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    explored. The persona feels the ultimate betrayal by the hands of his girlfriend who committed an act of infidelity‚ this leading to the sense of loss‚ heartache and betrayal. ‘And when did your eyes begin to look fake?’ throughout the use of the rhetorical question the persona the situation whilst the adjective ‘fake’ highlights the betrayal (his girlfriend is who he thinks she was). Therefore‚ the song expresses how betrayed the protagonist felt about what his love had done to him. Another theme

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    because he do not want to rotten up in prison. He says that he has spent his life in prison to find God who he is has wanted to know for a long time. He means that he is just a victim of society’s bullshit. In the end of the letter he asks some rhetorical questions and then he says that she is always welcome to comment and suggest things. -“God‚ I Love you‚ Nicole”. The themes in Gary Gilmore’s letter to Nicole: I think that the theme is something about right and wrong and do not have a special

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    everything that he has been told. This causing George to get frustrated pronouncing “So you forgot that awready‚ did you? I gotta tell you again do I? Jesus Christ”. The language used presents the way of how a parent speaks to their child using rhetorical questions‚ making them feel guilty. Also the sentences are short and snappy conveying an annoyed tone of voice‚ making Lennie feel small and shy. Lennie and George’s relationship however is very close and we can see that

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    How is conflict in relationships presented in Les Grands Seigneurs and one other poem from your collection? (Medusa) To start with‚ both poems explore the conflicts in a love relationship between women and men. They are both written from a women’s perspective and display a conflict over the levels of power in relationships. In Les Grands Seigneurs‚ we are invited to speculate on the musings of the narrator as she looks back to the past: a time when men were her ‘castellated towers’ and she controlled

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    A very surprising science fiction story that reverses the werewolf idea. A wolf turns into a man and scares the living daylights out of his wolf wife and wolf children. What makes this story amazing is that LeGuin tricks us‚ throughout much of the story‚ into believing that the tale is about humans. She teases us with issues of child abuse‚ male-female relationships‚ life in a small town‚ and sisterly devotion‚ but she upsets our expectations‚ forces us to ask questions‚ re-read the story‚ and come

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    becoming successful than a white child born on the same day‚ all because of their skin color. Kennedy was more effective at calling people to action because he directly asks Congress for a change. Kennedy went for the more direct approach‚ he asked rhetorical questions that really persuaded people over to his side. Kennedy states exactly what he wants to change‚ how he wants it to change‚ and why he wants it to change. Kennedy not only asks Congress for a change. He asks the citizens in the last few

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    Mr. Hicks really was there would be a dead silence. Icarus felt he shouldn’t make his past known by his neighbors “No‚ he could not disturb their neat front yards” (line 16) he couldn’t burden the people by his morbid past life. Field uses a rhetorical question at the end of the second stanza asking “can the genius of the hero fall” (line 19) and he becomes someone “of the merely talented” (line 20); Icarus‚ someone so powerful reduced to almost

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    presentation quite convincing. It definitely broadens one’s horizons. Firstly‚ she starts with giving the name of the topic and purpose of the presentation so that it helps the audience to figure out what is going to be mentioned. In addition‚ she asks a rhetorical question at the beginning of her speech to gather the attention of the audience. In this way‚ participants can prepare themselves to the presentation. Then‚ she clearly defines the topic collaborative consumption and subtopics. Comparisons between

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    therefore some part of it is going to be destroyed. In the 2nd stanza‚ the mother starts to question herself on the things she can do to help protect her innocent child from all the awful things in life once her child grows up. The mother uses rhetorical questions‚ "what can I give her/ How can I teach her‚" which illustrates the uncertainty she has in raising her daughter up because she feels that having the role of the mother‚ she should be the one who protects her daughter from bad influences

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    phrases with a similar structure - I went to the store‚ parked the car and bought a pizza. 6) Irony- what is expected and what actually occurs 7) Understatement - makes an idea less important that it really is - The hurricane disrupted traffic. 8) Rhetorical question- a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered 9) Oxymoron - a two word paradox‚ a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction - near miss‚ seriously funny 10)

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