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    “Glooming peace” are contradictory words because glooming is dark and sad while peace is happy and pleasant. The oxymoron convey the image of the sadness and pain caused by the feud. The ‘‘Glooming’’ was used to describe the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet while peace was used to describe the truce made between the feuding families due to their children’s death. It

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    Literary aspects in the poem include figure of speech‚ imagery‚ rhyme‚ rhythm and form. In stanza one the rhythm of the poem is in iambic pentameter‚ where there are ten syllables in each line and every other syllable is stressed. As well as the rest of the poem stanza one’s rhyme scheme is ABA. The phrases “good night”‚ “close of day”‚ and “dying of the light” are metaphors for death. Thomas is advising the elderly‚ like his father‚ to “burn and rave” in other words fight against death. Another

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    Plan 1. Figures of quantity: hyperbole; meiosis (litotes). 2. Figures of quality: metonymy (synecdoche‚ periphrasis‚ euphemism); irony. 3. Figures of contrast: oxymoron; antithesis. 4. Practical assignment Metonymy‚ another lexical SD‚ - like metaphor - on losing its originality also becomes instrumental in enriching the vocabulary of the language‚ though metonymy is created by a different semantic process and is based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena. Transference

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    There are several literary terms to show the layers that make up the characters. Shakespeare uses juxtaposition‚ oxymoron‚ and paradox as indirect characterization to show how complex Romeo‚ Juliet‚ and Friar Laurence are as characters. Juliet is young and has deep changing feelings. Many of the feelings she has toward Romeo are confusing ones‚ “honorable villain‚” (3.2.79). This oxymoron shows the passion that Juliet has for Romeo‚ and that even when Romeo has done something horrible to Juliet or

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    institutions from around Australia and New Zealand. The purpose of the Network is to provide support for business ethics education and research in the Australasian region. Business ethics; too often still an oxymoron It is still too often the case that people refer to business ethics as an oxymoron‚ with ethical values considered an individual matter. People tend to think of ethics as something that cannot be applied‚ something existing in a realm of great complexity and therefore a waste of time and

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    If the Shoe Fits‚ He Did It. Romeo and Juliet was not originally from Shakespeare; Arthur Brooke wrote a poem and Shakespeare turned that into a marvelous play. Many characters could be blamed since most of them are either Montague or Capulet. They don’t seem to like the other family and they fight. Benvolio is the one who is mostly to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he forced Romeo to go to the dance‚ and then he pushed Romeo to search for a girl‚ and after threw him under the

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    and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare’s play‚ Shakespeare explores Romeo’s change in attitude to love between Rosaline and Juliet. In Act 1 Scene 1 Shakespeare introduces us to Romeo’s passionate desire towards Rosaline through the use of oxymoron‚ monologues and vivid imagery. In contrast‚ in Act 2 Scene 2‚ when Romeo is addressing Juliet‚ his language shifts through the use of light‚ religious and mythical imagery to reflect his newly found romantic love to Juliet. In Act 1 scene 1‚

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    Hays‚ Peter L. "Oxymoron in The Great Gatsby." Papers on Language & Literature 47.3 (2011): 318+. General OneFile. Web. 19 Oct. 2012. There are significant paradoxes throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s (life and) work frequently represented by oxymorons‚ of which Wolfsheim’s eating with "ferocious delicacy" (75) is only one of the most apparent and‚ as such‚ very possibly a clue to the paradoxes in the novel. Kirk Curnutt in a review of Fitzgerald’s short stories remarks that the titles Flappers

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    Wilfred Owen

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    suggests lost hope because he can no longer help save the soldier so he has to keep reliving the moment‚ unable to turn away. The phrase ‘smothering dreams’ portrays an oxymoron because ‘smothering’ connotes suffocation and a negative image whereas ‘dreams’ connotes a more positive image and thoughts about hope and faith so Owen uses an oxymoron to describe war as a place where dreams are ruined and turned into nightmares and the phrase suggest his dreams are more nightmares rather than dreams suggesting

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    Units of language on different levels are studied by traditional branches of linguistics as phonetics (that deals with speech sounds and intonation)‚ lexicology (treats the words‚ their meaning and vocabulary structure)‚ grammar (analysis forms of words)‚ syntax (analysis the function of words in a sentence). These areas of study are more or less clear-cut. Some scholars claim that stylistic is a comparatively new branch of linguistics‚ The term stylistics really came into existence not too long

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