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    Walter Dean Myers‚ the author uses descriptive adjectives to develop an imagine. The author also uses figurative language to develop the mood in the story and to develop the characters. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” the author uses descriptive adjectives to develop characters and an image. First‚ the author stated “Graffiti scarred building to the grim shadows.” Here author uses descriptive language when describing the setting to help set the eerie mood of the story‚ it was eerie because of the shadows

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    Language Acquisition Theories Grand Canyon University ESL-533N February 22‚ 2014 Language Acquisition Theories The article “Bridging two worlds: Reading comprehension‚ figurative language instruction‚ and the English-language learner” (Palmer‚ et al) tells the story about Alejandro Alvarez‚ and ELL student who lived in the United States during his early childhood years‚ returned to his home country of El Salvador and soon after‚ his family decided to relocate to Florida. Alejandro

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    evil. A clue that Nathaniel Hawthorne provides the readers with is the language that the characters use throughout the story: old English. With a context of “Sayest thou so?... thee‚ not thou shalt turn back” (Hawthorne‚ 2). The author’s storytelling is told in a serious and dark tone with witchcraft‚ dark clouds‚ and the devil persuading Goodman Brown to become evil. Hawthorne’s style of writing utilizer figurative language “The cry of grief rage and terror was yet piercing the night” (Hawthorne

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    Hour” by Kate Chopin (1894) In “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard who “was afflicted with a heart trouble” goes through a lot of mixed emotions after hearing that her husband died in a railroad accident. Kate Chopin uses symbolism‚ figurative language and irony properly to describe Mrs. Mallard’s feelings and emotions through the story. Mrs. Mallard also feels that she has been trapped in a marriage where she was prisoner of her husband and realizes that it is time for her to live for herself

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    In the mid 1920’s‚ the American author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ wrote The Great Gatsby. It was not out of the blue to use words to describe African American people that nowadays would be taken offensively and people would get hostile about. Mainly the whole purpose of using such these harmful and abusive words were to classify African Americans as objects‚ and not as human beings. When Nick describes the "two Bucks" and a Negro girl passing them in a horse-drawn carriage with a white chauffeur he thinks

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    “How is the concept of Breaking Free represented in A Room with a View‚ related text and a text studied in class?” Breaking Free is represented in E.M. Forster’s‚ Room with a View through Lucy and the contrast in constraints of the English society and the freedom loving‚ passionate nature of Italy. Breaking Free is also represented in the feature article “Women at War” by Jo Chandler‚ through how women have broken free from the traditional female roles and taken on front line duties with the Australian

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    Walt Whitman in ‘Leaves of Grass’‚ uses many similar techniques throughout his poem to give off and emphasize his meaning. The three techniques that further Whitman’s meaning in my opinion are repetition‚ along with the overuse of commas and lack of use of periods‚ and alliteration. Whitman’s uses common themes from transcendentalism including body and soul‚ immortality and Whitman also talks a lot about equality. Whitman uses repetition in the beginning of certain sentences to stress his message

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    Commas are a meant to separate ideas or extend a thought. This extension also represents something that is infinite. This is depicted in Symborzca’s poem Pi. Pi is an infinite number and in the poems‚ commas are used to depict that thought. The number Pi represents life. People believe it to be infinite. The commas that come in between the numbers‚ “six five three five at a glance‚ eight nine by calculation‚ seven nine or imagination‚” ‚ show how the idea is the same‚ and is extended to make it seem

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    Analysis of the Use and Abuse of Figurative Language in Communication April 20‚ 2012 Analysis of the Use and Abuse of Figurative Language in Communication Despite being the world ’s language used for convenience‚ English is the most difficult European language to learn to read. Children learning other languages obtain the basic elements of literacy within a year‚ but British kids take two-and-a-half years to reach the same point . Although their American counterparts are

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    the story of a man‚ Meursault‚ who is a moralist. Nothing seems to matter to him and his or anybody else’s actions makes no difference. Camus’s use of language allows readers to discover the mood and meaning being conveyed through diction and word choice. His use of figurative language can be seen throughout. Such an example of figurative language is imagery. From reading The Stranger‚ one can clearly picture whats happening as Camus beautifully describes every action of Meursault. In the first

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