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    Whether it is counting the number of birthdays you have in your lifetime or the number of times you have traveled to a certain place‚ every experience is unique from the previous. It is shown clearly in “Once More to the Lake” by E.B White‚ where he asserts that “There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one - the one that was part of memory. I looked at the boy‚ who was silently watching his fly‚ and it was my hands that held his rod‚ my eyes watching. I felt dizzy

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    the halls of Gatsby’s mansion. If words mimic vehicles transporting the audience from the real into the fantasy‚ then F. Scott Fitzgerald plays the chauffeur; his exploitation of imagery allows them to experience the frenetic carouse. Furthermore‚ Fitzgerald anesthetized the audience with intoxicating rounds of imagery such as Nick’s ominous encounter with Gatsby. Although the introspective luminary remains aloof during the beginning of the party in chapter three‚ Nick listens intently to the sporadic

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    Lady of Shalott‚" including simile‚ imagery‚ metaphor‚ and symbolism. In part three of the poem‚ Tennyson describes the details of Lancelot’s armor and horse: "The gemmy bridle glitter’d free‚   Like to some branch of stars we see   Hung in the golden Galaxy." (82-84) Tennyson uses a simile to compare the glitter of the horse’s bridle to the stars at night.  This simile also incorporates imagery‚ creating visual image in the readers’ mind.  The celestial imagery continues later in part three in

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    death‚ war contains a lot of pain and anger. For quite a while now‚ writers have been attempting to write about and protest war. In all honesty‚ though‚ they’re just glorifying it and making it seem not as bad as it truly is. They do this‚ by using imagery‚ structure‚ and most of all‚ irony. How do writers use imagery‚ irony‚ and structure‚ to protest war? How is the pain and struggles of war shown in writings that protest war? Imagery is very helpful when writing about‚ and protesting war. Using

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    values‚ and ideas in a range of texts” Compare the ways Maestro and one other text use imagery. Through the exploration of the texts Maestro‚ by Peter Goldsworthy‚ and The Falling Man‚ by Richard Drew‚ the emergence of imagery deciphers and projects the varying meanings of each text. Through distinctively visual language features in the novel Maestro‚ images are created which help convey the major theme of the text; relationships. This is contrasted by the visual techniques in the image of

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    An Investment Decision “What’s the fuss about? It’s only a greasy spoon!” That summed it up‚ thought Emma. Her accountant boyfriend Leon simply didn’t understand her business. When she bought the Swan Café two years ago‚ it was so run down that the lease cost just £4‚000. And it was now a thriving business. Close to the river in Oxford‚ it had a great trade from builders between 7 and 9.00‚ from students from 9.00 till 1.00 and from tourists between 1.00 and 4.30. Then students drifted back

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    misleading. The theme of illusion versus reality in "Dover Beach" reflects the speaker’s awareness of the incompatibility between what is perceived and what truly is real. Arnold conveys the theme of "Dover Beach" through three essential developments. First‚ he uses visual imagery. Second‚ he uses sound (aural) imagery. Third‚ he uses rhythm and metric. These mechanics alone do not explain why illusion and reality differ‚ but they do help to explain how Arnold sets up the poem to support the theme. The strongest

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    Diana Alsbrook Professor Smith World Literature 251 March 4‚ 2010 Grotesque Imagery to Represent Themes in Candide Various forms of imagery appear in Voltaire’s Candide. This includes the image of gardening and the multiple images found throughout the tour of El Dorado. None‚ however‚ compare to the blatant grotesque imagery shown in the novel‚ imagery that gives us a sort of comic relief in what is supposed to be violent and gory. Comedy and horror-filled instances are combined to form a

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    The Lake - Roger McGough !!!  The purpose of this poem is to tell the audience to stop littering the lakes and other water bodies because it is hard for the sea animals to survive underwater.  OMP- LIST The Poem  The Lake For years there have been no fish in the lake.  People hurrying through the park avoid it  like the plague. Birds steer clear  and the sedge of course has withered.  Trees lean away from it‚  and at night it reflects‚ not the moon‚  but the blackness of its own depths.  There are

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    Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods is centered around the mysterious disappearance of Kathy Wade. Mysterious is the key word‚ as throughout the novel O’Brien plays with the fine line between ambiguity and reality. Kathy’s husband John Wade‚ the main character‚ is a Vietnam veteran and former politician whose participation in the infamous Mai Lai Massacre caused his fall from grace. Following a landslide defeat in the congressional elections‚ Kathy and John retreat to solitude in an isolated

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