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    Love vs Hate

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    Act 1 Simile: Act 1 Scene 5 is "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear" -Romeo (lines 45-46). Pun: "Prick love for pricking‚ and you beat love down" (1.4.28). Assonance: "For men so old as we to keep the peace." - (Act I/Scene 2/Line 3) Alliteration: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” (From the prologue to Act 1. This is an example of alliteration with the “f” and “l.”) Hyperbole: "If

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    Subject: MLM SCAM HARUS DIHARAMKAN DAN TINDAKAN PERLU DARIPADA PIHAK POLIS & KPDNKK Salam semua. 3 minggu lepas aku tidak mengetahui apa-apa pengetahuan tentang One Team sehinggalah aku dijemput oleh kawan kepada isteriku untuk mendengar satu peluang bisnes sekaligus boleh menambahkan pendapatan keluarga. Pada mulanya aku menolak sebab biasanya pada hari sabtu atau ahad‚ aku dan isteri ada membuat kerja part time tetapi kawan isteri ku sanggup untuk membayar masa kami pada hari ahad tersebut

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    Olive Senior Essay

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    With reference to at least three(3) poems in Gardening in the Tropics‚ discuss the stylistic and thematic features that help to create a distinctive voice. Olive Senior is a Jamaican poet of high repute and is the author of Gardening in the Tropics. In this poetry volume Senior seeks to tackle history‚ moral issues‚ travel and environmental crises. Senior’s poems are pervaded with irony‚ humour and sarcasm and her tone is conversational and calm. Senior’s style of writing aids in creating a diacritic

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    Wafa

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    What is Modernism? It is a general term applied retrospectively to the wide rage of experimental and trends in the literature (and other arts) of the early 20th century‚ including symbolism‚ futurism‚ expressionism‚ imagism‚ vorticism and surrealism along with the innovations of unaffiliated writers. Modernist literature id characterized chiefly by a rejection of the 19th century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader. In fiction‚ the accepted continuity of chronological development

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    The Flea John Donne

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    uses imagery of “The Flea”‚ marriage and religion‚ and sex to establish a union with his significant other. The first way Donne uses imagery is by the flea‚ a tiny black insect that is the primary image of the poem. Throughout he uses metaphors and puns that Donne is famous for‚ and they are woven in throughout this poem. “Mark but this flea‚ and mark in this” (1). He begins the poem by directing the audience’s attention to his beloved to the flea. Then‚ he uses to illustrate the flea as if it was

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    Hamlet's First Appearance

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    Hamlet’s uncle‚ he is now his stepfather as well. Adding one more letter to kin would make him kind‚ but Hamlet expresses his distaste by claiming he is not so. In line 67 Hamlet uses a pun ‘I am too much i’th’sun’. Hamlet’s use of the word ‘sun’ responds to Claudius’s reference to clouds‚ but it’s also a pun on the word ‘son’ as he’s not comfortable with his new father-in-law. Gertrude‚ in line 68‚ tells Hamlet to ‘cast thy nighted colour off’ meaning take off the dark‚ black clothes off. Hamlet’s

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    The two articles “A Dollar a day” written by Angus McDonald and “Workers‚ Not Slaves” by Jenny Price both aim at those who are either interested in the treatment of child laborers or are a part of a business who’s operations involve the use of child laboring. McDonald voices his arguments with disgust‚ anger and outrage contending that thousands of child laborer’s‚ some as young as eight are being exploited into working long hours‚ in some of the world’s worst conditions for as little as a dollar

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    Shakespeare’s use of Literary Techniques Candia Ndayizigiye ENG 4U1 Mr. Daranjo

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    full of jokes‚ puns and sexual double meanings. To understand Mercutio fully we must first understand his words‚ and sometimes that can be hard to as his word play is easily interpreted in more than one way. More than anyone else in the play Mercutio uses puns. To an Elizabethan this was the sign of a quick wit‚ to be able to see different meanings in the same word. Shakespeare knew that well and incorporated his own wit into Mercutio’s character. We come to associate Mercutio with puns and it

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    English Grammar

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    in a phrase. * allusion: Indirect reference to another work of literature or art * anacoenosis: Posing a question to an audience‚ often with the implication that it shares a common interest with the speaker * antanaclasis: A form of pun in which a word is repeated in two different senses * anthimeria: Substitution of one part of speech for another‚ often turning a noun into a verb * anthropomorphism: Ascribing human characteristics to something that is not human‚ such as

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