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    He would be in a scene‚ and would just speak nonsense or nothing that pertained to the topic. Additionally‚ Mercutio would often tease Romeo‚ and made puns and tell silly jokes. Mercutio even says his last words with comic fashion. Mercutio had made a pun about his wound. Mercutio couldn’t have done anything‚ he was far too silly and distracting to be essential to the story. When Mercutio was first introduced in the story‚ he was mocking Romeo for being

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    Stylistic semasiology

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    STYLISTIC SEMASIOLOGY OF THE ENGUSH LANGUAGE (Методичні вказівки до семінарських та практичних занять зі стилістики англійської мови для студентів IV курсу. (Видання 2) . Уклад. Воробйова О.П.‚ Бойцан Л.Ф.‚ Ганецька Л.В. та інш. - К.: Вид. центр КНЛУ‚ 2001. - С. 28-33.) 1. Semasiology is a branch of linguistics which studies semantics or meaning of linguistic units belonging to different language levels. Lexical semasiology analyses the meaning of words and word combinations‚ relations between

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    Mercy kill

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    Euthanasia: A Wrong Solution Euthanasia is the action of intentionally ending the life of a person or an animal that is suffering from uncurable or painful disease or condition. The word euthanasia comes from Greek‚ with "eu" meaning good or happy and "thanatos" meaning death. In other words‚ euthanasia can also be defined as mercy killing. There are different types of euthanasia‚ voluntary euthanasia‚ non-voluntary euthanasia and involuntary euthanasia. Voluntary euthanasia is performed when

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    How significant is Act 2 Scene 1 to the Taming of the Shrew as a whole and how does this scene contribute to the play’s comic potential? William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ follows two rather different sisters and their fathers attempt to marry them off. Bianca is the beautiful sister‚ fair and virtuous‚ a symbol of purity backed up by the fact her name means white in Italian. Kate on the other hand is the older sister‚ foul and bad tempered‚ a women no man would

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    maidenheads” “My naked weapon is out”‚ we can see that the servants continues to make rude jokes in this scene. These puns would have made the Elizabethan audience laugh. The nurse is also a comic character “Suffer every nerve to use me at his pleasure”‚ so the nurse makes a double-entendre without knowing it. Even into Act 3 Scene 1 we can still find comedy. Tybalt makes a pun joke “Mercutio‚ thou consort`st with Romeo.” Romeo also makes a joke “beat down their weapons.” The Elizabethan audience

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    Preobrazba Analysis

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    Simbolika hrane u pripovijetci Franza Kafke "Preobrazba" Prehrana je temeljna ljudska aktivnost‚ aktivnost koja je neophodna za život‚ ali ima i duboko ukorijenjenu društvenu funkciju. Naše navike i rituali tijekom jela‚ ljudi s kojima biramo jesti i razlozi iza tih svih odluka su ključni u razumijevanju ljudskog društva i obitelji kao njegovog temelja. Teme povezane sa hranom su česte u svim pisanim oblicima tijekom povijesti civilizacije i koriste se kao književno sredstvo za vizualan i verbalni

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    Harry Wood Analysis

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    ‘Harry Wood’ Pun – explain both meanings 1) What evidence is there in the first stanza of Harry Wood’s struggle for survival? Harry Wood’s struggle for survival is clearly revealed in the first stanza through the use of the pun “digging his way out of poverty” as he literally worked hard in the “mines” and metaphorically worked extremely hard to earn money to climb the social hierarchy from the bottom of social class “mines” to a reasonable position “foreman’s place” 2) What does the

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    Much Ado About Nothing

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    pronunciation. We get our first real glimpse of the pun in the title when Don Pedro says‚ "Note notes‚ forsooth‚ and nothing!" (The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare‚ ed. Sylvan Barnet‚ New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich‚ Inc.‚ 1972‚ 2.3.57). As A. R. Humphreys explains‚ "That ’nothing’‚ colloquially spoken‚ was close to or identical with ’noting’ is the basis of Shakespearean puns‚ especially in a context of musical ’noting’. A similar pun‚ though non-musical‚ is conceivable here" (Introduction

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    Monsters

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    Aaron Jacobs Garner English 1101 22 November 2013 Monster Theses All monsters have that one thing that sets them apart from the rest whether it’s the notorious big foot and his big foot‚ Michael Myers and his huge kitchen knife‚ or even werewolves and the fact that they transform when a full moon is out. Every monster is unique and different‚ but in the book Monsters there are seven theses and one thesis stood out. Theses number six in the book Monsters states that “Fear of the monster is really

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    She is referring to the feeling of the male fish after the female dumped him because he wished for a relationship of adventure that he could not provide. Chua uses a simile to express how the male fishes’ heart got broken‚ but it is also used as a pun because they are fish. Hence‚ love can alter the end result of relationships by not ending how people would want it to. These factors contribute to love being seen as an unpredictable feeling‚ with hardships and sudden endings‚ but in spite‚ love starts

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