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    land. The poem consists of three stanzas and there are no set meter or rhyme scenes in this poem although there are lines that rhyme. Oodgeroo represents this poem using visual imagery. Throughout the poem‚ Oodgeroo uses many vivid metaphors and hyperbole which make us clearly feel the anger and bitterness in her tone. The first stanza illustrates how the miners extract oil and minerals from the earth using various mining equipments: The miner rapes The heart of earth With his violent spade Stealing

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    is mourning in his chamber alone‚ when he gets a knock on his door. The knock was a strange raven who continually taunts him about his lost love. To emphasize‚ Poe used sense devices such as hyperbole to add emphasis about how the narrator was feeling about the loss of his young love. (“Shmoop.com”). A hyperbole that he used in “The Raven” was‚ “Doubting‚ dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before...” (“Study.com”). An example of him using sense devices was when he wrote‚ “And his eyes have

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    Zachary Bylykbashi Mr. Ludden English CCP 14 February 2014 Racial Pride over Oppression The Harlem Renaissance was a tough time for the black community. They faced constant oppression and discrimination from the white community. Often times‚ the oppression was very violent. However‚ these dark times opened the door for black artists and writers to express their feelings through their art. One person famous for expressing his feelings during these times through his poems was Claude McKay. McKay believed

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    Supporting ideas 5 Tone 5 Underlying values 5 Things that go together 5 Literary Devices 6 Amplification 6 Analogy 6 Antithesis 6 Archetype 6 Characterization 6 Conflict 6 Connotation 7 Euphemism 7 Foil 7 Foreshadowing 7 Hyperbole 7 Humor 7 Imagery 7 Irony 8 Metaphor 8 Mood 8 Oxymoron 8 Paradox 8 Point of View 8 Satire 8 Setting 9 Suspense 9 Symbol 9 Tone 9 Notes 10 Elements of Analysis Analyze To analyze is break something into its main elements

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    Shakespear wrote the play ’Macbeth’ in the 16th century and its set in the 11th century. The different themes explored in this play are Power‚ Fate‚ Destiny‚ Evil as well as the unnatural. The play is about Macbeth trying to gain power in ruthless ways because of the predictions the three witches made. Lady Macbeth plays an important role throughout the play too as a powerful elizabethan woman. In Act 2 Scene 2 Macbeth starts going insane due to the guilt and we see a change in his character right

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    This contributes to tone and mood because the speaker’s emotion is so clearly felt as melancholy‚ and especially desolate. The reader can feel peaceful‚ but can also feel discontented from the simile. Another figurative language term he uses is a hyperbole‚ or an intentional extreme exaggeration done for emphasis or comic effect. An example from the chosen poem is “They stretched in never ending line/Along the margin of a bay: / Ten thousand saw I at a

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    Belonging occurs when individuals understand the people and the world around them. How is this evident in two of the texts you have studied? Belonging‚ that is‚ the connection an individual feels to the world he or she inhabits often comes down to the specific factors and forces that shape their experience. In the text The Secret River‚ author Kate Grenville illuminates a number of key issues in regard to belonging‚ none of these more poignant that place‚ location and locus often functions as a

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    Place: Feliks has a strong connection to place through his garden‚ he “love his gardens like an only child” the simile has been used to show Feliks has a sense of secure is his garden. Feliks walking his garden “ten times around the world” the hyperbole emphasize how Peter’s step father love the garden‚ also it shows Feliks has a sense of belonging to his garden. Also when Feliks slowly walking his garden “spent year walking its perimeter” also used exaggeration to create Peter’s father belongs

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    sixteenth century‚ and authors sought to immortalize their love in poetry. These poets could not truly write about love after the end of the medieval age because of their fear of death and religious ideologies. Poets used literary techniques such as hyperbole to exaggerate their love‚ making it nonsensical and artificial. One poet of the early modern era parodies the traditional love poems ideals and gives the audience a more modern view. In the poem‚ “To His Coy Mistress‚” Andrew Marvell transforms images

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    Practice Speech: Explore how perceptions of Belonging and not belonging can be influenced by connections to places. In your response‚ refer to prescribed text and ONE other. Whether or not someone has a strong connection to a place is greatly influenced their own perceptions of belonging. This is seen in ‘As You Like It’ by Duke Senior’s sense of refuge in the Forest of Arden‚ Duke Fredericks dis-attatchment to others living in the court and Jaques inability to find a sense of self in either

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