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    Mark O'Connor Imagery

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    With reference to two of O’Connor’s poems‚ analyse the DVI’s he employs to explore his themes   Poet and Environmentalist‚ Mark O’Connor‚ expresses his admiration for the cyclical and resilient aspects of which nature is comprised. The persistence of nature depicts the ideas that nature is just as‚ if not more‚ dominant as man. His poems Turtles Hatching and To Kill An Olive explore these themes and elucidate O’Connor’s compelling perspective of nature. These two poems hold distinctively visual

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    pot” sarcasm is shown and in line three there is a hyperbole of the bonsai tree saying “Could have grown eighty feet tall” A Work of Artifice uses a lot of diction and imagery. Some examples of diction are “pruned” “crippled” and “attractive pot” The diction is somehow connected to gardening and the belittling of women. The imagery is mainly focused on the bonsai tree and how it’s not able to reach its full capacity. There’s a lot of gender

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    In “To Be of Use‚” Marge Piercy uses figurative language to create imagery that helps convey that the speaker wants to be useful and take initiative like the people they love but never does. The figurative language make people who take initiative seem inhuman. In one line‚ Piercy uses simile when she writes‚ “the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls.” By using this simile‚ Piercy piques the readers’ imagination‚ renewing their interest in the forgotten things people do. This

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    Lauren McFadden ENG 1013 Lindsay Penn 05 February 2013 Vivid Imagery of “The Black Cat”   The use of vivid imagery in “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most fascinating aspects of this story to me. Poe shapes the mood of suspense using language‚ symbols‚ and the supernatural in such a dark and intriguing way. These three things create a sense of foreshadowing‚ which helps set the stage for the reader and navigates the path from one shocking event to the next. Poe’s

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    My College Essay

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    William Paterson University Essay     Ever since freshmen year‚ I’ve always been interested in going to William Paterson. I remember being in guidance class and seeing a poster for William Paterson University for instant decision days‚ and I was so interested in finding out more about WPU and all that the school had to offer. I was immediately drawn to the school because of its nursing program. I’ve always wanted to become a nurse ever since grammar school and knew that was what I wanted to do

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    The author in the story Lord of the flies symbolizes imagery in many different ways. He also expresses the theme in the story by the actions the kids take on the island. They had to go through a lot of things on the island and some of the things they did made them look really bad. In the story we can see that is an occurrence very often. Overall the imagery and symbolism of fear when the boys do things that they normally wouldn’t do turns into savergry. There are many cases where the boy won’t

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    My college essay

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    WRITING THE COLLEGE ESSAY PURPOSE OF THE ESSAY Your GPA‚ class rank‚ SATI and SATII scores are all important to a college admissions officer in helping to assess your academic abilities. But they are only numbers – they have no personality. What can make your application stand apart are the personal essays. The college essay will allow an admissions officer to look beyond those numbers and see you as a person. A well-written essay should convey your thoughts‚ attitudes‚ personal qualities‚

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    Imagery is one of the many elements of voice that the author uses to portray her purpose of the importance of family‚ despite ones difference of opinions. Throughout Vowell’s experiences and time spent maturing with her family‚ she realizes that a family shares more similarities than differences with each other. ‘“That’s quite the machine you got there.’ But he isn’t talking about the cannon. He’s talking about my tape recorder and my microphone – which is called a shotgun mike. I stare back at him

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    My Ethnography Essay

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    and it is still widely used and relied upon today whilst also causing great controversy. Writing essays is a main part of history and from that I have been able to gain the skill of writing from two points of view. Being able to select relative pieces of evidence is a skill that I have acquired from English Literature. Whilst studying novels from different time periods and different genres I find that my interest in sociology has flourished. While reading ’The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy‚ I began to question

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    seeing a dagger floating in the air before him. He describes it‚ "And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood‚ / Which was not so before. There’s no such thing: / It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes." The blood imagery in this passage obviously refers to treason‚ ambition‚ and

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