“builds” the qualities of identity. Prime examples of expressing the intricate nature of identity is clearly seen through Alice Pung’s short stories “The Face in the Mirror” and “Sticks and Stones and such-like” alongside Paul Keating’s memorable eulogy speech “The Unknown Soldier”. In Pung’s short story “The Face in the Mirror”‚ the author explores how ethnicity illustrates how a person’s relationship in the world creates a sense of identity. The idea is seen in the quote: “For much of my childhood
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This book was written by E.R. Braithwaite. He was born in 1912 in British Guiana. Eustace Braithwaite is well-known as a novelist‚ writer‚ teacher‚ and diplomatist. During World War II‚ he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot - he would later describe this experience as one where he had felt no discrimination based on his skin colour or ethnicity. After the war‚ like many other ethnic minorities‚ he could not find work in his field and eventually took up a job as a schoolteacher in the East End
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‘gathered flowers’ these images act as a metaphor representative of the stages of life. Each image is representative of high and low phases of life and ‘gathered flowers’ is suggestive of the end of life. The persona questions this passage in the direct speech and rhetorical question ‘where’s morning gone?’ reflecting the complexity of the concept of passing time‚ the early years of life‚ the innocence of childhood and ignorance is seen in the monosyllabic suggesting the impermanent nature of life ‘the
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B | I | N | G | O | Alliteration“Let us go forth to lead the land we love.” | Allusion“I have sworn before you and all mighty God.” | Personification“With history the final judge of our deeds” | Metaphor“We are the heirs of the first revolution.” | Hortative Sentence“So let us begin a new one…” | PathosBased on the emotions of JFK. | Cumulative Sentence But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort…yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance. | Oxymoron“But
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them. The action took place in the 20th century. The type of presentation is straight narrative and has one flashback in the end. The story is told by the 3rd person narration to be objective‚ but also there is the 1st person narration in represented speech. The extract is written in emotional and ironical key. The type of narration can be described as an account of events‚ there are a lot of descriptions‚ for example description of the cinema in the beginning of the exract. There are some dialogs‚
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David Helwig’s‚ Haunted by lives unlived‚ utilizies many of the strategies used in assignment writing. Helwig mainly concentrates on anecdotes and how they relate to audience appeal‚ but he still includes the other strategies for assignment writing. Anecdote’s are frequently being used in Helwig’s essay. Primarly‚ he explains his teaching career and his presentation of Robert Frost’s poem‚ The Road Not Taken: "I sometimes presented this poem to students"‚ (Helwig 55). Secondly‚ he explains his first
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Name ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Dateــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Activity 1: Simile and Metaphor Decide whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor‚ and identify the two things being compared. Then change the simile into metaphor and vice versa: 1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The dancer moved around the
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1. Simile My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red‚ than her lips red: If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚ yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go‚ My
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Information on all 6 Poems. Full Bright Scholars • This poem is about when he first saw Plath • Use of first person‚ draws us in. painstaking his own memory • "Where was it‚ in the strand? A display"- Questioning his memory. • "A picture of that year’s intake....."- Follows up with a series of statements. • "You" become the addressee • Very tightly Structured • Veronica Lake- actor • "Your Veronica Lake bang. Not what it hid"- Plath had a scar on her face
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‘An individual may feel a strong connection to the environment which reflects their views on people‚ places and the world.’ ‘William Street’ and ‘The First Born’ are both based on the connection to the surroundings. ‘William Street’ focuses on Kenneth Slessors connection to the urban environment and its energetic atmosphere. ‘The First Born’ focuses on the Aboriginals and their connection to the land. In William Street Kenneth Slessor explains his love for one street. He uses repetition throughout
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