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    country here no shame.” (Line 2‚ stanzas 2‚3‚4) She uses mostly rhyme in this poem which attracts audience attention. She uses a sad emotional rhyme to also attract the audience to inform them. To also convey sorrowful emotion to the reader she uses hyperbole such as “Sailing a ship board to hell”. This uses high emotional persuasion as she paints a picture of how much the aboriginal soldiers had to be going through just to get little to no recognition fighting for their freedom. She clearly uses emotive

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    Michelle Almanza Dow Intro to Poetry 9 April 2013 Romantic Love Love can be defined in various ways. Especially in American culture‚ where love is used to describe the affection or infatuation of many different things or people. There is no real classification of the type of love for things; it is just plain love. But‚ usually when the word love comes up‚ most people associate it with romantic love; love that is shared between couples in a relationship. Yet‚ still there are many different

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    in 1949 and in 1950‚ “Gwendolyn Brooks was a highly regarded … poet‚ with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize‚” (Halley)‚ for her poems Annie Allen including “Truth”. Brooks uses metaphors‚ personification‚ hyperbole‚ imagery and irony in this poem to illustrate the darkness of the unknown or accepted and the illumination of the truth and all it takes to uphold it. The speaker in “Truth‚” has an earnest and reflective voice‚ yet there is also an inflammatory

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    rhymes. The author uses 2 similes‚ for example in this verse “her face it bloomed like a sweet flower”‚ he used it to compare her face with a sweet flower‚ whit the connector “like”. In the verse “and blood burnt round my heart”‚ John Clare uses an hyperbole‚ because he exaggerated the verse that he used it. Also the author uses some oxymoron‚ how‚ “she seemed to hear my silent voice”‚ in this case‚ silent and voice are the opposite‚ so we can say that it is an oxymoron. Another type of devices are the

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    that Arthur Miller provides to discover important information. 6. Literary Technique: Identify a technique used by the author to make the story more memorable or effective. (Simile‚ metaphor‚ personification‚ repetition‚ parallelism‚ dialogue‚ hyperbole‚ understatement‚ symbolism‚ irony‚ sarcasm‚ connotation‚ etc.) 7. Evaluate: Make a judgment about something you read in the Act such as a character‚ an event‚ the dialogue‚ etc. 8. Connection: think about what the chapter reminds you of. Connect

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    Mature When I’m Dead Rhetoric Analysis Dave Barry Is a man who recognizes the effects that technology has had on people‚ in the sense that it is now a dependency. In the excerpt book‚ Mature When I’m Dead‚ the author emphasizes the daily use of technology in a person’s life. Barry’s attempts to persuade the reader into thinking about how much they are dependent on their technological devices. He adopts comical effect to present it in a manner that the audience is immediately drawn into what he is

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    Macbeth and his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ through his use of language techniques‚ which when read‚ enhance meaning in the minds of responders. Such language devices as personification‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ bloody and religious imagery‚ irony‚ dramatic irony‚ hyperbole and recurring motifs of clothes and emasculation used within the dialogue and soliloquies reflect the thoughts and attitudes of the characters toward the act of murder and the victim himself‚ Duncan‚ King of Scotland. Prior to the murder of Duncan

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    While it is generally believed that everyone in America should speak English‚ immigrants included‚ Chang-Rae Lee portrays the everyday struggle‚ and emotional distress that can come with being an immigrant in the U.S. in his essay “Being Mute in an English Only World”. The author allows the reader insight to the everyday struggle‚ confusion‚ and frustration that comes with being an immigrant of any country where the language you speak is not the spoken language of that country. The author gives readers

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    -“Half-past one only?” said he. “Why the devil do you rouse me at this hour?” {Alexandre Dumas‚ the Count Monte Cristo} (A mild oath which called on the Devil /In heaven’s name/why the dickens/why in the world/why on God’s green earth/why the hell/ why the deuce/ why in tarnation [damnation]) {Oxford Thesaurus} -Why in the name of everything infernal do you want me to be ambassador? -I kept my eye on her after that‚ for I knew there was some devilry in the wind. I saw them from time to time‚ for

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    "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods

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