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    Output Device

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    OUTPUT DEVICE What are OUTPUT DEVICES? Output devices are hardware devices that display or present information to the user or other people. The monitor‚ printer and the speaker are one of the examples. PRINTER It is a computer device that produces a permanent copy on paper of information from the computer. There are several kinds of printers: ink jet‚ dot-matrix and laser jet printers. DOT MATRIX PRINTER Prints by hammering or striking an ink-soaked cloth ribbon against a paper. The advantage

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    Literary Devices

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    Hope is the Thing with Feathers  When people hear the word hope‚ they think of faith. Faith and hope have different meanings but also to have hope we need faith. Hope can be pure if only being let down by someone or just being foolish of something that really doesn’t matter as much. In the poem ‚ "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" contains the literary devices of imagery‚ metaphor‚ and personification. All these literary devices add up to the theme by comparing them to things that are usually

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    Poetry Book

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    My Poetry Book By Hans Page 1– Table of Contents Page 2 – Thoughts on poetry Page 3 – Similes Page 4 – Metaphors Page 5 – Personification Page 6 – Apostrophe Page 7 – Hyperbole Page 8 – Onomatopoeia Page 9 – Internal rhyme Page 10 – Imagery Page 11 – Alliteration Page 12 – Autobiographical Poem Page 13 – Acrostic poem Page 14 – “This Is Just to Say” Poem Page 15 – My Favorite Poet(s) My thoughts on poetry My favorite poems are jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

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    Target Audience Analysis

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    “Three ways to define a Target Audience” This week I read an article on three ways to define “Target Audience”‚ I found this article to be very interesting because it was not too long and was very informative. For instance‚ Kivi Leroux Miller stated that marketing and fundraising that tries to reach public‚ really reaches few people at all. She also pointed out that the public includes newborns‚ elders‚ rich and poor‚ very wealthy and even homeless. She says that even if you wanted to you could

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    "Tears‚ Idle Tears" Summary The speaker sings of the baseless and inexplicable tears that rise in his heart and pour forth from his eyes when he looks out on the fields in autumn and thinks of the past. This past‚ ("the days that are no more") is described as fresh and strange. It is as fresh as the first beam of sunlight that sparkles on the sail of a boat bringing the dead back from the underworld‚ and it is sad as the last red beam of sunlight that shines on a boat that carries the dead down

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    Introduction For my essay I am going to adopt a formalist approach to Wordsworth’s ‘The Thorn’. In particular I will be looking into the views of the Russian formalists such as Victor Shlovsky and Alexander Potebnya‚ and relating their thoughts to the poem. I will then be seeing how the ‘The Thorn’ relates to elements of the uncanny in its content. I will finish by including a reader response‚ where I will draw on my own thoughts of the poem. Russian formalism Russian formalism advocated a ‘scientific’

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    Poetry Review

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    "The Whipping‚" by Robert Hayden This poem is about Hayden who hears a boy being beaten‚ recalls his childhood when he too was subjected to the same and notices that this form of punishment has been handed down from generation to generation. He uses visual and auditory imagery together to take the reader to different moments in time‚ where the same event is being played over and is put in six quatrains to add emphasis. In the first quatrain‚ Hayden hears a woman "shouting to the neighborhood

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    The Classic of Poetry

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    Classic of Poetry is a collection of old Chinese literature that has been rewritten and renamed into the Book of Songs/Odes. (“Norton Anthology of World Literature” 812) This collection of poems seemed to become popular around the beginning of Confucianism. Confucianism is the concept of centering one’s life or work on authority figures‚ family‚ and friends. The expression of Confucianism is best seen in the work of Tu Fu. Confucianism is wide spread throughout the Classic of Poetry. Confucianism

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    Introduction to Poetry

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    Zachary Linder Ms. Lichius AP Literature January 15‚ 2013 Introduction to Poetry In “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins‚ the major theme portrayed is that‚ poetry is something to be experienced. Very often‚ readers will just go through the poem once and will then assume to figure out the underlying meaning. However‚ this is not true in Collins’ eyes. Collins believes that you need to be patient with poetry and he tells you this through a series of metaphors. Throughout the poem‚ there

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    The Power of Poetry

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    Studies in Poetry 5 August 2013 The Power of Poetry Poetry can be cathartic for both the writer and the reader. The art expression in poetry allows the writer to heal continually over time. The reader gets to experience Ms. Clifton’s life chronologically through her poetry. We get to feel full-circle the wounds‚ the scab‚ the debridement and finally the healing that happens after one exposes truths. Ms. McCallum shows a contrast approach to her past by taking a mythical route. Instead of

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