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    country here no shame.” (Line 2‚ stanzas 2‚3‚4) She uses mostly rhyme in this poem which attracts audience attention. She uses a sad emotional rhyme to also attract the audience to inform them. To also convey sorrowful emotion to the reader she uses hyperbole such as “Sailing a ship board to hell”. This uses high emotional persuasion as she paints a picture of how much the aboriginal soldiers had to be going through just to get little to no recognition fighting for their freedom. She clearly uses emotive

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    child’s cartoon. A major satire tool used in SpongeBob is a hyperbole. In the episode MuscleBob Buffpants‚ Spongebob tries to fit in with his weightlifter friends by gaining a lot of arm muscle in a short amount of time. When this fails‚ he purchases inflatable arms to make himself seem buffer. This use of the comically large fake arms satirizes those

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    Allusion: Henry didn’t mind sitting in the back of the bus. But for some reason Sheldon seemed to resent it. Grousing once in a while about how this was the Northwest and not the Deep South and the bus driver had had no business jerking his thumb toward the back of the bus when he and Henry boarded. Page 214 |Explanation: Henry and Sheldon are heading out to meet Keiko at the new camp and are told to go to the back of the bus by the bus driver. Though Henry is fine with this Sheldon complains

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    poem ancestors this is simalr as the persona can also not make out the faces “ bearded faceless men”. The personas individual experience of not belonging is primarily outlined in the line “ caught the 414 bus like a foreign student” this use of hyperbole converys his alienation and not belonging as he has caught the bus for 8 years ( later revealed in the poem) and still feels like a ‘foreign

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    QUESTION Using four poems‚ examine the distinctive poetic features of Donne’s treatment of secular love. Within Donne’s vast range of secular works he provides no simple definition of love; his treatment of such matters reaching radical and unconventional highs. It is through his great variety of emotion and passion that Donne explores‚ arguably‚ his most consistent theme of love itself. “The Sunne Rising”‚ “The Ecstasy”‚ “A Valediction of Forbidding Mourning” and “Air and Angels” are four poems

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    Michelle Almanza Dow Intro to Poetry 9 April 2013 Romantic Love Love can be defined in various ways. Especially in American culture‚ where love is used to describe the affection or infatuation of many different things or people. There is no real classification of the type of love for things; it is just plain love. But‚ usually when the word love comes up‚ most people associate it with romantic love; love that is shared between couples in a relationship. Yet‚ still there are many different

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    in 1949 and in 1950‚ “Gwendolyn Brooks was a highly regarded … poet‚ with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize‚” (Halley)‚ for her poems Annie Allen including “Truth”. Brooks uses metaphors‚ personification‚ hyperbole‚ imagery and irony in this poem to illustrate the darkness of the unknown or accepted and the illumination of the truth and all it takes to uphold it. The speaker in “Truth‚” has an earnest and reflective voice‚ yet there is also an inflammatory

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    rhymes. The author uses 2 similes‚ for example in this verse “her face it bloomed like a sweet flower”‚ he used it to compare her face with a sweet flower‚ whit the connector “like”. In the verse “and blood burnt round my heart”‚ John Clare uses an hyperbole‚ because he exaggerated the verse that he used it. Also the author uses some oxymoron‚ how‚ “she seemed to hear my silent voice”‚ in this case‚ silent and voice are the opposite‚ so we can say that it is an oxymoron. Another type of devices are the

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    that Arthur Miller provides to discover important information. 6. Literary Technique: Identify a technique used by the author to make the story more memorable or effective. (Simile‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ repetition‚ parallelism‚ dialogue‚ hyperbole‚ understatement‚ symbolism‚ irony‚ sarcasm‚ connotation‚ etc.) 7. Evaluate: Make a judgment about something you read in the Act such as a character‚ an event‚ the dialogue‚ etc. 8. Connection: think about what the chapter reminds you of. Connect

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    Mature When I’m Dead Rhetoric Analysis Dave Barry Is a man who recognizes the effects that technology has had on people‚ in the sense that it is now a dependency. In the excerpt book‚ Mature When I’m Dead‚ the author emphasizes the daily use of technology in a person’s life. Barry’s attempts to persuade the reader into thinking about how much they are dependent on their technological devices. He adopts comical effect to present it in a manner that the audience is immediately drawn into what he is

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