PARAGRAPH BY PROCESS Process Signal words Context Clues PARAGRAPH BY DESCRIPTION Description Signal Words Figures of Speech Among the signal words to denote time sequence are: first‚ second‚ third‚ next‚ until‚ then‚ later‚ while‚ to begin‚ to start‚ at the end‚ afterwards‚ soon‚ meanwhile‚ eventually‚ subsequently‚ lastly‚ finally‚ and so on. Context Clues are hints provided by the words and the sentences surrounding the unfamiliar word. What Is a Description Paragraph? Preferably
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like love‚ patriotism and others k. saying the opposite of what is meant in a manner or in a tone that shows what the speaker thinks Test II. Multiple Choice. Write the letter of the correct answer in your answer sheet. 1. What figure of speech is used when you are comparing two dissimilar objects by using the words as‚ or as if? a. Metaphor b. Simile c. Apostrophe d. Personification 2. The following are true about good characterization EXCEPT a. Good characterization is not stereotyped
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INTRODUCTION A sonnet of fourteen lines divided between three quatrains and an ending couplet‚ "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "fallen country‚" India. The poem was published before Derozio’s untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti rhyme scheme Introduction to the Poem • To
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excitedly gather in the barn to hear Old Major‚ a highly regarded figure on the farm‚ share a strange dream with them all. However‚ before he shares his dream of a nation of animals free from the reign of man‚ he gives an eloquent speech concerning the current situation of the animals’ exploitation by Man. Old Major starts his speech by addressing the crowd as “comrades” [p. 6] (and refers to everyone as comrades nine times in his speech). The word “comrades” establishes Old Major’s position in relation
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Rationalist and romantic authors wrote smiliarly using the same techniques‚ but they also were different from each other. A rationalist author during this time period was Patrick Henry. In the Virginia Convention of 1775‚ Henry stood up and gave a speech. Its subject was about Independence that they need from Great Britain. Henry believe that "No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotidsm‚ as well as the abilites‚ of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House"(1.1). Henry
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Analysis of a Figure of Speech November‚ 2013 Johnson C. Montgomery‚ the author of The Island of Plenty‚ uses many figures of speech in the article to support his opinion. Lots of different rhetorical devices are used such as comparison and repetition. In passage 8‚ author mainly uses the comparison which is a rhetorical strategy and method of organization in which a writer examines similarities or differences between two things. The article says that future of the world need children; however
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HOW IS THE CONCEPT OF BELONGING EXPLORED IN THE TEXT‚ THE SIMPLE GIFT? There are barriers and facilitators to belonging. Groups that support belonging are family‚ friends‚ school and even your culture. To not belong you begin to feel alienated‚ anxious and misunderstood. In the verse novel The Simple Gift‚ Steven Herrick’s has portrayed the ways in which a character can relate to many individuals in today’s society. The way in which the poems interact with us is through several techniques such
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metaphor that gives an inanimate object human attributes. Example: “The tree heaved with a sigh”. Hyperbole: exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. Example: “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this hand‚” (Shakespeare). Symbol: a figure of speech in which something (object‚ person‚ situation‚ or action) means more than what it actually is. A symbol‚ in other words‚ may be read both literally and metaphorically. There are two types of symbols: 1. Universal – recognizable to everyone
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classroom telling their favourite memories from elementary school. Simile: A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. Example: I am as strong as a lion. Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman‚ or the representation of an abstract quality‚ Example: The wind howled its mighty objection. Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it
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lexical‚ phraseological and syntactical forms which exist in language-as-a-system for the purpose of logical and/or emotional intensification of the utterance. Phonetic EM: pitch‚ melody‚ stress‚ pausation‚ drawling‚ whispering‚ a sing-song manner of speech (onomatopoeia‚ alliteration‚ rhyme‚ rhythm). Morphological EM: the Historical Present (the Present Indefinite instead of the Past Indefinite); use of shall in the 2nd and 3rd person; the diminutive suffixes; neologisms‚ literary coinage and nonce-words;
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