Paradox A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense‚ but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. The first scene of Macbeth‚ for example‚ closes with the witches’ cryptic remark “Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair….” Parallelism Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related word‚ phrases‚ or clauses. The basic principle of grammar and rhetoric demands that equivalent things be set forth in coordinate grammatical structures: nouns
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Journal 1: Bibliographic Entry Krakauer‚ Jon. Into the Wild. New York: Anchor‚ 1997. Print. Journal 2: Visual Symbol In this book‚ the author chose deserts to symbolize the loneliness of Chris McCandless. He always traveled through the deserts alone‚ having no contact with anyone else. “He spent nearly four months in the bush all told‚ and during that period he didn’t encounter another living soul.” (165) McCandless was cut off from the rest of the world. He wanted freedom‚ and traveling
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"Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction"(5.6). Appastion is used in paragraph 6 with "Gentlemen may cry peace‚ peace-but there is no peace(6.2). A romantic author of this time period was Ralph Waldo Emerson’s From Nature. Emerson uses figures of speech such as imagery. He says‚ "But every night come out these envoys of beauty‚ and light the universe with their admonishing smile"(1.8).
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than stated directly. Examples: He is a half witch. 3. Personification-A trope or figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. Examples: The wind stood up and gave a shout. The road isn’t built that can make it breathe hard. 4. Litotes- Is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an Affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. Litotes uses a negative and an opposite
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these statements as figures of speech‚ but they still indicate that he has some idea that he ’s behaving erratically. Sally suggests that they go ice-skating that is where Holden ’s troubles begin coming to a head‚ uncharacteristically he ’s willing to see himself‚ and not the rest of the world‚ as the problem. "I don ’t get hardly anything out of anything‚" he cries. "I ’m in bad shape. I ’m in lousy shape." (131) Unlike his use of "crazy" and "madman" earlier‚ this is no figure of speech for Holden
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Psalm 27: A Psalm of David Psalm 27 comes to us in the middle of the book of Psalms. Psalms is like a book of poems. These scriptures paint a picture and gives us hope‚ strength‚ or informs us of God’s love whenever we need some encouragement. Psalm 27 is entitled “The Lord is My Light and My Salvation” and hails from story of David. This Psalm is a Psalm follows a pattern that goes back and forth between praising the Lord‚ and crying out to him for help before ending with a strong statement
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Yet‚ the company will not explain what the upside is to 2019. Until then‚ it acts like nothing more than a levered commodity proxy. They won’t go out with a message to investors. I can figure it out myself because I can model the company‚ but most investors today are not going to take the time to do that on a company like Southwestern. It’s not worth their time. Southwestern is asking investors to do too much work instead of explaining
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to them”. For example: Have you ever seen a grown-up just after they got a new cell phone? They’re too scared to explore the menu options‚ too scared to press any button and clueless on how to use the phone. Pass it on to the children and we’ll figure it out in a second. I think it is because grown-ups are very self-conscious when first trying new technology – it is after all not like they’ve grown up with it. I mean‚ picture this‚ growing up without television! Ha! Children constantly use their
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other than the literal meaning. (Eg. The title of the poem “Peace”). Religious imagery- religious imagery is something that is represents a religious purpose‚ subject or connection. (Eg. “God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour”). Simile- A figure of speech that compares one thing
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HU250 – Humanities and Culture When discussing “Allegory of the Cave” it is important to know what it is all about and it why it took place. Prisoners are chained and can only see darkness. They are facing a black wall and are projected to figure out what is real in life and what is not. They are not able to turn their heads. Plato wanted the people be aware of what is going on around them. There are puppets that are behind the walls that are showing shadows. The prisoners can only see the
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