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    poem above the rest and gives you the experience about the aboriginals. The author has used very effective language devices and emphasizes changes in the aboriginal’s lives through the use of various literary devices such as metaphors‚ similes and symbolism. Some of the metaphors include ’white fella Bunyip’ is used to further illustrate and explain and add emphasis to try evoke different emotions and feelings within you and “call him red” is talking about the old stories that are taught to children

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    The theme of mutability is revealed in Tennyson ’s "Ulysses" as Ulysses struggles to rebel against time. Tennyson reveals this theme through the use of tone‚ similes‚ metaphors‚ imagery and setting. He uses a confidant nostalgic tone to help develop this theme as the speaker reminisces on triumphant times past. Comparisons to the stars and to the horizon throughout the poem are effective in emphasizing the mutability of time. Tennyson also uses imagery to demonstrate the effect that time has

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    IAH 231C Final Exam Guide Unit 1:Pinker Chapter 1 How language is related to other components of Human Experience: Thoughts‚ reality‚ community‚ emotions‚ social relations Words and Community: Naming‚ certain words that become accepted Words and Emotions: Denotation( What they refer to is the same)/Connotation (different emotions associated with them)‚ Swear words Words and Social Relations: direct request vs indirect request Words and Thoughts: Conceptual semantics: discipline that studies the

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    giraffes is a metaphor for life without life‚ the enclosure where the giraffe lives is a metaphor for "no life" as her life is very lonely and restricted. On the other hand‚ her natural habitat is a metaphor for "life"‚ as is identified in "she could be a big slim bird just before flight"‚ essentially meaning freedom. The poem also portrays the agony and grief of the giraffe confined in captivity suffers‚ the poet dramatises the loneliness the giraffe experiences by using metaphors such as "She languorously

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    feelings‚ excite and thrill our spirit‚ or warm and kindle the flame of our hearts. They can also slap our face‚ punch us in the stomach‚ rattle our nerves‚ kill our desire‚ or destroy our self-confidence. Of course this is metaphorical‚ but these metaphors capture in words our physical reactions to what is said‚ and that is the power of language. It can emotionally move and affect us as powerfully as physical actions. Unfortunately‚ however‚ we have yet to recognize and legitimize this great power

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    English Assessment Plaster cast and Fresh bait The stories I have chosen to talk about today are Plaster Cast by Archimede Fusillo‚ and Fresh Bait by Sherryl Clark. I have chosen to talk about these particular stories‚ because the ways in which they are similar captured my interest when reading them. Both stories feel as if they are written from end to beginning. They unfold slowly‚ keeping the reader in rapt suspense‚ on the edge of their chair‚ until the very end‚ when the story takes its last

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    see how the poet depict women as a creature who looks lovely and strong as if they were no vulnerability in their soul. B. They resembled beautiful iridescent insects‚ creatures from a floating world. * In this stanza‚ Song uses a metaphor that women are like insects that are exotic but has the power to make you caught your attention whether they may be small and

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    that kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chilliest land‚ and on the strangest sea; yet‚ never‚ in extremity‚ it asked a crumb of me. Analysis of the poem In first stanza Dickson defines hope by comparing it to a bird‚ which is metaphor- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. The poem examines the abstract idea of hope in the free spirit of a bird. Hope is an animate thing‚ it is

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    the age of adolescence. She uses similes‚ allusions‚ and metaphors to pull her reads into her reflections. “Just as… ships disappear…into the Bermuda Triangle… the selves of girls…crash and burn in a social and developmental Bermuda Triangle.” Pipher connects the suddenness of the girls’ changes to a mystery that most have heard of. Early on in her essay she wants her readers to realize the severity of the topic. Pipher includes metaphors and imagery to add reality to what these girls deal with;

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    similes like “Or a bobwhite whistles invisibly and flutes like an angel off in the shade?” These kinds of similes really put an image in the head of the ready to really get them thinking about what is going on in this poem. There was also a lot of metaphors that help to also contribute to the images that the reader read and got in there heads about this poem. There was a lot of imagery also that really went specific and showed exactly what point the author was trying to make. There was not too much

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