Gifts and To the Oak by Shu Ting‚ are poems that both use nature to reveal a deeper meaning. These poems are lyric poems‚ which use or express personal feelings‚ and this case use the feeling of the poet‚ Shu Ting. Figurative language is found throughout these poems‚ and assist in conveying a profound meaning‚ while being notably different. Both To the Oak and Gifts utilize powerful figurative language and reveal themes about relationships; however‚ their tones and structures are significantly different
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PEE Paragraph #1- Martin Luther King used emotive language on pg 3. “ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” I think the intended effect of this quote is to show that people shouldn’t live in a place where they can’t be themselves. And that people are created equal and everyone is human not just white folk. I think it really got to the audience because adding word
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How do the two speakers use language here to describe the problems the family has faced? Support your answer by referring to specific examples from the transcription. This transcript focuses on a radio programme discussing dangerously high levels of lead being found in the water supplied to newly built houses. Two people (presumably married) Meg and Cameron are discussing how these high levels of lead affected their son Brandon and how they managed to discover and solve the problem. The radio
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How effective are the opening chapters of Great Expectations? Discuss the methods Dickens uses to ensure the readers’ continuing interest. Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ was published in 1860 as monthly stories in magazines and newspapers. Dickens’ wrote novels and stories that were seen as social documents which meant that they portrayed what his society was like at the time. The industrial revolution was a time of mass poverty in Britain. There was homelessness‚ unemployment and massive
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How does Steinbeck present the character of slim and what role does he play in the novel? During the novel Slim is respected and trusted by his fellow ranch workers and even has Curley following his orders. Slim advises George and becomes George’s confidant. As he acts as George’s confidant he subsequently becomes the moral arbiter of the play‚ he is the main character who can recognize things from right and wrong. Slim is a special character because he speaks to everyone from Crooks to Candy
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HOW DOES STEINBECK CREATE TENSION IN SECTION 5? Steinbeck creates tension in Section 5 through sound and emotion. While Lennie was in the barn minding his own business‚ panicking about killing the puppy‚ Curley’s wife entered. _"She came very quietly so that Lennie didn’t see her"_ this makes the reader feel worried as to why she came in so soundlessly‚ and question to if she is up to something. When Lennie and her get into a conversation‚ she begins to grow very angry at Lennie as he mentions
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How does the child acquire language? Each of us has its own development in the process of life. Maybe it will not be in the same time and the same quality but we will always go through the same process as we grow and continue to exist. Like in the process of acquiring language it’s not possible that we can obtain it in many different ways because we have don’t have the same way of living‚ genes and environment. It depends on how we acquire our language through these factors
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Second of all‚ pearl changed Kino and Juana lives. Third of all‚ their reaction to pearl. The theme of the story is greed is a bad thing because sometimes it can change person to being evil. The main point of the different between Kino and Juana and how pearl changed their lives. First of all‚ Juana is a quite person who takes care of her family‚ she is a mother. Kino is a father‚ a good guy who works hard ad a happy person. His job is a pearl diver‚ when Kino found the pearl Kino changed
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ignored. In Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men‚ the theme of discrimination is best represented by the characters of Lennie‚ Crooks‚ and Curley’s wife. The characters having their own reason of being out casted. If one were to have a physical or mental disability during the 1930s‚ society shuns them. Often they are not treated with the proper respect a "regular" person would. Lennie is among those people with a mental disability. People would find any reason to find any reason to pick on them. It
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In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare‚ Mark Antony delivers a very strong and persuasive funeral oration in Caesar’s honor. Antony himself was a trusted friend of Caesar and manipulated the conspirators of the play in thinking that he approved of their deed. With his influential tone and methods of verbal communication‚ Antony had his audience in an awe of disgust and hate. Mark Antony’s funeral speech: A soliloquy that changed the play of Julius Caesar. Antony’s vocalizations are a triumph
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