Looking into Words An Analysis of the dialogues in The Picture of Dorian Gray [Preface] As we often see in fictions‚ dialogues play a significant role in characterizing heroes. Apart from speaking for the characters in novels‚ Oscar Wilde used dialogues to speak for himself. This is especially the case in The Picture of Dorian Gray in which he ‘hires’ three characters to represent his ideals‚ present situation and the conflict between them. The following passage will mainly focus on the strategic
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2014 Words Words are used everyday. It’s the easiest way for humans to communicate. Without words‚ our perception of the world would be perplexing. This demonstrates how important and powerful words are. Words and phrases also evoke different meaning. Words are powerful enough to start wars or create peace. In fact‚ how we present a word can determine someone’s positive or negative outlook on a situation. All words we use have literal or direct meaning. Sometimes words are denoted as being figuratively used
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1522 Word families: building possibilities... Words often come in families. You can expand your vocabulary by becoming familiar with these word families and this can also enable you to become a more fluent speaker and writer of English. If you know all the possible words within a word family‚ you can express yourself in a wider range of ways. For example‚ if you know the verb and the noun forms related to the adjective boring‚ you can say: • The lesson was boring. • The lesson bored me. • That
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Dream Come True A place where love is in the air‚ where peace and beauty pervade the atmosphere‚ where nature’s perfect fusion of the sun‚ the sea‚ and the sands can be seen. Where can we find a place like this in our country currently rocked by confusion‚ economic crisis‚ and natural calamities? Being just somebody from the southern part of the country‚ it is really very easy for me to imagine many wonderful places in our fatherland yet very hard of finding ways of realizing it. Yes‚ before‚ I
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The magical word “Happiness” There are plenty of movies‚ songs‚ and books about happiness. Human beings try to figure out what happiness means. For some‚ life is really about about being rich so being happy or who has the most respect and the highest rank is the happiest. Maybe happiness is hidden in a smile‚ or in love‚ or in a flower. Happiness means different things to every person. There is no universal rule to be happy. Whatever it means‚ everyone agrees that it may be the most important feeling
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Scott Kernan The F-Word: A Rhetorical Analysis In the book excerpt by Firoozeh Dumas‚ “The F-Word”‚ Dumas uses several techniques to hook her readers and keep their interest in her piece. It was her style‚ however‚ that did most of the work. Dumas’ article has a very strong single argument that she works toward throughout her entire piece. She claims that the English language could do with a bit more “spice”‚ as she calls it (Dumas). Though this argument is only listed only twice in the
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“A DREAM COME TRUE” It was a beautiful morning‚ the weather was cloudy and it was about to rain any time soon. I left my bed and was going to freshen up when my cell phone rang. It was my cousin who was calling me and when I answered the phone she asked me if I would like to join her and my other cousins for a picnic to the beach. To me it was like a dream come true‚ because I’ve always loved to go on beach picnics especially when the weather is amazingly beautiful. I accepted the offer at once
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LaJasmine Mathis Physics B. Williams 3/4/2013 Here Comes the Boom!!! Meteroids are small pieces of space debris that are on a collision course with the Earth. They become meteors when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere‚ if they strike the Earth’s surface they are called meteorites. On Friday February 15‚ 2013 at 9:30 in the city of Chelyabinsk a meteor flew across the sky. Estimated to be about ten tons and forty nine feet wide‚ it entered the Earth’s atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of 33
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Open and Closed Word Classes Some word classes are OPEN‚ that is‚ new words can be added to the class as the need arises. The class of nouns‚ for instance‚ is potentially infinite‚ since it is continually being expanded as new scientific discoveries are made‚ new products are developed‚ and new ideas are explored. In the late twentieth century‚ for example‚ developments in computer technology have given rise to many new nouns: Internet‚ website‚ URL‚ CD-ROM‚ email‚ newsgroup‚ bitmap‚ modem‚ multimedia
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Throughout Seeing Race in Modern America‚ scholar Matthew Pratt Guterl explores how cultural “sightlines” (Guterl 2) resist change over time in the way we see race as he argues that race is a “social construction of color” (Guterl 3)‚ dependant on visual cues. Guterl uses a myriad of visual culture‚ such as advertisements‚ movies‚ and popular culture as evidence that making race visual is what causes its longevity. In his analysis of “sightlines that challenge the eye‚” (Guterl 128) he turns to movies
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