"Who was Francesco Petrarch?" Francesco Petrarch was born shortly after 1300 in a time and place where very few could read or write and those that did considered it a chore where as Petrarch saw a blessing. He had a passion for writing his thoughts down on paper. Francesco Petrarch was instrumental in the revival of Classical culture which became known as the Renaissance. He spent much of his life in the French city of Avignon‚ the home of the papal court‚ where‚ in 1326‚ he first saw the “Laura”
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Joseph Beard C. DeKraai AP/IB English‚ period 1 30 August 2010 Word Count: 534 “The Buck in the Snow” by Edna St. Vincent Millay Over a short twelve lines‚ the speaker in “The Buck in the Snow” mourns then philosophizes over the realism of death‚ which represents sin‚ vice‚ pain‚ and everything imperfect in the world. The imagery and diction chosen by Edna St. Vincent Millay suggest a sorrowful mood that matches the mournful prayer of the speaker in the first stanza: White sky‚ saw you not
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Step 1- first impression Step 2- contrasts Step 3- purpose of the author in writing the poem Step 4- line-by-line analysis of the literary devices used in the poem Expository paragraph Sonnet from the Portuguese V: I lift my heavy heart up solemnly by Elizabeth Barrett Browning I lift my heavy heart up solemnly‚ As once Electra her sepulchral urn‚ And‚ looking in thine eyes‚ I overturn The ashes at thy feet. Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me‚ And how the red wild sparkles
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Lines 1–4 The structure of the sonnet is Petrarchan‚ an Italian form of the sonnet that characteristically divides its theme into an octave‚ in which a problem or emotion is stated‚ and a sestet‚ in which the problem or emotional tension is resolved. There is a clear separation between the first eight lines (the octave) and the final six (the sestet). The octave is divided into two four-line stanzas‚ or quatrains. The first quatrain opens with a recounting of the occurrence in mid-scene. It begins
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老托福历年真题无老师的 Blog：www.ibtsat.com 专供版 老托福 2000 年 1 月-2005 年 8 月真题 所有真题+答案 1.0 版 无老师的 Blog：www.ibtsat.com 专供版 -1 - 老托福历年真题无老师的 Blog：www.ibtsat.com 专供版 2000 年 1 月 TOEFL 试题 Section One: Listening Comprehension 1. (A) Spend more time working on calculus problems. (B) Talk to an advisor about dropping the course. (C) Work on the assignment with a classmate. (D) Ask the graduate assistant for help. 2. (A) Go home to get a book. (B) Return a book to the library. (C) Pick up a book at the
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ASP.NET: Tips‚ Tutorials‚ and Code Scott Mitchell‚ Bill Anders‚ Rob Howard‚ Doug Seven‚ Stephen Walther‚ Christop Wille‚ and Don Wolthuis 201 West 103rd St.‚ Indianapolis‚ Indiana‚ 46290 USA 0-672-32143-2 Spring 2001 Common ASP.NET Code Techniques CHAPTER 2 29 IN THIS CHAPTER • Using Collections 4 • Working with the File System • Using Regular Expressions 45 51 60 64 • Generating Images Dynamically • Sending E-mail from an ASP.NET Page • Network Access Via an ASP.NET Page
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Appendix Sonnet 18 Shakespeare 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ 6 And often is his gold complexion dimmed‚ 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ 8 By chance‚ or nature’s changing course untrimmed: 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest‚
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ENGLISH NOTES- WILFRED OWEN DISABLED Themes - effect of war on the individual - loss of identity and humanity - multiply this for all seriously injured soldiers Techniques 1. Imagery a) Soldiers present life “ satin a wheeled chair” “ legless‚ sewn short at the elbow” EFFECT- establishes the scene and situation - shocks the reader b) Previous life “ town used to swing so gay” “ carried shoulder-high”
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In Seamus Heaney’s poem “Blackberry-Picking” he describes his personal experience with blackberry picking. Throughout the years it is evident that the experience has become less pleasurable. Through rhythm‚ comparison‚ and sensory imagery‚ Heaney not only describes his experience but also says that the innocence of childhood and the wonders of nature are transient‚ and disappointment has to be confronted. Heaney uses repetition of sound in his phrase “glossy purple clot” (line 3) to describe the
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"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost is a poem about a person who is well acquainted with the night. In this poem‚ the author or the speaker explains why he/she is well acquainted with the night. It seems as the poem progresses that the speaker enjoys walks through the night of a city‚ and that he also enjoys walks in rainy nights. The speaker goes down a sad area of the city were he encounters a watchman were he/she ignores. When the speakers stop because he/she listens to a cry‚ which
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