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    Acrostic Sun Up Memories Music Exciting Ready for it to finally be summer Question What’s out there? Where do we want to go? Do we need to go? Or can we stay forever? Is there better than here? How would I know before I go? Hyperbole The extremely outrageously short man Walks his amazingly tall alpaca‚ To the old neighborhood grocery store. Vitality Maddie meow Sibling of Maeghan and Kenzie Likes food and cats Most conscious of world hunger and homelessness To whom

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    are mishaps or obstacles‚ the show can never end. Through thick and thin‚ life will never stop‚ you can only persevere through the dark times. In ”The Show Goes On”‚ the lyrics helps display the theme through literary devices such as metaphors‚ hyperboles‚ imagery‚ alliteration‚ and similes. The theme‚ the show must go on‚ is slowly portrayed throughout the song with many meaningful lyrics to help further the importance the song brings. Lupe sings the lyrics‚” They treat you like slaves.”This is

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    clouds waiting for the sun to come out for one hour before it goes away for another seven years. Another example of repetition in the short story is “It’s stopping”‚ “It’s stopping!”‚ “Yes”‚ “Yes”. Ray Bradbury also uses imagery‚ metaphor‚ and hyperbole‚ although he uses description‚ repetition‚ and tone the most out of all of them. For example

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    In literary criticism‚ bildungsroman or coming-of-age story is a literary genre which focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age)‚[2] and in which character change is thus extremely important.[3] The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Karl Morgenstern in his university lectures‚ and later famously reprised by Wilhelm Dilthey‚ who legitimized it in 1870 and popularized it in 1905.[1][4] The genre is further characterized by a number

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    whilst showing the intended purpose. Figure of speech: This is an expression that should not be taken seriously. For example‚ ’pigs might fly’‚ meaning not that there is pigs flying past your window but that something is probably untrue. Hyperbole: Hyperbole is exaggeration. For instance‚ when the piece of writing states something is ’the best’. Imagery:When words are so descriptive they allow the reader to paint an image in their minds. Imagery is used to allow the reader to imagine the moment

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    patient and diligent in college or when you get a career‚ but in this case he gives you this advice to become a batter liar in a humorous and entertaining way. 2. What techniques does Twain use to create his satire?  He uses parody‚ wit‚ irony‚ hyperbole and understanding. 3. What is the issue McCullough is satirizing?  He is satirizing that don’t do stuff for other people‚ he wants to do stuff that will satisfy yourself and make you happy. When you’re happy people will follow your way and that is

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    Truth to Madness The story line of the desire for truth leading one into madness has played out in many books‚ movies‚ and music. They use this technique to analyze effects that the truth can have on one’s moral compass. This desire for knowledge and closure play out in Hamlet‚ Frankenstein‚ and Young Goodman Brown by demonstrating their journey into madness and giving up on loved ones. In these stories the truth is the ultimate desires of Hamlet‚ Frankenstein and Goodman Brown‚ suggesting that

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    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 of a sentence. Here are a few examples of adjunction; Sings the bird as we walk on by. Good it is that fights the master with his

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    Hamlet Close Read In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet‚ Hamlet’s first soliloquy exemplifies his feeling after he goes through a series of traumatic events including his father’s premature death‚ his mother’s hasty marriage and his loss of the throne to his uncle Claudius and new step father. Shakespeare uses this soliloquy to help shape Hamlet’s character as overly emotional but proving to be very intelligent when establishing the theme of the play through the conflict of a man’s emotions and reason.

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    feelings of love and beauty for that morning. In the octave of the poem‚ the scene‚ London‚ is established and described. “Earth has not anything to show more fair”‚ the first line‚ starts the poem off unexpectedly with great exaggeration. This hyperbole emphasizes the depth of Wordsworth’s feelings. The next line begins with the word “dull” which uses syntax‚ as the poet created an odd rearrangement of words in order for “dull” to be stressed when read out‚ which signifies its meaning. Wordsworth

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