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    To Autumn - Poem

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    stance‚ he uses are reflective pronouns - ourselves a first singular and plural. We can compare our narrative stance‚ to text A; third person narrative within line 1 and 2 which is effective to capture. Second person address within lines 13 to 16 for example: ‘’Thee‚ Thy.’’ These few lines also expands on the characteristics of Autumn. The extract B is all declaratives we’ve got compound to start with and is quite effective because he found ourselves at vegetable market e.g.:’’ Dangling and looking’’

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    The Power of Language

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    feelings‚ excite and thrill our spirit‚ or warm and kindle the flame of our hearts. They can also slap our face‚ punch us in the stomach‚ rattle our nerves‚ kill our desire‚ or destroy our self-confidence. Of course this is metaphorical‚ but these metaphors capture in words our physical reactions to what is said‚ and that is the power of language. It can emotionally move and affect us as powerfully as physical actions. Unfortunately‚ however‚ we have yet to recognize and legitimize this great power

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    Comic Strip

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    of characters‚ figures and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story with a purpose of teaching an idea and a principle or explaining an idea or a principle. The objective of its use is to preach some kind of a moral lesson. Example: “Animal Farm”‚ written by George Orwell‚ is an allegory that uses animals on a farm to describe the overthrow of the last of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and the Communist Revolution of Russia before WW II. The actions of the animals on the farm

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    James K Baxter

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    industry’. The language features such as similes and metaphors put him on the same level as the reader so that it becomes easier for him to understand his thoughts and feelings. Similes like wild bees as “(swift as tigers)” embodies the way bees are known as being fast and dart about. Also included in this description is a comparison to tigers which gives the reader a feeling that the bees are fierce and hazardous. Powerful and meaningful metaphors such as ‘their sentries saw us’ and the ‘wounded

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    Metonymy

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    which it has some permanent or temporary connection: He felt as though he must find a sympathetic intelligent ear (Th drieser). The transfer of meanings may be based on temporal spatial‚ casual‚ functional‚ instrumental and other relations. Like metaphors metonymy can be divided into trite metonymy-i.e. words of metonymic origin and genuine metonymy. In trite metonymy the transferred meaning is established in the semantic structure of the word as a secondary meaning. In the course of time its figurativeness

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    The Drummer Boy

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    his/her purpose‚ and to believe that overcoming the problem is possible. 2. Appearances may be deceiving; often that which seems least important may actually be immeasurably valuable. Find the following literary devices in this story: Two examples of metaphor 1. “Similarly strewn steel bones of their rifles” (comparing the rifles to skeletons) p5 2. “its great lunar face” (comparing the shape and color of the drum skin to the moon) p5 3. enemy army “turning slow‚ basting themselves with the thought

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    Beauty and Sadness

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    see how the poet depict women as a creature who looks lovely and strong as if they were no vulnerability in their soul. B. They resembled beautiful iridescent insects‚ creatures from a floating world. * In this stanza‚ Song uses a metaphor that women are like insects that are exotic but has the power to make you caught your attention whether they may be small and

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    Poetry Assignment

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    that kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chilliest land‚ and on the strangest sea; yet‚ never‚ in extremity‚ it asked a crumb of me. Analysis of the poem In first stanza Dickson defines hope by comparing it to a bird‚ which is metaphor- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. The poem examines the abstract idea of hope in the free spirit of a bird. Hope is an animate thing‚ it is

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    "Saplings in the Storm"

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    the age of adolescence. She uses similes‚ allusions‚ and metaphors to pull her reads into her reflections. “Just as… ships disappear…into the Bermuda Triangle… the selves of girls…crash and burn in a social and developmental Bermuda Triangle.” Pipher connects the suddenness of the girls’ changes to a mystery that most have heard of. Early on in her essay she wants her readers to realize the severity of the topic. Pipher includes metaphors and imagery to add reality to what these girls deal with;

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    Poetry Explication

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    patients in the hospital suffered. He uses literary tropes to make reader’s emotions react to the tone of the poem. A metaphor is a literary trope often used in poetry to make a comparison between two objects to give the audience a deeper sense of what he is comparing; his metaphors compare non-related objects or feelings that have a similar quality. He uses two very different metaphors to describe the pain the patients are feeling. “Pain is a steady/fall from a high place‚ one with/no view‚ no vision

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