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    Juliet and the friar make a plan for Juliet to live happily ever after with Romeo. This plan goes terribly wrong‚ causing Romeo and Juliet to both commit suicide since they could bare living without each other’s love. Shakespeare uses a sonnet‚ many metaphors and imagery to demonstrate a theme that love is a very strong feeling. Shakespeare uses

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    Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

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    Pregnancy is supposed to be a time of joy and excitement for the mother to be. However‚ contrary to popular belief‚ pregnancy doesn’t protect a woman from becoming depressed. About 20 % of women experience some type of depressive symptoms during pregnancy‚ and 10% develop major depression (Kahn‚ Moline‚ Ross‚ Cohen‚ Altshuler par. 3). Depression in America is an area of mental illness that is sometimes undetected and people who are feeling symptoms are unaware that the moods they are experiencing

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    The Bean Trees - Tone

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    Odds are‚ you’d probably freak out and hand the baby over to the authorities or something similar to that. But not Taylor Greer in the novel The Bean Trees! The words that Barbara Kingsolver chooses to use show a tone of informality and humor. One way Kingsolver establishes an informal tone is by using long‚ run on sentences and everyday words. When Taylor gets a job at Tuscon after she stops traveling‚ she says‚ “I lasted six days at the Burger Derby before I got in a fight with the manager and threw

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    FALLIN AND RISING OF TONES

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    3 FALLIN AND RISING OF TONES TONE: Tone is the change in the pitch of the voice. The pitch falls a little from stress to stress. Then‚ it finally falls at the last meaningful syllable. The pitch remains low for the remaining unstressed syllables. In the rising tone‚ the pitch rises at the last meaningful syllable. It continues to rise for the remaining unstressed syllables. STATEMENTS We can use the falling tone in most normal statements. When you are making a normal statement about which

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    feuding families‚ display just how strong the strength of true love is by dying to each other.  In Romeo and Juliet‚ the two lovers show their undying affection for each other by using metaphors and religious phrases.     Romeo and Juliet show express their feelings for each other in a sonnet that is packed full with metaphors and religious phrases.  An example of one of the religious phrases used in this sonnet is‚ “My prayer’s effect I take.  Thus from my lips‚ by yours‚ my

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    interview called “AIDS and its Metaphor” where she depicts people who believed that punishment was the viable resolution. Her interview touches on her experiences and issues with HIV/AIDS community. Her article foreshadows some of the themes that are present in Philadelphia that not only happened in the past but that are still happening in today’s society Before connecting Susan’s Sontag interview to our class material‚ I will quickly summarize the plot. “AIDS and it Metaphor” is told through an interview

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    but you have to do your best to find it "I gazed—I gazed". At that time you exert effort‚ your inward eye will feel the tranquility you seek. Hence‚ whatever the bad life is‚ there must be light there‚ there must be hope‚ there must be pleasure could fill your heart. The whole picture of the dancing daffodils was depicted perfectly using the prominent imagery. I realized that most of this imagery is created by the many metaphors and similes Wordsworth uses. In the first line‚ Wordsworth says "I

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    Tone Of Raymond's Run

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    In the short story‚ “Raymond’s Run”‚ the tone that the narrator uses is harsh throughout the beginning and middle of the story and softens into a tone of excitement and joy. This tone reflects how Hazel is a character that changes throughout the short story. For example‚ when Mary Louise asks Hazel if she was going to sign up for the May Day race‚ Hazel replies with the defensive internal comment‚ “A dumb question like that doesn’t deserve an answer.” Furthermore‚ when Mr. Pearson calls Hazel by

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    A Buffalo Common Metaphor

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    A Buffalo Common Metaphor Over the past few decades the High Plains have consistently been losing its population. So‚ in 1987 Doctors Frank and Deborah Popper introduced the idea of Buffalo Commons. They described this project as “A combination of literary metaphor‚ public-policy proposal‚ futurist prediction and ecological restoration project” (The Buffalo Commons: Its Antecedents). The essential focus of this project was to replace the ever decrease population by returning buffalo back to the

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    The Discardment Poem Tone

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    In the poem “The Discardment” there is a definite shift in tone at a certain area in the poem. This shift occurs at the oxymoron “intolerable joy”. This shift seems to be from a more of a lighthearted tone to more of a bitter tone. In this poem you can mainly see through light hearted tone through the description of the joy that the woman has when she received the present. In the poem it states the following “She put it on with exclamations‚/ Her eyes shone‚ she called and cried/ She danced and mimed

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