my lord? Hamlet: Words‚ words‚ words! Polonius: What is the matter‚ my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Polonius: I mean the matter that you read‚ my lord. Analogy A comparison made between two things that share something in common. Eg. Seamus Heaney‚ in his poem Digging‚ compares his pen to a spade and makes us think again about the way his poetry works by concluding: ‘Ill dig with it’. Anecdote/anecdotal evidence A small story‚ usually based on an individual case that illustrates
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firms (Longenecker‚ Petty et al. 2003; Higgins 2009; Tjan 2009; Heaney 2010; Longenecker‚ Petty et al. 2010). There are a number of valid reasons for why small business can excel over large businesses in this area (Higgins 2009; Tjan 2009). In today’s fast paced business global environment‚ customers are seeking quality customer service and satisfaction to compliment a good/service purchased (Longenecker‚ Petty et al. 2003; Heaney 2010; Longenecker‚ Petty et al. 2010). While all businesses can
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Cited: Austen‚ Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Oxford: Houghton-Mifflin‚ 1997. Beowulf. Trans. Seamus Heaney. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors. 7th ed. Ed. M.H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt. New York: Norton‚ 2001. 23-94. Chaucer‚ Geoffrey. The General Prologue. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors
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Periods of British Literature: 450-1066: Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500: Middle English Period 1500-1660: The Renaissance 1558-1603: Elizabethan Age 1603-1625: Jacobean Age 1625-1649: Caroline Age 1649-1660: Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum) 1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period 1660-1700: The Restoration 1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) 1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 1785-1830: The Romantic Period 1832-1901: The Victorian
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say‚ “But now [Grendel’s] mother had sallied forth on a savage journey‚ grief-racked and ravenous‚ desperate for revenge.” It’s made blatant very early on in the introduction of Ultio that she stands for revenge. However‚ the word choice made by Seamus Heaney who wrote the 2007 translation of Beowulf from its original Old English text makes Grendel’s mother much less of a monster than Grendel is said to be. For example‚ Grendel is called “a fiend out of hell” (100)‚ a “grim demon” (102) and “anathema”
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Beowulf is a masterpiece that has pillaged and powered through centuries of oral retelling and translating just as the character it vividly illustrates does throughout the epic. Despite being so impressive and entertaining on the surface‚ the Old English classic embodies something a lot greater‚ and that is the moral struggle of religion going on at the time. Religion played a huge role in Anglo-Saxon culture for it was what gave the people a reason to live for‚ it was what motivated people to work
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Introduction After reading the case‚ you ought to realize that our protagonist‚ Seamus Reynolds‚ is between the proverbial “rock and a hard spot” and you are probably thinking “I would hate to be him”. Guess what? You are going to be him in this assignment. There is quantitative data in the case that we can analyze; however‚ we are also going to “quantify” the qualitative data provided – think of it as reducing numerical and non-numerical data to a set of numbers we can use to make a decision
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all started when she fell down in the road and he helped her up. They spent a few hours together. She had to find new pants but couldn’t find the American pants. Instead they sat and had tea. Seamus had to go to school‚ so she decides she would go shopping again. She found an american store and wonder why Seamus didn’t take her here and he knew the store was there. As she was approaching the store a bomb went off. She then realized that no one goes to school in the middle of the day and that no
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Centre Number Student Number CATHOLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2009 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION English (Advanced) Paper 2 - Modules Morning Session Tuesday‚ 11 August 2009 Total marks - 60 Pages 2-4 General Instructions • Reading time - 5 minutes • Working time - 2 hours • • Write using blue or black pen Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of this page Attempt ONE question from Questions 3-7 Allow about 40 minutes for this section
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on memories of his childhood‚ growing up on a farm in the Irish countryside. Here he recalls the annual experience of picking wild fruit in late summer. Heaney uses assonance in his phrase ’glossy purple clot’ to describe the first blackberry that ripened and stood out from others pictured with the simile as being still ’hard as a knot’. Heaney compares the taste of the first ripe berry to the sweetness of ’thickened wine’. He uses the metaphor ’summer’s blood’ to express the redness of the juice
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