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    kind of point of view. Reading this poem was actually inspirational. The poem isn’t so complex that it’s not understandable‚ but it’s somewhat just clear enough to understand and just tricky enough to make you think about it for a few minutes. For example‚ the fifth stanza reads: In the World’s broad field of battle In the bivouac of Life Be not like

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    because she says ’stars are kinda my thing […] it is a metaphor‚ and metaphors are important. My golden stars are a metaphor for me being a star.’ Rachel is also the main protagonist of Glee. "Hi my name is Rachel Berry and I’ll be singing "On My Own" from the seminal Broadway classic Les Mis. You might laugh because every time I sign my name I put a gold star after it‚ but it’s a metaphor. And metaphors are important. My gold stars are a metaphor. For me. Being a star. [...] You might think that all

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    his work. What stood out to Pound was‚ perhaps‚ Eliot’s distinct style of writing created from his intense use of diction and lengthy sentences that often derived from metaphors. Eliot is known to write with long sentences‚ many of which continue throughout a whole stanza. These longer sentences are typically extended metaphors or involve a metaphysical way of thinking that is portrayed frequently throughout the whole work and this is seen in “Rhapsody on a Windy Night.” “Twelve o’clock.

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    situation and his feelings about the incident. Hughes uses a lot of sensual imagery and figurative language in this poem. The poem contains: Personification‚ metaphors and similes and he also uses paradox‚ or oxymoron. Sensual imagery There are many lines in which Hughes personifies the tractor giving it feeling and emotion. The most important example is probably the last line of the poem‚ where the words‚ ’raging and trembling and rejoicing’‚ suggest the range of intense and mixed emotions felt after

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    “F***ing Perfect” by Pink “F***ing Perfect” by song artist Pink‚ expresses thoughts of her past and future. This song uses metaphors and also similes to get her points across. You are who you are and no one can take that away from you because “You are perfect”. An example of a metaphor in this song is “The whole world stares while i swallow the fear”. This line is stating that she was miss judged and bullied‚ what gives this away is the line“ they don’t like my genes they don’t get my hair”.

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    Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: Metaphor and Values as Captivating Strategies to Celebrate a Presidency M. PILAR GUITART ESCUDERO Coordinadora Área Lengua-Lingüística Hispanic Studies Program University of Virginia VA‚ EEUU C/ Ramón Gordillo‚ 4 46010 Valencia E-mail: pilar.guitart@uvavalencia.org Tel. +34 96 3691 485 BARACK OBAMA’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS: METAPHOR AND VALUES AS CAPTIVATING STRATEGIES TO CELEBRATE A PRESIDENCY ABSTRACT: Barack Obama’s rhetorical style is broadly acknowledged to be

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    but he may nevertheless look to the natural world for metaphors of his own condition.” (The Poetry Foundation). The purpose of this paper will be to explore the some of the pieces in which Frost’s use of nature as a metaphor or simile for the human condition‚ as well as identifying the theme that the human race is alone in the vast universe where it occurs. Perhaps the best example of this recurring theme and Frosts use of nature as a metaphor can be found in his poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” In

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    without love with ice-skaters‚ which gives us an image of coldness‚ but this does not mean that this poem is less profound because even though the theme is superficial and cold‚ the author describes it in a very detailed and profound way through metaphors and similes. In this poem the author leaves all the feelings and emotions behind‚ and talks about how superficial and cold are the people that can "...make love without love."(l.1) In this poem the

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    culminating in a confrontation with darkness is a metaphor of a failure to interpret the visual flow as an orderly text from which all the hints of the non-discursive and hence the ineffable must be erased. The wife’s incomprehensible decision which takes him by surprise opens up the realm of emotions‚ of uncontrollable desires‚ all that resists verbal articulation. Darkness which thwarts all the effort of the eyes to recognize shapes is a

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    Satire is a common thing that is used all around us there three things I will be analysing for satire uses things like hyperbole‚ caricature‚ irony‚ metaphors and similes satire is used so widely in different this it does add humour to things like the TV series angry boys‚ musical parodies (weird al yankovichs perform this way) and political cartoons (sorry Band-Aid) . Chis ley uses satire in angry boys which draws attention to life perceptions of the teenage boys there many humorous parts in this

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