One of the significant literary features of the passage is its odd diction‚ offset from the rest of the book due to Pi’s delusional state of mind and his maintained sensitivity to the occurrence. This causes the conclusion and religious sentiment of Pi’s journey to be accentuated as a direct result of intentional word choice. Pi arrives on the beach slightly crazed from his time at sea‚ as can be observed from the way his perceptions are distorted‚ with a fear that‚ “in two feet of water‚ I would
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‘PREFACE’ TO LYRICAL BALLADS AADED TO THE SECOND EDITION OF LB IN 1800 IN PUTS FORWARD WORDSWORTH’S THEORY OF POETIC DICTION Wordsworth’s purpose‚ as he tells in the Preface was‚ “to choose incidents and situations from common life”‚ and quite naturally‚ he also intended to use‚ “a selection of language‚ really used by men”. He was to deal with humble and rustic life and so he should also use the language of the rustics‚ farmers‚ shepherds who were to be the subjects of his poetry. The language of these
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future Buddha‚ Siddhartha Gautama‚ was born in the 5th or 6th century BCE in Lumbini‚ in what is now Nepal. His father‚ King Suddhodana‚ was leader of a large clan called the Shakya. His mother‚ Queen Maya‚ died shortly after his birth. When Prince Siddhartha was a few days old‚ a holy man prophesied the Prince would be either a great military conqueror or a great spiritual teacher. King Suddhodana preferred the first outcome
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should be avoided. (m) Trouble (p) should be avoided (s) Some parties (m) lead to trouble (s) Some parties (p) should be avoided 2. Physicists are the only scientists who theorize about the nature of time and Stephen Hawking certainly does that. Therefore‚ Stephen Hawking must be a physicist. (p) Physicists are the only scientists who (m) theorize about the nature of time (s) Stephen Hawking (m) theorizes about the nature of time (s) Stephen Hawking (p) should be a physicist 3. Obviously J
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interesting. She presents her ideas by using a range of different poetic devices such as‚ choosing a distinct form and structure‚ using powerful diction and effectively using an extended metaphor throughout the poem. Duffy begins her poem in an unusual manner as compared to other love poems would usually begin; this is because she sets an unromantic
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In the first line of the octave‚ it opens with the speaker immediately introducing himself as a man facing blindness projecting a sense of uncertainty on how he lived his life prior to this detrimental ailment as well as expressing fear of his perhaps endangered soul. In line 2 “Ere half my days‚ in this dark world and wide‚” Milton’s dictation “dark world and wide” illustrate a place of despair voiced by the speaker. The expression “world and wide” is alliteration which emphasizes on the devastating
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2013 Personal Response to On Writing by Stephen King Personally‚ I am amazed at how Stephen King began his autobiography with a short story from when he was small. “Unknown to me‚ wasps had constructed a small nest in the lower half of the cinderblock. One of them‚ perhaps pissed off at being relocated‚ flew out and stung me on the ear. The pain was brilliant‚ like a poisonous inspiration” (King 19). This opening story really tells the readers that Stephen King is euphemistic. For being stung
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Passage A of Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter to Birmingham is composed of specific stylistic strategies that effectively convey his central idea that the black community’s protests against segregation are justified as it has suffered from widespread societal restraint for centuries throughout history. King’s argument in this passage is facilitated by means of a syntactical structure composed of a long list of the abundant struggles that have faced blacks as well as an appeal to the legal and moral
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Stephen Hawking started his studies at Cambridge University. He began to study cosmology but later then realized that was not the path he wanted to go down. Eventually he became a professor of theoretical physics. By the age of 21‚ Hawking contracted ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)‚ a neurological disease that is incurable and very fatal. ALS eats your nervous system very slowly. From then until now‚ Hawking has defied this disease and is still alive to this day. Hawking has a family‚ and three
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interesting. Jargon Terms that are being used by a specific profession or a group of people which others can hardly understand. Idiom Phrases or a particular group of words that do not only have the surface meaning‚ but has an implied meaning to it. Diction The choice of word that is being used in literature Assonance Two or more words that are closely together in a phrase that has the same vowel sound. Alliteration Two or more words that are closely together in a phrase that has the same first
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