reading and analysing various short stories of which I have thoroughly enjoyed. These stories include ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ by Roald Dahl‚ ‘A Daughter’s Story’ by Fatima Moradi‚ and ‘Jewelled Mirror’ by Izel Öztürk. We investigated and analysed the use of language devices such as metaphors‚ irony‚ and personification. We have worked on summarising the stories‚ the moral/purpose of the story‚ points of view and the multiple types of first and third person‚ and the culture of stories and how we can tell
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“Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses many literary devices to illustrate her struggles for freedom in relationship‚ precisely with her father and husband. She uses heavy metaphors and dense allusion to create imagery of hatred towards her relationship between both men. It is important to know Plath’s historical background before readers dive into any of her artistic work. Sylvia had a very negative relationship with men in her life especially her father and husband. Slyvia’s father‚ Otto Plath passed away when
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themselves during a war with Romans by using an equipment called burning mirror and presents some reasons to support this claim. However the lecturer finds all the reasons dubious and provides some explanations to refute them all. first the reading brings up the idea that Greeks did not possessed the technology that was needed to make such a large curved copper sheet and explains that for using a sheet as a weapon like burning mirror‚ it has to be enormously large which was impossible for Greeks to build
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“Daddy” Sylvia Plath was a talented young woman born to a German father and Austrian-American mother. After the death of her father‚ she fell into a downward spiral of depression‚ revealing her talent as a poet. In the poem “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses intense diction‚ sporadic syntax‚ and a unique style of figurative language to express the resentment she feels toward her father. Throughout the poem‚ Plath’s German diction and sporadic syntax creates a morbid tone. Many of the words Plath uses in her
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Black Mirror by Gail Jones How does the narrative construct the character and her childhood world as complex? The complexity of the character in ‘Black Mirror’ is constructed through the use of conventions to depict the conflict between her inner self and society. ‘Black Mirror’ is about a young girl‚ Anna‚ and her journey from childhood to adulthood‚ from the familiar to the unfamiliar respectively. The setting‚ plot line and the town’s environment help in show the complexity of the character
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Vignettes November 26‚ 2013 Similes Metaphor Personification Imagery My Name I would like to know how my name began. In English‚ it is free holder. In Latin‚ it is a beautiful woman. In Nicaragua‚ it means half a dozen people answer when it is called. It’s like going into a dark alley filled with cats and calling‚ “Here kitty.” Carolina means common‚ its just ordinary. It is eight sweet letters. Carolina is like a song of happiness or joy. It is the color of the rainbow that comes after
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Nicole Ferrin October 13‚ 2008 BUSA 305 Case Analysis Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant is facing the problem of not being able to keep their employees motivated in both good and bad times. Before the problem occurred‚ Ron Bent‚ the plant manager‚ had adopted the Scanlon Plan. The Scanlon Plan was an incentive plan used to motivate employees and to drive changes in their behavior and attitudes. The plan consisted of monthly
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The technique of mirror therapy was introduced by Dr. Ramachandran and it can be applied to the rehabilitation of phantom limb patients by improving physical movements. The illusion of movement in the affected body part and leads to muscle activity in the inactive phantom limb along with activity in the brain associated with that body part (Arya 2016). This is due to the role of mirror neurons‚ cells in the premotor cortex and inferior parietal lobule‚ which are stimulated when observing and physically
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The Legend of The Mirror Christine Recio Along time ago‚ in a far away land‚ there’s a princess named Mira. Princess Mira always wanted to be the most beautiful girl in the Kingdom. She always ask her servants to judge her look. Until one night‚ a girl knocked at the Kingdom‚ She was wounded and hungry. She ask for help‚ and all of the servants come to help her. Then Princess Mira heard about the strange girl. Everyone was surprised when the girl takes off her hood. She was lovely as the swan
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“The face in the mirror was not mine! What was going on?” Andrea thought. Now let me explain to you how this all happened… Andrea’s morning started off like every other day. School went well‚ and the evenings with her mom‚ dad and 2 older sisters followed the same routine as every other Thursday night. “Tonight everything is going to change for me. At 11:11 pm my biggest dream will finally come true‚” Andrea thought as her wise father rambled on about what a colleague had said at lunch time. Her
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