The text under consideration with a very unusual and remarkable title “Up the Down Staircase” is one of the best novels of our time was written by Bel Kaufman‚ an American author. She worked as a teacher of the English language and literature in a New York high school for 15 years. “Up the Down Staircase” is her first semi-autobiographical novel about an idealistic young English teacher‚ who is really excited about her future work with children at school. But as it turns out‚ it’s not so easy to
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Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings ≥ Cognitive Linguistics Research 34 Editors Dirk Geeraerts ´ Rene Dirven John R. Taylor Honorary editor Ronald W. Langacker Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings Edited by Dirk Geeraerts Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton‚ The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG‚ Berlin Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI
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Book report ___Love is a Fallacy Love is a Fallacy is a funny story. The narrator of it is Dobie Gillis. He was a self-conceited freshman in a law school---University of Minnesota. And Petey Burch was Dobie’s stupid roommate‚ having a girl-friend named Polly Espy. While Dobie wanted to marry Polly after graduation. So he intended to steal her from Petey. By a chance‚ Dobie could give Petey a raccon coat‚ which was Petey desired to have‚ because he was a faddist. In
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She begins her poem‚ "This to the crown and blessing of my life‚/The much loved husband of a happy wife‚/To him whose constant passion found the art/To win a stubborn and ungrateful heart" (1-4)‚ relegating her husband to the role of a muse. Metonymy in the first line confirms affection towards her husband as the inspiration of her poem. Enjambment connects lines 2-3‚ emphasizing the surplus of source material derived from the poet’s gratefulness to her significant other. Finch concludes
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“The Escape” Analysis W. Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 in Paris‚ he is a famous English writer‚ who also received medical degree‚ but never practiced it. For a long time of his career of writer‚ he had no success‚ only in 1907‚ his “Lady Frederic”‚ a comedy of manners‚ was produced in London‚ and after it he became famous. Further on his plays were performed all over the world. He wrote his novels in Europe‚ where spent a lot of time travelling. He died in 1965. His novel “The Escape” is subjectivised
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’Life is like a box of chocolates...’ At first glance the quote ’life is like a box of chocolates seems’ rather silly. How could such a large and complicated concept such as life be compared to something as small and simple as a box of chocolates? There have been two opposing viewpoints in regards to the meaning of this quote‚ and each viewpoint comes about by a different analysis of what life and chocolates represent as well as what they mean in today’s world. The conclusion to the question can
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Justice for All- “I have a dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. On August 28th‚ 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. gave the infamous “ I have a dream” speech‚ a speech that became a pivotal moment in the history of Civil Rights. King’s address took place during the march on Washington rally‚ where 250‚000 civil rights activists had gathered to join the peaceful protest. Martin Luther King Jr.’s purpose is to unite and inspire those fighting for justice‚ through the use of repetition devices‚ syntax devices
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the soldiers were close of being blown up by the thrown shells. Simile plays a good part in the first and the second verse of the opening stanza where it is used as "like old beggars" and "couching like hangs". It is another effective way of using metonymy. By comparing the young soldiers to old hags and poor beggars‚ the horrible situation at the trenches was well described and exaggerated. Metaphor is something that should
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Wilfred Owen’s poetry revives the horrors of war and displays the inconsistency of war as it dehumanises those who fight‚ therefore giving our humanity to death. War is portrayed as pitiful‚ futile and damaging which thus reveals the true aspects of war rather than the propagandist’s view that displays war as heroic and honourable. This was achieved through Owen’s extensive use of visual and aural imagery‚ which is evident in his poem’s Strange Meeting‚ The Next War‚ and Insensibility which all expose
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generalized status and thus becoming a generative model. SD must always have some function in the text‚ besides they bring some additional information. The conception that words possess several meanings gives rise to such SDS as metaphor‚ metonymy‚ irony‚ epithet and others. Thus‚ a metaphor is a conscious and intentional intensification of typical semantic properties of a word: “Oh‚ Rain”-said Mor. He enveloped her in a great embrace. (I. Murdoch). The dictionary meaning of the verb “envelope”
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