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    the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ Wilfred Owen uses a variety of literary devices to tell a sickening sight which he encountered in World War 1. He discusses a side of war no one wants to talk about and challenges the reader’s thinking. Owen uses the literary devices of tone‚ figurative language‚ and imagery to showcase the actuality of what soldiers faced and encountered while both on and off the battlefield. The first literary device used throughout

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    Unit / Module | Building Services Engineering Technology | Assessment | Only Assignment on Building Services Engineering Technology | Lecturer | Dr. Manjula Nanayakkara | Student Name | | ID | QS/K/ | Date Handed Over | 2012-11-18 | Date Due | 2012-12-16 | Initial Submission Date | | Re-Submission Date | | Student to Tick if Attempted | Grading Opportunity | Criteria Met? | Assessor Feedback | | | Initially | On Resubmission | | | P1.1 | | | | | P1.2 | | | | | P1

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    REDEMPTION 1 Redemption‚ A Literary Device: Hey Nostradamus! Response Essay Kathy Ottaway‚ 020091223 Instructor Esther Griffin 10F Cdn. Literature and Criticism - 01 HUMN2000-10F-11296 Tuesday‚ November 30‚ 2010 REDEMPTION 2 Redemption‚ A Literary Device: Hey Nostradamus! Response Essay Redemption. It is a single word that holds great meaning for both the ones who seek it‚ and for those whose opinions are the ones to grant it‚ whether it is an outside

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    My family and I grew up in Mexico with a mother was a very strict catholic. She would take us to church and to all sorts of events the church we went to sponsored. Also‚ Halloween is not a holiday in Mexico. Instead‚ we celebrate the Day of the Dead and the Day of All Saints. Every year‚ during these two days‚ my family and I would go to our local cemetery and place marigold flowers and food on the graves on our ancestors. It was a tradition we kept doing until we moved here to Glenwood Springs.

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    Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Vonnegut chooses to use special literary techniques that better explain his own encounters in war as well as help his readers bare the horridness of war. Vonnegut adds black humor in his text to benefit readers as well as “an author-as-character” perspective to set barriers and help protect his own memories in the war. Without adding these two specific devices‚ Vonnegut could possibly have lost reader’s interests in the book or lost his own interest in writing the

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    Red Grief People use literary devices in their speech every day. However‚ few people know what they’re called. In his short story “The Whirligig of Life” O Henry demonstrates five common examples of literary devices. The first example of figurative language is in the very beginning of the excerpt‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief”. O Henry ironically uses the simile “as flat as a flannel cake” to describe the town of Summit. The irony is that the flat town of Summit doesn’t contain a single summit. The

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    soldier‚ the hopelessness‚ instinct of an animal‚ and appreciation for things as simple as the earth that we walk on. While explaining these effects Remarque uses literary and rhetorical devices. Portraying Paul’s sense of being helpless and trapped as an effect of being on the battle front‚ Remarque uses various literary devices to describe Paul’s feelings. The narrator Paul states‚ “To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool” a “vortex sucking me…into itself.” This extended metaphor expresses

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    lines. Correspondingly‚ the poem grasps an iambic pentameter which gives Yeats poem a more musical characteristic. The word “And” appears in this poem more than six times just in the first stanza alone which keeps the rhythm of the meter constant. In my opinion‚ I believe that the narrator in the poem is the author himself. I consider this poem being read to someone that Yeats loved and maybe that someone could being going through a difficult time seeing the brighter side of things. The narrator focusses

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    constructing a poem the author must consider the way in which the message will be established‚ therefore they must make specific choices using poetic devices to convey the meaning to the reader. In poetry the author makes use of sound devices‚ rhyme‚ imagery‚ typography and language to construct the meaning of the text. Examples of the use of literary devices to construct meaning can be seen in the poem ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ by Wilfred Owen - a sonnet illustrating the horrors of war‚ and ‘Digging’

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    My Favourite Literary Character My favourite literary character is Sara Louise from Jacob Have I Loved‚ by Katherine Paterson. Sara Louise‚ mostly called “Wheeze” throughout the book‚ has a very interesting personality. She is selfless‚ but will not openly show it‚ she is foolish‚ but is witty‚ and she is hard-working‚ but still humble. Her complex qualities make her my favourite literary character. Wheeze has always been compared to her seemingly perfect and angelic twin sister‚ Caroline. Ever

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