Commentary: “My butt is big…” The text is an advertisement‚ by the Nike Corporation‚ that endorses women’s sporting products. The tenor consists of an assertive‚ satisfied and self-assured woman whom boasts confidently of her own “butt”. Consequently‚ the mode of the text can be both spoken and written‚ as the voice of the woman speaks colloquially‚ using everyday language. At first glance‚ readers may identify the emphasis on the words “my butt is big”‚ as the words are enlarged and bolded
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Mlk’S” I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH” ASSIGNMENT Identify the following: THEME Speech Type Main Points Sub Points/Support Evidence Style of Speech/Delivery Language Delivery Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream Speech provides you an opportunity to use “Critical Thinking” in analyzing the dynamics of the speech and what makes for an outstanding speech. MLK’s Dream speech is one of the top 5 speeches in the History of speech making. You may do this assignment in essay
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her only American skirt from her trunk at home. It shifts to her son sitting in the Yuba City School. The mood of the poem is that of anxiety and despair. An element of uneasiness makes the reader feel uncomfortable. Divakaruni uses‚ similes‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ and symbols. The rhyme scheme is abc in the first stanza‚ abcdefg in the second stanza‚ alternating back to two abc’s ending in the last stanza with abcdefg. None of the words rhyme. Perhaps the author wishes the reader slow
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Compare the ways poets show peoples relationships with nature in ‘Below the Green Corrie’ and one other poem you have studied. In the poem ‘Below the Green Corrie’ written by Norman MacCaig‚ the poem explores the way nature impacts on man as the poem is powerful and emotional. The large mountains give McCaig a spiritual and physical love for the landscape‚ he describes his life as being ‘enriched’. This shows that instead of being threatened by the mountains he has bonded with nature as it has
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In Margaret Atwood’s poem You Begin‚ we are given the sense that she is trying to explain something to us. She describes to us seemingly random objects and how they are perceived as if trying to get across an important point. This is accomplished with a lot of repetition‚ within her poem she repetitively uses the phrase “this is” and then later “this is your hand.” By doing this it leaves the impression that she wanted us to look closely at the words she was saying and determine the significance
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Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: Metaphor and Values as Captivating Strategies to Celebrate a Presidency M. PILAR GUITART ESCUDERO Coordinadora Área Lengua-Lingüística Hispanic Studies Program University of Virginia VA‚ EEUU C/ Ramón Gordillo‚ 4 46010 Valencia E-mail: pilar.guitart@uvavalencia.org Tel. +34 96 3691 485 BARACK OBAMA’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS: METAPHOR AND VALUES AS CAPTIVATING STRATEGIES TO CELEBRATE A PRESIDENCY ABSTRACT: Barack Obama’s rhetorical style is broadly acknowledged to be
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STYLISTIC SEMASIOLOGY OF THE ENGUSH LANGUAGE (Методичні вказівки до семінарських та практичних занять зі стилістики англійської мови для студентів IV курсу. (Видання 2) . Уклад. Воробйова О.П.‚ Бойцан Л.Ф.‚ Ганецька Л.В. та інш. - К.: Вид. центр КНЛУ‚ 2001. - С. 28-33.) 1. Semasiology is a branch of linguistics which studies semantics or meaning of linguistic units belonging to different language levels. Lexical semasiology analyses the meaning of words and word combinations‚ relations between
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November 19‚ 2010 Figurative Language 1. Simile- “Physically he was as awkward as a clown. (pg.1).” Moshe was compared as a clown because he was a funny guy. 2. Metaphor- “Thousand gates and one gates leading in to the orchard of mystical truth.” This is a metaphor because each gate represents each human being and to never make the mistake of wanting to go into any path but our own. 3. Hyperbole- “There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of
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make a reader wince! The poem is as much about how Hughes deals with the dangerous situation and his feelings about the incident. Hughes uses a lot of sensual imagery and figurative language in this poem. The poem contains: Personification‚ metaphors and similes and he also uses paradox‚ or oxymoron. Sensual imagery There are many lines in which Hughes personifies the tractor giving it feeling and emotion. The most important example is probably the last line of the poem‚ where the words‚ ’raging
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.....................................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION Sarcasm‚ verbal irony‚ paradox‚ and pun are devices sometimes used to show humor. Heck‚ a simile or metaphor can also establish humor. One of my favorite funny lines from a book is a simile. Somewhere in the "Hitchhiker’s Guide" series‚ Douglas Adams described a woman failing to fly by saying "She
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