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    growing” (1.4.32-33). This quote is a metaphor that tells the reader that Duncan fully trusts Macbeth and is completely naïve to his dark true character. “I have begun to plant thee…full of growing” Duncan says that he will look for more ways to honour Macbeth. The metaphor uses the fertility of nature as a comparison. Duncan is easily fooled by Macbeth’s act. Banquo uses the example of bubbles in water to explain the strangeness of the witches and Duncan uses the example of a tree to explain his gratitude

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    reality of war is brutal and scary. The language techniques that were used to show these ideas are metaphor‚ similes and personification. An idea that is important in “Who’s for the game” by Jessie Pope is that men should fight to defend their country in war. This is shown with the language technique of a metaphor. An example being “And who wants a seat in the stand?” The use of the metaphor shows the reader that if they don’t join in and fight in the war‚ they are missing out and will regret

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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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    a text; conceptual political metaphors; political and war euphemisms. Abstract. The main objectives of this thesis are to analyze and describe the linguistic means of creating and strengthening the pragmatic potential of the socio-political texts of the American and British press‚ to reveal their influence on the public intellectual and emotional conscience. The thesis is concentrated on the investigation of the pragmatics of conceptual political metaphors and political and war euphemisms

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    Within the poem‚ “The Author to Her Book‚” Anne Bradstreet uses a complex metaphor to describe her attitude towards one of her works that was published without her permission. Throughout the poem‚ she compares her anger towards her book to that of an unwanted child. Bradstreet apparently has the attitude of a perfectionist‚ so she did not think her book was worthy of publication. However‚ she was able to get it back and make corrections. Although Bradstreet has a negative attitude towards the publication

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    whole poem he uses words like “Garment”‚ “Ships”‚ ”Towers”‚ and “Domes”‚ he also uses the setting as an imagery as well as natural things such as sky‚ rivers‚ valley‚ hill‚ and rocks. The poet uses metaphors and similes to have this effect on the reader to imagine how gorgeous the view is. For example “This

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    achieve these effects the author uses a variety of literary techniques such as metaphors‚ similes and personifications. In this travel writing‚ the author talks about the North Yorkshire coast. The text covers three different places in three different paragraphs which all of them are set within the North Yorkshire coast. In the first paragraph‚ the author talks about St. Hilda. The author starts by using a metaphor‚ ‘A great black tooth’. This phrase creates villous and monstrous effects‚ bringing

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    what is known and what we want to know. That writing and life go hand in hand with eachother. Metaphorical language in The train from Rhodesia Throughout the short story the train itself is a metaphor. Not easily-envisioned one yet a metaphor all the same. It is mentioned to be a beast. For example “the steaming complaint of the resting beast”. The use of the word beast represents the train as uncontrollable and aggressive. Also the sound of the trains whistle is an eerie sound‚ like the howl

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    body experience in and with the world sets out the contours of what is meaningful to us and determinates the ways of our understanding. In short‚ experience assigns a central role to bodily experience in meaning‚ understanding‚ and reasoning and metaphor is based on human body experience. 1.1 The Definition of Human Body Words Human body words usually refer to words that indicate some parts of a human body. Human body plays an important part not only in our life but also in the process of cognition

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    You Fit Into Me Margaret Atwood writes in a vivid‚ witty and often sharply discomfiting style in all of her literary works. To call her a feminist author is in a way selling her short as her work‚ while often centered on issues of gender‚ has also focused on Canadian national identity‚ Canada’s relations with the United States and Europe‚ human rights issues‚ environmental issues‚ and the Canadian wilderness. The poem that I chose to analyze is a very short poem consisting of only four

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