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    manhunt and hour essay

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    Comparative Essay- The Manhunt vs. Hour Simon Armitage’s‚ ‘The Manhunt’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Hour’ both use strong feelings to emphasize their core messages. While each author takes a different perspective on the nature of these feelings‚ in the end‚ both poems have an intense feeling of love at their core.  Armitage’s ‘The Manhunt’ is about a soldier coming home from the war with various injuries.  It is told from the point of view of the wife/girlfriend of the soldier.  As she slowly helps

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    The Turning Essay

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    his trip‚ aware that his mother plans for him to repeat year 12 and begin a brighter future. The narrator discovers his incredible guilt for leaving his mother without considering her plans for him “there is an ache that is still there inside me” a metaphor implicates the emotion of guilt Winton conveys. Similar to Big World‚ Aquifer’s main character discovers personal guilt. His guilt is implicated through the death of neighbor‚ Allen Mannering. Allen drowns by accident in the local swamp after tormenting

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    are his executive‚ who carry out his orders; the liver is his commandant‚ who keeps up the discipline; the gall bladder‚ his attorney general . . . and the spleen; his steward who supervises the five tastes." (Roach 171). This is an example of a metaphor because it compares two unlike things to illustrate the role of each organ in a manner that everyday people can understand. Sexist language is used when the author writes‚ “Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male

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    The Fish Essay

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    Visual Imagery is important in poetry to help the poet express the theme of the poem. There are three types of imagery Bishop uses to express her theme. First‚ she uses Metaphor. Second she uses Simile‚ Third‚ and she uses Personification. The Fish poem is very full of different types of imagery and very vivid in it narrations. This poem depends on its imagery more than any other single element. The speaker alternately convinces us of the fish’s ugliness and its beauty‚ and in order to achieve this

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    Orwell Practice Essay

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    The Essays of George Orwell are a personal anthropological and cultural artifact‚ serving as authorial cathartic metalanguage that is ‘essentially communicative’ of omnipresent themes [John Donne‚ Metatempsychosis‚ 1601]. Such are indicative in ‘Why I write?’‚ ‘Writers and Levithan’ and ‘Politics and the English Language’‚ which are perpetually and contemporaneously relevant through Freudian ‘Ontological Pastiche of Experience’‚ as changing milieus offer new interpretations‚ producing continual fascination

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    Speak Essay

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    decides to emerge from her shell. When she speaks to her middle school friend-turned-enemy Rachel about the event at the summer party‚ Melinda is accepted with open arms and forgiven of her accusations. Through the symbol of the white couch and the metaphors of the seasonal change and the tree‚ which is each effectively inserted into Speak‚ one can tell that a person grows through learning from his experience rather than by mere aging. Most trees are a symbol of life when they are full of leaves in

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    Belonging Essay

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    between individuals like Baillie. Another connection item in ‘The Simple Gift’ is the key Old Bill gives to Billy‚ symbolizing the key to all of Billy’s problems‚ and also metaphorically unlocking the door to his future. Metaphors are also used in ‘The China Coin’. Metaphors are used to paint visual images‚ page 16 is a good example of this. “I am a giant‚ she thought.” This quote explains the self

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    Belonging Essay

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    How do people’s ideas about belonging change due to passage of time and interacting with their world (family‚ friends‚ community‚ environment)? Belonging comes from connections with physical aspects but is often a feeling created by shaped perceptions and interactions with the world over time. It is through the poems‚ ‘ 10 Mary Street and Migrant Hostel’ by Peter Skrzynecki from his compilation in the immigrant chronicle‚ Tim Winton’s short story ‘Neighbours’ and Rob Sitch’s film‚ ‘The castle’

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    Poetry Essay

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    Poetry Essay ENGL 102: Literature and Composition Fall B 2013 Jane S. Ciucevich ID# L25513950 Writing Style Used APA September 15‚ 2013 Professor Mary Dixon I) INTRODUCTION A. Frost has presented a literal and metaphoric fork in the road to a traveler. He must choose between the two roads all the while knowing that by choosing one he must forgo the other. B. “The Road Not Taken” is all about choices. The road the traveler is walking on has split. He must decide which direction

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    "Metaphors We Live By" by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Our selection comprises chapters 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ and part of 4 of Metaphors We Live By (1980). CONCEPTS WE LIVE BY Metaphor is for most people device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish--a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover‚ metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone‚ a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason‚ most people think they can get along perfectly

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