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    The author creates the poem though several literary devices‚ such as internal rhyme‚ apostrophe‚ and metaphor. In the metaphor‚ “Captain” symbolizes the President Lincoln. In the poem‚ the captain seems that he has tough times and succeeds through his trip‚ but is ultimately dead before he returns home. Through the captain‚ the author relates the character with the President Lincoln who led the United States to peace and was assassinated in the middle of the presidency. In addition‚ the author uses

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    development of autostereoscopic 3D display devices. This report profiles the latest products as shown by major vendors at the SID Display Week 2013‚ and pinpoints market and product development trends of autostereoscopic 3D display devices. Complete Report @ http://www.marketreportsonline.com/282949.html Buy Report @ http://www.marketreportsonline.com/contacts/purchase.php?name=282949 Table of Contents 1. Shipment Volume Forecast for Autostereoscopic 3D Game Devices 2. Major Vendors’s Product Development

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    MOLETRONICS-“an invisible technology” ABSTRACT As a scientific pursuit‚ the search for a viable successor to silicon computer technology has garnered considerable curiosity in the last decade. The latest idea‚ and one of the most intriguing‚ is known as molecular computers‚ or moletronics‚ in which single molecules serve as switches‚ "quantum wires" a few atoms thick serve as wiring‚ and the hardware is synthesized chemically from the bottom up. The central thesis of moletronics

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    by Sarah Orne Jewett. In this short passage the author details the story of a young girl whose curiosity leads her to climbing a tree in order to see miles and miles into the distance. In order to accomplish this‚ the author explores several literary devices such as diction‚ imagery and point of view to develop a scene which readers can picture and connect to. Whether it be through similes‚ metaphors or descriptive language‚ it is clear that the author wanted imagery to be a main focus for this

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    Plot surprise and close calls is the most important literary device used in Three Skeleton Key‚ because the story would not go anywhere if it was all details and mood. Close calls is important because the reader will get anxiety and the feel relieved because it was a close call. In Three Skeleton Key‚ there is lots of close calls like this one. “At two in the morning‚ While Itchua was dozing in his room the sheet of metal burst and the rats swarmed on top of him.” He still survived. Or like this

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    Literary Devices used in MACBETH Imagine how dull a Shakespearean play would be without the ingenious literary devices and techniques that contribute so much to the fulfillment of its reader or viewer. Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare‚ is a tragedy that combines fact and legend to tell the story of an eleventh century king. Shakespeare uses numerous types of literary techniques to make this tragic play more appealing. Three literary devices that Shakespeare uses to make Macbeth more interesting

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    allusion to Tiffany and Co‚ which is a high end and expensive brand. This line implies that the woman the singer is speaking of is easily controlled and gets lost in expenses and power. The lyric “We are all just prisoners here‚ of our own device” is a paradox because it contradicts itself. A prisoner is someone who is forced into a cell by the law‚ but here the singer is speaking of how their materialistic beliefs keep them

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    Also the day the lottery takes place described as “a day in mid summer” indicates the period of unconstrained growth and recklessness. Another literary device in the story‚ is the genre by showing horror and realism in placing the story in a generic small town and reviling the fate of the lottery winner at the end. A third literary device in the story‚ is the tone by showing detachment and calms of the tone through out the story from the beginning describing the sunny day‚ to witnessing

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    Life of Pi - Option 2 In The Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ Pi Patel and Richard Parker travel in a liferaft for many days while stranded in the Pacific Ocean. However‚ the setting helps aid the story in multiple ways. The setting guides the character’s feelings and actions to grow dynamically and adds foreshadow to the storyline. In the beginning of the plot when the weather started to become rough‚ Pi admitted that he was “very afraid” (Martel 101) and he was so frightened to where “his mind could

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    Every author and play writer has some kind of reason for writing their piece. As readers and viewers‚ we use our knowledge to decipher the underlying message that comes across throughout works of art. Our Town by Thornton Wilder has many people with several diverse opinions sharing their ideas about the play. Thornton Wilder’s purpose for writing Our Town was to show the amount of control human beings have over their life‚ but fail to recognize until death. You can see this through daily events in

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