LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES Metaphor Genuine metaphors Trite(dead) metaphors Metonymy Metonymy Metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated: ‘The White House said…’ (the American government) ; the press (newspapers and magazines); the cradle(infancy‚ place of origin);the grave(death); The hall applauded; The marble spoke; The kettle is boiling; I am fond of Agatha Christie; We didn’t speak because there were ears all around us; He was about a sentence away from
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Meet Your Rep I reside in California’s 6th district and Doris O. Matsui is the congresswoman for this district. She was elected when she ran for the open seat that was created upon her husband’s (Robert Matsui) death in January 2005. Each district now represents more than 700‚000 constituents rather than the original 30‚000 as intended by the Framers of the Constitution‚ because of a 1929 law that changed the procedure and froze the House of Representatives to its 435 member level. (Levin-Waldman
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ANALOG DEVICES‚ INC. (A) Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) was a leading manufacturer of integrated circuits that convert between analog and digital data. From 1981 through 1996‚ ADI experienced periods of growth and stagnation‚ both achieving record profits and sales a experiencing its first loss ever. To meet the needs of the changing market‚ management at ADI introduced a number of different management tools to implement change. One such tool was its corporate scorecard. ADI’s corporate scorecard was
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What is a NAS device? A NAS device is a network-attached storage device which is an external storage unit in the form of a computer that usually has one or two hard disks‚ and is used solely for filed based storage‚ and operates over a network of computers. NAS devices are both controlled and configured over the network usually using a (Wikipedia‚ n.d.) (htt) browser. What is the speed of the network adapter available on a NAS device? The speed of NAS devices are very flexible depending on
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that are built from traditional conventions in their work. The breaking away from the compositional devices traditionally used originated from the broad variety of the concepts of music that become part of ‘the music of the next century’. These concepts created unconventional features‚ used to investigate new formations in composers works. These new unconventional and traditional compositional devices that are investigated in this era can unmistakably be seen in ‘The Monk and His Cat’‚ Hermit songs
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contributions to this growth are mobile devices. From your iPhones to your Galaxy tablets or iPads‚ these devices and many others affect us in a psychological context as well as technologically wise. According to Bos & Cuddy (2013) using our everyday mobile devices does not just affect our posture but also affects the way we behave or interact with our everyday duties . Nobel (2013) based on an experiment by Bos and Cuddy has also concluded that the way we use our devices will play a part in whether we became
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range of language and literary devices such as juxtaposition‚ varied line length‚ sound devices‚ imagery‚ connotation‚ word choice‚ rhetorical question and repetition. In the first stanza Thomas Hardy illustrates his great grief at the loss of his wife. He misses her a great deal and senses that she is calling out to him. He longs for her and longs to be with her. The depth of his grief is clear from the use of the word ’much’ in "woman much missed" and the repetition of "you call to me". A consequence
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Literary analysis of an unseen extract: how does the author engage the reader through the use of literary devices in your given extract? The first line " In the middle of nowhere..." grabs the readers attention because it gets the reader wondering why this person is in the middle of nowhere‚ It gives the reader something to think about creating different feeling and emotions towards the reader. As you begin to read on you are given the weathers description "left behind its feeble breezes‚ but the
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Dramatic Literacy Devices Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress‚ in which the name of the central character‚ Pilgrim‚ epitomizes the book’s allegorical nature. Kay Boyle’s story "Astronomer’s Wife" and Christina Rossetti’s poem "Up-Hill" both contain allegorical elements. Catastrophe The
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LITERARY THEORY Misconceptions about theory: 1. Theory is difficult What is difficult however is the language because most of the theorists are French 2. theory is meaningless‚ pretentious jargon 3. that we are intellectually incapable of coping with it(i.e we are at fault) 4. We take everything as gospel truth; We should question What is literary theory? Theory is a coherent set of conceptual hypothetical and pragmatic principles forming the general frame of reference for a discipline
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