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    Kennings Kennings can come in 3 forms. Look at the examples in the chart below and write down the name or noun represented beside each example of a kenning. |Compound Words |Prepositional Phrases |Possessives | |Sky-candle |Wolf of wounds |Seabird’s bath | |Whale-road

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    the word “magical” puts the focus on its emotional appeal‚ which makes of it a user friendly product rather than a technological device. He also uses repetition: “Now the iPad‚ if you can sum it up‚ is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.” By repeating this key line‚ he sets the product in the mind of his audience. His speech is marked by paced speed and pauses‚ yet very confident. He speaks slowly and takes time to articulate his words clearly

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    Using rhetorical strategies mentioned earlier she stresses their view of the world. Through the rhetorical strategies of anecdotes‚ figurative language‚ and specific description of details such as the bleak view of her routine life. Anecdotes a word your average [person would no know the meaning of. An anecdote—a short story or narrative usually used to a humorous effect—is used to a different effect in this –prestigious and insightful—paper of Woolf’s. All through the paper she utilizes anecdotes;

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    linguistic one‚ but basically‚ a social issue that is far more notice-worthy than the public would have thought. Demonstrations of Sexism in English are too numerous to be totally covered. This paper illustrates demonstrations from the viewpoints of word-structure‚ word choosing‚ sentence structure‚ sentence pattern‚ meaning and speech‚ just to name the most common ones. Then it takes an insight into the causes of sexism in English— the historical‚ cultural‚ political‚ economical‚ educational‚ physiological

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    In her poem “One Perfect Rose‚” Dorothy Parker misleads the reader throughout the first and second stanzas into believing this poem is a romantic tribute to a tender moment from her past through her word choice and style of writing. However‚ the tone of the entire poem dramatically changes upon reading the third and final stanza when Parker allows the reader to understand her true intention of the poem‚ which is a cynical and perhaps bewildered view of the memory. And‚ with this shift in the tone

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    a thing‚ ‘said the Duck; ‘it’s generally a frog or a worm. The question is‚ what did the archbishop find?’ Lewis Carroll‚ Alice’s adventures in Wonderland Morphological rules for combining morphemes into words differ from the syntactic rules of a language‚ which determine how words are combined to form sentences; but there is an interesting relationship between morphology and syntax. In derivation morphology‚ we saw that certain aspects of morphology have syntactic implications--nouns can

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    judge the effectiveness of a document or presentation. If this list of words‚ all beginning with the letter C‚ helps you remember some of the criteria for good writing‚ the technique of alliteration has worked. If‚ however‚ this list leaves you cold‚ create your own list‚ but remember to retain the concept of each C-word in your newly created list. |Clear |This is the most important C-word. If your reader cannot understand what you are trying to say | |

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    with the thought of her. The letters simply state the events Martha encounter in her daily life‚ lines of poetry she would quote‚ not one single word was written to imply she had feelings for him (O’Brien‚ 354). There is never an inkling of profound feelings for Lt. Cross being hidden in Martha’s words‚ but at the end of each letter she signs them with the word “love”. This is the fuel that fed the fire that was his infatuation (O’Brien‚ 354). The way she signs her letters along with the good luck pebble

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    scopes her sense of belonging coming from a very personal context where she uses first person ‘I’ to put us as the reader in her position and the colloquialism of ‘nightie’ in contrast to Indian colloquialism ‘sari’. The effect of the adaptation of the word ‘sari’ shows a deep connection with the Indian culture as colloquialism is only used where one feels

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    meaning of all those words and the poem in general‚ but after I read the poem a few times I could finally understand the meaning of the poem and what was the author trying to say. After I understood the poem‚ I started memorizing it. It cost me a few hours because this is the first time that I am reading books related to English literature‚ so all those words are phrases are totally new to me. Also‚ it took me while to memorize the poem because some of the lines had some words that do not make sense

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