#1) Hyperbole‚ #2) Distinctio‚ #3) Hypophora‚ #4) Synecdoche‚ #5) Hyperbaton‚ #6) Understatement Leah Dancz Mrs. Irish AP Composition 19 February 2010 Wherever Did the Cleavers Go? In the early 1960’s‚ the average family was depicted on television by the Cleaver family. Ward‚ the father‚ went off to work while June‚ the mother‚ stayed home to take care of the household and children. Dinner was a home-cooked meal with all family members in attendance and parents helped children with homework
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Figures of Speech Resemblance A. Simile - A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things‚ usually by employing the words "like" or "as". 1) They fought like cats and dogs. 2) She is as thin as a toothpick. 3) Geoff is handsome as a prince. B. Metaphor - A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image‚ story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g.‚ "Her eyes were glistening jewels." 1) Life
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of speech characterization. Japan’s Banks: Survival of the Fattest? Japan has wasted nearly a decade refusing to attack its mountain of bad bank loans (metaphor). It has gone from wildly underestimating the size of the festering pile (synecdoche)‚ to confessing that it is some 77 trillion yen ($546 billion) high‚ to admitting - under intense recent pressure from the United States - that it is indeed a health hazard (metonymy) for the other countries in its neighborhood. Last week Prime
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Rhetorical Devices Schemes Term Definition Example Alliteration頭韻 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August. Anadiplosis反覆法 repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause The crime was common‚ common be the pain. Anaphora首語（句）重複法 regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses We shall fight in the trenches
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Balancing Duality Although Freud’s psychodynamic theory was not published until over 30 years after Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ there are apparent parallels the reader can draw while reading the novel with this in mind. The theory‚ consisting of three parts‚ touches on the impulsivity of human nature and how our reckless desires are compromised with our higher moral code. In The Picture of Dorian Gray we see the main character unravel as a result of immoral and unnatural acts. The Id
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psychological and physical repression of the populace to an extent where ‘Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull’. In doing so‚ he foreshadows the repercussions of political ignorance‚ epitomized through the dismissal synecdoche of ‘a boot stamping on a human face – forever’. However‚ whereas Lang presents oppression as a by-product of capitalism‚ Orwell conveys the role of oligarchical party members such as O’Brien whose violent betrayal of protagonist Winston Smith is
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Psychology and Author’s Purpose in The Great Gatsby It was 1931‚ six years after the publication of The Great Gatsby‚ when historian James Truslow Adams coined the term The American Dream (“The Epic of America”‚ 415). Yet‚ his was a new take on an old concept. F. Scott Fitzgerald did not have to wait for Adams to brilliantly propose that the ideal of social equality and the pursuit of Happiness is a dream like enterprise‚ which has little to do with reality (US 1776). In the 1920’s
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English 1302‚ Composition II Poetry Analysis Assignment: Choose ONE of the prompts below; then write a 3-4 page poetry analysis in which you analyze the use of literary elements in one of the assigned poems listed: “America” (Claude McKay); “We Wear the Mask” (Paul Laurence Dunbar); “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” (Langston Hughes); “Mirror” (Sylvia Plath); “The Bean Eaters” (Gwendolyn Brooks); “To The Mercy Killers” (Dudley Randall); “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (Dylan Thomas). Your
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Sonnet 129 is an interesting poem in Shakespeare’s set of sonnets‚ supposedly‚ addressed to his dark mistress. This sonnet is full figurative language and other poetic devices that let the reader know exactly how the poet feels about the emotions and dangers associated with lust. He also uses interesting punctuation choices that create the flow and tone of the poem. As the readers‚ we do not know who this poem is addressed to due to the lack of thou‚ he‚ or she in the poem. It does seem to be describing
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Direction and Purpose Metaphors provide creative images for readers. They give flavor to literature and allow free interpretation of a piece; thereby making a conversation in a story‚ an image in a poem‚ a symbolism in the plot and such‚ more interesting. Through the use of such a figure of speech‚ the images are laid bare and presented fresh. This creates an interaction between the reader‚ the author and the piece; as readers are made to analyze the images presented and the idea that the metaphor
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