The author James Clavell‚ born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell was a British novelist‚ screenwriter‚ director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Many of his novels were converted to movies‚ most famous of them being The Great Escape with Steve McQueen. In WW II he was wounded by machine-gun fire‚ he was eventually captured and sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java. Later he was transferred to Changi Prison in Singapore. He suffered greatly at the hands of his Japanese captors
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analyze (examine) one poem‚ defending your interpretive claim (a clear‚ concise‚ debatable‚ and assertive thesis statement that explains what the poems mean and how literary elements (i.e. speaker‚ figurative language (metaphor‚ simile‚ synechdoche‚ metonymy‚ personification‚ hyperbole‚ oxymoron‚ paradox)‚ imagery‚ sound patterns‚ format‚ theme‚ persona‚ tone‚ symbolism‚ connotation‚ or denotation) are employed to convey the poem’s message. Your primary support must come from the poem itself; however
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cook”. The clich? “on a good day” is used to show that they did not care very much about that carpet. After all they decided to call her but they did not know whether would be suitable. Besides she was on her own and seemed “utterly lost”‚ this metonymy which describes her in a very bad condition. But then Diana fidgeted with the screen and their attention again was attracted by the beauty of it. To show their admiration the author uses the proverb “The gold alone is worth a fortune”. And at the
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Literary and Cultural Studies 212 – Narrative Essay 1 – ‘A Visit to Newgate’ by Charles Dickens D’Costa‚ Alzena. ‘Week 3: Realism as Convention’. Lecture. Curtin University. 10/8/09. Realism The realist novel is a product of a particular time and place as well as a new set of assumptions about the nature of truth. (Lect 3) Emerged in a time of capitalist modernity – ‘truth’ a product of empirical science. Reality translated through the human ability to test and measure (observation). Produced by
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SEMÁNTICA Y PRAGMÁTICA I UNIT 1 What is semantics? Some linguistics link the notion of semantic to meaning‚ others to meaning in language‚ or meaning in communication through language‚ when others link it with other branches‚ like grammatical or literal meaning. What is meaning? The fact we need to have in mind is where to locate meaning‚ or parts of meaning. History of Semantics: Semantics had a central place in linguistic study from the very beginning. American structuralism banned Semantics
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Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies Stylistic Analysis of Barrack Obama´s Presidential Victory Speech Iveta Vondráková Nitra 2012 Content Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3 1 Basic characteristics .................................................................................................... 4 1.1 References from the
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“Happy cemetery.” (135) Conflict Irony Assonance Juxtaposition Litote “You all know of Brother Tom Robinson’s trouble." (160 ) Flashback Consonance “”Why do you think Miss Rachel locks up so tight at night?..”(13) Alliteration Metonymy "Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time." (129) "... that boy might go the chair..." ( 195)
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stanza- Conceit-Constantly repeats ‘the hand’ – everything in this poem is something a hand can do. The hand represents authority and power. “Sovereign fingers‚ kings” The hand is detached to a person. Signing and writing off these papers Metonymy- ruler’s ability to start the war and end the war Theme: the operation of modern warfare Tone: bitter “Man by a scribbled name” scribbled‚ careless. Thought to have been fascism “Fillanges” meaning fingers or a military group‚ double meaning
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Metaphor is a rhetorical figures that the reader or listener tries to understand through choosing the terms. Thus‚ the selection of the words helps to appreciate a good figure that needs a colorful consideration. Also‚ metaphor is a comparison that is implicit between two different phenomena by using the vocabularies figurative. I. A. Richards says that a metaphor has two parts‚ namely‚ tenor and vehicle. Tenor is the complete sense while the vehicle is the tool when he give us his view as : “…
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(pp. 41-63) Some key terms: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; semantic or vocabulary domain; color language and color cognition; lexical classifications and ethnoscientific domains; focal meaning and fuzzy membership; cultural presupposition; metaphor‚ metonymy; metaphors of kinship‚ other metaphors; proverbs. Week 3 Jan. 25 Language‚ Culture‚ and Cognition. (Hdt. 3.1‚ 3.2- metaphors & new words) “Metaphors We Live By”. Readings: Bonvillain‚ Ch. 3 (pp. 64-71) Jan.
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