Joan Didion utilizes stylistic elements such as imagery‚ diction‚ and detail throughout each of the three parts of the passage in order to convey her fear and awe of the horrendous and aberrant Santa Ana winds‚ simultaneously revealing the primal and often times violent ways man reacts to external stimuli and correcting the mistaken belief that he is not subject to the whims of nature. Didion paints through her writing the true nature of the winds. These phenomena are first introduced through words
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here. I had come from a tiny private school and had to adjust to this grand institution. However‚ that fourteen year old boy from St. Augustine is not the same man who stands before you today‚ asking for your vote. Today‚ I an aspiring leader of the Supreme Student Council. No longer will the ideas of creative students be ignored No longer will the complaints and grievances of students be brushed aside No longer will we remain an isolated community‚ but become a leader to the schools around
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List all of the noun phrases in the passage‚ including the pronouns. After you have studied the list write an essay on how the noun phrases contribute to the text. How do they relate to what is being described in the extract? In Lindsey Davis’s Ode to a Banker‚ there are many uses of the noun phrase. The noun phrase is a phrase that contains a noun as well as other constituents (Yule 2010‚ p291). The noun can stand on its own as the noun phrase or include the use of articles and modifiers to enhance
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Mosquitoland is a book written by David Arnold published in 2015. I have chosen this book because I liked the fact that she was a young girl doing a road trip in a northbound Greyhound bus. The book related the story of a young girl‚ MIM- Mary Iris Malone‚ who discovers that her mom is sick. She lives with her dad and her stepmom in Mississippi whereas her mother is in Cleveland. She wants to find her and the book is about all the journey to get there: the people she met‚ the adventure in the bus
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------------------------------------------------- Student`s Individual Work №1 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Stylistic device (see the lecture №3) Simile An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor A comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using
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United States immigrant policy has been going an issue since the first immigrant stepped foot in America. Many Americans believe that it is unfair that people from other countries can come to America and take opportunities from people born in America. Arnold Schwarzenegger writes‚ An Immigrant Writes‚ to shed some light on his belief that our policy should be revised to help both immigrants and Americans. Mr. Schwarzenegger’s article‚ An Immigrant Writes‚ was a compelling argument but was not successful
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Stylistic Devices in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury ’s 1953 Fahrenheit 451 contains a number of interesting stylistic devices. Robert Reilly praises Bradbury for having a style "like a great organ. ..." (73). David Mogen comments on the novel ’s "vivid style" (110). Peter Sisario applauds the "subtle depth" of Bradbury ’s allusions (201)‚ and Donald Watt pursues Bradbury ’s bipolar "symbolic fire" (197) imagery. In recent articles I discussed Bradbury ’s use of mirror imagery and nature imagery.
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Two Thanksgiving Gentleman by O. Henry O. Henry is one of the most famous American short story writers. O. Henry’s real name was William Sydney Porter and he was born in Greensboro‚ North Carolina on September 11‚ 1862. O. Henry’s short stories are famous for their surprise endings and humor. O. Henry’s wrote such classic short stories as The Ransom of Red Chief‚ “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room”. His stories often have characters from opposite society levels: the wealthy and
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To begin‚ Dover Beach expresses the relationship of reality versus illusion. In Dover Beach‚ Arnold tells the readers that he want his lover and himself to be honest and more truthful to one another because Arnold know that the world is not everything it seems to be and that “Hath really neither joy‚ nor love‚ nor light‚ nor certitude‚ nor peace‚ nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain‚ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight‚ Where ignorant armies clash by night” (5‚5-9)
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Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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