Expository texts are created to manipulate the audience to accept a certain point of view. In the article “Consumerism”‚ author Catherine Deveny presents a satirical picture of modern Australia as a greedy and unhappy nation in the grips of a dangerous epidemic of consumerism where citizens excessively spend money to try and alleviate their pain. She suggests that although this behaviour may help the economy‚ it is detrimental to our spiritual economy. She encourages the audience to support her view
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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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Republic of the Philippines BOHOL ISLAND STATE UNIVERSITY Candijay Campus‚ Cogtong Cogtong‚ Candijay‚ Bohol First Periodical Examination in English IV S.Y. 2012-2013 Test I. Matching Type. Match Column A with Column B. Write the correct letter and word/s in your answer sheet that corresponds your answer. Column A 1. Assonance (f) 2. Dactylic meter (h) 3. Monometer (g) 4. Enjambment (a) 5. Theme (c) 6. Antithesis (d) 7. Symbol (j) 8. Metaphor (i) 9. Rhyme (b) 10.
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The Analyze of Two Poems - The Final Draft - The Introduction In this essay‚ I would like to analyze two poems that have the same titles. One is "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer ’s Day?" written by William Shakespeare. The other also has the same title‚ "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer ’s Day?" written by Howard Moss. In fact‚ the two poems have not only the same titles but also similar stories. In other words‚ Moss ’s poem is a parody of Shakespeare ’s poem. By the way‚ how are they different
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Coketown By Charles Dickens Dickens is using figures of speech to make pictures in the readers head and he is therefore helping people imagine the things he is telling about. One would say that Dickens is using metaphors to put a picture on his story and to make everyone feels how awful and terrible Coketown is. “Coketown was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but‚ as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the
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Following is an example of student writing in which figures of speech are overworked and actually impede rather than enhance the clarity of images. Cool water flows through the rocky banks of the creek and into a wide pond. Reeds and cattails surrounding the bank embrace the pond like a mother’s enfolding arms reaching out to caress her sleeping child. Like a beaming‚ proud mother’s eye‚ the sun drenches the scene with its loving warmth. Just beneath the sparkling surface of the water‚ minnows
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Metonymies are used in very often in literature‚ and also in everyday speech. A metonymy is a word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word. metonymy is often chosen because it is a wellknown characteristic of the word. In this example‚ metonymy is applied because the pen isn’t the thing that is mighty over the sword; it’s the written words being mighty over the violence and destruction‚ and force. For example‚ the word "pen" is not always standing in for the written word; often‚
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Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” and Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” both are written in Puritan plain style‚ however Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” displays a more puritanical message. These poets use apostrophe and metaphors to thoroughly describe the subject in which they were writing. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is a poem that portrays Anne Bradstreet’s thoughts on her marriage. While Bradstreet writes about her love for her husband‚ Edward Taylor writes indirectly about his love
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 5TH GROUP : 1. FA D H I L A A S H A D I 2. H A N A P U T R I A N I 3. S I T I R A H M A YA N T 4. Z H E L D Y O C TA V I A WHAT IS IT?? • Metaphors tend to provoke thought and feeling to a greater extent than more literal descriptions do. Examples : “My mother’s face curdled” [Metaphor (kiasan)] Curdled : signalled distaste and trepidation. Curdled : The writers express and the readers should work out their meaning; they should be able to imagine. “My mother grimaced”
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Kelsey Renoe Kathy kvinge ENG 1102 20703 September 17‚ 2014 "My Son‚ My Executioner" by Donald Hall "My Son‚ My Executioner" My son‚ my executioner I take you in my arms Quiet and small and just astir and whom my body warms Sweet death‚ small son‚ our instrument of immortality‚ your cries and hunger document our bodily decay. We twenty two and twenty five‚ who seemed to live forever‚ observe enduring life in you and start to die together. In "My Son‚ My Executioner
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