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    artifices to produce news and advertisements of all kinds in a brief manner. Journalists use various Linguistic devices such as syntactic phonological‚ morphological‚ semantic‚ lexical‚ rhetorical devices‚ plenty of figurative language in taglines‚ headlines and slogans and so on. Language has a powerful dominator role in affecting readers mind and

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    Joan Didion explains to us in the essay “On Keeping a Notebook” that her point of “keeping a notebook has never been‚ nor is it now‚ to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking” (77). Throughout “On Keeping‚” Didion tells us her reasoning for keeping a notebook is to see the types of expressions of how a person is feeling at a point in time‚ rather than keeping a diary which is just a record of dated events. Didion tells us that keepers of private notebooks are lonely

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    1. When I first saw her‚ my soul began to quiver. (I fell in love/in a panic) 2. Mary is as beautiful as a rising sun 3. Those flowers are as delicate as a spider web. 4. The sharp teeth of the cold wind bit through my overcoat 5. My love is like a red‚ red rose.’ Here a person is compared to a flower in a way that suggests they have certain features in common‚ such as beauty‚ fragility‚ and so on. 6. ‘The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.’ Here the image of the moon in a

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    First Last Name 20 March 2013 Eng 113 Poem Essay‚ pg 519 The Beauty of Figurative Language Nobody wants to read a boring story. Figurative language is used to make sentences more interesting. William Wordsworth uses figurative language to allow his words to be more imaginative and vivid. William Wordsworth was born on April 7‚ 1770 in the scenic area of Great Brittain. He was a major English Romantic Poet (wikipedia). In the poem "[I wandered lonely as a cloud]" by

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    Holocaust through a captivating 120 page book‚ illustrating how he survived. In his book‚ Night‚ Elie Wiesel develops the plot by using very vivid figurative language to describe very sentimental experiences. Elie Wiesel’s use of metaphors throughout the text forcefully tells the truth. Elie’s experiences are worded perfectly along with the use of figurative language through his expression of personal agonizing reality and terrifying genocide. “There they went‚ defeated‚ their bundles‚ their lives in tow

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    Mikhail uses figurative language to create the sarcastic tone. She wrote about war and how cruel and destructive it is by trying to make it sound positive but it’s really negative. “summons rain from the eyes of mothers.” this quote from the poem is figurative language because rain can’t be summoned from mothers eyes. Mikhail also made the poem sound sarcastic by saying thing war could help positively but when you think about it all of the things that she uses to try and make war sound positive

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    more people start learning about some arts‚ one of the famous art activity is to sing a song. For me‚ it’s not like a hobby‚ it’s more like a part of my life. So I choose one of my favorite song to express myself.in the song‚ there are many figurative languages‚ for example‚ there have repetition‚ simile and rhyme. first of all‚ there are many repetitions in this song‚ repetition means the act of repeating‚ or doing‚ saying‚ or writing something again; repeated action‚ performance‚ production

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    Murakami explores the theme of fear and how it can impact someone’s life. His use of figurative language helps a reader see what it’s like to be overwhelmed with fear and have it take control of you without warning. In the text‚ the narrator states how seeing the wave getting closer and closer to shore caused him to run away and also be terrified at the same time. The narrator was able to save himself‚ as all that adrenaline was coursing through him because of fear‚ although he saved himself he couldn’t

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    In “The Rider‚” author Naomi Shihab Nye uses figurative language to allow readers to easily and concretely envision the both feelings of loneliness and of contentment. In the poem‚ a boy has told the narrator that the reason he roller-skates so fast is because he is trying to escape from his sense of loneliness. This is what the speaker is thinking about as they bicycle down the street‚ and it is also what they are wishing for: A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street

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    prisoners are on their way to Birkenau‚ a sub-camp of the infamous Auschwitz. “The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed‚” (22). This example of likening the Jews to animals‚ using a metaphor‚ is a little less direct than much of the other figurative language comparisons in the book. However‚ it is still apparent that Wiesel and his people are being compared to

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