ironic tone. Indeed throughout the text‚ the author uses sarcasm and parallelism to talk about cunningness. For instance Turtle said to Anansi “thank you for your wonderful hospitality” (619).The combination of the words wonderful and hospitality highlights Anansi’s inhospitality. This oxymoron expresses Turtle’s disappointment about Anansi’s inhospitality which provoked selfishness and cunningness. Besides‚ the author uses a parallelism to show how Anansi suffered from his tricks. As an illustration
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They are either helpers or hindrances in the hero’s quest. It is noticeable though‚ that the gods and goddess are more involved in Aenid as compared to the gods and goddesses of Gilgamesh. Another parallelism in both stories is the presence of symbolic rivers and ferrymen. In Aenid‚ Charon‚ is in charge of ferrying the dead across the River Styx in order for their souls to rest in peace. In Gilgamesh‚ Gilgamesh has to cross the Waters of Death whose
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Alfred Prufrock‚” Eliot represents age and time through parallelism and situational irony to show that one must not squander his opportunities in life. Parallelism is prevalent throughout the poem and is used to present age in a nagging‚ incessant way. The phrase “there will be time” is paralleled throughout the piece‚ including in the stanza “There will be time
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Danga‚ Angelica Marie G. IV- St. Therese of Lisieux Critical Analysis on Smog Merchants Pollution has been one of the big problems of our world. This has pushed many people who are concern enough to create programs that will help reduce the problem and this Smog Merchants article is technically‚ one of those. But I don’t think marketing the right to pollute will help in any way. It is more like allowing destruction to come to the environment. In this article‚ it was implied that firms that
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Louise S. Willis Professor Don Chapman Elang 325 14 February 2017 Parallelism and Chiasmus When studying the structure of phrases and clauses within sentences‚ it is impossible to proceed without a close look at the construct of parallelism or parallel structure. Examples of parallelism are found in literary works as well as in ordinary conversations. (13) In parallelism‚ the same general structure for multiple parts of a sentence (words‚ phrases‚ and/or clauses within a sentence) or for multiple
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maturing of the narrator‚ Amir through parallelism. A grownup Amir faces parallel situations to what he had experienced in childhood. These situations are ones that Amir regrets and wishes to forget‚ due to their destructive consequences. So when Amir encounters their mirroring situations‚ he counters them in a mature and developed way‚ with actions he was too young to carry out before. Literary features like irony‚ action and characterization join with parallelism
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Part One: Use parallel structure to rewrite the following sentences. 1. In the movies‚ all college men are portrayed as single and having other attributes such as money‚ good looks‚ and a great personality. Answer: In the movies‚ all college men are portrayed as single‚ rich‚ good looking/attractive‚ and outgoing/charismatic 2. James‚ a young teenager from the ghetto‚ experienced an exhilarating‚ soul-searching encounter with God‚ which he thought was something to cling to‚ protecting him from
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practice has been recognized as a fundamental human right. The act of abortion should be illegal. We cannot keep murdering innocent lives‚ we cannot keep telling society that it is within their power or right and we cannot keep ignoring the issue.-(parallelism). Abortion is the return of an unwanted gift.-(metaphor). Abortion is wrong for many reasons. The major problem is when the act of an abortion is performed‚ another child‚ another human‚ who could change the future and even make the world a better
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The parallelism of Vera to the figure of the reclining nude as the object of the male gaze is constructed only to be threatened by Vera’s returning of the gaze. Almodóvar implicates the viewer into the narrative as the film alternates between footages from the surveillance cameras in Vera’s chamber and these long shots of the camera slowly panning across Vera’s body in a manner that associates the viewer’s gaze with that of Robert’s. The cinema‚ according to Laura Mulvey‚ derives its pleasure from
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Parallelism in “The Long Rain” I think that the setting in the short story “The Long Rain” is a parallel to reality. This short story is set on the planet of Venus‚ where the rain never stops. The scene is pale and bleak. There are dark clouds rumbling across the sky. Everything is colored in a shade of gray‚ except for the bright blue lightning. The story begins with a group of men‚ led by a lieutenant‚ who are trying to find their way to a sundome. Sundomes
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