as‚ * Alliteration – When you repeat the first letter or group of sounds in a specific part of the sentence so basically‚ so basically tongue twisters. * Onomatopoeia – Using a word that has the same action as the word * Personification – Giving an inanimate object
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Sounds and Imagery of Human Emotion In Marge Piercy’s “The Secretary Chant”‚ the author uses images and sound to both dehumanize and mechanize the female speaker‚ while John Updike uses imagery and sounds to make the “Player Piano” come to life. Piercy uses images of the speaker‚ connected with various office equipment to give a vision to the reader of a woman living her life through the office equipment that is part of her very being. Piercy uses personification in reverse and other metaphors
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The deterioration of the American wealthy culture in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury has progressed further than the deterioration seen in The Great Gatsby. Whereas many of the characters in The Great Gatsby are suffering from the more intangible consequences on their morals‚ the Compson family in The Sound and the Fury is suffering from the tangible consequences‚ facing both physical and mental difficulties. The decay of the Compson family is symbolic of the decline of traditional American values
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CSC 105 Midterm 1 Wed‚ Oct 13‚ 2010 NAME: ___________________________________________ DO NOT put your student number on THIS page. Marks will be deducted if a student number is found here. Lab Section you normally attend (it is okay to just put the day and time): ___________________________________CSC 105 Midterm 1 Wed‚ Oct 13‚ 2010 You are allowed 50 minutes Name:_____________________________ Student Number:_______________________ S Write your name
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Phillips’s book The Atlantic Sound is related to the history of slavery and its impact on contemporary socio-cultural environment. It is a travel book but it is not only confined to non fictional narrative of travelled places. The book is a mixture of geographical portraits‚ historical events‚ interviews‚ letters‚ newspaper articles‚ speeches‚ poems and so on. Phillips decides to visit the three points of triangular trade that linked America‚ Africa and Europe. He juxtaposes the stories of past with
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The Coen brothers employ silence in a majority of their noir films‚ with the sole purpose of heightening the drama. Within the absence of sound exist certain imperceptible sounds. Burwell mentions that the brothers write knowing the importance of the sound and the music and that they “put space in their films for that‚ and a lot of people don’t‚ but they actually feel free to have a few minutes where there might not be any dialogue.” The example
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the Vowels Sounds of English The classifcation of vowels is based on four major aspects: Tongue height - according to the vertical position of the tongue (high vowels‚ also referred to as close; low vowels‚ also referred to as open; intermediate - close-mid and open-mid) Frontness vs. backness of the tongue - according to the horizontal position of the highest part of the tongue. Lip rounding - whether the lips are rounded (O-shape) or spread (no rounding) when the sound is being made
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atmosphere caused by audio entertainment systems like loudspeakers‚ automobiles‚ and machinery of factories is just a nuisance. They create a lot of noise. Noise can be defined as an undesirable or annoying sound. Noise pollution can be referred to as an annoying‚ irritating‚ distracting environmental noise level. The loudspeakers are usually used in marriages‚ jagrans‚ All advancements become useless‚ if a man doesn’t get a peaceful and quite atmosphere. The social and religious functions. But some
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Sound Waves and how it relates to Room Acoustics We generally think of the speakers in our stereo or home theater systems as the final link in the audio chain — and the one that makes the biggest difference to our ears. But there’s much more to the sound we hear than just where you place your speakers in a stereo or home theater setup‚ and what comes out of them. You might not even realize it‚ but your room plays a rather large part in the sound that you hear from your system. And as with any
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in “Speech Sounds” As statistics show‚ science fiction has long been a genre produced and consumed by nerdy‚ middle aged‚ white men‚ with little to no social skills. The content of science fiction has typically revolved around intergalactic interaction and male dominated adventure and exploration‚ most certainly do not imagine that science fiction can be used to write about feminist thoughts or ideas. However‚ this is exactly what Octavia Butler does in her short story “Speech Sounds.” Many scholars
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