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    Chapter 5: The next moment‚ Henry finds the Confederates running toward the Unions. The next moment‚ they heard a loud roar‚ which came from the Confederates who started to yell. The General started to get mad and told the colonel to tell the soldiers to hold the Confederates back‚ and the colonel started to scream orders to the other soldiers. Although the commander was bitter to him and the rest of the brigade‚ he didn’t feel as isolated anymore and felt like he was associated with the rest of

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    Frederic Henry‚ in Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell To Arms‚” undergoes a self-awakening into the ideas of existentialism. In the beginning of the novel‚ Henry is a drifter unconsciously searching for a meaning in life. As Henry is slowly discovers the trivialities and horrors of life‚ he becomes “authentic.” Which means discovering the existential idea that life has no meaning and learning to deal with it. Religion‚ patriotism‚ love‚ and several other outward forms pose as temptations that Henry

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    Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel‚ A Farewell to Arms‚ is one of the greatest love and war stories of all time. The success and authenticity of this tale is a direct result of Hemingway’s World War I involvement. The main character‚ Frederick Henry‚ encounters many of the same things as did Hemingway and creates a parallel between the author and character. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park‚ Illinois‚ July21‚ 1899. He was a very handsome‚ athletic‚ adventurous young man. When the United

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    a word-group or a sentence which exaggerate the real degree of a quantity of the thing spoken about. It is a distortion of reality for the purpose of visualization or strengthening the emotional effect. It is also an important expressive literary device‚ often employed for humoristic purpose: One after another those people lay down on the grass to laugh- and two of them died. Гипербола - вид тропа: чрезмерное преувеличение чувств‚ значения‚ размера‚ красоты и т.п. описываемого объекта. Understatement-

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    as being ‘desolate’‚ which gives it an aura of something foreboding. ii. I notice lexical parallelism in these lines because the word ‘ashes’ has been repeated to focus the reader’s attention as to what he will be foregrounding. Next‚ is the stylistic device called semantic deviation. The writer has compared the landfill of ashes to a wheat field of a farm through the use of a simile. Furthermore‚ it has been compared to mountainous features‚ an ugly landscape and a house with lit chimneys. The

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    “In the fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut tree and the branches were bare and the trunks black with rain.” In A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway‚ Hemingway utilizes the weather to portray the effects of war. Rain is one element that Hemingway highlights in the book to emphasize the war. He describes the setting in detail to emphasize how much of an impact it has made. In the novel‚ Hemingway’s usage of rain symbolizes death and despair. In the first chapter of the novel

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    John Stubbs ’ "Love and Role Playing in A Farewell to Arms" John Stubbs ’ essay is an examination of the defense which he believes Henry and Catherine use to protect themselves from the discovery of their insignificance and "powerlessness...in a world indifferent to their well being..." He asserts that "role-playing" by the two main characters‚ and several others in the book‚ is a way to escape the realization of human mortality which is unveiled by war. Stubbs thinks that Hemingway utilized role-playing

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    Introduction…………………………………………………………………………3-7 Chapter 1. Stylistic peculiarities of D.H. Lawrence and H.W. Longfellow’s poetry…………………………………………………………………….7 1.1. The use of polysemanticism of the word in combination with repetition in poems by D.H. Lawrence and H.W. Longfellow………..7-12 1.2. Lingvo-stylistic potential of D.H. Lawrence’s “Don’ts”…………

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    All throughout A Farwell to Arms the protagonist struggles with power. Frederic Henry wishes to free himself from warfare and live with his lover Catherine Barkley. After the first year of warfare‚ during winter‚ Henry is allowed to take leave; giving him a glimpse of what is to come once he leaves the medical groups he is in. Once Henry returns to the front he visits his friend Rinaldi and the new nurse Catherine. After he meets Catherine‚ they soon begin to fall in love. Thus leading into a

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    Josh Hanberry English 255 April 18 2013 Ms. Rebecca Leblanc Henry’s Journey Through Love and War Ernest Hemmingway’s‚ A Farewell To Arms‚ prominently takes place in the “Alps” located between Italy and present day Slovenia. Located in this setting is the Italian army‚ who is trying to prevent Austria-Hungary from joining forces with the Germans on the war’s western front. Inside this war effort is revealed the great story and journey of a man named Frederick Henry. Frederick Henry is an American

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