Poetry Allusion: An event or fact from an external context assumed to be known by the reader (e.g. historical‚ biblical‚ etc.). An allusion can increase one’s understanding of the poem in question by drawing parallels with other subjects. Anthropomorphism: The showing or treating of animals‚ gods and objects as if they are human in appearance‚ character or behaviour. Apostrophe: Something that addresses an object‚ abstract idea‚ or person who is dead as though it could reply. E.g. Antony’s
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Christian God. Introducing another opposition by Philo: Why do we have to think God has a mind? We can possibly agree a mind is needed to put order into things. We are looking for what orders the universe. Philo’s arguments against Cleanthes’ Anthropomorphism: Trying to make other things more human-like. Arguably‚ the universe may not be infinite‚ so why assume God is infinite? There is not enough evidence in modern physics to support whether the universe is infinite or not. Arguably‚ the universe
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Following is an example of student writing in which figures of speech are overworked and actually impede rather than enhance the clarity of images. Cool water flows through the rocky banks of the creek and into a wide pond. Reeds and cattails surrounding the bank embrace the pond like a mother’s enfolding arms reaching out to caress her sleeping child. Like a beaming‚ proud mother’s eye‚ the sun drenches the scene with its loving warmth. Just beneath the sparkling surface of the water‚ minnows
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How does the film Rabbit Proof Fence and the picture book The Rabbits‚ by Phillip Noyce and John Marsden respectively‚ position a responder to feel sympathetic for the Aboriginal people in the film and book? The Aboriginal people of Australia have endured great suffering since white settle began in 1788. Despite this‚ they have shown both resilience and determination to maintain their cultural identity. Phillip Noyce’s Rabbit Proof Fence examines such suffering through its portrayal of three
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‘So this is Nebraska’ is a poem by Ted Kooser in the postmodern age. The poem had been written in present tense‚ probably to emphasize the current state of rural Nebraska‚ which is a small village in America. The poem describes a Sunday afternoon in July in Nebraska and this is mentioned in the third stanza of the poem all the other descriptive language in the poem is used to explain this setting. The very first paragraph is a compound complex sentence. The purpose of this is to slow the pace of
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pain comes the healing‚ the process of curing represent the life of a person and how it arouse the will and determination in oneself to preserve. One of the ways Martel chooses to depict the human struggle between life and death is by using anthropomorphism to give death human-like qualities. “Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it‚ a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can” (Martel 6). The narrator compliments life for its exquisite qualities‚ then claims that death
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Gender development can be explained by biological influences which includes hormones and genes. The base line of biological influences in gender development is that biological sex is determined by sex chromosomes‚ XX for female and XY for males. But this approach also argues that genes and hormones are the main influence on gender roles and gender identity in gender development. A research by Ridley has found out that biological sex is determined by a single gene called SRY gene and argued that
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and action and adventure to forward the plot‚ or to explain a phenomenon. There are many literary comparisons to be made between Andersen ’s fairy tale and traditional folklore. While The Ugly Duckling resembles a folktale in its use of anthropomorphism to illustrate the theme‚ in the protagonist’s similarity to other well-known archetypes‚ and in its attempt to convey a serious and morally valuable message‚ the tale is an Andersen original‚ and there are other differences‚ such as the lack
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Epiphenominism‚ psychophysical parallelism‚ double aspectism -determinism: physical‚ psychical‚ indeterminism‚ Nondeterminism (hard and soft) -Karl Popper vs. Thomas Kuhn‚ Paul Feyerabend Chapter 2-Greek Psychology (Philosophy) -animism‚ anthropomorphism‚ transmigration of the soul‚ relativism -Socrates against relativism‚ knowledge as virtue Plato -the analogy of the divided line (sensory info‚ ignorance‚ opinion)‚ true forms‚ Academy‚ reminiscence theory of knowledge -tripartite mind
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Being true to your own identity enables a sense of belonging It is only when we understand our own identity that we can have a sense of belonging. A sense of belonging emerges from the connections made with people‚ places and the larger world. It is these connections that influence where we search for meaning in our lives and ultimately‚ where we belong. The texts immigrant chronicle by Peter Skrzynecki and interpreter of maladies a collection of immigrant stories by Jhumpa Lahiri a winner of the
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