convey his ideas in “Holy Sonnet: ‘This is my playes last scene’?” This is my playes last scene is one of Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnets’ embodying spiritual pain and struggling faith in Christianity. Numerous biblical allusions and morbid tone that are typical of metaphysical poetry‚ convey Donne’s fear of death and religious scepticism. The opening four lines depict the last moments of the speaker’s life through metaphoric comparisons. The comparison “playes last scene” suggests the speaker is searching
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In this passage‚ Abraham Lincoln uses the literary device of contrasting imagery to express the higher‚ spiritual implications of the war. Through his magnificent oratory talent‚ Lincoln distinguishes a path for the nation by employing the images of life and death. The phrase‚ “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us‚” describes an incomplete duty‚ once held by the soldiers of Gettysburg now passed on to those in attendance (93). To illuminate this transfer
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English Com 101 13 June 2011 My Plans for the Last Seven Days of My Life I would be devastated to know I only have one week to live on this Earth. I have a lot of goals set up; they have not been accomplished yet. I would feel like I failed in life‚ and this would depress me. On the other hand‚ I would not let the fear of dying in a week’s time deter me from accomplishing one of my dreams‚ and getting some plans in motion. If I only have had one week
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to live with than having somewhat of shelter and having a bit of food‚ rather than Douglass having neither. He gets readers to question such things as‚ would one turn in a man in such need as? Would one understand more if one knew how it was to be in my condition? And this gets people to understand his despair and distress. Douglass uses his paradoxes in a creative way. Where he uses parallel syntactic structure‚ he also utilizes paradoxes. On page 137‚ where he says “-wanting shelter and no one
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My Last Softball game By:Ashlynn Telck Have you ever played fast pitch softball? On June 1‚ I had a softball game that I had to go to. My mom drove me to the softball field we had an hour of practice before the game started. After that‚ the game started and i was batting first I was really nervous. Then‚ I went to the home plate and i hit the ball and i ran as fast as I could to first base all I could here was Mom yelling‚“RUN RUN RUN” in the background . I made it to second without getting tagged
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John Webster‚ The Duchess of Malfi Introduction 3 Learning outcomes 3 Background 3 Description 4 Act 1: setting the scene 5 Courts ideal and real 5 Discussion 5 Description 8 Bosola the malcontent 8 Discussion 9 Marriage for love: family opposition 10 Discussion 10 Love and marriage: Antonio the steward 13 Discussion 14 Love and marriage: the Duchess 15 Description 16 Description 17 Discussion 19 Act 2: discovery 21 Ferdinand 21 Discussion 22 Conclusion 24 References 24 Further reading 25 Next steps
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I was running with the ball at my feet‚ my arms and knees where heavy from all the training I had been doing‚ but I felt good. I knew I was going to make a good play. I looked up and saw two defenders but‚ with no hesitation I charged towards them with the ball. I cut left hard and flew past one defender. After him I approached a tall defender and nutmegged him‚ passing the ball in between and through a player’s legs. I then passed the ball up forward to a friend of mine who almost scored an amazing
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Rhetorical Terms/Devices Figurative language is the generic term for any artful deviation from the ordinary mode of speaking or writing. It is what makes up a writer’s style – how he or she uses language. The general thinking is that we are more likely to be persuaded by rhetoric that is interesting‚ even artful‚ rather than mundane. When John F. Kennedy said‚ “Ask not what your country can do for you‚ ask what you can do for your country” (an example of anastrophe)‚ it was more interesting –
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finishing my last lap out of the 4 miles. I had called my mom to pick me up and ten minutes ago‚ but she was not here yet‚ I just assumed she was just running a little bit late. I can tell you standing outside in the flaming fiery sun‚ covered in sweat with no water bottle in hand is no fun. As I was waiting beads of sweat‚ thermoregulatory sweating‚ started appearing on my skin. The two types of sweating are eccrine glands‚ armpits‚ and apocrine glands‚ in the palms and soles of my hand. I knew my body
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My board game is based on the book Legend by Marie Lu. The actual game is based on the plot from the beginning of the book up until right before Day’s mom is killed. The board and it’s complexities is a lightened way of showing the hardships and sorrows that day faced all to get his brother a vial of plague cure. Three important literary elements they my board game reflects are plot‚ theme‚ and tone. Some of the smaller literary elements shown in the game are setting; Los Angeles‚ California this
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