beauty . . . and frolicsome as the young fawn: Simile comparing the young lady to a fawn. * And in sooth some who beheld the portrait spoke of its resemblance in low words‚ as of a mighty marvel‚ and a proof not less of the power of the painter than of his deep love for her whom he depicted so surpassingly well: Irony‚ in that observers believe the painting testifies to the artist’s love for his wife. * the spirit of the lady again flickered up as the flame within the socket of the lamp: Simile
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Who would you choose‚ The Lady or the Tiger? In Frank Stockton’s short story‚ The Lady or the Tiger‚ the author leaves the ending in a very precarious way. The author‚ Frank‚ leaves the story ending up to the reader. The princess should have the most sympathy in this short story. She is the daughter of a barbaric king who has made his own justice system that he feels is fair. The king puts the accused into an arena where they decide their fate. The princess has to make a brutal decision of seeing
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Literary Reflection Alicia Gallegos ENG 125 Lindsay Brand April 08‚ 2013 Literary Reflection In reading Alice Walker’s “The Welcome Table”‚ I have found a profound interest in the content and context of the short story. This particular story has great depth and imaginary depictions that allows the reader to invest them to the message of the story. In this literary work I find it best to approach the critical thinking in a personal view point. Allowing the reader to get involved in the story
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Lady Macbeth is a character in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1603–1607). She is the wife to the play’s protagonist‚ Macbeth‚ a Scottish nobleman. After goading him into committing regicide‚ she becomes Queen of Scotland‚ but later suffers pangs of guilt for her part in the crime. She dies off-stage in the last act‚ an apparent suicide. The character’s origins lie in the accounts of Kings Duff and Duncan in Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587)‚ a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s Lady
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LADY MACBETH Throughout the play Lady Macbeth transforms from a strong ambitious woman into a crazed‚ power obsessed psychopath‚ who eventually lets her hunger for royalty get the best of her. In one beginning of one play lady Macbeth is of high honor who along with her husband‚ is very well respected among other people. She quickly becomes obsessed with the feeling of being superior she gained and starts to itch for something more‚ she tries to persuade her husband into killing King Duncan so
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Lady Macbeth loses her sanity totally by act 5. Her insanity is foregrounded in the first scene of the act in Macbeth.The gentlewoman serving Lady Macbeth feels simultaneously sympathy and a sense of bitterness to such heinous path Lady Macbeth along with Macbeth chose to achieve success. In act 5‚ scene 1 of Macbeth‚ it is presented that Lady Macbeth has lost her senses‚ and suffers from sleepwalking. She seems to have also a mania regarding her feeling of having blood in her hands. In the beginning
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Rhetorical Devices Schemes Term Definition Example Alliteration頭韻 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August. Anadiplosis反覆法 repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause The crime was common‚ common be the pain. Anaphora首語（句）重複法 regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses We shall fight in the trenches
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The story‚ The Lady or the Tiger?‚ is about a boy who falls in love with a princess. The princess and her father are both semi-barbaric. The king does not approve of his daughters affair. Why you may ask. Because the boy is a peasant. Princesses may only date other princes. I would say that that is unfair to the princess. You cannot control who you fall in love with. According to the story ‚”There lived a semi-barbaric king; whose ideas‚ though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness
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First written in the 1880s and extensively revised in 1908‚ The Portrait of a Lady is often considered to be James’s greatest achievement. In it‚ he explored many of his most characteristic themes‚ including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. James proclaimed that “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent reality.” Plot was for him but the extension of character. The novel must
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Lady Gaga Case Analysis Lady Gaga is an American pop singer and songwriter. She is well-recognized because of her unique style as a recording artist‚ in fashion‚ in performance and in her music videos. The educational background of Lady Gaga is really strong. She attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts‚ but by the second semester she dropped out of Tisch and decided to concentrate on her musical career. In 2007‚ Troy Carter signed Lady Gaga to his newly found talent agency Coalition
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