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    The Metaphor-Miss Hancock

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    Dionne Mok “The Metaphor” character sketch paragraph In the story “The Metaphor” By Budge Wilson‚ Miss Hancock can be described as overenthusiastic‚ eccentricity‚ liveliness and wacky. Miss Hancock is unmarried and a very beautiful women that is a wacky but a fun teacher. From the story when Miss Hancock hears Charlotte’s very descriptive and interesting metaphor about her mother and notice that she might have a problem with her mom. She asks Charlotte whether there

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    Road Not Taken Metaphors

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    poetic devices within this piece but theme and metaphor help give the story a better image for the reader. The major theme in Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken‚" is about making choices. The speaker in the poem in traveling and comes upon a cross roads or a fork-in-the-road. Here he or she much decide which way to continue traveling. One way looks as if it has been traveled many times before and is the safer‚ easier route to continue

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    Time machine

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    different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space‚ generally using a theoretical invention‚ namely a time machine. It has a commonly recognized place in philosophy and fiction‚ but has a very limited application in real world physics‚ such as in quantum mechanics or wormholes. Although the 1895 novel The Time Machine by H. G. Wells was instrumental in moving the concept of time travel to the forefront of the public imagination‚ The Clock That Went Backward by

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    Eternal Sunshine Metaphors

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    The metaphor of the storage and subsequent retrieval of memory is also sustained in Eternal Sunshine. Once again‚ the inscribed objects‚ which Joel brings to Lacuna to help create a virtual map of Clementine in his brain‚ are represented as housing the memories inscribed to them. Van Dijck writes: “Memory objects […] robust materiality seems to guarantee a stable anchor of memory retrieval—an index to lived experience.” Therefore‚ these objects also need to be erased in the process of forgetting

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    Edward Taylor and The Metaphor The master of the metaphor‚ Edward Taylor‚ has captured the sense of the metaphor in such a way as too communicate his personal/ religious thoughts of God within his poems. Choosing his metaphors to enlighten the reader‚ Taylor has become an inspiration and a substance of resource to helping us understand God and his connection with our soul. Within Taylor’s poem “Huswifery”‚ he uses a spinning wheel and thread to create a metaphor between the relationship

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    Hydraulic Machines

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    30 CHAPTER 5 TURBINES 5.1 Introduction Hydraulic turbines are the machines which use the energy of water and convert it to mechanical energy. The mechanical energy developed by a turbine is used in running an electric generator which is directly coupled to the shaft of the turbine. The electric generator thus develops electric power‚ which is known as hydro-electric power. 5.2 Elements of Hydraulic Power Plants Fig.5.1 General Layout of a Hydraulic Power Plant 31

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    Metaphor by George Lakoff

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    English 100 08/08/13 In “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ague about how we use metaphor on a day-to-day basis. A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is in some point of comparison. It is not something that we think about often‚ but metaphors are part of our everyday lives. What I found interesting while reading this article is that Metaphors We Live By gives us examples that demonstrate   metaphors used in everyday language.   Lakoff

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    For this task‚ I worked with Sophie Davidson to create a digital story for the poem Primary Education By Yvette Holt. The poem was quite literal and did not make use any metaphors in the written work. However‚ after further analysis and use of creative thinking‚ we conjured many metaphors to add a deeper meaning to the words in the poem. I drew on my knowledge of the Aboriginal culture that I have encountered on my travels‚ both the beautiful culture and the modern corruption of the culture in rural

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    Shel Silverstein Metaphor

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    One thing that interests me most about metaphor and how you take something little or even play full but then relate it to this big amazing concept or problem in everyday life. I enjoy how metaphor can relate completely unrelated thing like in the Sylvia Plath poem how she compares eaten a bag of green apples to pregnancy‚ apples and pregnancy are nothing alike but she makes u see the similarities. for my primary source I would like to do a poem by Shel Silverstein he has been one of my favorite

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    THE METAPHORIC DIMENSION OF ECONOMIC TEXTS The Translation of Economic Metaphors The paper aims at presenting the main types of the most commonly used English economic metaphors‚ focussing on the translation strategies that could be used for rendering them into Russian. Introduction. The problem of translation acquires a tremendous importance not only in fiction‚ but also in non-fictional texts‚ especially those are related to newly developed or upcoming areas of human activity‚ such as the

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