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    Explore some of the ways in which Owen presents the natural world in his poems. Refer to two poems from the collection you have studied Wilfred Owen uses nature to convey his feelings about the war in his poems‚ using different techniques. In both of his poems that I am examining‚ ‘Futility’ and ‘Spring Offensive’ he uses nature to show the pain and suffering of man and war. In ‘Spring Offensive’ Owen mixes the idea of war and nature in a conversational tone unlike ‘Futility’ in which Owen questions

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    he or she tried to show‚ invitation to ask questions‚ and make comments or open discussion. Third: creating interest and establishing a relationship with the audience: The presenter should attract the audience’s attention by using the following techniques: * Giving an unusual facts or statistic. * Illustrate

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    Photographs are also a perspective. They are often limited and distort. • In a photograph‚ it presents a mask‚ distorting the truth‚ perpetuating a perspective (happy and untroubled) • An essence‚ we don’t really know what is hidden. Language techniques • repetition of ‘it’- showing impersonal‚ ambigionious • repetition of ’arriving‚ arrived’- uncertainty • Allusion of Veronica Lake • "then I forgot’- short sentence enphate • ’the peach’- is symbolic • irony of double

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    William Blake structured his poem with six Quatrains‚ or four line stanzas. In these stanzas‚ he uses a variety of rhyming couplets‚ repition‚ powerful imagery and alot of rhetorical questions to enhance the piece. He begins the first quatrain with “Tyger! Tyger!burning bright.” Right away he uses repition to catch the reader’s eye. The word “Tyger” is a symbol of all creation. In his poem‚ “The Lamb”‚ he uses the Lamb as a symbol of innocent mankind‚ where as the “Tyger” is a much more wild‚ mysterious

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    1–13: Read the first five lines of the speech and identify the claim that Mack makes. 2. Lines 1–13: How do the rhetorical questions in this section set the stage for Mack’s argument and engage his audience? 3. Lines 16–20: Create a chart that lists terms that describe early and late reactions to listening to a piece of music. 4. Lines 50–59: Analyze how Mack uses the rhetorical device of addressing a potential concern of his audience. 5. Lines 55–66: Think about the denotation and connotation

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    without grieving. The poet of Remember uses a lot of persuasion and instructions as though the speaker is in charge here. In Crabbit old woman persuasion is portrayed through out all the poem. The poet uses simple language and rhetorical questions to create a great effect. Rhetorical questions are used in the poem in a sense that the speaker is putting the blame on the nurses. ’’Is that what your thinking‚ is that what you see?’’ and ’’What do you see nurses‚ what do you see?’’. The speaker is concentrating

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    will not love his country?”‚ by answering these rhetorical question they inadvertently admit to the fact that they don’t love Rome. Brutus uses some emotional appeals in his speech to show that he celebrated and honored Caesar as an excellent leader of Rome‚ but he had to fulfill the ultimate duty of defending his country. He gets their compassion by saying that he loved Caesar and asks the people to find anyone who loved Caesar more. Brutus’ rhetorical questions are there for an effect‚ there is

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    "The completedness of a speech relies on the contribution of the parts to the whole" Choose TWO speeches and argue how the structure of each contributes significantly to your understanding of the speech as a whole. An orator’s ability to utilise speech structure permits them to not only convey their ideas efficiently‚ but also to help achieve a social change and improvement. This notion of social change is at the heart of any successful speech. The idea of “parts to the whole” is shown in both

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    Ambiguity­ Uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language.  Idiosyncratic­ A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.  Tone  Condescending‚ Critical     Rhetorical Terms  ● Anecdotes­ "My two youngest son’s now twenty­one and seventeen‚ have read..."  (Paragraph 5)  ● Rhetorical Question­ "Why not introduce our kids to the clarity and power of James  Baldwin’s great story “Sonny’s Blues”?" (Paragraph 35)  ● Cause and Effect­ Used through out the whole essay by showing how certain teaching 

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    person‚ explaining that he did this not against Caesar‚ but for Rome. He tells the public‚ "...not that I loved Caesar less‚ but that I loved Rome more." While speaking in third person it pushes him even further away from the public. He uses logical rhetorical questions for the audience to think about what has been said. One example is “… who is here so rude would not be a Roman?” On the opposite‚ Antony camp up. His speech was aimed to turn the public in his favor. He was restricted by many things but

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