dramatic irony both helps build suspense while foreshadowing how blind the Puritans are towards Chillingsworth true character‚ he foreshadows the pain and suffering Chillingworth will soon unravel upon dimmesdale; he does this through foreshadow‚ hyperbole and point of view. Foreshadowing allows the audience to foresee the intensity of an event before it actually occurs. In this case we can foresee the destruction of the minister. DImmesdale will fall at the freewill of Chillingsworth. “He expressed
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plethora of descriptive writing to paint a picture in the Lord of the Flies using foreshadowing‚ mood‚ tone‚ and many types of figurative language. Golding uses many examples of figurative language such as similes‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ and hyperboles. A simile and metaphor compares two unlike objects. To differentiate the two‚ similes uses like or as and metaphors directly compares the two objects. An example of simile that Golding used is‚ “ Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and
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Name ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Dateــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Activity 1: Simile and Metaphor Decide whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor‚ and identify the two things being compared. Then change the simile into metaphor and vice versa: 1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The dancer moved around the
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In short story “Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut uses symbols and hyperbole to show how conformity isn’t better. Their society’s solution to equality is to change the people who have unique attributes and make them the same as the average person. Vonnegut uses the handicaps to show how equality isn’t better and how their government fails to make everyone equal. They try to force individuals to change so they are conforming and no one will compete against each other. If you are above average you have
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Rules are in place for a reason. Without rules societies would collapse‚ people would do what they want whenever they want. Civilizations would be run by chaos. Although‚ too many or too strict of rules can also be the problem. Too many rules can limit a society or be inhumane to the citizens. So when should rules be broken. The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a dystopian fiction about the struggles of a fireman‚ Guy Montag‚ trying to find what is truly right and wrong‚ in a society that
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houses. At the beginning of the extract the narrator introduces with the character of his friend‚ who left his bride‚ and spent a year travelling around the world‚ avoiding marriage. Describing this scene‚ the author uses such stylistic devices as hyperbole (e.g.: …nothing‚ but instant flight could help him; with a toothbrush for all his luggage)‚ metaphor (e.g.: seeing the inevitable loom). Further on‚ the author introduces to the main characters: Roger Charing and Ruth Barlow. He dwells on the appearance
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this letter‚ Chesterfield employs argumentative appeals to achieve an effective “threat” to his son‚ in which Chesterfield hopes to display his will for his son to excel in his studies. He is able to do so through several different devices such as hyperbole‚ syntax‚ anaphora and imagery. Chesterfield uses argumentative appeals to express that he is not trying to “dictate as a parent”‚ but to “advise as a friend”. He does this to keep his son in good spirits and eventually tells him to “let my experience
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AP English Language and Composition Summer 2014 Assignment David Gold Introduction: An AP course in English Language and Composition is essentially a course in rhetoric that engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts‚ and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes‚ audience expectations‚ and subjects‚ as
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stronger eg “Alcohol and study simply don’t mix.”)‚ visuals‚ change in tone etc. * When picking out a persuasive feature‚ make sure you quote it. * Discuss the effect the persuasive feature has on the reader eg the writer makes heavy use of hyperbole to create feelings of distress and uneasiness in the readers mind. By using exaggerated phrases such as ‘spun dangerously out of control’ and ‘youth crime explosion’ strong emotional responses such as panic and anxiety are aroused in the reader and
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lines hold three sets of two rhyming couplets that symbolises the couple (the male and female lover). At the end of stanza’s there is set of three rhymes that is slightly indented which symbolises the union of the flea with the couple. Donne uses hyperbole in line 1‚ stanza 2 "...three lives in one flea spare..." and again in line 7‚ stanza 2 where he begins the argument that in killing the flea she commits murder‚ suicide and sacrilege. This extreme argumentative‚ exaggeration creates a flow and pace
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