though Desdemona has been nothing but faithful Othello still believes she has cheated and must pay the price with her life. In these lines he compares Desdemona to many different things such as a light‚ a rose‚ and a statue through the use of figurative language. At first Othello is comparing her to a statue referring to her skin as “monumental alabaster” however‚ he keeps reflecting on the fact that her skin is so white. He says “whiter skin” which literally means white skin. I am not sure that Othello
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Though no one was a native to the down the teacher was suddenly different because of what side of the state she was raised in Pg. 21 Figurative Language: Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. The author is describing the small town of Maycomb (in Scout’s perspective) as a tired old town‚ which justifies that back in the previous years the town had more life/excitement
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I decided I wanted to build the chimney swift tower during an Envirothon meeting when Judy Semroc of the Natural History Museum in Cleveland brought up concerns about taking down the masonry smokestack on the side of the school. It was home to many chimney swifts‚ but the interesting thing is‚ only one mating pair nests in a tower‚ no matter the size‚ though hundreds more may roost there. I really liked this project because it was something I actually cared about‚ and was something different. I spoke
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their dreams due to systematic oppression‚ will inevitably resort to violence. "Harlem" is a short‚ eleven line poem‚ consisting of three stanzas which are littered with literary and poetic devices such as imagery‚ italics‚ diction/syntax‚ figurative language‚ and rhetorical questions to name several. However‚ despite all the clever techniques Hughes deploys‚ his use of symbolism contributes most to defining‚ and clearly expressing‚ the poems main theme. The poem begins with a one line stanza in
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| Symbolism | Imagery | Figurative Language | Theme | Tone | Significant Passages (Pgs. 20‚ 25‚ 62‚ 63‚ 64‚ 67‚ 75) | “Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay‚ whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe. Those beautiful vessels‚ robed in purest white‚ so delightful to the eye of freemen‚ were to me so many shrouded ghosts…” (Douglass 63).“I at first rejected the idea‚ that the simple carrying of a root in my pocket would have any such
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Honors English IV December 11‚ 2009 The theme of "A Poison Tree" by William Blake is about wrath and anger. If one were angry with a friend‚ that wrath would eventually subside; if one were angry with a foe‚ however‚ and if left unchecked or left to simmer that anger would not subside and would grow. His poem offers insight into what anger does if one "watered it in fears‚ / Night and morning with [their] tears; / and sunned it with smiles‚ / and with soft deceitful wiles" (547 l. 5-10 Wood).
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ucture/flow/style -figurative language use -how Fitzgerald constructed each novel similarly/differently -theme/setting differences -motifs being similar - HEADINGS FOR EACH OF THESE TOPICS -thesis statement (RQ comparing and contrasting the two different novels )after the background info. Then these topics Background Information on the Author Fitzgerald can usually be associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the 1930s. He proved to be very “versatile”
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Because Blake addresses the theme of generation most directly and fully in his illuminated books‚ it is important to consider here the principles guiding the interpretation of his art. Blake’s illustrations for The Divine Comedy are particularly revealing of Blake’s view of his own art‚ revealing how for him art and text were at all times part of a continuous whole. Several of Blake’s less finished illustrations for Dante’s epic have text written within and around them never intended for inclusion
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Figurative Language Figurative language was used by Margaret Atwood‚ through the persona of Offred‚ to illustrate The Handmaid’s Tale. Figurative Language consists of similes‚ metaphors‚ personification‚ alliteration‚ onomatopoeia‚ hyperbole and idioms. First‚ figurative language can be used to describe different settings. 1. Offred’s experience at night in her bedroom “The heat at night is worse than the heat in daytime. Even with the fan on‚ nothing moves‚ and the walls store up warmth
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Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ( listen);[1] née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German politician and former research scientist who has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005‚ and the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000. She is the first woman to hold either office.[2] Having initially trained as a physical chemist‚ Merkel entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989‚ briefly serving as the deputy spokesperson for the East German
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