not make sense. Figurative meaning is far more interesting when it is used in a sentence. It encourages us to use our imaginations. There are different ways to use figurative language in our daily life such as simile‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ paradox and etc. Niklaus runs like a duck. (it’s a simile‚ as Niklaus is explicitly compared to a duck with the use of the words “like” or “as”) Love is a ruthless game (it’s a metaphor‚ as one thing is compared to another without the use of the words
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she was no heroine and he no hero‚ but both of them became greater than that‚ not by any means by being relieved of the distress‚ the agony‚ and the paradox‚ but because of these (Kierkegaard 94).” Mary‚ like Abraham‚ is tested by God through her virgin birth. The indignity put upon Mary resembles Abraham’s ethical dilemma‚ and yet through the paradox of faith and infinite resignation‚ she becomes the mother of God‚ as Isaac is returned to Abraham. The same “strength of the absurd‚” a virgin birth
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INTRODUCTION: NEW CRITICISM American New Criticism is named after John Crowe Ransom’s 1941 book The New Criticism. The movement focused on the text of a work of literature and excluded the reader’s response‚ the author’s intentions‚ historical and cultural contexts and moralistic bias from their analysis. It was the equivalent of the new professional criticism established in the emerging discipline of ‘English’ in Britain during the inter-war period. The reasons why it rose to almost hegemonic proportions
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natural world. In a melancholy and reminiscent tone‚ he writes in hope to begin a change‚ a return to a time where we were entertained by the world around us. Using paradox‚ polysyndeton‚ and parallel sentence structure as rhetorical strategies‚ Louv illustrates our gradual but definite separation from nature. Louv relies heavily on paradox to strengthen his argument. He establishes a commonplace scenario found throughout America in the minds of his readers: the long‚ drawn out car drives
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The lottery puzzle stems from the same structure as the lottery paradox‚ which is a modern paradox credited to Professor Henry E. Kyburg Jr. The lottery puzzle‚ much like the lottery paradox is episodic‚ dealing with belief or knowledge. To understand the lottery puzzle‚ I will analyze the concepts of fallibilism and the principle of closure under known implications. Then I will analyze the plausibility and the strength of the possible solution to the lottery puzzle: the denial of knowledge of ordinary
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because they feel must hide their true feelings and therefore feel more misunderstood and more helpless. Therefore‚ this isolation actually keeps them from the connection and relationship that they desire. People experiencing this central relational paradox experience condemned isolation which is a feeling that they are not worth being known. This condemned isolation seems to be related to shame. Shame as described by Jordan (p100) is encompassing and immobilizing because one feels that there is an inherent
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Nathaniel Hawthorne finds in colonial New England a compelling setting for his dramatization of the paradox of individualism—America was founded on the principle that to be an individual is to be separate from the state‚ thus creating a community‚ or country in the United States’ case‚ formed completely of separatists. The Scarlet Letter dramatizes the individualistic dimensions as this tendency of democracy that “relieve(s) the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow” (Hawthorne 29)
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highest‚ also that it is dishonest of philosophy to give something else in its place and to disparage faith" (Fear and Trembling‚ 12). To Kierkegaard‚ the whole biblical story is a paradox. "Thinking about Abraham is another matter‚ however; then I am shattered. I am constantly aware of the prodigious paradox that is the content of Abraham’s life‚ I am constantly repelled‚ and‚ despite all its passion‚ my thought cannot penetrate it‚ cannot get ahead by a hairsbreadth" (Fear and Trembling‚ 12)
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All Quiet on the Western Front “Little souls who thirst for fight‚ these men were born to drill and die” (Crane 7-8). Stephen Crane’s poem acknowledges the fact that many soldiers in the war have fought for survival‚ dehumanized‚ and lost lives for their country. Many propose the idea that war is not necessary and that it is pointless. This is quite ironic since a great amount of people go to war even though they think that it is unnecessary. Generally‚ these battles can be prevented after
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confirm falsehoods” (Kvanvig 2003‚ 122). Kvanvig argues that the insulation-from-error account is of no use in solving the value problem since it is not even a correct account of knowledge. He offers two reasons. Firstly‚ the preface paradox and the lottery paradox show that our bodies of evidence
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