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    life. She is also often undermined and taken advantage of and therefore made to feel small and worthless. ‘Roughly and violently thrust me back – into the red-room‚ and locked me up there’ demonstrates the cruelty in which Jane Eyre is treated. The use of the power of three on the forceful and coercive adjectives‚ ‘Roughly’ ‘violently’ and ‘thrust’‚ creates a heightened atmosphere of destructiveness and attacking due to the repetitiveness of these assaulting and cruel words. The repetitive words in

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    ’s Dictionary‚ is the use of vivid figurative language to represent objects‚ actions‚ or ideas. In Othello‚ Shakespeare makes use of colors to represent ideas or to set the mood for the scenes taking place. The use of such color imagery enhances the play‚ causing the reader to look past the mere words and search for the deeper meaning behind the scenes. The predominant colors that Shakespeare makes use of are black and white; however‚ some symbolism is portrayed through the use of green and red also

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    William Shakespeare‚ a talented bard of the fifteenth century‚ wrote many sonnets and plays using famous plot devices‚ many of them that he made up himself. One of his more famous works‚ Hamlet‚ is a revenge tragedy that uses the plot devices of hesitation by the hero‚ suicide‚ murder‚ and conspiracy. All these plot devices have a huge effect on the play and contribute to the audience/reader’s experience. One of the more famous plot devices is Hamlet’s‚ the hero‚ hesitation to kill Claudius and

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    liar. This hatred towards Abigail is inevitable and present throughout the play‚ but Miller suggests that hatred towards an evil person is warranted. In the first act‚ Abigail immediately starts by lying‚ which becomes her first introduction to every reader. Rumors are spreading that she and the other girls performed witchcraft in the woods. Abigail immediately attempts to deflect this by claiming that they “[d]anced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all” (Miller 20). She is

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    A Convention of Society

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    A Convention of society Everything we do is to please someone else. And that someone else can be all of society. Society is based on conventions. Most of society conforms to them‚ otherwise they may appear to be "outside" of the society that they live in‚ they may also appear to be eccentric or dangerous to the "norm" of their society. These conventions are general agreements on social behaviour; they have a strong force within society. This is stated by Frye in his speech "The educated

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    looked faintly alike’. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Lee uses stylistic devices as symbolism‚ foreshadowing and irony to present her theme of inequality. By applying mature themes to the text‚ Lee enhances and illustrates vividly the horrific events that happened during the 1930s in Maycomb

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    WORDS How has Golding used silence and language to enhance the story? Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel where silence and language is used as a medium to communicate among the boys on the island. Language is used as a form of civilization but as the days go by the language starts to depreciate person by person along with the need of civilization. Language and silence are also used to foretell future events in the novel. ‘The conch was silent.’ Here Golding uses irony

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    Paris Convention

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    Convention Relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation Signed at Paris‚ October 13‚ 1919 (Paris Convention) THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA‚ BELGIUM‚ BOLIVIA‚ BRAZIL‚ THE BRITISH EMPIRE‚ CHINA‚ CUBA‚ ECUADOR‚ FRANCE‚ GREECE‚ GUATEMALA‚ HAITI‚ THE HEDJAZ‚ HONDURAS‚ ITALY‚ JAPAN‚ LIBERIA‚ NICARAGUA‚ PANAMA‚ PERU‚ POLAND‚ PORTUGAL‚ ROUMANIA‚ THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE‚ SIAM‚ CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND URUGUAY‚ Recognising the progress of aerial navigation‚ and that the establishment of regulations

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    Wordsworth had different points of views of England from the industrial revolution. Both of the poets use different devices to engage the reader to emphasize their two point of views about england. Even though Blake and Wordsworth grew up in the same cities they still have different points of view about England‚ they showed this through Imagery‚ perspective and by appealing to all of the senses. How did Blake and Wordsworth used Imagery to state their points. Blake and Wordsworth points of view

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    John Steinbeck once said of Curley’s wife‚ ‘She’s a nice girl‚ not a floozy’. How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife in ‘Of Mice and Men’? In this essay I will show how Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife in a number of ways throughout the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ showing both how she is portrayed as a ‘nice girl’ as well as a ‘floozy’. This novel was set during the great depression and is written around two key themes of the American dream‚ which every ‘ranch hand’ owned their own patch of land

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