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    across the world‚ then most advertisers and the companies would have to be put behind bars for the offence. It is not entirely clear what is meant by legalized form of lying. There are lies that advertisers cannot legally utter‚ and then there are exaggerations‚ poetic over-statements‚ or misleadingly incomplete information which advertisers can get away with. A great many of the statements that advertisers make are not literally true‚ but then‚ they are not expected to be taken literally. Our chocolate

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    Satire of Abortion

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    satire is abortion and how some people against. This satire is juvenalien‚ because it is a bad sense of humor towards pro-abortion. This cartoon is very sarcastic to abortion. The satirist of this cartoon exploits exaggeration‚ grotesque‚ and inflation. CNS News exploits exaggeration in this cartoon about abortion. The cartoon shows a woman in with a t-shirt on that says “Third Trimester” and an arrow pointing down at her oversized pregnant stomach. The woman is asking‚ “How Dare you challenge

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    A French philosopher and writer‚ Voltaire‚ wrote the novella Candide in the late 17th Century. Candide is a dark comedy describing many atrocities and dark events throughout the life of the eternal optimist‚ Candide‚ the main character. A similar masterpiece‚ Tartuffe‚ was written in the 17th century by Moliere as a satirical display of religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe is a production of vice and virtue that involves a witty and brusque family that idolizes a single religious figure who tries to insinuate

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    The Swimming Pools by Thomas Lux is a poem that talks about the rich and the poor. Lux use 5 kids at an apartment complex pool‚ one fat kid‚ one insecure girl‚ and three other kids to represent the different social and economic classes we have in society today. Lux compares these kids to the poor‚ the lower middle class‚ and the rich. He uses the innocence of the kids at the pool to get the idea that the rich always are cruel to the poor‚ and he uses the insecure girl to show the sympathy the lower

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    “’I volunteer!!’ I gasp. ‘I volunteer as tribute!’” These famous words from Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games have done nothing less than inspired a generation of readers with tales of wonderfully horrible‚ eerily realistic‚ soul-crushing‚ heart-pounding adventure. It is a story of rebellion‚ romance‚ and most importantly‚ of societal discord. The futuristic world of Panem is but one of many similar settings that has exploded into the literary market: the archetypal dystopian society. The Hunger Games

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    The Dust Bowl Odyssey

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    The Dust Bowl Odyssey begins with an excerpt from the famous novel The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck. The novel told the story of the Joad family during the depression era and their journey from Oklahoma to California in hopes of getting their lives back on track. The book‚ which was written in 1939‚ was Steinbecks attempt to not only describe the plight of migrant farm workers during the Depression but to also offer sharp criticism of the polities that has caused the predicament in the

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    Is Edgar Allan Poe the master of the horror genre? His poem Annabel Lee talks about a person that lost the love of his life and start telling that they met since they were kids and lived “In a kingdom by the sea”‚ and that they’re so in love that angels envy them. Edgar Allan Poe is trying to explain that no one could make the strong love be forbidden even do the death is trying to separate them. In “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ he demonstrate that all his poems talks about different people

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    selling them the product. Hyperboles and are also used in infomercials to enhance the “image” of products on offer. Hyperboles are used almost to the point of overkill describing (in some cases) the unrealistic quality of products. These enlarged exaggerations lead the consumer to think that the product on offer is much‚ much greater than it really is. This in turn leads them to think that they could own a “superior” product to

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    Voltaire and Candide

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    * They come back different each time Example: Their features though greatly disfigured‚ had a slight resemblance to those of Pangloss and the unhappy Jesuit and Weatphalian Baron‚ brother to Miss Cunegonde. (ch27) Elaboration: Voltaire uses exaggeration by describing who Candide thinks is the Baron and Pangloss before he really knew. Example: Candide and Martin sit to eat at an inn with foreigners and Cacombo surprises Candide by showing up and being a slave. Elaboration: Voltaire uses Irony

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    Canadian Brew Evan Yusep Mrs. Woytiuk 12/20/11 People say that Canada lacks a unique identity‚ but Strange Brew took this opinion as a challenge with its extreme‚ satirical exaggeration of the stereotypical Canadian. Everything from the language to clothing is a Canadian exaggeration. The plot takes a Canadian pastime‚ beer‚ and revolves the story around it. What this really shows is the true identifier for Canadians‚ the ability to be at the butt end of our own joke. From the toque to

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