Figurative Language and Imagery ENG 340 Creative Writing Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else‚ you are using figurative language. Figurative language is the use of language to describe something by comparing it to something else. It serves many linguistic purposes. It allows people to express abstract thoughts. It creates tone and communicates emotional content. The ability to use figurative language in writing can make a poem or story more enjoyable for the reader
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Language in Othello Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists used language to establish and build dramatic atmosphere‚ to define time‚ place and character. But in Othello‚ language is not simply the medium by which the drama is conveyed: in this play language is action. Othello ‘falls’ because he believes a man whose every utterance is deceptive. When the hero is taken in by false words‚ tragedy is the result. The play shows us the power of words; we watch as characters construct their own and others’
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Standardized Evaluation Grids The Sample Evaluation Grids/Rubrics on the following pages are intended to guide teachers in creating their own assessment grids for their courses while keeping in mind the importance of maintaining clear department standards for our core courses. The explanations within the sample grids should provide teachers with the necessary information to follow similar marking procedures and to make similar decisions about the marks students receive on their essays. Although
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April 11‚ 2012 Madee Vasa TOK essay #3 Do words have meaning or do we give them meaning? In Shakespeare’s Hamlet he wrote: “There is nothing either good or bad‚ but thinking makes it so.” What Shakespeare is saying in this quote is that everything in the world is only an inanimate presence until we bring it to life with our thoughts‚ which lead to perception‚ which then leads to actions. This can be applied also to language and the meaning of words. Do words really have a fixed meaning or is
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The power of language Com200 Professor Mary Dawson January 14‚ 2013 After reading the article “Shared Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance “ by Bruce Bower It made me think twice about my own relationships and the communication that happens between me and another person; I took the Language Style Matching assessment to see how well me and another person were in synch with one and another. According to the LSM score it gives you a sense of how similar two people’s uses of words
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What would you do If someone compared you to a cow‚ a stick or even a blow horn? Would you feel offended or confused? If the words literally meant exactly what it describes then I guess you really are a cow or a stick or even a blow horn. In the world of language metaphors are used whenever we speak‚ write and think. In a familiar surrounding the majority would be able to understand the metaphor said‚ but to an outsider it can be perceived differently. When surrounding oneself by a familiar language
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Transcript one: Me: Yoo wagone Fats‚ you aight? Fats: Yeye‚ you? Where’s Fabz? Me: Oh erm nah I dunno where she’s at man‚ I think she stayed at home instead yanoe Fats: Oh is it? (2) Maan! Me: Trust her to not come into school you know‚ aah man Fats: Just watch when she gets to school tomorrow. Gonna make sure she’s sorry. Thanz: (Enters) Hellooo babesh‚ youse lot aight… Me: … (Cuts through) heyoo “BABESH” lawls Thanz: allow me doe‚ oh yeah err where’s flabzilla at
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any language means a contraction‚ reduction and impoverishment of the sum total of the reservoir of human thought and knowledge as expressible through language. To what extent do you agree with this? As globalization takes place‚ languages spoken by the majority became lingua franca of different regions. English for example as its most widely spread across the entire world‚ is spoken by 360 to 400 million as their first language and 470 million to more than 1 billion as their second language. It
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graded phonics sequence and state the reading skills required at each stage. “Language lies at the root of that transformation of the environment that we call civilization.” (source 3) Language is the ability to understand speech and a desire to convey one’s feelings and thoughts. It is through communication that human beings are able to cooperate with each other to solve common problems. It is through communication based on written and oral language in particular that each generation has passed
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1. Write about your past formal or informal language learning experiences. Would you consider them effective or ineffective? Learning foreign languages is a real challenge to everyone and a lot of people have their own successful and unsuccessful experiences. As for me‚ I’d like to tell about a negative one because‚ unfortunately‚ I had it more than positive. I’ve been learning English since I was 10 years old. At first‚ it was at school. Those lessons left much to be desired. We had a middle-aged
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