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    Beginning with When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats‚ we as the reader’s first notice the rhyme scheme used. Readers observe that the first and fourth lines of the poem rhyme‚ as well as the second and third lines. Correspondingly‚ the poem grasps an iambic pentameter which gives Yeats poem a more musical characteristic. The word “And” appears in this poem more than six times just in the first stanza alone which keeps the rhythm of the meter constant. In my opinion‚ I believe that the narrator

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    Irving Penn didn’t grow up wanting to be a photographer‚ he actually wanted to be an art director‚ but after spending a year in Mexico painting and knowing he wouldn’t be anything better than mediocre. He returned to New York‚ winning the attention of an art director’s at Vogue‚ who then hired him as his assistant‚ to suggest photographic front covers. The staff didn’t partially like Penn’s ideas‚ but the art director who hired him did and arranged for him to simply do it himself. The director seemed

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    Mary Shelley is an esteemed author known for her works in the horror genre. One of her techniques that she uses in her most famous novel Frankenstein‚ is parallelism. The point of view in which this story is told is first person from the character Victor Frankenstein. She goes into detail about his childhood his family early on in the book‚ and it is evident that she uses the same diction to describe both his mother‚ Caroline Beaufort‚ and his adopted cousin‚ Elizabeth Lavenza; this reveals to the

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    ambiguity of manner. 8. Anachronism – Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time‚ esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword in an anachronism in modern warfare. 9. Anaphora – A rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginnings of successive phrases or sentences. Compare this to epistrophe‚ where such repetitions occur at the ends. (lesson 10. Analogy – A similarity between like features of two things‚ on which a

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    Vincent Van Gogh- Irises- 1889 Irises-1889 Vincent Van Gogh J-Paul Getty Museum Oil Pint During Van Goghs stay in the asylum at Saint- Remy‚ he devoted himself entirely to his artwork calling it the ’lightening conductor for his illness’ he believed that painting was the only thing that kept him from loosing his sanity. His painting ’the irises’ was the first completed work in the asylum‚ which differes from his later pieces as it does not show traces of tension and bad mood

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    Name___________________                        Date ___________________ A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer      Review Worksheet Chapter 2-  Good Times Part one:                                                         Character Identification: Describe who the characters are and what relationship they share with the main character. 1. Stephen Joseph = He was David’s father. He was a fireman and stood about 5’10 and weighed about 190 pounds. He had broad shoulders and forearms that would

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    organisms due to our phenomenal ability to reason. It is foolish to believe that companies of harmful yet legal products are responsible for the problems their products cause. Irving Coffman states that it is right for tobacco companies to pay states settlements because of the “problems” tobacco causes. I disagree with Irving Coffman’s belief that it is right for tobacco companies to pay settlements to states‚ and I also disagree with his argument stating that other manufacturers of detrimental products

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    because I actually don’t know any famous people that would qualify because my knowledge on the topic is not that great‚ to be blunt. So I decided to research the topic so I could be better at choosing a point. Thanks for your understanding. I choose Irving Berlin because he represents an example of what is America is made off and stands for. He has a Russian-born‚ naturalized U.S. citizen‚ Berlin left home at 14 to sing in New York City’s. He came to America for freedom and better opportunities of life

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    "The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush is a story in which shows how there is more to everything than what it looks like‚ Brush uses literary devices such as imagery to express how some people in a relationship can be really happy but aren’t‚ atmosphere to assert how the characters evening went from being delightful and intimate to catastrophic and bitter‚ and metaphor to indicate how Katharine Brush uses imagery to create a vivid picture of how happy it all starts to be. It says‚ "... in the

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    The short story "The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush is a representation of life in the 1940’s‚ and so through this short story she uses a series of literary devices such as caricature‚ antecedents‚ and change in the atmosphere to convey her objective. The beginning of the story has humorous caricature describing the couple‚ the author keeps her characters ambiguous and vague so to represent a typical married couple in this era‚ and drama that comes with the atmosphere shift with the rejection

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