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    Devices in House of mirth

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    Theme: When we let society’s expectations of our appearances and social standings influence our lives‚ we find ourselves becoming disconnected with our own desires‚ the people‚ and environment around us and as a result‚ don’t express our true feelings which ultimately leads to an empty life with unfulfilled desires that we may or may not ever realize. Setting: The setting in this story‚ The House of Mirth‚ is more than just New York City. The setting is used to not only make the story more interesting

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    Dumby: Aesthetic Devices

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    Aesthetic features Alliteration Imagery * Metaphor * Simile * Symbolism Personification Irony (must do) Motifs (repeated theme)*** Eg Dumby was my best friends and I will miss him Rhetorical question ** why has Dumby been taken from us? Representations** Provide comfort‚ allow people to express grief. Do not take people’s grief and turn it into rage. Negative impact on community Acknowledgement and of situation We are all the same people‚ loosing a life is not worth it 1

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    readers throughout their lives. Among theories of approaches to teaching both regular and irregular words‚ there is some separation in opinion as to which underlying skill best promotes word reading: phonological knowledge or semantic knowledge. This study‚ “Evidence for Semantic Involvement in Regular and Exception Word Reading in Emergent Readers of English” (Ricketts‚ Davies‚ Masterson‚ Stuart‚ & Duff‚ 2016)‚ published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology‚ attempted to clarify whether

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    I am going to show that the whole piece is aimed at entertaining the reader. Writers use different stylistic devices to create humorous effect. There are many comic effects used in this extract Dominant prose systems in this story are narrative and interior monologue‚ which overlap and go together t(he story is told by the 2 people simultaneously) The author uses this strategy not only to reveal character’s personality‚ but also to break the monotony‚ to create humorous effect. General tone of

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    3.1. Why Self Adaptive Semantic Focused Crawler (SASF): A focused crawler is typically known to return relevant web searches on a given topic when a query is fired. The requirement of a web crawler that downloads most relevant web pages from such a large web is still a major challenge in the field of Information Retrieval Systems. Earlier web crawlers used to have keyword matching techniques for retrieval of the data but there was no concern of relevancy. If (search_query == Page[web_content])

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    Tjaden Literary Devices

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    Device Quote Function Imagery/Simile/Hyperbole “Where Tjaden puts it all is a mystery‚ for he is and always will be as thin as a rake.” When the author compares Tjaden to a rake‚ it makes the readers realize how thin he really is. This quote makes the reader imagine a rake and how it relates to the character. Conflict (external; man vs. man) “Eighty men can’t have what is meant for a hundred and fifty... I don’t care about the stew‚ but I can only issue rations for eighty men.” The men are starving

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    «Up the Down Staircase» The text under analysis is a fragment from the novel «Up the Down Staircase»‚ written by Bel Kaufman‚ an outstanding American writer. She worked as a teacher of the English language and literature in a New York high school for many years. She is best-known for her novel «Up the Down Staircase»‚ which was published in 1965. The book deals with the experience of a young high school teacher. So‚ it’s rather obvious that the novel comprises some autobiographical episodes. The

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    Poetic Devices and Poems

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    miXing AnD mATcHinG By: William Meyer SECTION A • Poetic Devices Glossary Poetic Devices Glossary Irony: a difficult term to define can refer to a manner of expression or a quality in the thing perceived. In both cases‚ irony involves the perception of discrepancy‚ usually between apparent and real significance. It is an indirect way of communicating an attitude. Irony can vary in tone‚ from humorous to bitter. Example- Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

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    Lord of the Flies‚ Chapter 1 Stylistic Analysis In Chapter 1 of “Lord of the Flies‚” William Golding uses dark and pessimistic tones to elucidate both the alienation of the boys on the island and the severity of their predicament. The narrator uses brutal and simple diction with violent imagery to illustrate the savage and destructive nature of man. The boys are thus presented as inherently destructive by nature. Golding uses brutal and simple diction in Chapter 1 of “The Lord of the Flies.” The

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    Emma final commentary Jane Austen’s writing style includes short and sweet sentences however they are packed with a lot of information‚ including metaphors and motifs. Personally‚ I found it hard to follow Austen’s writing because in order to understand her subtle messages in between the lines‚ one would have to be super alert and read every word and the connotation that of every word. Also‚ one writing tool that Austen uses well is free-indirect discourse. Free indirect discourse is when the

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