So what was the best part of Blair Waldorf’s 17th-birthday party? The fun Asian theme? No. The Guitar Hero smackdown between Serena and Vanessa? Not quite. Any scene between Blair and Chuck? Most definitely yes. As cute as Dan and Serena are‚ Blair and Chuck are my new favorite couple. And they’re not even officially a couple... yet. Or possibly ever. Now we know for certain what some of you suspected last week: Chuck likes Blair. As in‚ really likes her. To the point where he can’t sleep‚ he
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Katharine Brush’s short story “Birthday Party” contains many literary elements that make the story unique and memorable. Brush’s purpose for writing this piece is to teach two valuable lessons: things are not always what they seem and every action has its consequence. To achieve her purpose‚ Brush uses literary devices such as irony‚ tone‚ point of view‚ etc. to make readers feel as though they are living in this captured moment along with the characters. Situational irony plays a big role in this
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Anxious and Excited. Those words describe me on the day of my 6th birthday party. Excitement can come in 2 ways: inside or out; mine was shown in both ways! So many people had come to celebrate with me and the fact that people cared enough to come celebrate is something that is very special to me. It was the day of my party‚ a day I would never forget. I had so much excitement I could hardly contain it. Yet still‚ there were things to be done. The moonwalk we had requested had arrived and
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Leticia Portillo Sheperd AP English & Composition September 21‚ 2014 A Rhetorical Analysis of "Birthday Party" In the "Birthday Party‚" Katherine Brush shows what- at a glance- seems to be a non-suspicious dinner between a happily‚ "unmistakably‚" married couple; yet‚ when examined closer is obviously a dinner gone wrong. Her use of syntax‚ along with other literary devices‚ help show how a book shouldn’t be judged by its cover. This story starts off in a light-hearted manner
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	Christina Rossetti’s poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti’s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love‚ whereas the character in Chopin’s story‚ after the initial shock of her new found freedom ‚ was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes
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century the SAAB 9000S. I hope to inform my audience well enough that I won’t need to tell anyone when my birthday is ever again they will already be well aware. First of all the front page of the New York Times had some very fascinating stories such as Israeli Army Ending 24-hour Incursion in South Lebanon in which Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah‚ spiritual mentor of the pro-Iranian Party of God‚ said in a sermon today that “Muslim fighters had resorted to firing missiles into Israel only after
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. In fact‚ the whole poem is composed of imagery‚ that are all solely for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. The first line starts off with “My heart is like a singing bird” which gives the impression that her heart feels as elated as a bird does when singing. Another example is‚ “My heart is like an apple tree whose boughs are bent with thick-set
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Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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What a truly special evening it is that we are celebrating this evening - an evening all the more special because we are sharing this celebration with all of you. A warm welcome to everyone and thank you so much for sharing M.Rishaleni ’s 21st birthday with us tonight. It just wouldn’t have been the same without all of you - all the people who have played such an amazing role in her life. Tonight is M.Rishaleni’s night and we hope it will be a night that she remembers fondly in the years
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The short story "The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush is a representation of life in the 1940’s‚ and so through this short story she uses a series of literary devices such as caricature‚ antecedents‚ and change in the atmosphere to convey her objective. The beginning of the story has humorous caricature describing the couple‚ the author keeps her characters ambiguous and vague so to represent a typical married couple in this era‚ and drama that comes with the atmosphere shift with the rejection
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