It was a regular day at school; I didn’t in the least suspect that my life would have been altered so drastically that Tuesday morning. When I entered my English class we were assigned a task to analyze a speech‚ not my favorite writing exercise. A paper titled‚ Stanford University Commencing Speech 2005 by Steve Jobs was placed on each desk. The name rang a bell‚ I knew of his connections with Apple and squabbles with supposed rival Bill Gates but nothing else. Ignorance always led me to think
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"Tears‚ Idle Tears" Summary The speaker sings of the baseless and inexplicable tears that rise in his heart and pour forth from his eyes when he looks out on the fields in autumn and thinks of the past. This past‚ ("the days that are no more") is described as fresh and strange. It is as fresh as the first beam of sunlight that sparkles on the sail of a boat bringing the dead back from the underworld‚ and it is sad as the last red beam of sunlight that shines on a boat that carries the dead down
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There is silence. Silence everywhere‚ such silence that the soft sounds created by swift movements happening around me are amplified. The water droplets explode into tiny particles as they hit my hot skin and flow down my body and you can even hear the water gushing into the drain. Correction: swirling into the drain. Gushing has negative connotations‚ but swirling has an optimistic twist to it. I look down and open my eyes‚ allowing the water to pour over my head down to my face. All I can see
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Textual features: language features Alliteration when the poet uses the same consonant letter at the beginning of a number of words placed close together e.g. dark plastic skeleton dangling near my French doors. Apostrophe addressing an inanimate object or a dead person as if they were alive e.g. ‘Death be not proud though some have called thee mighty’(Donne‚ J in Favourite verse (1999) Hurford‚ C (Ed)‚ Parragon‚ Bath. p.450) Assonance when the poet repeats the same vowel sound in a number of words
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In the short stories The Landlady and Lamb to the Slaughter written by Roald Dahl‚ an important setting is the households. They show us the importance of appearance vs. reality‚ as they show how things can often be different to how they seem‚ and that we can be easily deceived if we are too reliant on looks. This is shown through techniques such as irony‚ listing and adjectives. The Landlady is a story about a young man who believes he has found a safe place to stay‚ when in fact it is one of
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Textual interpretations are known to be governed and defined by the writer themselves‚ the very individuals who comprise meanings to be discovered by the readers. In opposition to the formalist approach‚ the Reader Response literary criticism based textual interpretations solely on the reader. The conventional authority placed on the shoulders of the author is stripped and placed within the minds of the reader themselves. Reader Response criticism is innovative‚ as the established preconceived notions
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“Why the Lamb Is Meek” is considered a very interesting folklore that has a compact‚ fast-paced‚ and unique storyline that will always regain its readers’ attention in just a blink. Firstly‚ the two main characters in this story interact back and forth‚ which are a big toad and a little lamb. These two main characters build the storyline‚ bringing interactions to carry the plot further. Firstly‚ the big toad is introduced with a very strong personality as in bold‚ confident‚ cunning‚ and persistent
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watch out in the story Lamb to the Slaughter because the animal is the killer. Lamb to the Slaughter is a short story by Roald Dahl. Lamb to the Slaughter is fiction and the theme is betrayal. The setting in Lamb to the Slaughter is around the 1950’s in the afternoon. The location is in the man’s house after he comes home from work. The house has a cozy‚ serene‚ and warm feeling. The characters in Lamb to the Slaughter are the police‚ Mary Maloney‚ and Patrick Maloney. In Lamb to the Slaughter‚ the
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Spiral of Silence Theory Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann’s spiral of silence is a theory that was developed in 1974 and as the founder and the director of the Public Opinion Research Center in Allensbach in Germany; she has found evidence of how the spread of public opinion is formed. The term spiral of silence refers to the increasing pressure people feel to conceal their views they think they are the minority. People will be unwilling to publicly express their opinion if they are in the minority and
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Intertextual Analysis-Romeo and Juliet The visual arts interpretation by Russian artist Ilyas Phaizulline strikes many similarities with the most well-known version of Romeo and Juliet in the form of a book. The characters portrayed are similar‚ alike in form and attitude. The plot events and motifs put across in both versions of Romeo and Juliet correspond with each other in numerous ways‚ presenting highly similar though slightly differing interpretations of Romeo and Juliet. Firstly‚ it
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