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    Figures of Speech

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    Figures of Speech 1. Alliteration - The repetition of an initial consonant sound. 2. Allusion - Figure of speech that makes a reference to or representation of‚ a place‚ event‚ literary work‚ myth‚ or work of art‚ either directly or by implication. 3. Antithesis - The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. 4. Apostrophe - Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing‚ some abstract quality‚ an inanimate object‚ or a nonexistent character.

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    The Guitarist Tunes Up

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    passion as a man do to his lover. I also love how the poet use the word ‘play’ at the end of the poem to show that both guitar and woman are ‘play’ by man. I love those meaning. Also‚ to me‚ the poet describes the poem in soft tone. There is a use of synecdoche; we can see in the fourth line: “wire and wood” is used instead of guitar. There are 4 rhyme schemes: bent-ment‚ could-wood‚ might-light and say-play. I think these also make the poem sound

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    "Holland" is a part of the Netherlands. "Holland" is informally used in English and other languages‚ including sometimes the Dutch language itself‚ to mean the whole of the modern country of the Netherlands.[1] (This example of pars pro toto or synecdoche is similar to the tendency to refer to the United Kingdom as "England".).[4][5] The people of Holland are referred to as "Hollanders" in both Dutch and English. Today this refers specifically to people from the current provinces of North Holland

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    night sky with numbness and decay of a comatose patient. The contrasting images denote fragmentation as it demonstrates Prufrock’s disordered psychological state‚ as he cannot conform with society‚ thus causing him to be an outcast. Eliot applies synecdoche in the line‚ “to prepare a face to meet the faces you meet” to exemplify Prufrock’s detachment from society as he is a broken identity. Eliot decontextualizes parts of the body rather than representing people as a whole identity‚ indicating social

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    Seminar 1 I Она окинула взглядом Гофер-Прери. Снег‚ сплошной пеленой затянувший всё от улиц до всепоглощающих прерий‚ срывал с города маску тихого пристанища. Дома были лишь черными пятнами на белом полотне. a) snow stretching without break Semantics: the transference of the mode of action; common semantic characteristic – duration of the process; Originality: genuine; Expressiveness: the gap between associated modes is quite wide; Syntactic function: verb; Vividness: vivid‚ the reality is shown

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    Metaphor is a rhetorical figures that the reader or listener tries to understand through choosing the terms. Thus‚ the selection of the words helps to appreciate a good figure that needs a colorful consideration. Also‚ metaphor is a comparison that is implicit between two different phenomena by using the vocabularies figurative. I. A. Richards says that a metaphor has two parts‚ namely‚ tenor and vehicle. Tenor is the complete sense while the vehicle is the tool when he give us his view as : “…

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    Peter Sheynecki

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    Migrant Hostel 1. What atmosphere is created in the first sentence- look especially at the verbs. 2. Explain the simile of the homing pigeon in verse 2 and how this defines the people in the migrant hostel 3. What are the “memories of hunger and hate” These memories include a ‘hunger’ or desperation for peace and safety as well as physical hunger‚ from WW2 events (bombing of supply ships and train rails etc.) The hate refers to the enemy side in the war‚ as well as the events‚ the causes‚ the

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    be an example of the dismissal of the acts that have occurred. These acts are outrageous and awful‚ however‚ they’re affect on the LGBTQ+ community is overlooked and ignored. These examples of understatements can be found in lines 1 and 25. The synecdoche used to describe the people and couples as “levis and leather jackets” is meant to describe the LGBT+

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    William Blake’s (1757-1827) "London" written in 1792 is a devastating portrait of a society in which all souls and bodies were trapped‚ exploited and infected.The poem is a devastating and concise political analysis‚ delivered with passionate anger‚ revealing the complex connections between patterns of ownership and the ruling ideology‚ the way all human relations are inescapably bound together within a single destructive society. William Wordsworth’s (1770-1850) sonnet "Composed upon Westminster

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    They play a mysterious role of how Prufrock feels about himself. Prufrock is very concern about his reputation that he rather people not notice him at all. He use the “synecdoche” which means he take a part and make it to represent some whole. The body part is also used to express modern life. In line 40-44: Prufrock “bald spot” symbolize his middle age. You can tell he is from a high social class by his nice clothes that

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