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    their society is broken down into five groups consisting of alphas betas‚gammas‚deltas‚epsilon. Brave new world uses the incompatibility of happiness and truth‚ production and identity to show a controlling government. In the novel one of the literary devices was imagery because Huxley display a lot of imagery especially animal imagery. In chapter one there was a repetition of “Straight from the horse’s mouth” (Huxley 23). Another way huxley display animal imagery when he

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    the Fitzgerald family interpret it and death. The bond between the different Fitzgerald children and how their secrets and misfortunes have brought them closer is explored on multiple occasions during the novel. Picoult uses a number of different techniques and features in order to explore these themes including symbolism‚ metaphors and foreshadowing. The plot of the novel focuses on Anna Fitzgerald’s desire to no longer donate various parts of her body to her sister – who suffers from leukaemia and

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    ‘Ultimately in a speech‚ it is the effective representation of ideas that captivates audiences.’ In compelling speeches it is not only the content‚ but the appropriate use of rhetoric techniques and structure which reveal and emphasise key ideas and captivate the audience. This has been shown in Margaret Atwood’s speech‚ Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) as well as Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech‚ the Keynote Address at the Beijing Conference on Women (1995). These two speeches focus on the role of

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    “I veered off my course to follow the stream‚ running downhill along the slippery stones‚ faster now that I was out of the snow. My body waited for the inevitable bullet...” (179). Lev and Kolya has met up with Partisans and begins marching to a nearby city. Before even arriving at the city‚ they smell that the Germans have set the entire city on fire. Without any other choices‚ they are forced to spend the rest of the night at a safehouse that the Partisan’s own. They are awoken to someone saying

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    A Knights Tale is a useful text in conveying medieval life and society. It displays many aspects of medieval life and society like jousting‚ the feudal system and living conditions in the middle ages. A Knights Tale also demonstrates a connection between Chaucer’s pilgrims and the modern audience. A Knights Tale display’s many different aspects of medieval life and society. It shows the Feudal system with the different people shown from Royalty (the prince)‚ Noblemen (Adamar)‚ lower classes such

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    Nathaniel Hawthorns use of sound‚ colour and symbolism in The Hollow of Three Hills -Leandre Kleynhans LW 11Y AS Levels English Nathaniel Hawthorne turns the perhaps often ignored topic of adultery into a compelling story that keeps the reader enthralled by using various literary techniques. He focuses on using colour and sound as a way to activate the audience’s imagination and create a somewhat magical picture that only the mind could produce. He describes certain things and places in a precise

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    Samira Sackiety AP English Literature Bonnick In The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ author Oscar Wilde employs the literary element of symbolism to help us‚ the audience to see the protagonist Dorian Gray’s transformation from a innocent naïve individual to later a soul marked by secrets and sin. It is also‚ through symbolism that we see exactly how and what influences Dorian to his destructive path and ultimately his dramatic end. Wilde uses the symbol of the yellow book given to Dorian by Lord Henry

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    The Dead by James Joyce is one of the fifteen stories in the series Dubliners. Through Joyce’s’ use of literally techniques‚ symbolism‚ themes‚ and an epiphany‚ the story has a much deeper meaning. By using these techniques and looking at the story closer you can find how Joyce was trying to provoke a deeper meaning in relation to the dead and living and the main character‚ Gabriel‚ searching for meaning or reason to his life. Paradoxically the story shows that the dead can still be living‚ through

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    Main Challenges in the Story Legend: Legend is a story about two 15 year old kids. From one side we have‚ as the story tells us in a beginning‚ a kid called Day. Day is a famous criminal who has given many problems to the republic From the moment he failed his trial‚ a test designed to be taken by every ten year old kid in the republic to test their physical and mental capabilities‚ Day was sent to the work camps which turned out to be labs that experimented on the kids who failed their test. Since

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    Zombies In The Making (Three Messages From The Hollow Men) Imagine lifeless‚ soulless corpses steadily congesting the streets of every city in the world in increasingly larger waves. T.S. Elliot analyzes society just this way in his work The Hollow Men. Each new generation is slowly degenerating into a meaningless existence reminiscent of popular movies and tv shows depicting zombies roaming the earth. While physically the human condition has improved unlike any generation before‚ the soul and

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