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    of the frames comes with a group of concepts‚ metaphors and values that provide the scaffolding for organizing raw experience of the world. The four-frame model are structural‚ human resource‚ political‚ and symbolic. The first frame is Structural. According to Bolman & Deal (2013)‚ “The structural approach focuses on the architecture of organization-the design of units and subunits‚ rules and roles‚ goals and policies” (p. 21). The structural metaphor for organization is factory or machine‚ which

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    Kincaid’s Viewpoint of England In Jamaica Kincaid’s essay “On Seeing England for the First Time”‚ Kincaid expresses her viewpoint on England’s authority over her homeland‚ the Caribbean island of Antigua. Kincaid has strong resentment towards England. She sees England as a dictator in her life. Through the use of emotional arguments and social appeal the author‚ Kincaid‚ gets the feeling across that she was a victim of England. At an early age she started to realize that the English had taken over

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    Dickinson had an active mind and a style so unique and unusual with her writing. Something that was very unusual about her writing was that she never put a title to her poems. Just like many poets‚ she used a wide assortment of literary devices such as‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ alliteration‚ and symbolism. “Unlike many writers of her time‚ Dickinson did not use conventional rhyme‚ capitalization‚ or punctuation” (Borus36). For example‚ she would put dashes not just at the end of a line‚ but also within the lines

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    Flies Summer Assignment 7/23/08 William Golding describes a lot of different situations in the book by different moods along with other writing skills. In the excerpt from pg. 199-200‚ the general mood is fear. He uses similes and metaphor to describe the mood and helps us picture the time of the excerpt. In the following paragraph‚ I will describe how he shows the readers what the mood is. First of all‚ the first sentence of the quotation gives us the first hit of the mood. Ralph

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    But what is evident in this second stanza is that we now see a man who is able to think logically for himself. The use of the metaphor in “cold clockwork‚” as well as being alliterative‚ allows us to see past the soldier and to the man. All of this then progresses into the third stanza. He sees a “yellow hare” but one is left to consider whether this in itself‚ is a metaphor for something else. Is it a real animal coming up from the ground he is running and being startled‚ or does he consider the

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    This essay discusses the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. This poem describes a man who is walking in the woods. As he is walking‚ he finds that the path he is on splits into two roads. He is forced to decide which road to take in order to continue his journey. Throughout the rest of the poem‚ he describes the experience of his journey. Frost uses many poetic devices throughout this poem. He uses metaphor to describe the road as a part of life. He also uses rhyme scheme to show the important

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    Objective Reading Response In the reading ‘2b or not 2b’’‚ there are figurative devices that can be identified as used by the author. Metaphor; the metaphors found in the passage is used to make a compare the text messages to’ bleak‚ bald sad shorthand‚ Drab shrink talk.’ The comparison continues ‘Texting is penmanship for illiterates’. Another comparisons without the use of the terms ‘as’ or ‘like’ with unlike things that in this case seems to have similar characteristics‚ was

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    The two texts are multi modal online newspaper articles on the murder of Reeva Steenkamp by Oscar Pistorius. Text 1 “Pistorius as mysterious as the shooting tragedy” is from the Daily Republic and is written on 25th February 2013 by Gerald Imray who is working with The Associated Press. Text 2 “Oscar Pistorius case: The Blonde is the victim here‚ Blade” from the Telegraph is by journalist Allison Pearson. Whilst both texts are told in a first person view‚ Text 1 defends the South African Paralympian

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    For Hester‚ the scarlet letter represents a hindrance to her freedom‚ reminding her of her heavy sin. Hawthorne uses a metaphor in this passage‚ comparing the effect of the scarlet letter as a “withering spell.” This shows how one sinful act can prevent Hester from experiencing joys in life‚ similar to how putting on the scarlet letter hides Hester’s hair‚ and therefore‚

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    The poem Valentine is written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the Poem she shows the positive and negative sides about love by comparing love to an onion. She does this by using different techniques such as language features such as metaphors‚ simlies‚ Imagery and word structure. All these techniques make it interesting because she uses an onion as a girft to represent love and relationships. In the begining of the poem Duffy starts off with a negative in opening line. "Not a red rose or a satin

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