In ’Of Mice and Men’‚ John Steinbeck includes a character‚ Crooks‚ as a stereotype of black people in the Great Depression; proud‚ bitter‚ and very sarcastic. Crooks is also extremely pessimistic and cold-hearted‚ due to the way people had been treating him all his life. Steinbeck portrays many of his characters lonely and isolated. Just as Candy’s age and handicap isolate him‚ and Curley’s wife’s being a female makes her life solitary‚ Crooks’s race is the main reason for his isolation. Because
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within them. The first stanza sets the scene before the gas attack. The repetition of the word ‘if’ in ‘If…you too could pace’‚ ‘If you could hear’ makes the reader place themselves within the scene and share the agony with the men who suffered. The hyperbole used in the phrase ‘Men marched asleep’ in order to stress the level of
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poems interact with us is through several techniques such as hyperbole‚ sarcasm‚ repetition and enjambment. Sarcasm can in fact relate to the attitude us teenagers decide to adopt through our adolescence‚ it is understood through the voice in which we would use when we feel as though we don’t belong in an unsure place‚ for example‚ when Billy is revisiting his school class room he says “ I’d rather be a bum than a school kid”. Hyperbole is to exaggerate exceedingly‚ for instance “this $50 is to last
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authors make the reader feel the scenery move as they read on. They do this with the help of all sorts of personifaction‚ hyperbole‚ and many other figures of speech. For example‚ Jhon Muir may use personifaction to give the Yosemite more relatability‚ by giving it human characteristics. Timothy Severin will also use personifaction‚ however he also blends it in with hyperbole‚ to really draw out just how fierce Golbi Desert can be. All in all‚ The Incomparable Yosemite‚ and The Oriental Adventure
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Jordan Gonzales Professor Romero English 68 11 November 2011 Waiting on the World to Change John Clayton Mayer was born October 16‚ 1977 and was born in Bridgeport‚ Connecticut but was raised in Fairfield‚ Connecticut. He is an American blues/pop rock musician‚ as well as a singer/songwriter. He attended Berkley College of Music in Boston. He now lives in New York City after moving to Atlanta in his younger years where he began to put his name out in the open and become recognized by thousands
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Therefore‚ this use of figurative language proves that this simile uses like or as to provide a descriptive image. In addition‚ a hyperbole emphasizes an exaggeration that conveys intensity and emotion so the reader is more interested. For instance‚ during the sweeping gust of water‚ the text states‚ “falling through concrete and cumin because they combine homes/I can be a drop of water
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social graces will be just like living with my nine tent mates” (14-15). This exaggeration helps to create the feeling of a cramped and uncomfortable living space. Similarly‚ he uses hyperboles such as “I went back to the tent and felt like either crying or lighting myself on fire to remove the filth” (26-27). These hyperboles help to make the living conditions seem almost unbearable to the average American citizen. The author is very effective using those methods but the diction within the essay help
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Plan 1. Figures of quantity: hyperbole; meiosis (litotes). 2. Figures of quality: metonymy (synecdoche‚ periphrasis‚ euphemism); irony. 3. Figures of contrast: oxymoron; antithesis. 4. Practical assignment Metonymy‚ another lexical SD‚ - like metaphor - on losing its originality also becomes instrumental in enriching the vocabulary of the language‚ though metonymy is created by a different semantic process and is based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena. Transference
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Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Origins of French fries: why are they so good? Eric Schlosser’s fast food nation first appeared in magazine‚ Rolling Stone in 1998 as an article. In this article‚ Schlosser aims to convince his readers about the origin of the tasty French fries and how it has become a fast food staple in American households. According to (Schlosser 19)” Simplot sold his frozen fries to other restaurant chains‚ accelerating the growth of the fast food industry and changing the nation’s
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friendship with Romeo‚ he was personally involved with the conflict between the Capulets and Montagues‚ though he was neither. In Act 3 Scene 1‚ Shakespeare effectively showcases Mercutio’s unnecessary involvement in the violent rivalry through the hyperbole and metaphor “A plague o’ both your houses” which Mercutio exclaims when he is stabbed by Tybalt. In this quote Mercutio claims that he is mortally wounded as a result of the conflict between the two houses‚ he condemns the heads of the houses because
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