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    What key Language Features Do Advertisers Use in …..... …. Infomercials? Advertisers are always trying to sell you their products‚ most commonly through the television. To entice the consumer into buying the product that they are trying to sell the advertisers employ the use of language and visual features within their infomercials. After studying various infomercials I discovered the most commonly used and obvious language features within the infomercial. These features were

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    “Distinctively visual texts use figurative language and other language devices to engage the responder and invite him/her to explore different places and experiences.” Discuss the construction of images in relation to two of the short stories‚ which you have studied‚ and one related text. Distinctively visual texts are often used by composers to evoke a reality through the use of figurative language and other language devices‚ as it allows them to create an image in their mind and transport them

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    Finally‚ Las Casas uses figurative language as a rhetorical appeal. For instance‚ Las Casas uses figurative language when describing the Spaniards treatment towards the natives. In the preface it says‚ “the Spaniards fell like ravening wolves upon the fold‚ or like tigers and savage lions who have not eaten meat for days”(11). Las Casas describes Spaniards as horrifying individuals. In particular‚ Las Casas describes the Spaniards as animals. The figurative language has the possibility to create

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    Osborne’s use of Language is ‘Look Back in Anger’ / Language as a protagonist in ‘Look Back in Anger’ The basis of any great dramatic play lies in its devilment of plot or of characters‚ but in Look Back in Anger‚ the chief characteristic seems its reliance on action which is based on the use of language in the play. Undoubtedly‚ the action of the play is mainly psychological and involves necessary use of language. The characters have fluctuating thoughts‚ hidden emotions and relational bindings

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    In the poem Birches‚ by Robert Frost‚ he uses figurative language throughout his poem. The use of figurative language like personification‚ metaphor‚ and simile makes the reader have a more vivid experience while reading the poem. In the poem Birches‚ the writer uses personification in the next sentence “they click upon themselves as the breeze rises” (line 7 and 8). Mr. Frost explains that when there is a strong breeze the birches click with each other and it moves them up and down and eventually

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    extract the author uses several ways to convey changes in the mood and meaning‚ the first of these I will examine is the sentence structure. The short sentences in the second paragraph make the reader take note to the issues narrated to them the language also becomes more urgent and darker. The longer sentences use nicer descriptive phrases like “Even in winter the roadsides were places of beauty…” ‚ this makes the places seem welcoming. The darker sentences are just as descriptive‚ but use shorter phrases

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    Golding used silence and language to enhance the story? Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies ’ is a novel where silence and language is used as a medium to communicate among the boys on the island. Language is used as a form of civilization but as the days go by the language starts to depreciate person by person along with the need of civilization. Language and silence are also used to foretell future events in the novel. ‘The conch was silent.’ Here Golding uses irony to show how the

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    The figurative language used gave out a very negative and abusive vibe in the song “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem. To start right at the beginning‚ Rihanna sings‚ "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn‚” as an opener. Now we know that she is not actually on fire‚ making this a metaphor. This first line is immediately putting out there that she feels terrible‚ hence fire equals bad‚ and she knows that this other person is just standing there and letting it happen. If she was actually on fire

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    through language‚ from the lyrics of songs to emotion packed novels and countless other forms. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984‚ the society of a nation known as Oceania is under constant control and surveillance from a government called the Party. The Party’s stability and continued power rely on the inability of the people to have emotions or thoughts‚ as that could lead to rebellion. In order to control the people‚ the Party manipulated the language by using its slogans and a language known

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    As new technologies are being made‚ it is making the English language a lot more simple. People are adopting more simplistic language and easier forms of spelling through the use of smartphones and computers. Although Americans have produced many simplified variations of spelling‚ autocorrect and spellcheck are regressing our language and transforming it back to a precise standard of spelling. Anne Trubek; writer‚ editor‚ and associate professor‚ had a very formulated opinion on this subject. Trubek

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