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    Belonging Essay

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    Peter Skrzynecki from his compilation in the immigrant chronicle‚ Tim Winton’s short story ‘Neighbours’ and Rob Sitch’s film‚ ‘The castle’‚ that an individual’s conceived idea towards belonging may change due to the passage of time. Emerging from personal‚ social and contextual circumstances‚ the sense of belonging or not belonging is an underlying factor shaping one’s identity throughout time. The poem‚ ’10 Mary Street’‚ emphasis the idea of connection to place and how the Skrzynecki family

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    Close Reading of Sonnet

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    even stronger than a breakup because separation cannot eliminate feelings. The writer makes use of metaphors expressing love as a feeling of mind not just heart as young readers may see it. To Shakespeare love is an immortal felling that is similar to a mark on a person’s life. This sonnet has a simple and straightforward meaning. It is short‚ yet powerful with the perfect use of metaphors. If a partner suddenly becomes aware of impediments of the relationship they should not alter their

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    Profession for Women

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    consider women inferior to men. Thus‚ Woolf wrote this speech to encourage women to pursue what they wish to be‚ despite the psychological obstacles‚ which she personally has faced. She embodies these obstacles in three individual metaphors: the phantom and fisherman. Through personal anecdotes of how she responded to each obstacle‚ she persuades her audience‚ which is mostly women‚ to break through the thin wall‚ separating injustice to freedom. Primarily Woolf introduces us to a metaphorical reoccurring

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    An Unknown Girl

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    An  Unknown  Girl          In  the  poem  ‘An  Unknown  Girl’‚  Moniza  Alvi  uses  poetic  techniques  such  as   metaphors‚  personification‚  alliteration‚  repetition  and  similes  in  order  to  depict   her  struggles  in  rediscovering  her  cultural  identity.  Along  with  references  to   India  and  the  scenery  surrounding  the  narrator‚

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    Orwell Practice Essay

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    The Essays of George Orwell are a personal anthropological and cultural artifact‚ serving as authorial cathartic metalanguage that is ‘essentially communicative’ of omnipresent themes [John Donne‚ Metatempsychosis‚ 1601]. Such are indicative in ‘Why I write?’‚ ‘Writers and Levithan’ and ‘Politics and the English Language’‚ which are perpetually and contemporaneously relevant through Freudian ‘Ontological Pastiche of Experience’‚ as changing milieus offer new interpretations‚ producing continual fascination

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    My Three Passions

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    “My Three Passions” Informal Essay Assignment Your Task Write a well-structured informal essay inspired by Bertrand Russell’s personal essay read in class. Your essay will discuss the three greatest passions in your life – those events‚ people‚ and experiences that have made you the person you are today. Give your essay a unique title. Guidelines Length: Minimum two pages‚ double spaced‚ 12 point font Structure: Draw on your existing knowledge of essays as you structure this piece

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    Few words about the author Born William Sidney Porter‚ this master of short stories is much better known under his pen name "O. Henry." He was born September 11‚ 1862 in North Carolina‚ where he spent his childhood. O. Henry’s stories are famous for their surprise endings‚ to the point that such an ending is often referred to as an "O. Henry ending." He was called the American answer to Guy de Maupassant. Both authors wrote twist endings‚ but O. Henry stories were much more playful and optimistic

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    Stylistic devices

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    CHAPTER 2. Peculiarities of translation of stylistic devices in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.1. Main characteristics of translation of stylistic devices 2.1. Reproduction of simile in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.2. Reproduction of metaphor in the short stories by E.A.Poe 2.3. Reproduction of epithets in the short stories by E.A.Poe 1.3.1. Simile . According to K. Ya. Lotots’ka simile is an imaginative comparison which is also called literary comparison.[27‚ p

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    being ‘incomplete’; he is baffled and amused at the idea of being a half a person; he is angry that people are prejudiced and narrow-minded. He speaks with his native accent in English and this along with his anger makes his tone sound a lot more personal and directed towards the people who use the term. Similarly‚ Nagra explores Parade’s End with themes of racial tension through the conflict of poverty and wealth between Asians and whites. A successful black family from the South is threatened by

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    Figurative Language Terms

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    language. When a writer uses imagery‚ he/she gives the reader a sense of how something smells‚ tastes‚ sounds‚ feels or looks. Example: The old dog staggered down the road‚ dragging its back leg. A metaphor is an unlikely comparison between two things without using the words “like”‚ “as” or “than”. A metaphor can be one simple sentence or it can be extended throughout an entire stanza or poem (or used in prose).
 Example: Her rosebud lips pursed to kiss him. Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the

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