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    • Social Satire • Set Narrative- tightly structured rhyme scheme • 3rd person (omniscent) narrative and uses a double vouce. This distances Harwood from her characters which still enabling her to give her perspective. Eisenbart’s psyche is presented from Harwood’s perspective as she is being judgemental and mocking him through the use of words such as “grace” and “rudely declined”. • Iambic Pentameter (10 beats to the line‚ as in Shakespeare) • An Extreamely formally structured poem- Reinforcing

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    Javert became suspicious of Monsieur Madeline when he lifts a cart of a man‚ and is justified in his suspicions. Javert said‚ "Monsieur Mayor six weeks ago after that scene about that girl‚ i was enraged and denounced you" The remarkable feat of strength that Madeline preformed caught Javert’s attention. Javert associated the strength with that of a convict and became suspicious. "I believed it‚ for a long while i had had suspicions." Javert’s suspicions are justified because it was indeed Madeline

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    fooled into an affair. The word ‘lured’ makes the great lord seem a predator and the narrator his prey. This could have a sexual meaning behind it. “To lead a shameless shameful life”‚ this oxymoron has a more obvious sexual meaning behind it. The words ‘shameless’ and ‘shameful’ conflict making this an oxymoron. This could mean that it was shameless for her enjoyment of the sexual act but it was in fact in real life shameful. She is objectified through the quote “He wore me like a silken knot; he

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    Shakespeare ’s ’Romeo and Juliet ’ is a tragedy told in two language styles‚ prose and verse. Death‚ fate‚ disorder are all minor components of this classic story centred on a dangerous love that reaches across the barriers of family and convention. Some perceptions of love in this play are dutiful‚ passionate‚ sexual and so forth. Throughout this essay I will be exploring the different perceptions of love and how Shakespeare ’s use of language and structure further emphasises each perception.

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    withers quicker than the rose” use than instead of the like or as which is commonly used for similes. Most‚ if not all‚ similes in this poem use this method. When contradictory terms are used consecutively they are called an oxymoron. The only line in this poem sticks out as an oxymoron is “silence sounds.” Poems are usually known for rhyming‚ but not all do. Many poems use other sound devices such as alliteration and rhyme. “To an Athlete Dying Young” uses both of these devices throughout the poem.

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    hate are embodied in many different ways. The Montagues and Capulets hate each other after a long feud long forgotten‚ but Romeo and Juliet meet each other and fall in love instantly “star crossed lovers” showing that hate can be born in love‚ an oxymoron. The prologue establishes the themes of love and hate from the beginning and links the two. The sonnet at the start of the play gives us an insight into the play the love and hate of the family is from long ago that they have an ancient grudge and

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    Marriages: Make Them Legal‚” Thomas B. Stoddard argues in favor of gay marriages – saying it is a fundamental personal freedom‚ not one that should be controlled by the government – and I support his stance. In Lisa Schiffren’s “Gay Marriage‚ an Oxymoron‚” she argues that same-sex marriage can’t be understood by society. She says marriage needs to keep with the tradition of being between a man and women. I believe this way if thinking is backwards and simpleminded. Generally‚ the public is becoming

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    Florence Kelley’s Persuasion of Child Labor Laws A once hot topic became a now law-enforced face. Child labor has been a controversial issue and Florence Kelley was one of the many protestors that brought success to the child labor laws. She was an avid fighter and was not only against child labor laws but also woman’s suffrage. On July 22‚ 1905‚ Kelley gave and impeccable speech at the Convention of National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia about child labor laws. To successively

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    Guilt is a common feeling that humans feel when they have done something wrong. The poets Gabriel Okara and Dennis brutus both express this feeling of guilt in their personas backgrounds. Therefore‚ okara’s “Once Upon a Time” and brutus’s “It is the Constant Image of Your Face” are poems portrayed with guilt‚ but they show it in different situations. The body of both poems have a specific situation happening. in the poem “Once Upon a Time” the persona wishes to be young again an forget all the lessons

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    Point of View “I maintain that the Ewells started it all‚ but Jem‚ who was four ears my senior‚ said it started long before that.” (chapter 1‚ page 1) I know this book is written in 1st person point of view by the words I and me. The point of view impacts the story because you are able to experience the narrator’s feelings about everything happening. Simile "…her hand was as wide as a bed slat." (chapter 1‚ page 6) This example of a simile is comparing Calpurnia’s hand to a bed slat. This

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