Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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Lancelets‚ also known as “Amphioxus‚” are small‚ fishlike animals within the subphyla Cephalochordata. This organism may be tiny in size‚ but their impact on human evolution is tremendous! Carol MacKintosh‚ a professor in the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee‚ defines them as “…a very distant cousin to humans and other vertibrates. It is the creature most similar to the original spineless organism that existed before a major genomic event occurred.” A new study indicates a
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THE ROMANTIC IN THE RAIN G. K. CHESTERTON he middle classes of modern England are quite fanatically fond of washing; and are often enthusiastic for teetotalism. I cannot therefore comprehend why it is that they exhibit a mysterious dislike of rain. Rain‚ that inspiring and delightful thing‚ surely combines the qualities of these two ideals with quite a curious perfection. Our philanthropists are eager to establish public baths everywhere. Rain surely is a public bath; it might almost be called
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William Somerset Maugham. The Unconquered. William Somerset Maugham is a British playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and the highest paid author during the 1930s. By 1940‚ when the collapse of France and its occupation by the German Third Reich forced Maugham to leave the French Riviera‚ he was a refugee – but one of the wealthiest and most famous writers in the English-speaking world. May be that is why in 1943 he wrote a short story called
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passengers and the narrator and he helps them. He does all those things to prove that although he comes from a British colony‚ he isn’t a second class citizen. After all‚ someone who is inferior can’t be so smart and friendly as he is. Somerset Maugham was an early nineteenth century British writer. His works often reflected the widespread prejudiced and racist views held by the British colonists‚ prevalent during the period in which he wrote.” Make a connection between the quote and the poem
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The “Escape” Unit 2 Summary The text under consideration is the short story “The Escape” written by a famous English writer Somerset Maugham. The story deals with the author’s speculation of the question of marriages‚ especially the possibility of men to escape it. There is no exposition‚ therefore we can only guess by the contents where and when the settings set on. At the beginning of the text the author expresses his conviction that only an instant flight can save a man from a woman‚ if she
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R. P.‚ Myers‚ B. J.‚ & Mackintosh‚ V. H. (2007). Parental reports on the use of treatments and therapies for children with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder‚ 1‚ 195–209. doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2006.08.006 • Graff‚ R. B.‚ Green‚ G.‚ & Libby‚ M. E. (1998). Effects of two levels of treatment intensity on a young child with severe disabilities. Behavioral Interventions‚ 13‚ 21–41. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-078X(199802)13:13.0.CO;2-C • Mackintosh‚ V. H.‚ Goin-Kochel‚ R. P
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native country (The Open University‚ 2014). In ‘The Life and Times of the Street: Part 1’‚ the Mackintosh centre which is now a sports club has an upper class history‚ the building makes it look expensive and exclusive‚ even though it tries to be inclusive to all in the community. This perception of it being expensive and a member’s only type establishment is why people feel they don’t belong at the Mackintosh centre. Reference List The Open University (2014) ‘Inequalities on the street’ [Video]
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screen the first moving picture--of workers leaving a factory. Siegfried Bing opens his gallery/shop L’Art Nouveau. 1897 Glasgow Brussels World’s Fair: Henry van de Velde and Victor Horta show designs. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and George Walton design Buchanan Street tearooms. 1898 Munich Vienna Josef Olbrich designs Secession Building. United Workshops for Art in Handicraft founded. Gustav Klimt paints Pallas Athene.
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In "Mabel" Somerset Maugham describes the pursuit of her fiance‚ by a young woman all over the Far East and marries him after a seven year engagement. Maugham met George in a club in Mandalay‚ while waiting for the secretary of the club. George was a tall‚ thin‚ sun-burnt man with a big moustache. he was clad in Khaki dress. There was something unusual about him. The secretary of teh club narrated the story of George and his wife‚ Mabel. George became engaged to Mabel. When he was home on
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