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    The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. I.Abstract: When I read it i think‚ all things are related to other things‚ interconnected‚ so that nothing stands alone. The objects depend upon each other to provide this vivid scene‚ alone they are commonplace‚ together they speak volumes. I think of the poem as a painting‚ by a modern artist‚ where choice of colour and shape and texture together

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    Wilde and Stoppard portray the women in ‘Arcadia’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’‚ in light of the opinion that the sexes compliment each other in ‘Arcadia’ whereas‚ the women dominate the men in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. The female characters in both ‘Arcadia’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ have significant roles and have a certain amount of control in their relationships. However‚ in ‘the importance of being earnest’ the women dominate the men and exert their power without

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    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does‚ and that is his” is a line from the brilliant play called The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest‚ starring Colin Firth‚ is a charming tale of the importance of family and reality also directed by Oliver Parker. Though there was a play and a movie‚ they both have their own differences. They were also both made from two different perspectives of this magnificent play‚ the original writer

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    parents because when certain situations occur they failed to communicate correctly“ I asked Mom and Dad if we should close the doors and windows when we went to sleep. They wouldn’t consider it.” (103) Rex and Rosemary failed to communicate the importance of safety as stated in the quote before because if they cared about their safety from intruders they would have allowed them to shut the windows but instead

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    papers of the Pickwick club (Dickens) ” belongs to…style: alliteration The sentence “The camp‚ the pulpit and the low For rich man’s sons are free” The sentence “The cock is covering‚ the stream is flowing ” belongs to…style: parallelism The stylistic device in the sentence "There was a town down there‚ as flat as a flannel- The word-combinations “peopled desert‚ populous solitude‚ proud humility ” to…style : zeugma What is slang word?

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    Another of Wilde’s plays‚ and perhaps his most famous‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ is a comedy‚ and so it is easy for the audience to become entranced by the humor of the show without examining the underlying symbolism and satire that makes it so funny. The play is‚ at its core‚ about the mischief that can ensure when names are given too much importance. The name Ernest‚ in particular‚ is coveted by the two main male characters‚ Jack and Algernon‚ but also by the two main female characters‚

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    The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde was first published by Leonard Smithers & Co. in London in 1899. It was later republished by Dover Thrift Editions in 1990. The story follows Mr. Jack “Earnest” Worthing as he stumbles through a rather laughable and humorous situation alongside his companion Algernon Moncrieff. Through different twists and turns‚ Algernon and Jack discover many things about honor‚ honesty‚ and above all‚ love. Many important characters aid them in their journey‚ and

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    Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary PLAN 1. Stylistic classification of the English language vocabulary. Classification criteria 2. Standard English vocabulary and its constituents. Neutral words. 3. Specific literary vocabulary. Terms‚ poetic and archaic words‚ obsolete and obsolescent words‚ literary coinages and neologisms‚ foreignisms and barbarisms 4. Specific colloquial vocabulary. Professionalisms‚ jargon and slang‚ vulgarisms and nonce-words‚ dialectisms. LITERATURE Galperin

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    Stylistic Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Abstract Higher level English learners always pay attention to English public speech‚ especially those inaugural speeches. They take them as fine literary efforts and good analysis material. This paper tries to give an analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech from stylistic perspective‚ in order to help to better appreciate Obama’s presentation skills. Keywords: stylistics‚ syntactic‚ lexics‚ rhetoric Barack Hussein Obama was elected to be the forty-fourth

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    1C 30 May 2018 An Interpretation of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s play‚ The Importance of Being Earnest allows the reader to question the value of morals and whether they are significant or not. His work may be argued to be “quite useless” to some‚ but may be impactful to others. In this sense‚ it may be both meaningful as a piece of art and entertainment. The “moral” of the play‚ if anything‚ suggests that one in fact can be rewarded by being less than earnest and presents itself at the end of the

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