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    Figures of Speech

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    FIGURE OF SPEECH : A mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet’s sense impressions by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning familiar to the reader. Some important figures of speech are: simile‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ hyperbole and symbol. Adjunction: Adjunction refers to a clause or a phrase‚ usually a verb‚ that is added at the beginning

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    Figure of Speech

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    Types of Figure of speech 1.      Simile Is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things‚ often introduced with the word "like" or "as". 2.      Metaphor Is a figure of speech concisely comparing two things‚ saying that one is the other. 3.      Personification Is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.  A description of an inanimate object as being a living person or animal as in.  An outstanding example of a quality or idea. 4.      Trope

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    Parts of Speech

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    Essay: Parts of Speech The term “word” is part of everyone’s vocabulary. Words are often viewed as units of meaning‚ such as when someone shouts “Fire!”‚ or as units of sentence structure‚ for instance when one is analyzing a sentence comprised of more than one word. Traditionally‚ these building blocks of language have been categorized under the label “parts of speech”. Members of the Indo-European group of languages have been analyzed in terms of parts of speech categories since classical antiquity

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    Freedom of Speech

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    The Freedom of Speech In the United States‚ citizens have several rights that are protected by the United States Constitution. In the First Amendment to the United States Constitution‚ the Freedom of Expression (speech) is recognized. The Freedom of Speech is the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint. The right to Freedom of Speech is not absolute and is common subject to limitations such as libel‚ slander‚ copyright violation‚ and revelation of information that is classified

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    Freedom of Speech

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    Freedom of speech is one of the main pillars that the United States of America is built upon. It is very important to the public that the founding fathers made it the first amendment. However‚ when does a granted right become a threat? This is exactly the case that is at hand when one talk about the Internet. The internet nowadays is vey widely spread that one may say something in one part of the world and one minute later another reads it across the globe. Thus one must embark on the question of

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    Freedom of speech secures an important place in democracy. Everyone has the right to speak‚ express ideas and beliefs. But speech has never been free absolutely. It is limited when it conflicts with the values and rights. It is meaningless to speak on the things that do not have relevant evidences or can’t be justified. There are laws against the offensive speech. Freedom of speech also referred as the freedom of expressions is the right to put forth the ideas‚ beliefs or expressions until it doesn’t

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    Figure of Speech

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    A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition‚ arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it‚ as in idiom‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity

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    Parts of Speech

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    of the traditional eight parts of speech comes to mind‚ flashbacks to sitting in the back row of my middle school English language class flourish through my brain. I don’t remember too much about them today‚ however I do know that it was drilled into my brain until we could fully understand and use them all. The eight parts of speech: such a key component of language‚ yet such a complicated piece of my learning career. Out of all eight of the parts of speech‚ the verb‚ the noun‚ the pronoun‚

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    Figures of Speech

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    Figures of Speech 1. Alliteration - The repetition of an initial consonant sound. 2. Allusion - Figure of speech that makes a reference to or representation of‚ a place‚ event‚ literary work‚ myth‚ or work of art‚ either directly or by implication. 3. Antithesis - The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. 4. Apostrophe - Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing‚ some abstract quality‚ an inanimate object‚ or a nonexistent character.

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    Freedom of Speech?

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    Final Draft Essay 1 Freedom Of Speech? Living in America means that we as citizens of the country have many rights according to the laws stated in the United States Constitution‚ which stands for our principles and make up the rights that American ’s deserve. One major freedom we have is stated in The First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the right

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